skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved to the fediverse (a Mastodon instance) over a year ago. I found it less exciting at first, before realising that Twitter was only exciting because I could get outraged at the a*holes it insisted on exposing me to.

Now I love the fediverse. Local instances mean more local news/gossip, but at the same time I can follow global interests (just saw a post from Brian Krebs, for instance) just as easily. Hashtags let me follow my interests, and comments are more constructive and perceptive because there is no reward for provoking people. I don't doom-scroll any more and I don't have to filter out advertising - I'm much more efficiently informed.
8 vs 16 Probably depends on whether chroma subsampling is enabled, off the top of my head
It's definitely copyright infringement. Also it's hilarious that the owner of this repo is advocating for DRM. When someone uses the word "exploit" to describe commercial transactions you just know they have room temperature IQ.
Not if you’re the only author!
I took my time to watch part of this. I don't entirely agree, however. I'm not really a large systems programmer (I'm a scientist, actually). I really do like the group oriented thinking, but it does seem like there is space for "individual element thinking" at times. This sounds a lot like the philosophical notions of reductionist thinking vs. holistic thinking which is something I think about a lot when it comes to science and physics in general. The way of thinking I've come to value most at this point in my life for understanding the world that might sound a bit silly applied to this is a synthesis (so called hegelian dielectic), which is this case for me means that reductionist thinking and holistic thinking are not really opposites but are simply modes of mental modeling, and can be apply in different ways and different times to your code. Sometimes, it is valuable to have simple, self-contained types which is reductionist or individual element thinking. However, nests of pointers are always much more complicated and unnecessary than programming at the system level for a group of related objects. Which you use depends on the context, and I don't really like identifying them as opposing forces more than different modes that can be drawn from at different times.

That said, most of the time, I find myself utilizing group oriented thinking in my codes and I avoid atomistic, reductionist thinking whenever analyzing a problem at a first pass, but reductionist reasoning does help at times, it just depends on the problem and the context. It is also true, unfortunately, that in science teaching at least we teach students to be reductionist first, and then that reductionist thinking clouds their understanding and it is something young scientists need to break out of at some point, and some never do break out of it. May be in that way it's similar to what this person refers to here (n vs n+1) I just didn't also get stuck thinking reductionism is always bad and avoided it as a rule but I draw from both sides, so to speak.
Counterspell: High-school hackathon running in 200+ cities simultaneously
Interestingly, the wallpapers are all publicly available to download via the app’s Google API url: https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/mkbsd/tree/main
I'd personally be worried publishing this due to potentially also being classified as gaining unauthorized access to a computer system. It may temporarily be a publically accessible and poorly secured API, but that doesn't mean it's intended for public consumption when you have poked around the app to work out the API and then bypassing payment mechanisms.
> that means the banks can continue to push their Venmo competitor Zelle. And I’m guessing they somehow make more money that way

The cost to send a request for payment is 10x on RTP what it is on FedNow [1].

Both of those are real-time settled, i.e. when you send a money from your bank, your bank no longer has the money the moment you send it. Zelle, on the other hand, isn't a payment rail--it settles over ACH [2]. The receiving bank may credit their customer as a courtesy. But the originating bank gets to hold onto the money and earn interest off it. (Technically, the receiving bank is paying interest on the credited funds. But that's why the credits are capped well below ACH's limits.)

At the end of the day, for FedNow to succeed it has to be a win for consumers. As in, would you change banks to get access to FedNow? (My bank doesn't support Zelle, for example.)

[1] https://www.crossriver.com/insights/comparing-rtp-and-fednow

[2] https://www.paymentsjournal.com/the-clearing-house-and-early...
> MKBSD accesses publicly available media through the Panels app's own API. It doesn't do anything shady or illegal.

I know this one. It's called coming up with an excuse for the thing you were going to do anyway.

> The real problem here is Panels and MKBHD's complete inability to provide a secure platform for the artists that they're exploiting working with.

You mean the ones you are exploiting right now?

> Any other app could have avoided the issues that make MKBSD possible had it been engineered competently.

No, they really couldn't have. Anyone can just take a screenshot.

We've all written slightly evil code, but the bullshit justification really set me off.
I tend to agree but there are way too many paper mills out there and Ive been stuck in one.

The gamification of google scholar is real
I think you missed the Excel spreadsheet in the parent's link. Chase (under JPMORGAN CHASE BANK) and Wells Fargo are on that list.

