skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because number of subscribers does not mean activity momentum, and recommendations for communities on topic-specific instances are preferred over communities on the "larger" instances.

Lemmy.ml was the first instance, so naturally many people created communities there before. This does not mean that it's still where the anime fans want to congregate. The admins of lemmy.ml also said that they want to promote decentralization so they want as few communities there as possible.
Another good resource for maze algorithms is Walter D. Pullen's website: https://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/algrithm.htm . The page showing his maze generations is also interesting: https://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/maze.htm .
Ask HN: Who is the most elegant open-source website project you've ever seen?
I'm trying to deploy some websites, so I thought of this question. It's not about personal aesthetics; there might be some common preferences among everyone.
Doesn’t work on mobile

- sent from my iPhone
in my experience most people need to use VR intermittently for about 2 weeks to fully adjust

i really struggled with vr initially but having used my quest 1 since pre pandemic it's fine and no longer have issues when using it for an hour or two
Well it's a good thing that author doesn't get to decide what the benefits are in that case. I'd argue this "regulation" is really a deregulation - ie, removing restrictions for Apple developers - which will lead to a lot of competition and growth in the space. If your imagination only goes so far as what you read in the article then I can't help.
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Working on building the largest database of LEGO minifigure user ratings at https://brickelo.com/
https://github.com/Trint-ai/TrintAI I've been working on integrating different opensource tools and ML models to create TrintAI. TrintAi is a powerful open-source tool for transcribe and understand speech with multiple capabilities.

This is an open-source alternative to paid services like:

AssemblyAI
Deepgram
Gladia
Google Cloud
Microsoft Azure
RevAI

With trintAI you can build your own custom workflows & integration for speech-to-text transcription.

The main features are:

- Speech-to-Text Transcription: Converts audio files into accurate, readable text in real-time.

- Summarization: Provides concise summaries of long audio files or transcripts. This feature extracts the most important information and key points from the text, allowing you to quickly understand the main takeaways from meetings, calls, or any extended audio content.

- Sentiment Analysis: Detects emotions within the transcribed text.

- Language Identification: Detects the language spoken in the audio file and can transcribe in multiple languages.

- Diarization: Identify and distinguish between different speakers within an audio recording.

Give it a try! it is open-source. Your feedback is very appreciated!

Cheers
> literally implementing

> it failed to pass recently

These two sentences cannot be both true
> it could not exist without a China that makes overreaching claims, threats, and their huge military.

Good point.

Year after year, China was outpacing the world economically in numbers and strategic position.

Their future appeared to have no ceiling.

But they self-sabotaged by reverting from quietly accumulating strength to loudly showcasing strength via consolidation & provocation.

Despite no pressing need, they amplified military risk, economic & technological friction, undermined trust & provoked intense global resistance. The strategic value they destroyed is immense:

Poof! The presumed “Century of China” looks very different now. More like another Cold War.
But that's false equivalency. The attackers also work for organizations. It is a bit rare for individuals to hack companies these days. APTs are teams, sometimes they are employed by intelligence or military units of countries, other times they are employed by a criminal organization and yet other times they are loosely formed organizations between individuals with a financial or political goal, like hacktivists as an example. But they have hierarchy, motive, goals, even a work schedule and paid vacations and bonuses.

Even for individual hackers, there are individual good hackers (commonly called "whitehat" although I deride that term) doing bug bounties and finding CVEs.

The main differences between attackers and the attacked are intent, resources and which side you're on. The NSA and CIA are the good guys from my perspective, but they are the bad guys for defenders working in Russian or Chinese government cyber defense teams.
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I basically only buy AMD, but I want to point out how rocm still doesn't fully support the 780M.

I have a laptop with a 680M and a mini pc with a 780M both beefy enough to play around with small LLM. You basically have to force the gpu detection to an older version, and I get tons of gpu resets on both.

AMD your hardware is good please give the software more love.
In the UK, I have a stormtrooper standing behind me in my bedroom as I type this. He just asked me to explain the context of the message I'm writing to you now.
> How does an inanimate object incite violence or sell drugs?

Please stop being so (seemingly-intentionally) obtuse about this. Certainly the participants of the channel are the ones who incite violence or sell drugs. But some laws also make it illegal to "host" the people who do those sorts of things. A Telegram channel can host these people.

> If France can't access these channels, how do they know the violence or drugs are actually occurring _in_ France?

They can access those channels.

> And if they could know that, what does Telegram have to do with it?

Telegram is hosting the content, and apparently under French law, the host can also be liable.

> Wouldn't they just be able to go and arrest the violent person or the drug dealer?

