skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the repository. I'm having a great time reading the code with all the comments. (The note about writing on a Oculus Quest had me cracking up.)
You could easily write a great blog post with this content, or do some YT videos. The Apple's ARM assembly ecosystem is short on resources like this.
If the server is on the Tor network, an onion server, then it is encrypted end to end and no traffic or identity is exposed to either the onion server or any intermediary.

That is to say, if I started an onion server on one side of the world, then connected to it from somewhere else, my connection to it would be anonymous and encrypted to any external entity.
2003! RPGs had those mechanics since basically forever.
Gonna be the finest engine you've seen since the industrial revolution. Grease those gears, guys, we're shedding a head count of no less than 15,000 to keep this baby going. And that's just this year.
Same here. I live in a GDPR country.
I think with this kind of leadership they should probably liquidate and return money to the stockholders.
But not one over Tactical Espionage Action?
Altera has been known but its so sad. They bought them less than a decade ago for $13B and did nothing with it. They really got themselves into a great position for Heterogeneous computing and then just did nothing.
> Japan, Germany, are effectively still occupied.

No, they aren't. Having allied forces deployed on your soil by mutual agreement is not occupation.

> Once a US base gets established in your territory, you can never get it out.

There are quite a long list of counterexamples; the US has closed lots of overseas bases (both in countries that remain on good terms with the US and in those where the relationship soured.)

> Just ask the Iraqi's.

"Iraqis", and the US closed large numbers of Iraqi bases in the 2020-2021 drawdown and the US and Iraq are currently (last I checked) in discussions on a complete drawdown of US military presence which would close the remaining bases.
> What other expectations do you have of Intel?

I expect them to follow the Silicon Valley maxim of "Build the best product instead of focusing on making the most amount of money".
This is a long term problem. Intel, and other once great American companies, do not have the talent or culture needed to make great products anymore.
It’s basically Pluto notebooks for Python?
It's a good writeup, but I do take exception to this:

"Seriously, else-hosting is the practical option, let someone else worry about the reliability, concurrency, redundancy and availability of your systems."

Spend one time trying to get through a maze of automated phone answering systems, then try to ascertain whether the human, when you finally get them, even understands the issue, then wonder how much of what they're telling you is to just get you off the phone, all the time wondering if calling even really does anything, and you'll wonder whether it's better to blindly trust a company that likely doesn't have tech people we're allowed to talk to or to just do it ourselves.

At least when there's an issue with my things, I can address it. Although a bit of a tangent, I'd love to see a review of major hosting providers based on whether you can talk to a human, and whether said human knows anything at all about Internet stuff.
I've got the SM-4 7-45x, with LED ring light, 0.7x Barlow, rubber eye cups, and double-arm boom stand. Basically this[1] with some extra accessories. Works excellently, the newer design allows mounting the ring light easily (there's a grove it sits in).

[1] https://amscope.com/products/c-sm-4ntp-64s?variant=414205946...
Also those are some bullshit benchmarks.

It’s not surprising that you can make a static compiler that makes tiny little programs written in a dynamic language into fast executables.

The hard part is making that scale to >=10,000 LoC programs. I dunno which static reasoning approaches codon uses, but all the ones I’m familiar with fall apart when you try to scale to large code.

That’s why JS benchmarking focused on larger and larger programs over time. Even the small programs that JS JIT writers use tend to have a lot of subtle idioms that break static reasoning, to model what happens in larger programs.

If you want to get in the business of making dynamic languages fast then the best advice I can give you is don’t use any of the benchmarks that these folks cite for your perf tuning. If you really do have to start with small programs then something like Richards or deltablue are ok, but you’ll want to diversify to larger programs if you really want to keep it real.

(Source: I was a combatant in the JS perf wars for a decade as a webkitten.)
The "loading screen" patent expired in 2015[0]. I cannot think of any games which have incorporated this feature. Then again, on a PC, loading screens are typically so short I cannot even read the hint text they attempt to display.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/loading-screen-game-pa...
Looks like the wordfreq party is over. Time for the next wave of knowledge tools, wonder what socialsignalai could bring to the table.
In response, Pocketpair has hired lawyers identical to Nintendo's, except with guns.

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/pocketpair-hires-ident...
Show HN: High-Level Synthetic Data Generation from Verbal Descriptions
Hi all!

In statistics, synthetic data benchmarks are important for understanding the strengths and limitations of competing algorithms. For example, in clustering – the art of identifying groups of data points that are similar to each other – researchers typically study how algorithms perform on mock scenarios like “five oblong clusters in 2D with some overlap.”

Unfortunately, creating these scenarios typically involves a lot of work. You have to design entire data sets so they match the scenario description. In clustering, this involves selecting cluster centers, tuning covariance matrices, etc. As part of my PhD at Caltech, I have developed a high-level synthetic data generator for clustering that automates this process. You only have to describe your desired scenario in English, and the algorithm takes care of creating data sets with suitable clusters. This means researchers can easily set up benchmarks by passing scenario descriptions as a list of strings.

