skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very insightful way to look at it, thank you!

ps. It's like making a VPN tunnel to the surface of the sun :-)
Someone asked if there's a way to earmark donations toward specific purposes. They deleted their comment while I was replying, but I saved it:

At the moment we don't do this generally, but we've been dipping our toes into it somewhat in recent years.

One form this takes is that we now allow sub-project teams to do their own fundraising and "keep the money" while KDE e.V. takes an admin fee, turning us sort of into a financial service provider for KDE projects that is cheaper than places like Open Collective. Our pilot team making use of this is Kdenlive, who spend the money e.g. on contracting dev work on the app.

Another is that we once got a large donation earmarked for and on behalf of Calligra from the Handshake folks. That one to some extent highlights the reasons for our reluctance to do this more generally though - with the Calligra community fairly inactive, finding mechanisms to actually use this money has proven quite difficult so far.

Finally, and this one is probably most interesting to you: The KDE community runs a regular election for community-wide goals; during a past election, there was e.g. one elected for UI/UX consistency. At KDE e.V. we take this election as one of the best signals we have on where we are expected to allocate resources, e.g. funding related dev sprints, or contractor hours. So one of the best ways to effectively earmark money toward thematic/larger stuff, such as the UX consistency you mentioned, is to engage there with goal propsals, discussion, offering support, etc.
So basically closer and closer to governmental control over social networks. Seems like a global trend everywhere. Governments will define the rules by which communication services (and social networks) should operate.
I suspect that there is also plenty of opportunities for others to whisper into Trump's ear.
No, I really can't imagine it. Extrapolating from our free commercially-licensed offerings it would seem most people would ignore it or share stories on Reddit about how FreeGPT poisoned their family when generating a potato salad recipe.
Get real? How about get the point? It would not have (could not have) been so widely adopted without being MIT licensed and open source. It was huge news when Facebook attempted to change their licensing, and they issued an apology then made it MIT when the community responded. https://meitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/facebook_react...
Sepe: Synthesis of Optimized Hash Functions
You had speculated in a previous thread that the new die could result in power savings, good to see some real measurements.
> Sometimes they even have a small amount of Dell warranty left, though I've never ever had a problem with them.

Yes, though technically any add-on warranty coverage or service plans are only available to the registered owner. I bought a couple Dell OptiPlex micros last year that were originally owned by a large organization. They were clearly being resold on eBay by someone who had acquired them in some sort of bulk purchase. Dell has a form you can submit to request that the registration be updated, but it requires you to provide contact information for the original owner. I asked the eBay seller if they for this contact information, but they said they did not. I was able to open a support request with Dell and have their records updated to show me as the owner after showing evidence that I had acquired the machines. This included a photo of them showing their asset tags along with a hand-written note that showed my support case number, as well as a copy of the eBay listings. I believe Dell checked with the original owner (a US federal agency) to verify the machines had been sold.
The price of a commodity is equal to the highest of the lowest cost producers that can satisfy demand. Germany cannot satisfy demand with cheap renewables, so the marginal producer is expensive gas & nuclear.

German electricity is expensive because gas is expensive in Germany. Electricity will be expensive in Germany until Germany completely stops using gas shipped in via container ship.
I don’t think the relative % of rust has changed a lot in the past few years though, has it? After they got the obvious low lying fruit it slowed down dramatically didn’t it?
I think the utilities are moving very early with their flat rate charges but I don't think they're wrong in the long term that a flat rate will be required to fund the grid in the future. I'm thinking about the point where a large majority of customers have sufficient solar generation to cover their entire energy usage for the day on average, those people still need generation or storage of power during the night when solar doesn't work so somewhere they'll need to continue paying for power generation or storage during the night. This is probably doable with time based rates instead but we'll have to see and even then we'll probably need some flat rate to account for people with local storage because they also exist as a cost to service.
Is there a good reason for CNN left-padding both the headline and story with verbiage about the CDC? Vs. (say) "Contaminated deli meat recall - death toll is still rising".

