skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're all paid advertisements, paid for by the producer of the gadget they're presenting.

The ads are generally made by people that have about 30 minutes to form their opinion on the product, and have very little industry experience. (And if they had, they'd quickly leave considering how massively underpaid the staff reportedly is)

But don't take my word, there was a bit of coverage last year after Linus previously mentioned narcissistic rant on the WAN show, where he said only his team is producing benchmarks without reusing previous runs. Which is false, and shows that he's probably the only channel that entertains the idea of doing that for more profit (but the last post is speculation by me)
The lengths they're going to fix the "loopholes" in the Bell Inequality tests are amazing.
Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation
Replace it in the box with hardware-level malware installed.
Wow, thanks very much for the detailed reply. I'm a bit excited and interested to read up on it more. I can only imagine, it must have inspired so many enthusiast level and esoteric languages.
Generally most memory uses standardized physical/electrical/firmware interfaces from JEDEC, an industry consortium. I do not know for certain if the iPhone memory is standard.

Mobile RAM/Flash packages are usually made in larger capacities by stacking several dies within a package. This can involve die thinning - grinding the dies thinner so they fit within the same space after stacking.
Cool. In the 90ies I thought similar approaches at our university, and we had practical examples of such constraints. In general city planning was much easier than structural buildings, because gravity and building rules are much stricter than city planning riles, which are trivial.

We also had rules layed out graphically, and did a substitution process in the optimizations.

Neufert did help much more than Christopher Alexander.
I'm concerned I can't see sarcasm anymore... :(
so now when you have a function that takes in a Car object, you have no idea what fields those objects might have, because it's all optional! Which means the checks for the validity of each field end up spreading out to every function.
Oh there’s a lot going on here -

On the scam url side of things:
Sam Altman runs Worldcoin which caught on in the developing world, in some regards, despite the nonscam part of the product looking like a scam anyway. Worldcoin’s speculative value does move based on OpenAI news, not because people expect dividends or for a rich Sam to pump it, just because people want to. Developing nation sycophants are less discerning about urls. Developed nation sycophants exist too, or are lapsing in judgement at that time of day when it drops.

On the token side of things:

It has been incredibly lucrative to interact with projects without tokens. One of the main ways that tokens have been avoiding securities law issues since 2020 is to airdrop unpredictable amounts to users. What this means is that people who actually use the product or platform the most - with their funds and liquidity - get airdropped potentially disproportionate amounts of a potentially valuable token. They typically announce a “snapshot” date in the future, meaning that you have to get all your activity in early.

VC backed projects are the main ones doing this, and it has been even more lucrative to try and sybil attack these, because all of your addresses get rewarded.

People have earned millions of dollars worth of tokens, that, yes, they can immediately sell for millions of dollars. I probably made $80,000 from Uniswap airdrops in 2020, spending nothing and only using Uniswap for trading.

Scammers can take advantage of that by making a vague site you have to interact with, that drains your wallet instead of providing a service or dispensing a token. I understand that all three of those possibilities are considered a scam to people skeptical of the crypto industry. Only the draining violates the social contract and it is useful to differentiate if you want anything different to happen.
Many countries can credibly claim to have a "No First Strike" policy; the US is not one of them.
The juice is acidic. Are the peels?
By “low level” do you mean in the thalamus or cortex or something else. Live a citation. I initially thought that “low level” meant at the level of receptors and the first few synapses. But to the best of my knowledge gamma oscillations will not play a roll in the periphery.

It would be great if you had a citation. I have been reading Karl Friston’s work all day.
> the soft modded PSP's which load PS1 ISO's off a memory card are suuuuper cool.

Which is what killed it. Why buy anything if modded version had "free" games, faster storage, better load times, capacity, battery life... Piracy went of the roof with PSP.
I remember doing this one and the equipment leaking oil all over me! Not long after that I decided to go more Theoretical…
This is the principle behind biodynamic farming, right?
Some plants prefer a more acidic soil compared to others. Tomatoes are pretty well known for liking acidic soil.
We know, from multiple leaks, that clandestine services from multiple countries, including the US and China, have supply chain attacks, where they intercept computing equipment and install hardware backdoors into it.

Intercept an iPhone, replace the 128GB storage with a 128GB storage and some extra rootkit. Or anything else really.
I'd love to go to a hospital where the administration determines if my health condition is emergency or not. That's a cash in hand settlement case.
I do want to challenge you on this. I don’t have evidence matte filaments are better. I would love to see an example of these filaments outperforming. I believe it is true, but would love to see a demonstration!
It is recommended against putting them into your composite.
It seems sort of like over-engineering here - pretty sure this kind of thing would never happen with the Illuminati Ganga Automated Drive-By Solution https://medium.com/luminasticity/the-illuminati-ganga-automa...
I'm not too worried about old iPhones since by then it's pretty likely to be jail broken and no issues there. I mean even if I brick it (and somehow can't recover; so, very unlikely) it was going to be e-waste anyways, right? As far as recycling goes, turning your old phone into a server is a big win.