Interestingly, the other 2 big banks—Citigroup and Bank of America—are missing. They both do support RTP though (which apparently is a different network operated by the same entity that backs ACH). Unsure if RTP is meant to compete with FedNow.
This entire debacle for Marques shines a light on his actual prowess. He's claimed to be a "reviewer". He's even stated he reviews things in their current state, not future. If he was "reviewing" his own app he'd rip it to shreds. The cost, the privacy nightmare that it is, and now the shoddy quality of it altogether.

He's a marketer. And a charlatan if he wants to claim he's actually skilled at objective reviews that follow some process outside his stream of thought.

Does he have good production sense? Sure. But he's not what he claims. Neither is his app. Between his garbage sit down with Apple, his shilling for Buick and this you'd think he'd realize he should stay in his lane.
Likely they could buy Automattic if that were true.
MIT CADR [1] is available today too and is much closer to Genera than Interlisp-D.

[1] https://tumbleweed.nu/lm-3
You can just take money from the rich and give it to the poor. That doesn't have anything to do with UBI. And many of us live in a democracy, so if we all get on the same page, we can decide to just do that.

UBI is some bullshit handwaving to try make social safety nets sound fair. (We give the money to everybody!). We should just stop kidding ourselves and build a more caring and supporting society.
The fee is already 1% in a lot of places after the NAR ruling earlier this year so that arbitrage is mostly gone.
Dislike being a pedant but the stack is missing philosophy up front.
Show HN: We just released Arch Linux for the open-source Fydetab Duo tablet
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It doesn’t just run Arch Linux either. Besides the Default FydeOS, you can also run Ubuntu, Debian, and even AOSP. So, it’s a pretty flexible device if you like to tinker with different systems.

As for the hardware, it’s got a 2K screen at 500 nits, a pressure-sensitive stylus (4096 levels), a keyboard with a trackpad, and a stand. Basically, it’s ready for whatever you throw at it—work, creativity, or just exploring different OS setups.

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The same WordPress that is stabbing the soul of the internet 24/7 ?
Do we actually want to continue doing radio astronomy? I'm not sure we do.

Sure, some people would like it, but where is the money going to come from? Are governments really willing to spend the money needed to move radio astronomy into space or to the Moon? I seriously doubt it. I think it's pretty obvious that we (humanity) care more about having thousands of noisy communications satellites than it does about doing radio astronomy.
It'd be interesting to see examples involving the "G" in RAG: I'm wary that having a fine-grained breakdown of, say, 2 vs. 5 sentences, would affect things significantly.

If I'm understanding correctly, you end up with a "turtles all the way down" problem: you need to chunk using some size = K, in order to get the inputs you need to decide bespoke chunk sizes X, Y, and Z.
I strongly agree with your view. I used to be a loyal user of Sublime Text, it performed exceptionally well and was incredibly fast, which I loved. However, perhaps I misspoke, what I meant to say is that due to the low development costs and rich ecosystem of web technologies, current applications are more inclined to use web technology stacks when developing GUIs. But (yes, there's always a "but"), the performance of web applications is still far behind that of native applications (although there has been significant improvement).
I agree on the translation part. Llama 3.1 8B even at 4bit does a great job translating JP to EN as far as I can tell, and is often better than dedicated translation models like Argos in my experience.
Paper title: Biomolecular condensates regulate cellular electrochemical equilibria

Summary of abstract: protein aggregates form electronegative buffer, with corresponding field extending to cell wall. Tested in e-coli: induced aggregates gave cell walls a negative charge, which reduced affinity to negatively-charged antibiotics.

No access to the article itself, but it's a long way from that to regulation or equilibria of any sort, so I'd be interested in reading it.
> 1. It doesn't map almost 1:1 to assembly the way C does, so it's not inherently clear if the code will necessarily do what it says it does.

As someone who works on a C compiler, I will tell you that Rust maps marginally better 1:1 to assembly than C does. No major C compiler goes 1:1 to assembly; it all gets flushed into a compiler IR that happily mangles the code in fun and interesting ways before getting compiled into the assembly you get at the end. Rust code does that too, but at least Rust doesn't pull anything silly on you like the automatic type promotion that C does.

If C maps 1:1 to assembly in your view, then (unsafe) Rust does; if Rust doesn't map 1:1 to assembly, nor does C. It's as simple as that.
You may be interested in this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27431910

> As of 2024, the althttpd instance for sqlite.org answers more than 500,000 HTTP requests per day (about 5 or 6 per second) delivering about 200GB of content per day (about 18 megabits/second) on a $40/month Linode. The load average on this machine normally stays around 0.5. About 19% of the HTTP requests are CGI to various Fossil source-code repositories.
New in Spot and Orbit 4.1 – Boston Dynamics [video]
I think LLM inference is extremely similar to search.