I'm not aware of any political or religious faction that denies the dangers of eating bad meat, and that it's the CDC (vs. FDA, or Ag. Dept., or whoever) sounds like an only-matters-to-regulatory-geeks detail. And public health & safety warnings need to GET TO THE POINT.
Also, https://x.com/politvidchannel/status/1828856959782793323
I think its worse than that because they don't actually have to log so much. This is choice a developer made, but it would cost nothing (except salary for competent staff) to make the correct choice.
Definitely not; at one point the iPhone chip was actually dual-sourced!

https://www.anandtech.com/show/9708/analyzing-apple-statemen...
I understood them to be saying that they would prefer

(0..10).iter().for_each(|x| println!("{x}"))

over the thing that I wrote.

Many folks do not think of Rust's for loops as using iterators under the hood, and so will often talk about them as though they don't use iterators, even though they technically do.
Open Sourced alternatives to SaaS products [video]
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel/-/blob/drm-mi...
Source please? I'm aware of the large costs in the opposite direction due to the freeloading you mention:

https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/californias-ex...
Lego plans to ditch oil in its bricks for pricier renewable plastic
On the small business end, I've run a few interactive sites (but like 95% read, 5% write) with a million or so visitors a month and they typically cost a few hundred dollars (like $300-$500/mo). Most of that was for business-level (but not necessarily enterprise) support. The actual infra was much cheaper.

It heavily depends on how much you can cache and CDN, and how many writes to the DB there are and how real-time it has to be. It's dirt-cheap for something like a blog or ecommerce site (which can be like 95% static content), but way harder for a real-time discussion board, reddit/HN clone, etc. (I think there have been a few posts here describing HN's own infra and costs running on some homebrewed code basically on a bare-metal server in some office? Can't remember exactly).

One of my previous employers was collecting data from a few thousand IoT devices every few minutes. Our pipeline wasn't very optimized and it was costing us maybe $30-$40k/mo in AWS spend, if I remember correctly. I didn't work on that part of it though so I don't know all the details.

One of my other jobs was for a museum; we had a simple informative site that they were getting ripped off for (enterprise Drupal hosting, yuck). I rewrote that in a more modern stack and hosted it on Vercel for about 30% of its previous cost. Think maybe it was $500ish/mo for a nonprofit enterprise plan? It could've been even cheaper than that but they wanted the business support. Honestly it probably would've been fine on the $20/mo plan, maybe with a bit of bandwidth overages.
I have a little Intel i5 behind me all year long, and I don't notice any effect on the temperature of this (small) room. 12 watts is not a lot of heat to be dumping.

This is really small fry compared to other HVAC efficiency concerns, and definitely not an issue outside of summertime temps in most locales.

My Threadripper on the other hand - I had to move that into the crawlspace as it was: a) loud as hell, and b) basically a space heater that also does useful compute. 160w idle, ~280w full tilt - that thing is very noticable.
Here's examples of idle power consumption of second hand mini-pc's i've tested, running Ubuntu, measured from the wall:

Dell Wyse 5070 with Pentium Silver J5005 ~ 5W

Fujitsu Futro S940 with J5005 as well ~ 7W

Dell Optiplex 3080 Micro with i5-10500t ~ 12W with two SSD's

In comparison, my Ryzen 7 server build consumes about 22W idle (before I added GPU), has 4x SSD and 4x RAM sticks. I like raspberry pi, but for most purposes an used mini-pc is a better choice.
Good-enough? Please please type out what a truely open source ai model with open weights and open data would be like. I picture it like a Tower of Babel! Very far from "Good-enough"!
And since that precludes it from ever being testable, falsifiable, or making predictions different from a Bell's Inequality based theory, it just isn't physics
Author here!

Oh, that's a neat crate, I'll check it out.

