skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on an anonymous chat site https://voidchat.org with the backend written entirely in C++. The only dependencies are libpq and uWebSockets, everything else is built from scratch
Hi, many, many thanks!!!
You are absolutely right, I need a prper QA person.

This is a one person band ATM. So it's not QA, its technical writing, it's marketing, dev ops, search for funding, design, you name it.

I am in conversations with a couple of professional folks I work with in the past to do proper QA.

Also, this is not a realesed product yet. I'm just working on it.
To be fair fleshy human intelligence has hardly been running the show any more than a bear eating a salmon out of a river thus far. We’d like to consider we can control the world yet any data scientist will tell you what we actually control and understand is very little, or at best a sweeping oversimplification of this complex world.
> Does anyone know how well these really quantized image models perform?

IME it's better if they are quantized during training/refinement as it can definitely affect model performance if not.

> I have never tried or needed to reduce a model to <8.4 mb.

Same. The limit has been inference speed before model size. It's quite unusual to run video inference at full resolution due to this (having spent too much of my life up-scaling segmentation masks) but maybe their accelerator is actually capable of that speed? They don't seem to say what resolution of image their model is optimized for.

EDIT: The Sony specs say input tensor size is 640x480.
> The worst case scenareo is if the house doesn't have grounding.

The worst case scenario is instant death, which has happened to a family member. It's just a risk that is accepted in Brazil that wouldn't be in Europe or the US.

The same is true of many gas appliances sold in Brazil. My CO alarm regularly goes off in Brazilian homes when cooking - another death of a family member of a friend is why I carry that now.

Again a perfectly acceptable risk in Brazil that also kills Brazilians, but that isn't accepted in some other countries. For now, at least.
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Great post. I was also raised by the internet.

I have loving parents, but grew up poor in a developing country, surrounded by people that only care about football and soap opera.

If it wasn’t the internet and forums like slashdot or Hackers News, I would probably fall to conformity and the nerd in me would had died out.

Instead, my computer hobby became a really profitable job and now I’m living in a first world country and working on some really interesting things.
Interesting to contrast this with, say, the SQLite developers, who also have very strong beliefs that are openly stated, but, are tolerant of others who don't share those beliefs and are happy for anyone to use their software regardless of whether they share the same views or not.
Building the open source repo gets you something which isn't VSCode. It doesn't install a lot of VSCode extensions, therefore you shouldn't call it VSCode and shouldn't say VSCode is FOSS.
What did mainlining it change from the industry point of view? I recall installing in minutes the -rt fork from official Debian repositories ages ago, mainly to have lower/more consistent latency with music apps, and never had a problem.
And at only ~100x the price.
> > [moral relativism is] not that a difficult idea

Actually I mean moral universalism here, but thanks for your comment.
You must not be working for juicy clients then.

https://www.levelaccess.com/blog/title-iii-lawsuits-10-big-c...
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Not who you asked, but the daily ones I sometimes watch are Reporting From Ukraine and Denys Davydov.
What's the point of clickhouse cloud?when you can just use bigquery and run queries on billions of row.

I am genuinely curious what case does clickhouse serve over bigquery.
> they picked it is that it is smaller and less commercial than others (such as Debain or Ubuntu)

I agree with you, just nitpicking: it is smaller than some (like Debian) and less commercial than others (like Ubuntu).
Odd that you keep saying I'm telling you how to think. I'm expressing a point of view. Feel free to challenge.

Anyway, glad I could be so inspirational. You're welcome. Thanks for the heads up on the Campbells soup, I prefer Heinz but Campbells would be more appropriate in this context.

Prick? Yep, I call it like I see it. You didn't quite justify being called a prick, but your proposed intentions and actions would allow me to call you one.

All best,
"We're sorry, YouTube is currently blocking us from fetching subtitles preventing us from generating a summary for you. We're working on a fix!"
I'm working on a Emscripten-ready fork of SFML that brings several key improvements:

- Modern OpenGL and first-class support for Emscripten4
- Easy to use drawable batching system
- Enhanced API safety at compile-time
- Flexible design approach over strict OOP principles
- New audio API supporting multiple simultaneous devices
- Built-in SFML::ImGui module
- Remarkably fast compilation time & small run-time debug mode overhead

More info: https://vittorioromeo.info/index/blog/vrsfml.html
May 2024. Financial Times:

"The Russian defence ministry late on Thuesday laid out a plan to unilaterally expand the country’s maritime borders with Lithuania and Finland. Less than 24 hours later, it deleted the proposal from the government website"

"Another Russian hybrid operation is under way, this time attempting to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt about their intentions in the Baltic Sea [...] Lithuania’s foreign minister, said on Wednesday".

January 2024. Lithuanian National Radio and Television.

Putin claimed on Tuesday that Latvia and other Baltic states are “throwing [ethnic] Russian people” out of their countries and that this situation “directly affects [Russia’s] security.”

Exactly the same narratives that were used months before to justify the Ukraine invasion.
As per usual people blaming the tool when they should blame the tools using the tool.

The fault lies with humans using AI for something sensitive, without having the AI pass through certification etc. Part of the problem is glacial pace of laws around things, but that's nothing new isn't it; us humans being whiny, argumentative, inefficient, emotional meat bags about every little thing. I wonder, once we do make AGI, if it will wonder why it took us so damn long to tax the disgustingly wealthy, implement ww public healthcare, UBI, etc and solve the housing crisis by gasp building more houses...