Not if they don't know where the people are, because Telegram hides their real identities and locations.
Objective-C Is a Total Abomination (opinion)
reach out to albertollamaso [at] gmail.com

Let's chat.
Claude’s recent code preview rocks, especially for basic web design (well, not so basic - it was able to design 3d animated svg of winamp).

ChatGPT’s code interpreter and data analysis is killer too.

Seems I’ll need to keep paying for both.
I imagined that was the case, I was also starting a mental countdown clock until the first dot point side loading Ich bin ein Berliner iPhone guide appears.
Drug Development Failure: how GLP-1 development was abandoned in 1990
I think he means https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/images/uploads/content/warning-l... ?

Walter, if I told you to pull out the magnitude of Saturn before starting and then push it back in after the engine has warmed up, would you know what I'm referring to?
pgroonga is a good Postgres option in these cases

https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/extensions/pgroong...
Interesting article. I’m from Germany and I learned to read with the phonetics and sounding out words approach. My kids as well. It’s the first time I heard about this style of teaching how to read. My first reaction while reading was: “and how do some kids manage to read at all with only this system?” It’s very late into the article where they mention that first some kids will learn how to read no matter what and second that the problem is a mixed message as schools do teach phonetics but that the mean approach taught when seeing unknown words is to use a simpler system. I myself never look at queues or pictures when reading unknown texts. While learning English I read English books and used the context approach. But I had to first learn a lot of vocabulary to even start that.
It's not popular because the costs usually outweigh the benefits and when they do, there's rarely a correction. The EU will do something great (roam like at home) or minor but positive (like OP, however we've had USB-C, Firefox, and sideloading on Android anyway) and then annoy you to no end with cookie banners and attached bottle caps.
Installed Element on my phone and asked my contacts to do the same, just in case TG dies. Few of them did. It works just fine for texts, photos, small videos. Certainly not as fast or feature rich as TG, but good enough. Might spring up my own server if need be.

Looks like a better alternative to all that centralized drek.
I vote for Delphi interpreter in 286 assembly.
No wonder it's Swedish, a country with zero privacy
Exploring this, I think lightsabers would be Really Hard. Not transporter-level hard, but still tough. I see two paths:

1) Using actual photons in something laser like. The problem here is that your lightsaber would go on forever, photons won't just peter out after a meter or so. So, you would need, well, something to "cap" the lightsaber, both as a cap in terms of ending something, and a cap as in "capture" or possibly even "reflect." So you would need a teensy something floating at the end of your lightsaber, perfectly synchronized with the positions and velocities of the hilt. Also, small enough not to make a viable target for hitting with some other light saber in your duel. It would either be suspended by antigravity or as some kind of tiny drone.

2) Your other alternative is that your lightsaber is really some kind of plasma bottle, a hideously distorted ellipsoidal electromagnetic confinement field. This has its own problems, like your blade not wildly changing shape near metal or if someone throws a refrigerator magnet at your odd Jedi or Sith. You might be able to compensate with some kind of high-speed computations accounting for the magnets and such on the fly and "fixing" the distortions as they occurred. The plasma would be quite different from the plasma you might see in hopeful fusion projects. It would have to be quite hot and dense, eager to dump energy. This might also benefit from the "cap" in the first one.

I could see blasters being a little more likely. Your plasma packet could be self-propagating and you would not have to worry about its stability over multiple seconds and such. Each plasma packet might also benefit from the aforementioned caps, one on each end, zipping toward the target and simply destabilizing when the target is reached, releasing all of the energy at once, rather than the buttery-smooth slices of lightsabers.

3) Circling back, perhaps some esoteric corner of yet-to-be-discovered physics might allow for temporary bosons (the boson nature of photons is what allows for lasers to really do their thing), so perhaps there is some unknown cousin of the photon which could be coaxed into lasting for roughly three and a third nanoseconds (or one meter, take your pick), And hopefully it can come in green, blue, purple, and red.
Best idea in this thread.
"Probably" doesn't cut it. If law enforcement doesn't observe it (as would likely be the case on an E2EE-by-default platform), then there's nothing actionable they can do.

If they do observe it, and the platform owners are responsive to taking down illegal content and/or providing information on the participants, then likely law enforcement is satisfied with that.
Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis
Using LLM to Filter your Hacker News timeline based on preferences
Hi, this little client-side app allows you to retrieve a feed where it filters new or top stories based on your preferences in natural language.

It's using gpt-4o-mini and the Hackernews API.
https://gimli.app/

I'm working on my Tailwind CSS and Bootstrap DevTools browser extensions.
Correct link:

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/support-jpeg-xl/idi-p/1...
"We all began as something else."
I have myself been using chatgpt/sonnet-3.5 to clean data, extract data, heck, even generate sample sql insert statements for a given table schema... small things, but, when done repeatedly, saves soooo damn amount of time and frustrations. I have been using these tools to generate sooo many small scripts to automate or do things that otherwise I either wouldn't have done it, or, it would have taken significant amount of time. These tools are tooo good now to not use them.

