skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It appears after the January 8 coup d'état attempt in Brazil

There was no attempt of coup d'état in Brazil, just a bunch of stupid people protesting and breaking public buldings, just like several other groups, for different reasons did the same in the past.

> it was opened an investigation

The investigation itself is illegal, because it's investigating people that should not be investigated by that branch of justice. Our supreme court only judges constitutional matters and politicians on the federal level, not regular citizens.

> Then some xitter profiles started a coordinated threat and doxxing campaign against police investigators who took this case.

That's also false, nobody ever attacked the police.

> So the brazilian supreme court ordered xitter to provide information and block seven profiles involved in this doxxing campaign, what it refused to do.

Which there are no base in the law, which it's the problem being pointed here.

Unlike "Common Law" countries, in Brazil judges can only do what the law says they can do. There's absolutely NOWHERE in our law, that says if someone commits something, their social network profile will be blocked.
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Version 3.0 will fix this. 3 months, may be. 6 months definitely.
> Possible fragmentation of bodies – in this case one of the masses breaks into 2 equally-sized pieces, which fly off into different directions.

This is the stuff I have a huge question mark about in my head. If two pieces that move very slowly relative to another collide and fragment, why should the pieces fly of in arbitrary different directions and not continue on their trajectory?

So, gravitational pull increases the velocity of bodies relative to another. That's already an exchange of energy, the piece ahead gets slowed down, the piece behind will speed up. Then they collide, exchanging the energy difference again, speeding up the piece ahead and slowing down the one behind. The relative speeds will be tiny initially, because the distances are small, so fragmentation is unlikely. Where does that process run off?
Did you said the same when the same justice system did the same to Lula back in 2016? :)
I don't think that going into implementation details is what I would expect from an interface specification. The interface exists precisely to isolate the API consumer from the implementation details.

And while they're much better than nothing, those documents are certainly not a specification. They're are individual documents each covering a part of the API, with very spotty coverage (mostly focusing on new features) and unclear relationship to one another.

For example, the precise semantics of ResourceBarrier() are nowhere to be found. You can infer something from the extended barrier documentation, something is written in the function MSDN page (with vague references to concepts like "promoting" and "decaying"), something else is written in other random MSDN pages (which you only discover by browsing around, there are no specific links) but at the end of the day you're left to guess the actual assumptions you can make.

*EDIT* I don't mean to say that Vulkan or SPIR-V specification is perfect either. One still has a lot of doubts while reading them. But at least there is an attempt of writing a document that specifies the entire contract that exists between the API implementer and the API consumer. Missing points are in general considered bugs and sometimes fixed.
The game may be flawed, but at least the worldbuilding is on-point. https://x.com/shenanigansen/status/1615876096674926597
Thomas Gleixner is one if the most prolific people I've heard of. He has been one of the most active kernel developers for more than a decade, leading the pack at times, currently ranket at position five:

https://lwn.net/Articles/956765/
If you want control of something, why would you use an apple product?
Because he's not questioning a law, he's questioning the judge not following the law.
I have bad experiences with Kiwi and ctrip and a bunch of other ones. The support is indeed terrible and if anything goes wrong, the airline will tell you to contact the 3rd party agent... which has horrible support so there you are, stuck somewhere in asia. I had multiple occasions in which I just booked another ticket because of their incompetence, losing a few $100 as I could not take the risk of being late. Now I only book directly at the airline: at that time the company was booking and they just took what google flights gave them, which is often not directly at the airline.
Never Gonna Give You Up but only the difference to the previous frame
> Everything always does

Not everything behaves 30 times worse in some (important) metric than the previous model. "T'is how it is" is a very low effort way of justifying anything.

> I'm good with it.

As is usually the case when the benefits are yours and the inconvenience (or more) is someone else's. Think just how many people are good with the downsides of having plentiful, cheap oil for example. Says nothing about the issue but speaks volumes about the person.

Too bad someone can't just use a Flipper Zero to turn off Starlink satellites if they're distracting [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41595171
Yeah that's a good question, you'll want to leverage the `overdraft` functionality for that, enabling the account end balance to go below zero.

So you could do something like:

send [USD/2 10000] (
source = @my_bank:loans_made allowing unbounded overdraft
destination = @my_bank:1234
)

With the post-transaction balance of @my_bank:loans_made becoming [USD/2 -10000]. So that's for creating money out of nothing.

There's a little bit more to it if you want to create accounting-perfect entries, but a simple way to map src/dest to cr/dr entries is to say that every credit becomes a destination, and every debit becomes a source.

