skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone using large e-ink monitor for programming? I cautious about trying one because I wouldn't want to wait 1 full second every time I scroll yhe sources
Then there's stuff like this: https://buttplug.io
It is in reference to this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14465

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09629
"Pointing out inaccurate information" in HN comments is not scientific debate, nor a science.
> With climate change, it’s going to take a century and today’s denialists won’t be around to feel the effects.

The thing that is so maddening is that we're already feeling the effects of climate change, but the denialists just claim those effects either aren't really happening, or are caused by something else (without bothering to define "something else").
Automotive actually uses ML in plain c with some inline assembly sprinkled on top run run models in embedded devices.

It’s definitely out there and in productive use.
People think of the Karpathy tutorials which do indeed build LLMs from the ground up, starting with Python dictionaries.
Well, the general issue that caused it is disinformation campaigns

People that point out Brazil's current state of affairs don't seem to realize that eventually, a ban of unmoderated social networks is inevitable from a legislative standpoint.

I wish that X/bluesky/Facebook/etc had something like a clear label next to its users, maybe a robot icon when the post was created via their API or in an automated manner.

That would help people to identify campaigns already a lot.

But on the other hand, these are the paying customers, right? It's always "just advertisement" until it is not anymore.
>If the President of the US wanted to be evil, the Illuminati would take actions to make sure none of his plans happen.

It is for this reason I lost faith in the Illuminati long ago.

>That's a joke ...

Oh, right.
If you want an honest answer to Prius vs Tesla, it's because Prius was seen as a slower and lamer version of existing cars for people who didn't care about cars. While Tesla's could get from 0-60 faster than hypercars of the time.

Tesla's offered an experience in terms of pure acceleration off the line that actually made them cool, even people who might never buy one wouldn't mind experiencing one off the line.
I bought a Moaan Plus to see if it would work for me - basically, is a phone-sized eInk ebook reader something I'd keep using?

3 months on: I love this little thing and carry it everywhere. Although it's just slightly smaller than my Pixel 8 Pro, it feels close to weightless. It's small and light enough that I can just drop it in a pocket and head out for the day, then pull it out and read when I'm e.g. waiting in a supermarket queue. I find it hard to imagine a better form factor for reading in these types of ad-hoc situations that come up several times a day.

Battery life is fine - given how I use it, I drop it on a charger for a few minutes each day and it never goes flat. No idea how many days the battery would last if I didn't do that, but I don't use it the same way as I use my 7" ebook reader so it's not a concern.

Similarly although it's notionally an Android tablet, I don't think it would work as a replacement for a typical tablet or phone. FWIW, I currently have 700+ apps installed on my Pixel 8 Pro, and just 6 on the Moaan Plus:
- F-Droid (essentially a replacement for the Google Play store)
- KOReader, which meets all my reading needs in combination with Calibre on laptop and Wallabag
- Koofr, so I can access all my ebooks whenever I can sync via an Internet connection
- Markor, for capturing notes in Markdown
- DuckDuckGo, because eventually I'll need a browser at some point
- Simple Keyboard, to replace the supplied Chinese keyboard app which is useless to me

Downsides of the device:
- it's Android 11, which may or may not be a concern for you (given how I use it, it's not a concern for me)
- no Google Play, so you're going to have to install software from somewhere else. F-Droid is a pretty good substitute, but doesn't have all the apps you might want. The big one missing for me is Zotero, which I'd love to have on this device
- no fingerprint or facial recognition, which would concern me if this thing didn't live in my pocket 99% of the time

Upsides:
- it's small enough that you can carry it with you anywhere, and close to weightless compared to a phone. If you're someone who reads a lot, this can be a game changer as you can carry a bunch of books in just about any situation
- it's about half the price of a Boox Palma
- 2Gb RAM and 64Gb of storage, more than enough for ebooks
- fast enough
- eInk screen, which is way easier on the eyes than reading on a LCD screen
- limited set of features, which means I'm not tempted to install more apps on it to try to make it do more than I need
> Evolution is a biological process term, and an overloaded and ambiguous one at that. Culture is accretive and driven by social dynamics. “Cultural evolution” is literally nonsensical. This was, however, a popular way of thinking in the nineteenth century; make of that what you will.

I think you might be confusing the modern understanding of cultural evolution with the 19th century (to put it plainly: racist) idea of social Darwinism. Cultural evolution is a much more recent concept that makes an analogy between the modern understanding of the transmission of genes and the transmission of ideas. The analogy is of course imperfect, but by no means "literally nonsensical". See here for a very comprehensive discussion: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evolution-cultural/
Your comment relies on the theory that a.i. is a bubble.

What if companies still keep buying insane amount of graphic card for the next 20 years ? At some point, other companies will want to eat some of the cake too.