We have put up a demo here: https://demo.repliclust.org. Curious to hear your thoughts!

Mike
Sounds like it's trained on LJ Speech dataset, which is one of the best datasets and very commonly used
> man in the middle decryption

How would that work?
Do you think Israel is just randomly planting bombs in everything it makes? This was clearly a targeted op aimed at Hezbollah.
How many people care about setting up secure connectivity to an internal server but are unable to either disable this behavior or configure their own internal DNS service?

My internal DNS names are served from my router and I'd imagine a lot of the people who would care about this in a home environment are running either open-source or business-class commercial devices that can do the same.
If your language obstructs heterogeneous lists your programs will tend to lack them. Look for classes containing multiple hashtables from the same strings to different object types as a hint that they're missed.

Whether that's a feature is hard to say. Your language stopped you thinking in those terms, and stopped your colleagues from doing so. Did it force clarity of thought or awkward contortions in the implementation? Tends to depend on the domain.
That is a fun fact! Doubly so, because according to Wikipedia, Pokemon is the highest grossing media franchise on the planet, with some estimated $98.8 billion in revenue. Second place is "Micky Mouse & Friends" at a measly $61.4 billion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media...
For testing, we do what we can within practical limits. What those limits should be, is where contention lies. The FDA will come around, especially if someone else does trials under less strict conditions. Won't happen today.
> Israeli officials have said things like "all Gazans must be destroyed,"[1] but everyone here knows that quotes like these represent the far end of aggression among the group.

I unfortunately believe that most Israelis believe this or something like it.

You are right, let me rephrase. They have all the power, opposing the genocide of the palestinians will accomplish nothing as long as the palestinians make the isrealis feel unsafe.
General Availability of the AWS SDK for Swift
It's going to be interesting to see how these compete with beautiful little handheld PCs, especially the Steam Deck which is so much better for consumers due to repair-ability, compatibility and game pricing. These are better for children even without Switch emulators giving access to all the games Nintendo would gate-keep.

Meanwhile Nintendo clings to their archaic policies never discounting games, no-refund policy that isn't even legal in many places, and systemic hardware issues like joy con drift that rip consumers off around the world except in the EU where they were forced to provide lifetime warranties. I don't think this is good enough anymore.
It gets a little tiny bit out of whack with Zalgo text.

e.g., https://text.makeup/#P%CC%B4%CD%82%CC%96h%CC%B4%CC%84%CC%8E%...

edit: in fact, due to all the combining marks it will only paste 14 chars of my text into the box. I originally typed: "Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn." into the Zalgo generator and tried to paste that output in.

https://zalgo.org/
>$15.50 for something you use every moment of your working life?

$16 to upgrade my life? well worth it. $16 to own something that I'd need to carry around for the rest of my life in a file, or track a download code for, and configure into every new system I boot up, and... nah, that's buying a responsibility

creatives out there: you are using and benefitting from the free open source internet where other creatives gave away their work product free. Stop trying to monetize your tiny contributions.
That's what happens when government is regulated but companies aren't. The kind of process you describe is totally illegal and unheard of in the EU.

In France banks also take utilities bills as proof of residence (but they also ask for id or passport to check your identity). ID cards do have an address as well as passports and driving licences, but even the government doesn't accept them as proof of residence because they're often out of date.

In my case they all have different addresses and none of them has my current address. My Belgian ID though has to be reissued every time I move to a different municipality.

Oh and regarding DMV having addresses yes, but (in France) they are indexed by a DMV-specific key that cannot easily be matched to another database, say social security or taxes (which also independently have addresses on most citizens). Driving license number, fiscal number, SSN, cannot legally be used anywhere else than with their respective services. There is of course the names that can be used, but no system is perfect I guess.

Anyway these are just implementation details, but my point is that the EU has many different administrative systems and in at least some of them, utilities are the only legal proof of residence.
I have watched way too much Steztix Fix on YouTube - it’s kind of addicting to watch people fix things). On that channel,he manages to fix all sorts of things with commodity tools, including a cheap microscope, hot air rework station, and soldering iron. He isn’t doing any BGA soldering, but there are YouTubers who reball BGAs (that looks frustrating).
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Who Controls Pokémon, Anyway? [video]
I feel like this going to happen to the permissionless side of crypto assets just like whats happened to most of the web 1.0 stuff

Walled garden things will take over and something is going to happen to EOAs that make them nerfed or rare

but at the same time, that might take 40 years just like these web 1.0 problems so its fine for now
> If a company has an opportunity to make money, they will. Any better than 'good enough' isn't rational and the people running that company should be fired.