You can then consider debit normal accounts as having their debit balance being equivalent to the sum of entries where the account is source, their credit balance as the sum of entries where the account is destination—and do the opposite for credit normal accounts.

We've written a bit more about it here [1].

[1] https://docs.formance.com/ledger/advanced/accounting/credit-...
> among 115 definitions analysed there is a consistent idea, which is that degrowth is “a downscaling of production and consumption to reduce ecological footprints planned democratically in a way that is equitable while securing wellbeing”. Even within that, there is a lot to unpack.

The article doesn't unpack any of this and just points to the lack of consensus on any one unifying theory or set of policy recommendations.
If you were using Arc you could add a Boost for "Case: toggle between different capitalization settings - they will apply to all text on the webpage" [1]

/s

[1] https://resources.arc.net/hc/en-us/articles/19212718608151-B...
Still cheaper than rent tho.
Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps
Astronomers don’t own frequency exclusively. I think we’ll be fine. Same as we were fine with every other thing that seemed like it was going to destroy the world.
sounds like the setup to a William Gibson novel.
Yes, it is. There's nothing in our laws that backs the judge ruling. And in Brazil, judges can ONLY DO what the law says, not what they think it's fair or what they want.
How are you getting internet anywhere? Is there a Starlink roaming or cell service that is available? I don't know too much about their offerings besides home internet.
And to think that we witness this from the comfort of our pocket sized terminals makes me happy, but also sad that maybe mankind will not reach spacefaring… great filter and all… dunno
SVG the standard, no. SVG icons, absolutely. In the same way Python is open source, but I can write software using Python that is not open source.
You could do a lot of stuff with pre-calculating things for your embeddings. Why cache when you can pre-calculate. That brings into play a whole lot of things people commonly do as part of ETL.

I come from a traditional search back ground. It's quite obvious to me that RAG is a bit of a naive strategy if you limit it to just using vector search with some off the shelf embedding model. Vector search simply isn't that good. You need additional information retrieval strategies if you want to improve the context you provide to the LLM. That is effectively what they are doing here.

Microsoft published an interesting paper on graph RAG some time ago where they combine RAG with vector search based on a conceptual graph that they construct from the indexed data using entity extraction. This allows them to pull in contextually relevant information for matching chunks.

I have a hunch that you could probably get quite far without doing any vector search at all. It would be a lot cheaper too. Simply use a traditional search engine and some tuned query. The trick is of course query tuning. Which may not work that well for general purpose use cases but it could work for more specialized use cases.
Passive Radar is grateful for all senders
Hmm not that I remember. But I have reduced motion enabled on my phone system wide and maybe that synced to my desktop on its own.

Which is scary come to think of it.
> Twitter/X was shut down in Brazil for refusing to declare a legal representative in the country which is a basic requirement for any company operating in Brazil.

Which is a pretty stretch from an older law, that was made to companies operating "phisically", opening offices, having workers and etc.

Twitter closed their offices in Brazil, so they don't need to do it anymore.

If we take the interpretation this judge is using with Twitter to everything, 99% of the internet will need to be blocked in Brazil.
What ever form of Media you take, the purpose is Attention Allocation.

You have finite Attention. If you spend 10 minutes paying attention to this story, that time is gone for good and unavailable to be used on anything else.

In that sense HN has decided how your attention is allocated and shapes who you are. Since Attention is finite like Oil, Land or Gold there is a big ongoing war to capture or steal as much of it as possible. And all media that captures your attention shapes you. Just like once the British capture the middle east. Their actions shape the future of the middle east.
Launch no-code free tools to drive website traffic
It literally makes zero sense.
I guess because it's the it's the "seven eves" that are the big bolides the moon breaks into, and the "seven eves" of the new species of humanity in the second part.
Google Earth Studio, a browser-based animation tool for 3D and satellite imagery
Thanks for the heads up! While the Numscript backend itself uses big.Int, we're still using normal javascript numbers in the playground for now so that's where it's coming from. But we should definitely switch to BigInt in the playground code though and that would solve the issue.
Well, one part of the source of the problem is this, where I not even understand all of the words (a bit exaggarating):

> Skyvern is an AI agent that helps companies automate workflows in the browser. We run leverage proxy networks and run headful browser instances in the cloud to facilitate most of our automations.

So you're doing Selenium, just with Cloud, AI and some other buzzwords you found while Googling?
The first episode was like 2 minutes too, so let's see how this turns out
Yep, will edit this.
All of these models are currently charging well below what they really cost to run, mostly propped up by VC money. I don’t expect the price of using these AI models to come down —— in fact they’ll probably rise sharply in the next year as investor money dries up and these companies desperately search for a path to profitability.
Author here - amazing how this old post comes back around! I know this book is a bit divisive with the big time jump, but you can't argue with the opening line.