Also, as someone else have already pointed out, these things work correctly 99.99% of the time. But that remaining 0.01%... that's what becomes major issue since it is so small of an error, that, unless you verify, you'll end up missing.

When using LLM's..."Trust, but verify".
Function calls are also blocking IO then because executables and libraries are mmapped.
Yes, and telephone operators are required to give law enforcement enough access in order to track down people who do crimes over the telephone.

Telegram does not do that, and does not shut down the illegal behavior. The problem isn't that illegal stuff happens on Telegram, the problem is that Telegram won't help law enforcement when that illegal behavior is found.
To be fair, English phonetics are a pain in the ass. Sounds change with no rhyme or reason to them, and the only way to learn all the different permutations is to see them all.
You're wrong, defenders are not profit centers. You don't expect the security guard for your office building to generate profit, why would you do so for your digital assets? defenders are like lawyers and hr, they are cost centers whose existence is justified because attackers also exist.

> "You can say that security is a feature and a load-bearing one, and I'd agree with you, but not everyone who makes decisions will do the same."

Maybe it is, but I wouldn't put it that way. Security teams exist because people with bad intent that want to harm you exist. Just like lawyers exist because people who sue you (including the government) exist.

Imagine stating "lawyers don't exist to protect from lawsuits", that's how it sounds to me. If defenders aren't there to defend, then their existence isn't justified.

> "Defenders are trying to ship"

Defenders are there so that when other teams who "ship" attempt to do so, they don't get the application, system, company or wherever you have protected data doesn't get compromised. And this is before and after "shipping" or deployment. Security is a cost of business, whose RoI is measured by the fact that you are doing business without getting hacked, nothing more.
Working on a new game with some friends:
CTHULOOT, a multiplayer coop game.
Imagine Overcooked x Zelda 2D.
We have a demo on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2283410/CTHULOOT/
We are working on building a funding subscription for impact innovation called Marabou (https://marabou.pro/). Our plan is to allow people to subscribe starting from $50 per month and receive equity in innovative startups that benefit either human health (biotech, femtech, healthtech, longevity, drug repurposing) or environment(climate tech, adaptive tech, renewable energy, mobility, agriculture).

- Here is a short video explainer of WHAT we do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjXwUpBp_Kc

- And here's WHY we do that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-37CA6-m1Yk&list=PLVJfpLOJQj...

Our first campaign to fund Ethan Perlstein's research to find cures for rare diseases officially starts on Sep 9, but we already opened a pre-campaign. This one is a one-time commitment and it's heavily leaning on the charity side.

- Here's a landing page of campaign https://marabou.pro/perlara/

- And a video where we talk about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlO8IBQDMBY&t=9s

So my days are now filled with talks with rare disease foundations and influencers as well as usual people who may be willing to support us.

Happy to chat with anyone who is interested either in Marabou or the campaign itself!
Thank you for this.

I created a Google my Business listing.

Will that suffice or is there a specific step required to make it available in Google Maps?
> What made you believe you were in the 99.999th percentile when going into university?

Oh, nothing at all. I'm just a case of suddenly discovering in university that you also need good work ethic and that showing up alone is no longer enough (as a sibling comment points out) and you can't always cram all of the topics for exams in your head in a single night before the exam. In my case, calculus introducing new concepts (for which I didn't have a practical use, so it was even more confusing) and probability theory get less intuitive was that wake-up call. Well, that alongside an ASM course with a toolchain that I couldn't easily get working on my computer, or working with Prolog in similar circumstances, or understanding that I've underestimated how long making a 2D simulation project in C++ for extra credit would take, if I need to have collision detection and some physics for a soccer example.

That said, in my Master's studies, once I got to specialize in the things that were of more interest to me, I ended up graduating with a 10/10 evaluation for the thesis and 9.87/10 weighted average grade across the subjects. That's not like a super big achievement from a small regional university, but definitely goes to show that learning some things was easier for me than others. I probably need to venture outside of my comfort zone occasionally though and not just do the things that are comfortable.
The moment you put even the option of backdoors, some governments will abuse it heavily.

What might be essential right to human communication might suddenly become "illegal" according to the government.

So there should never ever be, under no circumstances, even the code and infra to be there to provide backdoor/censorships, otherwise it _will_ be abused by limiting people's communication in the moment they literally need the most.
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>Telegram and cryptocurrency has single handedly responsible for the recent drug epidemic,

I thought Reagan beat that with his war on drugs? Obviously flippant comment, but wouldn't it be more appropriate to say "Te....chnology has single handedly responsible for the recent drug epidemic,", to which I would answer 'No, it's always been about dollar bills, and what 'recent' drug epidemic?" The US opioid crisis wasn't fuelled by telegram.
> and then annoy you to no end with cookie banners and attached bottle caps.