What about Chinese? They always want to have Chinese made hardware because of the fear of spying and trade war, they too have extreme need for graphical power and nvidia is a Delaware company.

It seems there are multiple reason for competitors to step up.
Yeah, like asking for trouble. Even when building a basic image upload system in my project I was considering using some AI model to make sure content is at least somewhat moderated.
Sure, probably all true. Who cares? "Producing" a book with the help of a team is also a greater career achievement than not producing one. If I look at which I would be more proud of - producing a book or doing nothing - it's pretty obvious.
> Firstly - many developed countries have higher tax rates than America.

This is mostly not true. People are often confused into comparing US federal taxes to the totality of taxes in other countries, but US states levy taxes too. The total of state and federal taxes is often in excess of 50%, which is higher than the OECD average.

> The issue is that tax avoidance for so many years has resulted in absurd levels of wealth capture.

The primary cause of this is not tax avoidance, it's market concentration. If your company has 0.1% of the industry and is worth a billion dollars and you pay a 0% effective tax rate, you have a billion dollars. If your company has 50% of the industry and is worth $500 billion dollars and you pay a 70% effective tax rate, you still have $150 billion, i.e. 150 times as much. Also, effective tax rates have never actually been 70%.

> Thirdly - no polity level discussion can happen effectively, because that wealth ensures productive discussion is mired in controversy by the time it reaches the voting public.

The real problem is that the tax system is intentionally convoluted to conceal from the public who is paying what and where the money is going. This benefits the rich in many cases, but it mostly benefits Congress, who can lie to people about what's going on to get their votes even while screwing them in particular. This is not a partisan issue; both parties want more money and want it to go to their cronies, so neither of them wants to simplify the tax system into something sensible and harder to game, because it would interfere with the diversion of everyone's tax money to the politically connected.
What you describe is a flamewar maintenance algorithm. I mean, it COULD work if all people were sound and reasonable, but that's obviously not the case. And being a flamewar battleground is probably not the goal of most platform owners either. Also, for many topics that are not politics you don't need disagreement for a productive discussion.
How does this approach compare to Dolphin's ubershader?
Fulfilling your obligation to a society that brought you riches, however much risk you took and however much hard work vs luck that was, is not theft.
Fueling that society, so that it can persist for your well-being is your obligation as a citizen.

If you fully play out your argument, the least wealthy and least successful deserve it the most to have their remaining wealth taken because they are not assuming any risk in this society.

I think that is a very destructive world view.
Unbundle Disney
It's hard to believe that's what's happening, since Musk has previously agreed to censor posts for a foreign government[1], writing at the time:

The choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety
or limit access to some tweets. Which one do you want?”

One difference in that case is that Musk had close business ties to that government, so read in that whatever you want.

[1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/twitter-musk-censors...
Tell that to everyone who is already using AI productively
Virtualization adds a constant overhead to various I/O operations, usually reckoned to be 2-5%, and nothing to CPU bound processes since the CPU just executes userspace instructions as normal. For AWS the overhead will be less since they use a specialized partitioning hypervisor and a lot of custom hardware assistance, including paravirt I/O devices implemented directly in hardware. This small overhead is almost always a good trade-off for the convenience of virt / cloud, such as easy provisioning, live migration, hardware independence and so on. The DBOS decision to only target the cloud makes lots of sense.
Hrm.

Downvotes?

Fine, let's discuss then the connection between Orban's government and he himself and pedophiles.

Gábor Kaleta was an ambassador to Peru. He was recalled after they found him possessing 19 000 CSAM photographs. He got a suspended sentence and an ~1500 EUR fine.

The children home at Bicske, the next village to Orban's hometown Felcsút https://maps.app.goo.gl/oki8i7H4ijsLja977 is some truly dark shit. Let's see the facts.

1. János Vásárhelyi , the director of that place is a convicted pedophile. He is currently in prison.

2. His second, Endre Kónya was convicted because he helped cover up what's going on. He was given clemency by the president who needed to resign when this entire shit came to light. It's important to note he is from Transylvania, an area of Romania where a lot of ethnic Hungarians live. You will see soon why this is important.

3. It's worth mentioning the person pushing for this clemency was Zoltán Balog, a former minister and clergyman who is rather close with Orbán.

4. The brother of Orbán operates a wrestling association in this children's home.

5. Now we need to turn our attention to another Transylvanian Hungarian, a Franciscan friar piece of shit called Csaba Böjte. He is a favorite of the Hungarian government, funded by them, awarded by them. His orphanages were places of torture and sexual abuse for at least a decade and he have pressured the children to shut up. The "teachers" doing this are untrained and one of them got a 28 years prison sentence when Romanian authorities have caught him.

6. The wrestling association have hosted events with Csaba Böjte's children in attendance.

It's not so hard to interpret this as Orbán's brother operating an Epstein island under the guise of wrestling where Böjte supplies the children who doesn't tell anyone just what kind of wrestling is going on there.