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Yeah, anyone who has ran a website, or even better, worked at a high-traffic user generated content company has experienced the lurker/creator ratio. Even if you discount 90% of it as bots, it's still insanely high. 8 billion people is a hell lotta pair of eyes.
Label-free 3D molecular imaging using Raman spectral projection tomography
The last third is actually not that bad ... if you just accept that it's more or less a separate novel loosely set in the same universe. But about 5000 years later. The first two parts are pretty awesome. I enjoy the last bit as well. It gets better on re-reading.

In related news, they apparently are working on a TV series of Seveneves: https://deadline.com/2024/08/legendary-tv-adapt-seveneves-sc...

It will be interesting to see if it progresses all the way to production.
I'm pretty sure that's not what was meant. (Do you really think it was, or are you just being snarky?)
It's mostly on us, the developers.
Vulkan is fully supported on windows.

I would say that if you want to have multi-platform support just use Vulkan.
Covers most of the platforms(especially if you include MoltenVK)[0].

Though, for games, if you want to support Xbox, that usually throws a curveball into API choice planning. As that might be more important of a target than Linux/Android/Mac/iOS(maybe even combined) for your game. So if you already have to support DX for that..

[0] https://www.vulkan.org/porting
I doubt that.

More than once I got replies to YouTube comments that tried to jailbreak my "prompt".

There is are just more obvious bad AI texts, but also many good ones you can't simply detect as artificial generated.
Except that the conversion to WGSL is a complete waste of compute resources, engineering effort and the time of everyone involved. WebGPU is a _web_ API after all, even if people realized the runtimes could be used outside the browser.

Converting your SPIR-V to WGSL just to convert it back to SPIR-V to feed it into a Vulkan driver, or running an entire language frontend just to emit DXIL or Metal IR. We learned 15 years ago that textual shader languages at the GPU API interface are a mistake but we're forced to relearn the same mistakes because Apple wouldn't play ball. What a joke.
People do worse for less.
This is great info, thank you!
There's an urban legend that if POTUS is travelling overseas, he craps in a portable toilet, so that enemy spies can't analyze his shit. But last time I looked there was only one website saying that this is the case.

Nowadays I've read that Putin does this too, but I'm guessing that's an urban legend as well.
I'm curious – what edge cases did you find?
> low level software engineers on payroll

How does The Browser Company make money? They're giving their product away for free.

Browsers are complicated. It doesn't inspire confidence that the folks in charge of that complexity can't get their heads around a business model.

(Aside: none of their stated company values have anything to do with the product or engineering [1]. They're all about how people feel.)

[1] https://thebrowser.company/values/
https://www.starlink.com/roam
Usually its node.js with react (that's my expertise). It looks legit at first glance, but it might contain some obfuscated code somewhere on startup. That's what one project had. I checked the github a day later and it was deleted.
Amazing idea to replaces manual QA for AI models with Critique Agents and eliminating human-in-the-loop methods. I believe this would provide high accuracy and reliability as models scale
A malicious party who wants a vulnerability in a browser effectively nobody uses?
The most important is to set the policy, described in sched(7), rather than the priority.

Notice that without setting the priority, default policy is other, which is the standard one most processes get unless they request else.

By setting priority (while not specifying policy), the policy becomes fifo, the highest, which is meant to give the cpu immediately and not preempt until process releases it.

This implicit change in policy is why you see such brutal effect from setting priority.
Oh and why can't we use multi-touch to drag multiple icons at the same time using different fingers? Or to hold one down so it doesn't go flying while dragging another one around.
There is no silver bullet. Talent, passion and the purposeful alignment of effort are the only necessary ingredients for a productive team. Adopting the rituals of teams that get this right won't make your team successful if it doesn't also have those core ingredients.
Yes, yes, but 48mP only, when will they finally have 240MP on a sensor that can be mounted on the ass of an ant. But double the protrusion 6 times I guess for the lens supporting the new tech and whatnot (tele-macro at night in a panoramic sport event!), it may even take picture for you without thinking taking a picture, you purchased a smartphone didn't you, let it be smart then, it will know better than you what you need, how you need it, and when you need it, all is necessary to fix it to your forehead so it can see what you see, tiny bitsy inconvenience beyond storing and managing the billboard sized but polaroid quality stream of pics vomited out by the device - never to see the most.

This good photo = phone deception marketers pushed on idiotic customers who actually pay the premium for the marketing material is pathetic.
Hmm, to me the worlds draw me in as soon as my eyes hit the paper, I love the world building, the detailed description, it make the whole reading experience so much richer for me.