I'd be interested to see if you have benchmarks of your dynamical systems solver in Rust vs the ones implemented in Julia. They've done great work!
Ouch, the thread is unreadable on the phone
Why do you want to spend money on hardware to solve a software problem? The software doesn't have to write the logs to the SD card.
This analysis misses kinda a major point. The nice thing about making mobile SOCs is that the yields are more forgiving. If you have 1000mm^2 of silicon that you're slicing into 10mm^2 dies, each defect (of which there will be many on early leading nodes), will only cost you a 10mm^2 chip, instead of a 50mm^2 chip. And because you're making them in volume, you get many many cycles to improve your process before you try to make bigger chips with it, ie: CPUs/GPUs. And because Apple wanted the increased performance/battery life, they reserved capacity from TSMC on these leading nodes in advance, helping to finance their development while providing a garunteed customer that was going to buy in volume. This gave TSMC a huuuge advantage over Intel that materialzied around ~2018.
AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect
> They came out at the height of texting and ringtone era, and we were pretty set in our ways, and it took years to change that behavior.

Nah. The only reason the iphone didn't take off faster was that, for its time, it was extremely expensive.

$600 upfront plus a 24-month, $60/month contract [1]. That's $2000 back in 2007, or $3000 today.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2007/06/26/iphone_contract_price...
This always makes me uncomfortable though. How would we tell the difference between rampant scamming and fudging numbers and an economy where we all pass around Monopoly money to do services for one another? I pay you to mow my lawn and you pay me to mow your lawn. Are we creating GDP?
The pre-Touch iPods (the iPod Touch only came out after the iPhone) used very small chips; this just wasn't an area Intel had an offering in at all, and it would have been very low margin.

> The first iPhone was then built on the iPod platform

Eh? No it wasn't. The iPod that existed when the iPhone came out was an 80MHz ARM7. The Touch (a 400MHz ARM11) came out a few months after the iPhone, and was essentially an iPhone with the cellular equipment stripped out.
I used one of the later models throughout college. I heard my model (Sony CLIÉ T625C, IIRC) was very popular with doctors. It had a nice aluminum case and leather flip cover, a really solid lug that I used to attach a pocket watch chain, and all day battery life and some nice free games that were way better than snake on the Nokia 5100 series.

For someone with undiagnosed ADHD, it was a lifesaver for keeping track of assignments and due dates, settings alarms, etc.

Even the desktop software was at least decent, particularly compared to horrible experiences like iTunes.
One can also do things like undervolting to reduce the power draw even more. Modern BIOSs can give a lot of freedom for underclocking/volting, not just pushing things to consume more power.
I'm thinking drift as in per capita. And I don't think it would greatly increase the 17% status quo, which is my point entirely.
I had a look at the furnace blower fan motor in my 2023 construction home.

It has some very cheap looking digital controller system with a ridiculous amount of complexity around it. There are 2 separate computers involved somehow. Just for spinning the blower. I was operating under the impression that an induction motor could be powered directly from the AC mains.

The complexity is certainly not adding to any sort of comfort, etc. The overall system is unbelievably noisy. This is all so clearly engineered to require as much maintenance as possible on purpose.

It would take me months of figuring to determine how to take 2 wires and turn them into 40. The easy part is throwing it into the plenum in such a way that the wires hang within millimeters of the rotating assembly.
Would love to have something like this for Svelte.
Yea it definitely felt like at the time Intel was in a tough spot.. while the article is stating that the narrative about the margins being narrow for arm chips so Intel was nervous about the area, one thing I can attest to is that even if that narrative was false when it comes to Apple, competitors of Apple at the time definitely would be assuming that if Intel went into that space that they gave Apple a good price, so just the perception of them selling a good chip to Apple could have hurt Intel's fat profit margins. Like Apple was selling phones for the same price Intel was selling chips for -- so maybe the higher cost could be justified by Apple who knows, but the perception of Intel's profit margin they are willing to live with impacts their negotiations with other customers dramatically as well.
I shut my computer down to a cold power-off every night, or whenever it goes into my shoulder bag (laptop).
I tried to track this down, found some blogs by the originator, but it only gets more confusing:

https://wimflyc.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-henry-adams-curve-c...