In light of this, it's perhaps not surprising the government invented a new kind of policeman: the school guard. These people are almost completely untrained, they get 120 hours (!) before being sent to schools to play security. No one is surprised pedophiles are flocking to this, despite the whole thing is only a few years old already two were arrested and heaven knows how many got away scot-free. This entire phone thing is just going to give them more opportunities to blackmail the children.
You sometimes need the semicolons, particularly with regards to line breaks and interwoven server rendered template tags, i.e. if writing a function that is embedded in the server rendered template to be called by your bundled code, etc.
> software development

Wrong angle. There is a problem, your consideration of the problem, the refinement of your solution to the problem: the solution gradually unfolds - it is developed.
Cool! How could I install it in Jekyll ?
It could be use for landing page form, newsletter form or custom form calculator where html is not allowed.
Or buy the influence of someone who is already famous
It is centralized. Just block the app and domain, down it goes.

Very different when compared to NOSTR, where are a variety of domains and apps keep popping up everywhere around the globe.
What's meant by top-left raster?
If you obtained the version you have under the current license, you can not be held by the more restrictive terms when the license changes at a later date, even if the owner changes the license on the current/older versions rather than just using the new license for new versions.

This isn't like a service where they can try force you to agree to an updated EULA with some "by continuing to use this service…" crap, or a rented device like a "smart" TV that can effectively do the same by refusing to work (though technically you've already agreed to that with a "we can fuck you over at a later date" clause in previous click-through agreements.
That's not even a little bit true. Even the CEO is at the mercy of their board, and their shareholders. Other CxO positions are subservient to the CEO. Often VPs are considered executives, and they certainly don't have control over everything inside their company.

If Twitter/X were to hire a rep in Brazil, regardless of the title they're given, that rep would have little to no power over the moderation choices of the parent company.
> Pictographs can convey way more meaning than text. Add in cultural competency (subtext etc.) and it becomes incredibly potent. Hence, memes.

Citation needed. I think you might prove that by expressing those three sentences in pictograms, so that we can verify whether they convey "way more meaning". I have my doubts.
You can get 60 Hz refresh rate these days.
WiFi auth with OsmoHLR/SIM cards
How about you do it and then show HN?
I wouldn't call lies controversies.
> All the formatting in {fmt} is locale-independent by default (which breaks with the C++’s tradition of having wrong defaults)

Chuckles
There is something like that for Germany, but it's not fully reliable.
How to wrap a C compiler and preprocessor, the right way
Shortkey.org a Smart Web Launcher
The idea of Shortkey.org is to create your own "keywords" to interact. For example, by adding the keyword "password" - you do not need to type the whole keyword, you can also put the first words that match like "pas" you can use a password generator to create a new safe password.

You can do much more, for example you can set up "a" for amazon, now when you search for something on amazon you just type "a notebook" to search amazon for the keyword "notebook".

Similarly with AI integrations... just ask a question and put "?" at the end to get an answer, or write something and put "!" to check grammar and spelling.

But the best feature is that you can set up your own prompts, set up keywords for it, and once you set it up, it runs.

And best of all, you do not need an account! If you use it without an account, it will just store it on the local device. And the biggest advantage is, you are not forced to open the URL, you can just run it over URL with "shortkey.org/XXXX" and follow your own shortkeys.

The whole project is completely free for now, if you want to integrate widgets and link it to your own project, let me know and contact me. I hope you enjoy this fantastic "a little bit nerdy" project
I'm not sure what that proves, though. Even if the judge you mention was not totally out of control, and was actually applying the law properly and correctly (with the same outcome), I could very easily see a large number of people being all "no, not my Twitters, what am I going to do with my afternoons now?" without giving any critical thought to whether or not the law is being followed and if that's a problem.
Or they could still work on it, but don’t use it on customers until it’s good enough.

> Zhou shared a striking example of how AI-generated content could lead to real-world consequences. “Some of the initial stock images of various ingredients looked like a hot dog, but it wasn’t quite a hot dog—it looked like, kind of like an alien hot dog,” he said. Such errors, he argued, could erode consumer trust or, in more extreme cases, pose actual harm. “If the recipe potentially was a hallucinated recipe, you don’t want to have someone make something that may actually harm them.”

There’s absolutely no reason Instacart has to show customers AI-hallucinated recipes from stock images. They choose to do it, then beat the drum about AI security as if they actually give a shit. It’s like Boeing self-certification.
Defaults like these user:password
I wonder why the title of this HN posting was edited to only include the first sentence of the headline.
having studied in 45-50 student classrooms until high school, i think this has more to do with the sudden paradigm change than anything else. unless there are physical/infra challenges.
It's kind of mindblowing to see how much code floating point formatting needs.

The linked dragonbox [1] project is also worth a read. Pretty optimized for the least used branches.