It's like Peter F Hamilton, his stories are insane in length but you almost feel like you experienced the book, and what it is like to live in that world.
It can literally sound better (objectively).

Suppose your audio server attempts fancy resampling, but falls back to a crude approximation after the first xrun.
Seveneves is my favourite book, it’s excellent and, unlike most people, not only do I like the last third it’s actually my favourite part. The world building, the reimagining, the what-if is incredible to me.

If you don’t like the last third of Seveneves and haven’t read Anathem then you’ll struggle with the first 150 pages of that book. It’s like Seveneves flipped, starts mega slow and turns into an action fantasy book.
> Except maybe SeaOrg of L Ron Hubbard infamy

Yeah, that’s probably the closest, but it only works because it parasitises an actual country (the US), and is very circumspect about what it actually _is_. It wouldn’t be tolerated for a _minute_ if it went around openly calling itself a country.
Not as of today!
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Don’t let facts get in the way of Apple bashing. Apple already does so many legitimately anticompetitive things (see: iOS EU blah blah), so resorting to this low-quality complaining is very lazy.
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Hard disagree. Developers aren't magically tech wizards, many of them will struggle to install a printer. I've seen one spend fifteen minutes on adding a keyboard layout in Windows last week (granted, the process was very unintuitive).

It's this "I'm a developer, I'm too smart to fall for phishing" mindset that makes developers an excellent target for malware.
Couldn't finish it. Way too slow, I'm not even halfway through. Does it pick up at some point? Is there a satisfying ending?
Couldn't I just publish a package? Then there's malware on the package manager wohooo
Eh, not sure about that… Like, looked at one way it is a form of fraud. No-one’s ever really successfully argued that fraud should be protected speech.
Interesting article. Considerably better than the book imo.

Why did the moon explode without warning? Why?
Musk enterprises are to Western economies as Gold Apollo is to Hezbollah.
Of course it’s .dng; .jxl doesn’t carry the metadata needed to process a RAW image because it’s not intended for that.
I'm not "conflating" anything. The "fake news" nonsense has been on-going since 2019. The persecution of the brazilian right has been on-going since the lead up to the 2022 elections at the very least, possibly earlier. The events that led to the order to ban X began in 2019 and accelerated in 2022. He's been ordering the banishment of political accounts since before the election. I know because I was commenting on the situation here on HN the whole time.

None of these things should have happened in the first place. Twitter should never have been banned because the judge should never have ordered the censorship of those accounts to begin with. There should have been no order for him to defy in the first place.

You may legally object to what Musk did based on the judge's authority. The point is I have zero moral objections to it. Illegal orders must not be obeyed. "Just following orders" has not been a valid excuse for anything since nazis were hanged at Nuremberg. And I do believe this judge's orders are illegal. He just gets away with it because there's nobody above him to put a stop to it.

I don't particularly care about Twitter or how hypocritical Musk is. No doubt he has plenty of self-serving reasons for defying the judge. The fact that a judge ordered him to censor political accounts over "misinformation" nonsense is what matters here. Musk can do whatever he wants on his platform, I don't care. Judges ordering censorship of politicians? I absolutely do care. Censorship is when the government shows up and deletes what you said. And censorship equals dictatorship, it's that simple. It's undeniable evidence that brazilians are living under a dictatorship.
That immediately made me think of the digital TV switchover. The elderly father of a friend of mine would spend much of his time in front of the TV, and could operate it without assistance, thanks to the simple 1:1 mapping between buttons and functions.

After the digital switchover, there was now a set-top box, and electronic program guide and three-figure channel numbers thrown into the mix, as well as stateful aspect such as whether the TV was set to AV or still trying to use its now-obsolete tuner.

For someone with poor eyesight, limited feeling in his fingers and limited ability (and admittedly willingness, too) to build a mental model of how the menus worked and how they can be navigated, it spelled the end of his unsupervised access to TV.

The big difference for me between database-query-driven and algorithmically-driven is that the latter makes it very hard to know when you've completed an exhaustive search. Indeed for the likes of meta and tiktok that's a feature, not a bug, since their goal is to keep you engaged and plugged into "their" content forever.
Start -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Search 'Arc' -> Uninstall.
But if you use it on the web, it becomes "open-source" - not by license, but for all practical purposes. Or am I wrong?
"That's not manly": Chechen warlord claims Elon Musk disabled his Tesla
The third part is a complete change in tone, but it is actually necessary for the entire book because without it the ending would be implied to be extraordinary bleak.
jwz does not like hacker news, maybe copy that link instead of clicking it...