skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cobwebs Technologies, which was founded in Israel in 2014 by three former members of Israeli military special units

TX lege been very friendly towards Israel government. Israeli government also has tight controls over who has access to their tech (ie, no sales to non friendly entities).

In wake of Roe v Wade repeal, TX “trigger law” on abortion, and Project 2025. We all know this is really going to be used to track “abortion traffickers”. Let’s hope this election doesn’t go that way though.
Yeah, I don't really see what you'd buy in place of Nvidia? Either you're huge and have the funds to do your own chips, or you're stuck buying Nvidia, or maybe you do both.
'Catastrophic' SpaceX Starship explosion tore a temporary hole in the atmosphere
Not really compared to 1974, though. And I am sure in 25 years time we will be complaining about how good we had it in 2024.
Yeah definitely! StatiCrypt was originally created to password protect pages uploaded on static hosting (like Github pages) or where you didn't have control on the server.

It has some valid other use cases but it has drawbacks too and htpasswd can definitely be the better solution in many situations. StatiCrypt just aims at being another tool with different trade-offs.
Pretty good indicator of the nonsense hype bubble of AI!
There is no point in leaving a loophole when we can forbid selling data entirely.
NSA are surely one of them.
That's literally what a feed algorithm does, yes.
But the how will I run MS Teams, office365 and OneDrive?

(I’m only partially kidding, sigh…)
I've assumed it's enough oil/residue left in place that just pressing a clean solid surface to contrast the residue is enough to detect the pattern.

Can someone else do it? Quite probably, as I've tried using a different finger from the the registered finger with the glove and it unlocks.
From what I read, Greece's policy was (partially) due to labour shortages during the tourism season, while Japan has lots of workers who work many unproductive hours (some just go to the office for the sake of going). I'd say they're different policies for quite different contexts.
Even then, few CPUs execute all instructions in the same amount of time. Division, for example, still takes longer than a register move on most architectures. Multiplication, historically, did too.

As a sibling comment points out, DSPs can be an exception. I’m far from an expert on them, but CPUs that try to run all instructions in the same fixed amount of time used to accomplish that by avoiding complex addressing modes and by omitting the really slow instructions (division and instructions that push/pop multiple registers onto/from the stack being prime examples).

IIRC, some of them also accomplished it by running some of the simpler instructions slower than necessary (raw speed isn’t as important as being hard real time isn many applications)
"We cannot process this report. Please attach 50GB of logs that may or may not include PII".

I've had enough cases where a simple screenshot or log snippet should have been enough to accept the bug report but instead they were closed because I cannot in good conscience attach all the data they want from a Mac that I use for my day to day work.

:shrug:
I remember the bragging point on the RTX2000 in the very late eighties was "a MIP per megahertz".
Apple did the same at an SPG (special projects group) and it too changed my view about corporations. People uprooted for those jobs only to have the rug pulled from under them.
I remember way back (10? years) a library called Suave, a from scratch Web Server that was fun to work with (although never very high performance). I believe the original developer eventually kind of abandoned it because he felt he was treated poorly by the community (not sure, memory of this is a bit hazy). It's a real shame honestly, because it feels like all the novel F# stuff just got abandoned over time. This has a similar feel (not the code style, but just the intent). Dotnet needs a lot more goofy/unique libraries in general. Otherwise Microsoft pushes a monoculture and nothing good ever happens.
Let's name them, and why?
Experimental Minetest Build for WebAssembly/Emscripten
> I don't believe you're allowed to run fullspeed VM software or JIT-enabled browsers, even with the DMA.

You can. There's a new JIT entitlement for web browsers in Europe. It's still limited to _only_ browsers, so emulators are out of luck.
Elastic grid by Juan Pinkus, 2021
> supposedly understood recursion

TIL the average corvid is notably smarter than the average compsci undergrad
The amount of ignorance surrounding that agency on this forums is truly astounding.
"The content of this site is geofenced and not available in your region."

Why? This is in the EU
Of course if all 600 people in your tightly-integrated community survived the apocalypse then chances are you're still living in a functional nation state anyway.
If you’re serious, they all have web apps. I use them on my linux box all the time. Ripped the certs off my corp. laptop.
Google did this a decade ago. Amazon has a CPU but I think no GPU yet although Im sure its being worked on. The problem for them is the CUDA moat. Their hardware is mostly used for inference because no one trains on non-nvidia hardware.
"If you read the article" is such a lame comment. In other comments in this thread, I've literally quoted the article. How in the world could I have pulled a quote without reading the article.