One of the killer features of LLMs is summarization (which can be thought of as searching a noisy set of data for the most relevant information) and document QA, which is also a search function.

Even implementation wise, transformers encode information in their weights and include that relevant information in their response.

Image generation models work the same way as google image search. Key word soup in -> relevant image out.

They encode information seen in their training within their weights then filter down those weight over many layers and what’s leftover is relevant data.

Idk how you’d look at how these models work and what they do and not see search.
I don’t think it’s a wild change. Explicitly enumerated or not, one might assume that any open-source trademark owner does not allow use of their trademark that implies connection to, or authority over, the root project or that “creates confusion”.

Take a look at the Red Hat Trademark guidelines page, which is based on the Model Trademark Guidelines (CC-BY-4.0) designed for the open-source community. They explicitly mention that you cannot “Use the Red Hat Marks in a way that expresses or implies sponsorship or endorsement by, or affiliation or a relationship with Red Hat when one does not exist.” They also remind you that “Red Hat, at its sole discretion, may terminate or modify your permission at any time. Red Hat retains and reserves all rights to the Red Hat Marks and their use, including the sole right to modify these Guidelines, with immediate or later effect.”

If the WordPress Foundation had explicitly included a similar reminder would you still find the change “wild”?

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/trademark-guidelines-and-pol...
1. C doesn’t actually do that. Rust is the same as C in this regard.

2. The Linux kernel doesn’t use standard C, it uses many gcc specific extensions. By this point, clang also supports those extensions and can compile the kernel, but that took work, and upstream has never tried to be only standard C.
Heck, I'm convinced even the upper class benefits long term from the kind of investment you're talking about, for a bunch of reasons.

To name just two examples: Technological progress happens more smoothly when there are mass markets. Society is healthier and safer when everybody feels like they have a stake in it.
As an aside, immunotherapy is pretty neat stuff. My fathers bladder cancer is in remission thanks to it.

Yes, there are still some issues being worked out (possibility to cause diabetes) but it is just neat to see in action. The medical field is one that still seems to be making these kinds of leaps. It is wild seeing some diseases that only a decade ago were a death sentence or had extreme solutions now becoming treatable.
Yes, he’s clearly a failure at reviews and business with billions of views on YouTube. Just because his content isn’t for your doesn’t mean his reviews are bad.
There's no scenario where a bespoke WASM interpreter is slower than MicroPython - though this isn't really Python.

WASM is an almost "ideal" bytecode target for embedded AOT native compilation as well, though yeah, you'd have to implement all of the backend targets.
Are you sure about that? So much of "good business practice" is really exploiting your suppliers. If you are trying to underpay for a resource, or forcing cost cuts, or simply taking more of the pie that you previously gave your resource, for the same or better quality service, you are exploiting that resource.
What Is the Business Judgment Rule?
Sure, but the whole process is referred to as “AI”

Nobody says the algo that chatgpt was made with learned information which it encoded into weights, even if that’s technically correct.
> I dont think it was greed. I think he legitimately thought he was doing the right thing, thought it was fun, and thought it was interesting.

It was absolutely greed by the original sense of the word, which isn't necessary only about money, he knew he was breaking the laws given the step he took to cover his tracks, badly, but he was very well aware of the fraud he was partaking in, it was proven during his trial.

There is the crime and then there is the cover up, or attempt at doing so.

And ever after Sam was arrested he tried to intimidate and discredit, publicly, his co-defendant. He was fully aware of the crimes he committed, he just thought he could miraculously get out of his situation on top, like a trader who just lost and still going to bet everything: that's greed.
Any site with a CDN in front of it can do that.

Don’t get me wrong this is an awesome project but if you really care about this kind of thing in a production scenario and you’re serving mostly static content… just use a CDN. It’ll pretty much always outperform just about anything you write. It’s just boring.
> Instead of trying to persuade you that the pandemic was a bad thing

Never said it wasn't. I lost people I know to COVID.

> I'll just say that perhaps your wonderful work-from home experience was different than a lot of other people.

I'm not denying that either.

I think you're misreading my comment as saying "For the majority of introverts, it was better than before". I am not asserting any such thing. I am saying that for some, it was better.

You just need to scan HN comments from that time period to find plenty of people who enjoyed their work from home experience during the pandemic.

BTW, I refused to work from home prior to the pandemic. At times I made it a condition of employment that I leave my laptop at work when I went home. So this is definitely not coming from a guy who always liked working from home. When I had to, though, I found the experience to be far superior than commuting every day and dealing with nosy managers.
I've never once needed to block anyone on X, even when I had a bunch of mentally ill groypers reply to everything I posted.