[1] https://github.com/jk-jeon/dragonbox
if interrupt and usespace code run on the same core, there is a chance that the data will still be in the cache line of the processor and it wont have to go thru main memory.
I've had to do this with an electric scooter before. Sometimes the road sensors aren't tuned for very small things... probably because most cars aren't that small.
I.e. no discussion of C and where the brackets and semicolons come from.

Also, this person has no apparent notion that code may need to serve machine needs as in, try writing python with significant whitespace over a TTY or other linear stream...

Horses for courses.

Wait til he finds out about memory management.
Precision Under Pressure: The Olympics' Hidden Judges
The article does not seem to have any information besides "there's AI in it"
Most games were primarily C. 3D performance came from the graphics hardware, which had straightforward C APIs and dedicated texture RAM. The machine lacked a floating point processor, so I think we wrote some fixed point math routines in assembly, but that's basically it.
There's no point fearing or obsessing over the inevitable. Pretend it already happened and adapt. A lot of the sentiment here is aimed at putting the cat back in the bag and then hoping for the best. It won't work. Not even a little bit.

Laws are going to do absolutely nothing here except slow down the wrong people. The world is full of people who don't play by rules. It's a level playing field already. Everybody is doing AI at this point: the Iranians, the Chinese, the North Koreans, criminals, sociopath entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, and everybody else with bad intentions you can think about. Every idiot with half a clue as well.

Laws are for obedient citizens that aren't a threat. It's all the other people we need to worry about. Besides, US law is worthless across its borders. And I don't even live there. I live in a place with actual anti AI laws (Europe) and I think they are a really bad idea. I'd prefer to be in a place that isn't awaiting the inevitable meekly with their hands tied behind their backs.

There is a nice little howto build and LLM from scratch article featuring on the HN front page today. Assume everybody else read that too. And then some. This is all public knowledge at this point. You can get pretty far coding an LLM with the help of an LLM. Even the offline ones are probably not that bad for this. Any idiot can build an LLM at this point. Even me probably. So that means that world + dog has been figuring out how to use LLMs to their advantage for the last decade or so. Probably with a sharp uptick in interest about 2-3 years ago. We've seen nothing yet.

Given all that, the safest course of action is working on the assumption that this already happened or if not that it will be happening very soon. The trick is not to prevent the technology but to be better at it than everybody else. This is an arms race and we can't afford to let the wrong people win it.

Regarding the fears about art and impersonation. Same thing. That too is going to happen. Nothing we can do about it. No amount of virtue signalling is going to help here. So, I would propose the exact opposite. Let people do what they will (again, inevitable that they will). But require them to sign all their work and assume any unsigned work to be fraudulent, malevolent, and worthless. Illegal even (laws can work to our advantage here). AI work should be signed too. So we can trace it back to who, when, and how. AI will be able to fake a lot of things. But not cryptographic signatures.

It's a lot easier to regulate proper use of signatures than abuse of technology. And the beauty of this is that we've had the technology to do this for decades already. But we still send unsigned emails, publish unsigned articles on blogs, and don't bother with encryption in general, etc. This is stupid and it has been for quite some time. It's only the unsigned work that's easy to fake.
Didn't tumblr kinda die the day they banned porn?
> I understand it can happen unwillingly but doing that on purpose is... shady. Got to be an horrible person to willingly poison another.

Well the thing is that at this point pretty much everyone has PFAS in their blood[0][1], except perhaps for some uncontacted tribes (although I'm not so sure[2]).

You'd be hard pressed to find any blood with no PFAS at all, if it even exists. So there is nothing wrong with donating it, as there is no alternative.

0. https://chemsec.org/wrappedinchemicals/facts/pfas-fact-1/

1. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/17/dark-w...

2. https://dce.au.dk/fileadmin/dce.au.dk/Udgivelser/Notater_202...
But Musk doesn't care about free speech, he is actively and eagerly suppressing it as well, just for the other team.
Hypothecated taxes are an anti-pattern, for precisely this reason. Setting the budget and setting the taxes should be somewhat separated (but not too separated!)
Sure, but it's still a business decision. On the other side of things, Musk could have complied with the court order, appointed a representative, and accepted that the rep would have their bank accounts frozen and have a pretty bad time of it all. Because Musk might believe being in Brazil is better for his business than not being in Brazil, regardless of any moral/ethical stances he might prefer to take.

Musk could cut off Brazilian Starlink subscribers in the hopes that the backlash would change things in Brazil. But instead he probably thinks keeping those customers on (and happy) for free is the better choice for his business.

I agree with you that altruism exists, but I'm not sure I'm willing to give Musk the benefit of the doubt for many of the decisions he makes.
Why Django ORM is considered a beast? It is easiest ORM to date and very convenient API to work with.
If you think Django ORM is a beast, try SQL alchemy
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