It's clear you and I have polar opposite sentiments regarding this. So I'll leave it here as you are quite tiresome
Ehhh, I'd rather hear that they stopped supporting SB 1047.
Are crows better suited to search than pigeons?

https://archive.google/pigeonrank/
big stretch, this is only twitter, and with plenty of reasoning, history, and back and forward, where twitter has time after time ignored brazillian's court requests.
Is the artifact produced always a single file?

I’ve been enjoying Claude, but while the output is single file instead of a codebase, it’s pretty limited and toy-ish.
> PHP used the native bindings but CF used ODBC/JDBC and that hurt them a lot for reasons I assume we’re not easy to fix.

Tangential, but JDBC, even in the year of our lord 2024, has been one of my biggest headaches for performance. I have a pretty decent job with a very decent manager, so I started replacing as many JDBC calls that I could with Vert.x and got considerably better performance, I think because JDBC is so block heavy and threads just spin idling a lot.

> none of the developers knew SQL well enough to know how to filter a JOIN, so they had multiple nested ASP loops which were retrieving hundreds of millions of rows,

We didn't have hundreds of millions of rows, but at the Tae Kwon Do studio I worked at (who had their own martial arts management software), the initial person who wrote it wasn't great with SQL, and for the "belt management" service the person who wrote it was similarly doing lots of nested loops and conditionals on those loops, all in Coldfusion. Another employee that was pretty good at SQL ended up rewriting everything with a lot of clever joins, views, where clauses, brought down the runtime by like three orders of magnitude.
Anyone building the largest of LLMs including Alphabet, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic
This is obviously a very important correction if it is correct.

That said, I think you may be correcting only the simplified strawman version at the top of the post, while the "actual" version offered at the bottom corrects for this by substituting borrowed cash for the actual asset. That is, I think the version at the top (1A,2A,2C) is intentionally flawed, and represents the popular misconception, while the version at the bottom (1B,2B,3B) corrects for this.

The author might not have chosen a clear format for his argument, but I don't think this is an actual error he is making. I think he addresses this directly in the bottom half of the post. But if you read through the whole thing and still feel he's wrong, I'd certainly like to hear more!
I think Meta has been pretty transparent about their GPU purchases[1]. 350k H100s should go pretty far into the billions.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/meta-llama3-inference-accelera...
I don't know, when bitcoin crashed there were a flood of clapped out wrecked GPUs on the market but nothing that I'd risk buying.

Same'll happen here.
If you post irrelevant or thoughtless takes, you will get vote down by anyone, even those who don’t like musk.
And likewise, you might get points deducted for wasting the reviewers time with a frivolous submission.
Hoid it through the grapevine
Did he end up paying all these guys?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/musks-unpaid-bil...
That's a normal amount for the S&P 500. The return on a privately held company is likely higher.
Margins on datacenter GPUs will probably always be better than consumer. As long as thats the case they need to segment to stop datacenters from using consumer products so I've got a feeling that you will never be able to buy a consumer nvidia product with a reasonable amount of RAM. Maybe intel will release one to get some hype for their gpu line?
Haha, and why would my contacts be necessary to tell me my reading?

The fact that the walled garden isn't preventing this type of behavior is pretty good evidence of why it's no where near as safe as they tout it.
Let's play "Guess the whales!"

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I've had Claude generate 5 files/artifacts in a single response. I found it pretty impressive.
https://archive.is/zvUMn
> They can and do break into premises

That's fair enough to some extent. Not sure about the US, but in the UK they are also responsible for re-securing the access point when they leave, and I believe you can claim compensation for the repair work. Presumably also, if there were any thefts while the property was in this vulnerable state, the insurance company would sue the police to try to reclaim the money paid out to cover the loss.

Taking someone's primary mode of transport, perhaps their only viable option, is a whole order of magnitude worse than breaking into a property to carry out a search warrant. For someone who's not even a suspect, or in any way connected, it's a massive violation of their rights.

> only tow the car if they can't contact the owner, which seems consistent with that

To be honest, it seems unlikely they'd easily be able to contact the owner, unless it happens to be parked outside their own residence. And the flip side of them not being able to contact the owner to ask permission is that the owner has absolutely no idea where their car is, and they only find out it's missing when they need it most. And probably not in an area they'd like to hang around too long in, if there's just been a homicide near there.
What if having the resources to develop hardware are not the point? This is a physical business, and supply chain is the bottleneck at some point. Right now it seems that all the money in the world can't build fabs fast enough to manufacture alternatives to Nvidia's chips. As long as they maintain dominance over the supply chain, having developed equivalent technology might not matter. Someone correct me if this is wrong, I'm mostly speculating.
In theory you could use a smartphone as data provider for updates etc
No all "life" eat other sentient "life".
We're the type specimen for a category that has no other known members. Possibly at some point we'll need to extend the category of "person" beyond "human" but for now using them interchangeably seems fine.
Yep. I was in a team of 3 devs with a “full time” manager. At best it was a 20% job. I’ve managed much larger teams myself. The guy was “supposed to be technical” and help out with low priority dev tasks. All he did was go to meetings and have useless 1:1s.
~$200 per person ticket
~$600 for the room