But I'm more interested in being able to use my current bash scripts that run on my Pixel. Backup is really the only important one since I can connect to my computers from anywhere to do anything else
Labor unions in America were largely controlled by organized crime and likely still are today. They didn't do this to help the worker they did it as an extension of a collection racket. AKA - their own interests. Despite this they did accomplish some historical good. Yet, I am still working a 40+ hour week bullied by my employer and jobs continue to be shipped overseas. How many more decades before the unions do their job?

You can't continue to give labor unions credit for what they've done in the past as justification for their continued existence. Labor unions are also the reason the police are untouchable even when they commit horrendous crimes. Anecdata, but of the union members I know (who by the way were forced into it lest they be considered a scab) none of them believe the union works for them. These people are in medicine, education, construction, and food. The union rep likely golfs and drinks with the CEO where they agree after "much fighting for your rights" to grant you that 25 cent raise.

Rarely unions do their jobs. During COVID hospitals in my hometown were allowed to bully nurses into dangerous situations as their union would not halt care in order to make sure they had functional N95s. The unions didn't stop the mass exportation of labor to third world nations after the GFC. These things alone are enough for me to say they have outlived their usefulness.
I think Murakami’s books are a great suggestion. Magical realism, nowhere near sci-fi, but very easy to slip into. However, 1Q84 feels a bit like a heavy recommendation even if you’re a Murakami fan. It’s a bit more of a commitment and I think it helps if you’re familiar with his other stories before diving into it. I’d say try Hardboiled Wonderland first - I thought it stepped away from some of his recurring themes but still a good example of his style. Also a quicker read. He has a few anthologies might be good intros as well - I read two, Dance, Dance, Dance and The Elephant Also Vanishes, but I think he’s got some others.

Along the lines of magical realism, Kurt Vonnegut seems like a great recommendation too. His books incorporate a bit more sci-fi - Galapagos, Cat’s Cradle, Sirens of Titan, slaughterhouse five, …
what a bizarre statement. You're right. My location is also not alphabetical.
I read Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh few years back. It's kind of magical.

It deals with the invention of discovery of the method of transmission of malaria by Ronald Ross. The novel is set in late-1800s Calcutta.

There is science, conspiracy, and local occult involved in the story.

It is one of the most unique SciFi I have ever read. And Ghosh is not a SciFi writer.
Just musing around the word Ferroelectric, I was expecting perhaps something related to iron in the PZT but it's lead, zirconium, titanium, and oxygen. So I learned that Ferromagnetic simply means "iron-like magnetic" and that ferroelectric was coined by analogy to the hysterisis curve of ferromagnets in a magnetic field (MH curve) but in ferroelectric it's an electric field (P-E curve).
As someone who has worked as a video editor, the most helpful AI tool would be prompt based editing.

For example “find all the interview sections where people are talking about x and make a sequence”.

OpusClip claims to have this but it’s behind a waitlist.
No surprise this is part of what Nix does, the tool mentioned in the post, patchelf, comes from Nix.
>Those are all either answered in the README, answered in files linked from the README or not mentioned in the README/docs (like Netflix integration, playing files) so one can feel safe to assume it's not a feature if it's not listed as a feature.

Translation for those who can't read between the lines:

- it doesn't support media scanning

- the authors are going hard on not saying this outright. Figure the idea is more downloads from people aspiring to scan their media (who got duped), but then "fall in love" with the program when they see how great it is albeit unable to do what they wanted, scan media. 0/10 this is catfishing, be honest and listen to what the users want, a solution for media scanning. A meta-data organizer is useless without metadata! Which is what the scanner produces!
> No nulls by default
...While many modern languages added some control for doing more null checks to prevent NullReferenceException, F# avoided them from the inception. This means such exceptions are nearly impossible

A great feature that Golang couldn't get right years later.
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of The World is a pretty underrated Murakami novel. It gets talked about much less than his other works- undeservedly so.
It's often talked about here on HN, sometimes goes by the name ORM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_management

You can easily hire people to manipulate websites.
Rapid, biochemical tagging of cellular activity history in vivo
Many thanks!

> Grid - usually a regular D-dimensional boxes that are packed, axis aligned.

Can grids include gaps?
Like most of sci-fi anime/manga counts right?
There is clearly a crowd to provide financial services and entertainment to, and there is a large industry of people that do, while you debate it.