That being said, the shadow pool is a lot more effective at soft banning people than the block feature. I chuckle when people complain about toxicity on Twitter. You're in the shadow pool buddy.
Why "instead" ? they seem completely different from each other

Hunt for Vulcan is a fun history lesson with some interesting insights about human nature. It's history of science, not science. It took about 3 hours to read and I had a lot of fun with it.
Bingo. For as little as, say, $10 million, you wouldn’t even have to work again or voluntarily interact with other humans. So who cares if you can’t get a job due to “stigma”? I’d sit in my living room collecting my monthly interest checks, not giving a single shit about what anyone, including employers, thought about me.

Enough money insulates you from ever having to care about what anyone thinks of you.
That second paragraph is just as wrong as yours. You're both right in some cases. The average American has several thousand dollars of credit card debt [1]. They are paying interest.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/27/how-much-credit-card-debt-am...
No more blurry fonts in Linux (2023)
I would also like to see this comparison. And for good measure it’d be great to also include Versatiles in this comparison.
Economic transactions only happen if there is a mutual benefit. Typically one side of the transaction has more market power than the other and captures more of the surplus but the transaction doesn't happen if one side is worse off from it.

The entire idea of economic transactions being exploitative is literal Marxist propaganda. If you read the word "exploit" in some news article and it's referring to economic transactions, you are reading propaganda.
It's worth reading the article in detail, and not making assumptions about the nature of the criticism based on the title.

> “You and your team have barely been litigating the case. That’s obvious….This is not your typical proposed class action. This is an important case. It’s an important societal issue. It’s important for your clients.”

> On Friday, the judge said there was “no way” he would appoint Saveri and his co-counsel as class counsel “based on the way you’ve litigated the case so far.”

> “I think what you need, frankly, is to bring in somebody who can help you litigate the case, who has the resources and the wherewithal to move this case forward…I think you need to reconstitute your legal team,”
[dupe]
Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41637452
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41640789
I think this guy is having some sort of legit mental health crisis.
> Wait for a sale at Nebula.org. Get your whole genome sequenced. ~$200

Does anyone track these sales and send notifications? How exactly would someone wait for a sale?
I disagree. I am happy the Internet Archive are fighting the draconian copy right laws that exist.
I had a underwhelming experience with Llama translation, incompatable to Claude or GPT3.5+ which are very good. Kind of like Google translate but worse. I was using them through Perplexity.
Person seems to work for cure53, who have done reviews of lots of open source apps. Apparently they don't care about copyright though.
Hmmm. Couldn’t they just use their group protocol for private chats, too?
I only wish I had the stability to do this. I have family relying on me to pay the bills.

How did you do this (unless you got paid massive bucks) and afford to keep a family?
It’s a great way to get hacked
one thing we did on the C64 in this vein (I was a bad kid) was to send opcodes to the CPU on the 1541 floppy drive to send the head to a nonexistent track. This would sometimes jam the head and require physical repair of the drive.
Definitions:

Chiptune, also called 8-bit music, is a style of electronic music made using the programmable sound generator (PSG) sound chips or synthesizers in vintage arcade machines, computers and video game consoles. The term is commonly used to refer to tracker format music using extremely basic and small samples that an old computer or console could produce.[1]

A music tracker (sometimes referred to as a tracker for short) is a type of music sequencer software for creating music.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker
right, hence the "specific steps taken", and actually when in the history of the world has a monopoly existed that has not taken anti-competitive actions?

People having monopolies have a strong urge to maintain them, the means to do so, and not doing so might actually require lots of thinking and trying to walk a very thin, straight line.

on edit: ok it seems this post mentions a monopoly that takes no anti-competitive steps, which is a company I've never heard of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41642040 but if they have 100% of the market I guess there's no reason for them to be anti-competitive, that kind of thing comes when you have 80% of the market but it's threatened (guesstimate)
I am almost positive Sam Trabucco is in witness protection somewhere waiting to testify when they eventually get Tether off the board and crater this useless scamfest excuse of an industry
Actually, the LLMs are extremely useful. You’re just using them wrong.

There is nothing wrong with the LLMs, you just have to double-check everything. Any exploits and problems you think they have, have already been possible to do for decades with existing technology too, and many people did it. And for the latest LLMs, they are much better — but you just have to come up with examples to show that.
High frequency metrics in PHP using TCP sockets
Just replicate more France
VMware Accused of Breaching Anti-Trust Laws in Japan
The point is to be able to use your own hardware, a fiber equivalent of buying your own cable modem and router.
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