So for 2 people in a room, about $1000
If there is no ambiguity: is a man pushing a button on a camera art? A man pushing a button on an image generator? Yes or no answer because it's very simple as you say, no whining or word soup ahah
Personal attacks aren't allowed here, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are. We have to ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it again.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
A friend doing homework for a university assignment, circa Leopard or Snow Leopard, noticed that Calculator produced negative values when raising a negative number to an even power.

The bug turned out to be in CFNumber, in Core Foundation. CFNumber does a lot of fiddly stuff at the bit level for performance, and one of their optimizations for exponentiation was incorrect. Somehow it was never found by tests or due to buggy behaviors it created in other apps, but by someone clicking buttons and thinking critically about the output.
> The problem for them is the CUDA moat.

Compared to the problem of developing a new cutting-edge GPU, building a CUDA compatibility layer is a much smaller problem. Hire the author of ZLUDA, throw a small team at it, and have a legal department on standby. And separately, there'd also be value in some source-translation projects to help people migrate to some better native framework.
Given their near monopoly on the products they're selling, anti-competitive behavior like that would actually be pretty big liability.
In terms of design, Janet is Clojure-inspired, but very much does its own thing. jank is a Clojure, such that any existing Clojure code you have will work. Largely speaking, only Java intorop needs to be ported, using a reader conditonal.

Beyond that, jank is built on a C++ host and interops with C++. This means you qan use C++ features, such as templates, in your jank code. Janet has a C runtime and any C++ interop will need to be through C's ABI.

Lastly, Janet is usable today while jank is still under heavy development.
CRISPR-based genome editing of a diurnal rodent, Nile grass rat
I think you should probably add all large cloud providers. Amazon and Microsoft should be in the list.
but you can fire incompetence and cover ups
> ventually, they incorporated cfscript which let you write stuff that was more like the c derived languages. But they did not port every <cftag> function over to cfscript. Terrible oversight. If you had to resort to ending your cfscript to fall back to a cftag it made the code really ugly.

I never used cfscript for this reason. I felt like if I couldn't use every feature of the language, then there's no point in messing with it.

I definitely miss cfdump sometimes. It was ridiculously useful for what it did.

> Something else I remember is how many ColdFusion devotees I worked with. I never understand how people get so attached to a language (ColdFusion, Ruby), a company (Apple), or a database (Postgres, MongoDB). It becomes some kind of cult. So many defensive ColdFusion programmers I had to deal with.

Yeah, even when I doing that job (2012), Coldfusion was falling out of favor, and I would mention to my manager that we might want to start transitioning to Railo or rewriting stuff using Java EE or something, and would get extremely defensive about it. He was more polite than this, but he basically said something that implied that I didn't know what I was talking about and Coldfusion will still be used for years and years to come.

I guess he was half right :)
Automattic has quite a portfolio as of now: https://automattic.com. Among other things they now have Beeper, Simplenote + Day One, PocketCasts, and Tumblr which is moving.
No, it can produce plenty of files, and for anything on their whitelist of Javascript libraries, it can render in-line, so you can get fully working React applications rendering in the artifacts preview.
Why would users need to be an expert in them?
I believe the GP refers to Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.

And while yeah, that's probably them, I'd put a non-trivial chance of some government intelligence organization to make it into the top 3.
That sounds like a super boring route. I’d much rather do Chicago to LA, SF, or Seattle, as all those routes pass through interesting to me scenery.

I will say the coast starlight was pretty full when I took it from LA to Seattle. A lot of people take it and really really like it. The staff seemed more personable and to be enjoying themselves over the ones I’ve experienced in northeast corridor
Ok, so now the costs are the servicing of the loan for 40 years, and paying some percent of the appreciation. Is there any indication that this would be cheaper than just paying the $17M in taxes?
I’m guessing that you mean as a preservative?

If so, no: the article is about a technique for destroying long-lived PFAS molecules, which are extraordinarily stable and therefore long lived, and about which there are health concerns (they do very odd things to biological systems in very low concentrations).