Henry Adams points out that over 60 years you got 3-4x more power from a ton of coal. That combined with the extra coal dug up, he claims, doubled usable energy every ten years.

But then the modern graph simply shows the coal energy, with (as far as I can tell) no attempt to account for the extra efficiency, even though the modern author of the graph makes explicit reference to the increasing efficiency of steam engines.
They probably noticed the material quality.
> It is not undefined

Of course it is. Look at this thread. Look at the policy discussions around regulating AI. Hell, look at the OSI's draft definition [1].

Pretending something is rigorously defined the way you want it to be doesn't make it so.

[1] https://opensource.org/deepdive/drafts/open-source-ai-defini...
wow, is openAI such a great magic to you?
I don’t understand how people can be so confident that this will only lead to good things.

First, this seems like courts directly overruling the explicit wishes of Congress. As much as Congress critters complain about DCA Sec230, they can’t agree on any improvements. Judges throwing a wrench at it won’t improve it, they will only cause more uncertainty.

not liking what social media has done to people doesn’t seem like a good reason to potentially destroy the entire corpus of videos created on YouTube.
I can think of a few situations... Like when it's flooding your board / group with ultra-low-effort crap, or when it's clearly a barely-digested regurgitation of an artist's style that they spent decades developing at great personal cost. When it's used to scam people, or when it's used to smear them.

I find it upsetting that a company can steal the essence of thousands / millions of people's life's work, "transform" it with an algorithm, and then sell it to people without any recognition of the theft whatsoever. I don't like that a generation of creatives is being undercut, all during a time when inequality and wealth capture are rampant due to out-of-control mega-corporations - which immediately make moves to buy and/or copy said company...

Like, I love creativity. I love AI. I think AI will be a part of our future whether we moan about it or not. At the same time, the world is awash with the worst type of scams, to the point where making a living is hard even if you work a steady 9-5. Even if you work two.

Damn near every artist, writer, musician is scrabbling ridiculously hard to stay afloat as it is. Some aren't making it. I can see why they're pissed. And I think that for the most part, being angry at 'AI' is pointless, except as a means to distract from the true parasites of our age.
Fwiw Meta, under oath in congressional session, called Llama not open-source.
What does reverse racism mean?
Iam pretty sure that was a recommendation in the emacswiki to use ^P instead of ^A as prefix key (that must be 15+ years ago). I think I didnt invest to much energy to think about an alternative. I almost never use ^P in my terminal emulator, but I use ^A all the time.

I usually never do heavy editing in a tmux window. Rarely I use emacs in a terminal window these days. I use tramp to remote connect and edit comfortably in my X session.
Unit – Visual Programming System
I personally don't know that much about this idea yet, but there's a talk coming up at our annual conference (eventually video also hits the web) that should be interesting:

https://conf.kde.org/event/6/contributions/202/
`_` definitely clashes with IPython and Jupyter's use of it.

However, if you import it from Ibis then it ceases to be used as "most recent result" and remains the ibis underscore object (unless of course you explicitly assign it to something else).

Regarding backend compatibility, there are definitely a few kinds of things that we don't currently abstract over. One is regular expression syntax and another is floating point math (e.g., various algebraic properties that are violated that result in slightly different outputs).

Hope you give it a go, and please report issues at https://github.com/ibis-project/ibis.
I don't see why there wouldn't be, it's cheaper to manufacture with seemingly no downsides. They probably won't revise the 4GB and 8GB versions until their stocks of the original stepping are used up though, and once they do introduce revised versions it may be a lottery which version you get for a while.
Building Postcards for "Airbnb" Scale
Have you read the article? The CIA doesn't look good and if I got any point across it is that I wouldn't like to be in the situation.
And some things are impossible even with both the dataset and weights. Say you wanted to train the same model as is released, using Meta's hypothetically released training data. You also need to know the starting parameters, the specific hardware and it's quirks during training, the order the data is trained in as well as any other preprocessing techniques used to treat the text.