It is an incredibly lucrative industry that rivals and exceeds big tech compensation packages.

And that’s before stealing people’s funds, which is even more lucrative.

All because there is a crypto native audience already where the answer to your question is “yes”.
Why do you use Llama models? and what support do you need to build on Llama
I work at Meta's AI Partnerships team and we're trying to understand why startups use Llama models. Was wondering if I could pick the community's brain on the following topic

- what criteria did you follow that led you to choose Llama for your use case?
- how important is fine-tuning small models for your strategy?
- what are the major pain points of using Llama models that Meta can streamline?
- what documentation needs would be most useful to help you build an open source AI stack with Llama?
I think it was Steve Jobs who insisted that that even the inside of their products look as clean as the outside. It unfortunately means it's a pain to disassemble, but they certainly do look pretty.
Interesting the USB-C connector has A3294 China engraved into it. My production US version of 16 Pro has no such engraving.
I was hoping to see this one - I was just about to post before seeing your comment. It’s not a long book, but it definitely sticks with you.
make a friend there or friends with a booth worker and just ship it there talk over wechat shipping cost quite low
> Some street safety advocates have adopted the term "traffic violence"

As the author found, the term most people use is "crash" instead of "accident".

This change started decades ago. I think the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration made the change in the 1990s.

Part of the point of Vision Zero and similar projects is to point out the importance of good road planning and design. If there is a crash between two cars you shouldn't place the blame on one party and/or the other, but also on the people who designed a roadway and driver education system.

If a driver crashes a car into a pedestrian walking along the side of the road because there is no sidewalk, the increased risk of the crash is entirely predictable. Calling it an "accident" absolves the road designers of any responsibility.

This holds even if the driver of a car ends up in the ditch - was the road designed to encourage people to drive too fast? Were the wrong safety barriers used?

This analysis has nothing to do with violence.
Sorry, yeah I was a bit unclear. I was curious if there was any metrics to show how maybe server CPU/Memory or client-side latency changed after moving your app to Rust and running for a year.

But that's fair, if adding open-telemetry is maybe overkill to add to the application it might not apply as much to your use-case.
Shrinking island, vanishing polar bears
Here's a video from another post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41630637
Next time someone tries to tell you Telegram is a "private" or "secure" messenger. It is neither.
This sounds quite nice, but what would be a good way to generate their JSON format from SQL?
Why is no one mentioning Substack? It's an honest question. To me, in OP's situation, it's the obvious choice. What am I missing?
Very nice to see this, especially in relation to Apple design.

I use the similarity between the work of Dieter Rams and Apple's Jonathan Ives to illustrate the difference between homage, appropriation and 'ripping off'. I am cagey about where I stand on Ives but the students come to their own opinions.
what do you think of this versus the ai that is hiring actors that are then reused as models in the videos via script
Nnedi’s whole catalogue is great.
Impressive! Now let's see Paul Allen's fillet curve.
When I go to replace wear items such as the battery the insides of my Apple products look like goopy garbage because of all the adhesive I have to melt and scrape through.

How is that considered “gorgeous”?
already sites like perplexity have been completed blocked by cloudflare due to some meta signal and can't even load it. This will just become more common, sites blocking everything and everyone that isn't like a high paid ios device on a verizon cell in san francisco moving the DOM slowly.
Wow, slow down there Charlie.

Save some innovation for the iPhone 16 AI max plus.
Frys still exists? Are they "back"?
Or you could use something fully local like ImageOptim: https://imageoptim.com/mac

Why do people insist on using web tools for things like this?
I'm not completely sure, but that might be because of the oils in the peel. Citrus peel oil has antimicrobial properties.
Grimace token in the McDonalds instagram account was way funnier
Is there any recording of this around? It sounds hilarious
In my opinion, no. Sorry for the confusing term, I should have used something else.

Here I meant "packed" as in "packed tightly with no gaps". Maybe I should have used the term "tiled" instead.

Note that, in my opinion, common usage is axis aligned but this need not necessarily be the case. "Hex grids", for example, are non axis aligned [0].

[0] https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
Watched it. He didn't present _any_ sources supporting his claims. There's nothing there.
The fact that golang was designed with the "billion dollar mistake" as recently as it was is pretty astonishing.
just for monopolies right? And for hosting online and software that does it(two verticals of wordpress) there are hoardes of options.
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Cloud has documentation (usually) and can be lather-rinse-repeat as needed. You think it's hard compared to colo?