Linked in the article is the research paper detailing the technique: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-024-00267-4
looks like you need to pay to use this "free open source lib"

https://github.com/mljar/supertree/blob/main/supertree-comme...
If 2024 is the high point for a quarter century, we really are going to rock bottom as a world.
Ask HN: Aware of crypto since 2014 but never invested
I feel so dumb that I did not make any money in crypto. I've been aware of crypto since 2014, and I used to hang out in the forums of Bitcoin.

I know a few people in my area who are not into tech. They have no idea about the technology and are not very updated in tech, yet they invested in crypto and made some money.

Sometimes I feel that all this education reduces my risk-taking. I don't trust new things or people easily.
You're entitled to your opinion, but I always strive for thoughtfulness and relevance.
Isn't this bad for marine life? We should be pumping the ocean full of O2, not CO2.
Is there any indication the ultra rich structure loans like this to avoid taxes? Or is this just a meme that, for the most part, financially illiterate redditors like to throw around?
From Wordpress own post about it, they're going to run it on the wordpress.com infrastructure. The solution is whatever is already running their hosted offering. It does not however seems like Automattic themselves completely know how this will work.

https://automattic.com/2024/08/27/shipping-tumblr-and-wordpr...
"The content of this site is geofenced and not available in your region."
low quality discussion, lots of ignorant speculation... I wonder if there's a way to analyze HN discussions to measure "quality" ?
I'm happy this isn't just me. Apple's calculator app is a showcase for some of their most obtuse UX decisions.

IO-blocking animations are everywhere on iOS, and sometimes they result in overlap (e.g. you can activate a widget and open an app if you press an app icon too fast after opening a folder). But having buttons on iOS animate in response to touch but not engage any further is mindblowing and infuriating.

It's also filled with obtuse interactions. (Did you know the iPhone's calculator app has extra buttons? You have to use the control center, unlock your screen rotation, and then rotate your phone to access it.) (Did you know you can erase digits by swiping left or right on them? You can't _access_ the hidden digits of precision this way.)
Surveillance will be the death of the cell "phone". What are the arguments for bringing your phone with you? I'm imagining a future where politicized geofencing has observed people gathering together and is prosecuted precisely becaused it was geofenced.
It's mindboggling and there has to be other solutions convenience technology that do not sacrifice privacy.
Good point, XAML does kinda blow. I miss Visual Basic (;
Has anyone had success applying with these yet?

I found that for anything above hello world complexity the snippets produced by these tools take more time and have lower quality than if you just learned the tool yourself (which you can use AI for) and did it yourself.

I did manage to get interesting results when I turned it into a few shot prompt with a lot more RAG. So maybe more specialized versions of these tools can produce better results than generalist versions.
Autonomous vehicles will not be your property.
Try forklibertp.numerous400@passmail.net and write something strangers wouldn't know :)
I don't really understand how CUDA is proper moat... You can scale software engineers much more readily than hardware supply chain. And basically for your own models, it should not be impossible to train your staff to use your layer instead.
> that the very rich can create schemes for multigenerational transfer of wealth without ever paying tax

Also important to note that the major financial institutions are complicit in these schemes because of the financial upside they get out of it even in a limited number of transactions, due to the large amounts of money involved.

One wonders if in today's digital self-serve world, a retail bank could implement a version of this scheme that is totally self-serve (and therefore super low margin) and make it accessible to everyone.

I suspect if that happened, the rules would be changed quickly.
Tons, but by far the most rewarding reread has been Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicle. Which is unfortunately still incomplete, but on the other hand if you're the type of person who likes to dig for clues between every word, the most interesting time to do so is before book 3 is (some day, hopefully) released.

They're books which work on so many levels, with layers of subtlety and literary cleverness and even little buried jokes. There's truly nothing else like them in fantasy fiction.
> What is stopping some small percent of drivers from installing cameras and using ML to identify cars driving dangerously (e.g. speeding, running reds, changing multiple lanes at once, etc.), and when their license plate is identifiable, finding and informing their insurance company?

What has stopped you from doing that personally?
If it’s my outdoor cameras and it pertains to a crime that happened just outside my home, they can have the footage. A very practical contribution I can make to my neighborhoods safety
The lender gets to write a secured loan with an excellent risk profile and an interest rate that, on average, generates net profit that is at least as good as other lending opportunities.

From the lender's perspective this is a relatively straightforward transaction. A lender will lend to just about anyone if the spreadsheet numbers work out.
Both in terms of hardware and software, they need to be able to support the small set of operations that their training or inference uses, so the problem on both sides is much smaller than both a full GPU and a full CUDA replacement.