...where "good enough" is relative to a particular level of quality and price point, of course. Otherwise there wouldn't be different markets for rich and poor people. And this mechanic helps avoid a "collapse into mediocrity" that you'd otherwise get if all goods and services were offered at a single price point.

The real problem is what you identified at the end, that healthcare isn't anything like a free market. There's no buyer mobility, no transparency as to the level of the service you're getting - heck, you don't even know how much you're going to pay in advance, unlike almost every other industry.
If you want a whole video about this, "Who Exactly Controls Pokémon, Anyway?" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfSKAvbAUUk
Yup, sure. I'd argue one of the factors involved in the long term problem is when the company starts trying hard to make money as opposed to serving customers well (again, financial metrics must be a constraint). It's not the only factor (incentives get whacky, bureaucracy is difficult), but it's a factor which isn't appreciated as much as the other two.
i had no idea what it does and just have this vague idea that they make it easy for you to deploy, host and use models. I looked the tutorials and was amazed by what can be done and decided to try it. My suggestion is to have more tutorials and perhaps one-click deployment for some really cool models. Another thing is support typescript and you will capture a big section of the developer market that does not come from ML background. After i finish an inteview with tutorial demo , it would be great to give an estimate of cost so that i know if i can afford to cost for my software
It's interesting to search for recipes in other languages and not find junk as we do in English.

I read Spanish and Italian fluently and stumble my way through Japanese (with translation). It's easier to find a good recipe in these languages, provided you can find the ingredients or substitutes.
> The whole scheme of providing 600-odd "burner phones" for use by the illicit drug trade seemingly had revenue of AUD$1.5m every 24 months

In today's Australian News:

Police have dismantled a criminal network in Sydney they allege sold $1.8 billion worth of cocaine in four months

The gang, dubbed 'The Commission', was allegedly involved in the distribution of more than 1.2 tonnes of cocaine across Sydney over a four-month period, which police say equated to about 6 million separate drug deals.

~ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-19/nsw-sydney-underworld...

I have no knowledge of the gang relationship to the software developer here, whether in fact that developer ahd a drug dependance or not, they may well have been the sort that enjoys anti-normal activity and got a kick from having a secret unsuspected life.

The appeal to a gang of an "independant" secure comm network under their watch is "knowing" (there's the rub though, how certain can you be) that it was "clean" of LEO monitoring unlike, say, recent "secure criminal comms" popular in Australia that were actually developed and sold by five eyes agencies to entrap criminals with.
>And if they have or two smart friends that they enjoy hanging out with, they're golden.

The probability of that happening is greater if average test scores are higher. The "tiger parents" aren't just looking for schools that offer the best programs, they're also looking for schools that have less problematic students that disrupt the learning environment and would be bad influences on their kids.
I watched a trailer and was constantly questioning myself whether it was Pokémon with guns, or a high-budget clone (noting that there are many b-grade clones of Digimon and Pokémon that aren’t worth litigating against).

My young child was convinced it was Pokémon throughout the whole video. Even cited which Pokémon each ‘pal’ was meant to be.

I know this is for the patent, not the trademark, but doesn’t it cross a line when the likeness of a product causes confusion in the market?

Ignoring the guns, as a whole it looks like Pokémon. I wonder if the reason they went after the ‘mechanic’ of Pokémon is because each individual asset is distinct from it?
I can't take credit for it; I read it in a C Users Journal article back in the 1990s which I haven't been able to find online.
if israelis can do it it's most likely not limited to hezbollah. will this be investigated or it will be like nord stream?
It'd be nice if they could give me a compelling reason to upgrade my computer more than once or twice a decade, other than 'Our new AI computers have keyboards that go to 11'.
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My experience with Copilot has been the opposite of your devs'. It frequently screws up routine tasks, has poor UI and writes buggy code I would expect from someone who was brand new to programming. Sometimes it'll chance on a nice solution without requiring modifications, but not enough to fool me into any glowing reviews! I think I have higher standards than most though.
Practically all hobbyists and phone repairers use the same style of generic stereo zoom microscope, loosely based on the Meiji EMZ-5. AmScope will sell you one starting at around $400, or you can buy direct from China if you want to save a few bucks. Less expensive models with fixed magnification are available, but I can't recommend them.

https://amscope.com/collections/stereo-microscopes-zoom-powe...

https://eakinsmicscopestore.aliexpress.com/store/3200040/pag...

With 10x eyepieces and a 0.5x auxiliary objective, these scopes provide a very useful range of 3.5x-22.5x magnification and a comfortable working distance. At the minimum 3.5x magnification, the standard widefield 10x eyepieces give a field of view of about 50mm.

They are available in various bundles with a wide variety of stands and accessories; the essential accessories are a ring light and a 0.5x Barlow lens. I would recommend the biggest, heaviest boom stand you can reasonably fit on your desk, because any instability in the stand will be greatly magnified in your vision.