Considering how ludicrously expensive it would be to even attempt a ground-up retrain (as well as how it might be impossible), weights are enough for 99% of people.
Related/funny: three years ago, someone found exactly such a bug because it was exploited against a Minecraft server they were running in screen (probably without the perpetrator understanding the root cause): https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-devel/2021-02/msg0...
Cursor [1] has excellent codebase RAG, and great recall of third party documentation.

Use "instruction @web @Flask" to search the internet and Flask docs before answering, for example.

[1] https://www.cursor.com/
> Linear Algebra and numerics where not a primary focus of Rust when starting out as they were with Julia.

Typo: where -> were
Abstract functions are fully representable by function approximations in the limit n->inf; ie., sampling from a circle becomes a circle as samples -> infinity.

This makes all "studies" whose aim is to approximate a fully representable abstract mathematical domain irrelevant to the question.

This is just more evidence of the naivety, mendacity, and pseudoscientific basis of ML and its research.
It does fit it. Perfectly. It's incredible. Like an Internet of all Human Knowledge released before 1965. OpenAI could of done this. The battle to me is just people respecting ideas instead of saying they are impossible or unnecessary because what we have is good enough.
I love my Jetbrains too much to switch :(

Jetbrains's own AI is terrible though, worse than even Copilot v1.
This is a failure to apply the principle of charity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Definitely do that. Old Fujitsu thin clients make awesome DIY routers.
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/exhibitions/y2k-aesthetic-in...

Remember when tech was optimistic?
Some IKEA furniture is great, some of it is terrible. 10-15 years ago, it was where you'd go when you needed a great-looking nightstand or coffee table for a fair price and didn't overly care how long it would last. These days, you can expect to pay a premium for the "IKEA aesthetic" and shopping experience.

Personally, the main thing I can't stand is that you have only limited ability to "choose your own adventure" and just go straight to the thing you're there to buy. I don't want to spend 25 minutes wandering through their corporate-curated displays to get to the kitchen faucets.

I think they still have a good price on AA NiMH batteries, though.

Edit: I am speaking to the US stores, I have no idea what IKEA is like closer to their homeland.
Does anyone know of examples of something like this that can be bought in the UK?
Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) were supposed to address this concern. Unfortunately even with this strategy it doesn't seem to be able to compete cost-wise in the market.

I hope that can be worked out, as I think we'd be well-served by having as many eggs in our energy basket as possible.
Unanswerable without specifying what laptop you have.
If I got it right, does your solution assume a web engine of some sort behind the scenes?
Only tested with chrome! I'll add some cross browser tests and get back to you soon, thanks!

That is intended behavior, but looking back seems kind of silly? I'll fix!
Chrome backtracked on the decision, they won't be blocking third-party cookies. There were a number of articles and a fair bit of discussion about it at the time, see e.g. [0] and [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41038586

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/22/24203893/google-cookie-tr...
Why is the American system a mess? One chime for up, two for down. It's simple and doesn't bother anybody.
Personnally, I tend to use Pandas because it is integrated everywhere, because of the ecosystem that uses it. Let's say I want to read data from json file (csv file, python dict, etc.) and I want to plot it using plotly. If Ibis is compatible with whatever Pands dataframe is compatible with, then for most of my usage I don't really care much about the "backend".
>coincidentally the flat earth movement is imploding a bit, as their 'thought' leaders were invited to visit the south pole to observe 24h day as witnesses.

Got a link? That sounds hilarious but I couldn't find any articles about it (though I didn't search terribly hard).
OpenAI Agrees to Run GPT Models Past US Government to Evaluate for Safety