The only reason cookie banners are so annoying is due to the people implementing them wanting them to be annoying.

It doesn't need to be, the directive explicitly states that giving or withdrawing consent should be equally easy. All of these annoying cookie banners requiring you to manually toggle 5+ checkboxes for opting out are illegal.
> But the Government has to buy them from businesses that meet certain characteristics. Woman owned, etc. That’s a great thing, right?

There’s people who would say any bigotry in government is wrong.
AppStore location country can only be changed if you have a credit card from a bank in EU with customer address also in EU.

And these days there are strong regulations in EU about bank accounts that pretty much ruled out an option to get a EU credit card while being a tourist that was possible like 8 years ago.
I'm currently working on an Art Project stemming from the mixture of cellular automata and neural networks in Rust. The YouTuber Emergent garden has already implemented this idea but I wanted to go much deeper. With different coloring algorithms, neuron types, time travel values, arbitrarily connected networks, crazy activitation functions etc. I just uploaded a very short showcase of it here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-D2dOTHpzo

Watch my blog https://tunn3l.pro for the full project release!

Cheers!
Is 26 characters next? I think the number of bytestrings of length <= 26 that are also valid UTF-8 is only 0.021 * 256^24.
This article makes the mistake of assuming the naive error bound is the actual error on the specific problem. This problem has very smooth functions, infinitely differentiable, and has derivatives tabulated. The error bound he states doesn't use this information.

The correct answer is to check this problem specifically, not apply much looser bounds.
I travel between different countries every now and then and sometimes need to install apps that are only available in a given country. At least for that case, Apple uses your billing address, which is verified by a payment method. E.g. you need a Dutch domiciled payment method to configure your app store location to be the Netherlands and install apps that are available to locals only. These days many apps are available without geographic restrictions, but far from all. I would imagine they use a similar setup for the whole EU only perks.
For read-only strings you pass around &str usually if you can borrow at all, and all UTF-8 string types should be compatible with it. AsRef is just a trait for "all types that can be converted into &str as needed" so if you use AsRef you need to have immutable strings too

But the thing about String is that it allows you to push data at the end (like Java's StringBuilder). I think there is no commonly used trait for that, no.

Note that not all owned string types can be appended at the end. Box<str> for example is just like String but without a .push_str() method. (This saves some bytes because it doesn't need a spare capacity)

If your string is not UTF-8 then usually you convert it at API boundaries, to deal with UTF-8 stuff internally (or at least WTF-8)
Nice! You could put a button to save or purchase the ones that the user likes? Or pair up with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41345139.
Like Twitter deleting posts on request of Turkey?

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65609123
Samsung and Pixel are trying but Apple has the advantage of the integrated ecosystem. Samsung is supposedly approaching it from the angle of their home devices but I don't know how valuable a seamless integration between my phone and a washing machine is.

Also, high-end phones aren't really like luxury goods. I think the margins on a manufactured phone are only ~50%. That may sound like a lot but is pretty close to manufacturing of most not-dead-simple stuff.
Sure, but if the people who run those services are responsive to law enforcement requests about that behavior, the law is usually satisfied.

Telegram's policy is apparently to not moderate anything, and ignore law enforcement requests.

I'm not saying Telegram is right or wrong here, just that their behavior may not be legal in places like France.
It's a bit weird that the pages claim to support all languages, and all examples are in English. Even the documentation for Groonga, on which it's based doesn't talk about multiple languages.

It looks like at best it makes Postgres aware of more characters
The way Monero works, you can simply have two monero addresses/IDs. The one you get the initial coins (cash, bank transfer, doesn’t matter), then transfer to the second one. Then you can buy whatever you want anonymously from the second one. That’s the whole point of monero, that it is not possible to trace transfers, to the contrary of bitcoins where every transfer is in the ledger.

Or am I missing something?
One issue is that even if you are using GTT (dynamically allocated memory), this is still limited as a percentage of total RAM. Eg, currently on my 7940HS, I have 64GB of memory, 8GB of dedicated VRAM (GART), and then a limit of 28GB of GTT - there is an amdgpu.gttsize parameter to "Restrict the size of GTT domain in MiB for testing. The default is -1 (It’s VRAM size if 3GB < VRAM < 3/4 RAM, otherwise 3/4 RAM size)", but I'm not sure what the practical/effective limits are.
I rewrote https://github.com/laktak/chkbit in Go because Python packaging was so frustrating. With Go you can just build for any platform without spinning up multiple VMs.