The key to using these microscopes successfully is to adjust the parfocal, which will allow you to adjust the zoom without having to refocus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R00KyVGRMpc

The preferred industrial option is the Vision Engineering Mantis, which uses very clever projection technology to provide a stereoscopic image without eyepieces. The ergonomics are dramatically better than a conventional stereo microscope, but you'll be lucky to find a used model on eBay for less than $1000. A big investment for a hobbyist, but worth every penny if you've got back or neck problems.

https://www.visioneng.com/products/eyepiece-less-stereo-micr...
Seems useful for office workers. And, yes, if you could have a saved list of people and restaurants, the whole process of organizing new ballots/polls could be much faster.
I just scheduled the upgrade for my 2018 Model 3. It’s not free, but only costs $280 and they do it in my driveway. Rumor has it I might get a CCS adapter out of the deal too, but I’m not sure. It’s an older car but still going strong, and my biggest concern is that if I don’t do the upgrade now they’ll run out of upgrade kits and the car’s value will be permanently damaged even if it lasts another ten years.
If you can find TOR nodes, so can the Chinese government. They can then just block these addresses.

Furthermore, the great firewall is quite advanced, they use machine learning techniques to detect patterns, so even if it is TLS on port 443, they may be able to detect it after they have gathered enough traffic. There are workarounds of course, but it is not as simple as just using a TLS tunnel.
For the curious, Palworld was released:

Initial release date: January 19, 2024
I see both sides. While "self hosting" has always meant hosting yourself, and hosting on other people's systems isn't hosting something yourself, I can see how people can get confused and can call running their self-configured software on a rented VM "self hosting".

It's not as unambiguously incorrect as other silly things people say and do that are technically incorrect, but it is annoying when people don't provide enough context where it matters.

Honestly, the distinction only really matters when discussing privacy. Hosting your own stuff in a rented VM is still self hosting, but if you're talking about how you self host because you care about the security of your data, you're now definitely not talking about rented VMs.

Generally, I think we need to get used to the idea that "self hosting" now also refers to hosting software you configure on rented systems / VMs.
> Quote where I said autism should be cured. I am specifically talking about you flying off the handle because the word cure was mentioned.

> The thrust of my argument is that therapy is necessary and desirable despite the individual not wanting it.

Do your pedantry elsewhere, this is just directly in the comment I’m responding to most recently. You want to talk about the differences between tthe words “therapy” and “cure” in the context of this discussion, which you have pulled from other comments I’ve made not in direct response of you - completely not interested and only commenting now to expose what a bad faith “Autism speaks” argument typically looks like, because I’ve had this same argument a bazillion times. This doesn’t waste the amount of time you think it does, next I imagine you’ll be asking for links to posts. anyone can read this comment thread.

> Cool, have you ever asked someone with severe autism this question? What did they say? Oh wait, nothing because if you've worked with ASD groups you know severe ASD folk are incapable of telling you what they think one way or another about treatment or therapy (beyond not liking it).

Yes. I have. Including a relative of mine, and including a person I have coached. In my experience, they don’t really tend to think anything is wrong with them, or don’t understand - they just react to how other people treat them, and ultimately just want acceptance or no hassle, from the exact type of people making the statements you are making publicly here.

As for the rest of your post it is hysterical drivel, blatant misrepresantation and sealioning, and deserves no response.

Like, honestly. If you’re actually interested in learning more about this I urge you to join a ASD support group online somewhere and read what people have
to say there. Much of what you’re saying has been thoroughly discussed to the point it’s laughed at, and by the way, to address your “show me where I said I think autism is a societal ill”, I just think it oozes off of your tone and posting and overall point here. I acknowledge you literally didn’t say that. hope that helps!
Speeding up C builds: Discarding the Batch Paradigm, Part 1
It will be really interesting if the for-profit OpenAI fail then making the nonprofit OpenAI achieve its initial purpose.
Ask HN: My son might be blind – how to best support
My son might be blind. He is only a few months old but things are concerning. I'm looking for resources, books, websites, etc to learn how to best support a blind baby, toddler, and beyond. Any help would be appreciated.
That could very well be. However, you aren't really engaging with the point I'm making. If weaker powers aren't supposed to do guerrilla warfare, then what are they supposed to do? Just letting other groups roll over them isn't a viable option.
ive definitely got into prompt cycles where i ask myself it definitely would have been shorter to have written it myself. so far it can't do anything I can't do myself, it's a time saver for the most common boilerplate blocks, function definition etc.
Start an NSA cutout called Cloudflare. Configure sites to use an SSL/TLS connection to Cloudflare, then a separate SSL/TLS connection from Cloudflare to your actual machine. Then have the marketing team call it "Strict" encryption. Make it free so everyone uses it.
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41562481