The "clowns" are annoying as hell in their costs and dominance of CIOs, but there are distinct advantages of experimentation in clouds. Um, as long as it isn't your credit card...
Yeah, I thought that was the shape in question (hadn't read ther article yet). The article -- either OP, or the one linked in one of the first comments (at the time I clicked) -- had a video banner with scutoids across the top.
In critical Ohio Senate race, crypto cash looks to tip the scales
I think there’s clear evidence that a sizable portion of “science” is indeed a scam for prestige and funding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
I believe given the context, where it's flying indoors in a populated area, this is more like the "manhack" drones from Half Life. :P
Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting
Yes you can but operating one CNC without major snafus takes some practice and selecting the proper bit and speeds for such a delicate operation isn't exactly easy. It is actually very easy to puncture the iPhone through and through.
That's a bullshit video. The guy conducting the tests doesn't know enough about how SSDs work or about how Macs boot to be drawing conclusions, especially not such strongly negative conclusions. He would have had to at the very least attempt a tethered restore from DFU (as is done for these phone storage swaps or any other situation where the NAND is blank or thoroughly corrupted) before concluding that Apple has everything totally locked down.

Adding the second drive module is something that we should not expect to work the way he tested it. Plugging in a second hard drive to a desktop does not magically give you a RAID-0 without extra steps; expecting this from SSDs doesn't make any more sense. And without reverse engineering the machine config from the quoted prices, we don't even know if the two modules had the same capacity, let alone the same type and manufacturer of NAND (which is probably important if the system is going to treat the two modules as one SSD instead of exposing them to the OS as one drive).
And so nice it looked at the beginning…

Instead of WordPress, what solutions do you use?

Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Webnode and other wysiwyg ones are even worse imho.

Are there any non-Nodejs or non-React open source CMS that don’t vendor lock you?

Because I feel that WP somehow sucks in details and maintenance, but I can’t find anything comparable without being sucked into development hell. :)

Thanks for suggestions.
exactly the link was cited and that citation directly refutes the claim
Knuth wrote the book on dithering. (Digital Typography, 1999) https://archive.org/details/digitaltypograph0000knut
https://archive.is/d6PSw
could someone articulate that wordpress.com is more trusted then wpengine?
And more to the point, just because you write for portability doesn't guarantee that it will work. If you're not able to test on multiple architectures, then you're not really able to assert that your code is actually portable.

There's just no business case for portability. Writing for portability makes your code more difficult to read (because you have to include all these edge cases) and maintain, and the business needs to pay for hardware for the additional architectures to test on. For what? Some nebulous argument that it'll help catch exploits? Most InfoSec departments have far better bang-for-the-buck projects in their backlog to work on.
You also need to be pretty precise with attaching the phone in an exact position, and grinding things with a very low margin of error, say, 0.05 mm along the vertical axis, in order to remove the chip but leave the PCB intact. Not for the faint of the heart.

I suppose they have had several training rounds using badly broken phones first.
If you can bypass Apple's secure boot, you probably don't need to do a complete swap of the physical storage medium to get that rootkit installed.
I have heard (in uk?) you listen to radio to get the source and type it in! By the time of late 1970s you have source code disc or even pirated diskette (cutting hole). Hence except a few miss the experience of typing your source code or listening to them.
Thank you for the feedback! this is a good point. There are various sources, but the usual suspects.
What about the dozens of phone models that have SD slots and waterproof ratings? Please don’t unquestioningly regurgitate propaganda.
Article title: More jabbering from me about non-clown hosting

Related post A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff (184 points, 1 day ago, 126 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41622653
I know, but sadly I did not have enough time to stay there for more than an hour and try it out.
Eventually people wanted to be able to use it in somewhat moderate rain or want it to survive being accidentally dropped in the pool.
Nah.

You do you though.

It doesn't take much to "hoard". Especially these days it's easier and cheaper than ever. Slap 2x20TB drives in your PC and you're essentially a data hoarder already.

I do notice that younger generations absolutely love giving up though.
Wow. That's amazing. Is this also true for A1/mini?
There is no reason to get a Prusa as a hobbyist unfortunately, unless you value open source hardware.

The Prusa XL may still be worth it if you need that sort of thing.
That's because Steam barely works on modern macs. After they killed 32 bit support, most of my games stopped working. Even at the best of times, only a fraction of the games worked on mac. And now with essentially all macs running arm processors, the only macs left running steam are from last decade. So all these surveys prove is that a market that they barely supported wasn't very large.

And you forget that one of the largest gaming platforms out there is the iphone. Which also doesn't show up in the steam hardware survey because steam doesn't run on it. The iphone market proves that there is a gaming market for typical Apple users. A very big market even. People that spend a lot of money on their phone also seem to like spending a lot of money in the app store. And mostly on games. Apple rakes in billions via the app store.

If Steam were to get Mac support to the same level it is on Linux, most of the games would start working and there are a shitload of Apple PCs and laptops out there that would be able to run that.