We evolved, so our deep, deep underlying motivations pretty much always circulate around self-preservation and reproduction (resource contention).
> It is unclear if the cars that got in the way of Harris's motorcade were glitching, or if the incident signifies the beginning of a robot uprising or other AI-organized political protest.

I thought we had a few more years left.
I'm not sure AI risks are well enough understood to have good regulations for. With most risky industries you can actually quantify the risk a bit. Regarding:

> we cannot afford to wait for a major catastrophe to occur before taking action to protect the public

Maybe but you can wait for minor problems or big near misses before legislating it all up.
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There is an upper bound to the amount of information that can be easily conveyed through a TikTok video, and given the platform's focus on short-form content, it is not very high; likely, it is much, much lower than a book or manual or other form of written documentation.

The media we use today constrain the density and quality of information they can convey, and not in a positive fashion.
>Anyone that ... has had a physical job knows that doing something 26 times in a row is basic stuff of any worthwile endeavor.

I have. There were an awful lot of electric tools doing things that used to require manual work. And they were used even the old guys who were fighting against their broken bodies to work for long enough be able to retire.
Well, hello there Richard Hendricks! ;)
The real risk isn’t even people taking the fruit. Its rats you need to worry about. I like my fruit trees but there is at least one rat I know of that I am directly sustaining every night with this tree. Not sure what I can even do for this as if I ever catch this rat, another will take its place. Calories are on the table here, the environment is going to grow to consume that excess I’ve introduced to the local area.
if gorhil says something, internet as a whole needs to listen to them and shut the fuck up.

mozilla needs to put him on the default pedestal, help promote UBO as the only way to browse internet without facing cancerous ads.

If mozilla keeps this up, i have no choice but to follow gorhill on this. if gorhil wants to dump mozilla, i will too.
For me, it all depends on the quality of content. If it's good I wouldn't care by whom it was generated. The podcast thing is impressive, but not quite there yet. But I could imagine that this will change in the next few years.
Working on https://usedigest.com, a tool to curate content from any source into a daily email. No this is not just grabbing RSS feeds, we're using tons of APIs to fetch data wherever we can. The goal is to replace the mindless scrolling we all do on a daily basis and try to help people become more productive without the fear of missing out. You can consume the daily email, or read it on the web as we generate a direct link to your digest each day. Here is an example: https://app.usedigest.com/digests/share/b40cd659-bce5-4a38-9...
Seems like good way to destroy any good will anyone has for your engine... So now that both Godot and Unity are dead, what is next?
How is this different from arguing that Linux is not open source because Oracle won't run on it without a valid license?
Is anyone following the PearAI saga?
My October project is an immersive survival horror game that you can auto-generate for your home/space.
https://pulsargeist.com

It actually won a prize at a hackathon recently and it was enough signal for me to make it a fully fleshed game :-)

I’m also making progress on an immersive gpu shader editor app that got release on AVP recently:
https://shader.vision
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Text rendering has glitches for pathologically large files
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How have we survived without such a feature up to now?

It is a common occurrence that whatever Lennart comes up with fulfills several, erm, novel requirements while not fulfilling some old ones that aren't even mentioned. The parallels to binary logging are there. "Fancy" features that no one asked for - check. Simplicity and thoughtful use of existing functionality (the "full exploitation" principle of the Unix design philosophy) - nope.
Web components are a standard and built into the browser, Handlebars is a separate library. Web components are a way to encapsulate and isolate structure (html), appearance (css) and behaviour (js) into components, extending HTML.

It's like jquery widgets but without dependencies.
Blimey, that is a lot of moving parts.

Our data team currently has something similar and its costs are astronomical.

On the other hand our internal platform metrics are fired at BigQuery [1] and then we used scheduled queries that run daily (looking at the -24 hours) that aggregate/export to parquet. And it's cheap as chips. From there it's just a flat file that is stored on GCS that can be pulled for analysis.

Do you have more thoughts on Preset/Superset? We looked at both (slightly leaning towards cloud hosted as we want to move away from on-prem) - but ended up going with Metabase.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/write-api
It baffles me how people just keep expecting stuff to be free.
>why don’t more companies do this?

What exactly?

Whole big tech contributes to linux. MSFT is probably biggest of them
> Anyone who claims they will for the 'good of humanity' is lying or was never a contender.

An overreach.

Some people and organizations are more aligned with humanity’s well being and survival than others.
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This is sad. My advice, as an older person, is find a job that doesn't suck, or even is actually fulfilling. Public sector did that for me. Some weeks will drain you, that's what we get paid for, it just needs to be, not all the time :) Then early retirement is less "necessary". This is perfectly compatible with kids (albeit not in a high cost of living area). While kids are young, adventures will be put on hold to some extent, but then having kids and watching them grow up is a delightful adventure in itself :) And you get to share adventures with them later on. I'm glad I travelled and stuff when young, but seeing others without kids, their life seems a bit boring and same-y to me, but that's a personal thing. Important to some to have kids, important to others not to have them. Those "ground down" people you describe probably need a decent holiday to recharge, they also may need to think outside the box , get off the treadmill and realise that chasing promotions and money is a trap, and in fact a middle-of-the-road tech salary combined with some intelligent frugal habits gives a great standard of living despite today's brutal house prices etc. (only caveat - in USA health costs can be major problem for people with certain conditions)
Because the lens mount alone is as thick as the phone, lenses are heavy so the phone's.frame must become stronger and this heavier, and the result becomes a pretty silly phone, heavy and weird-shaped without a lens, and even more weird-shaped with an attached lens.
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I'd say half of it comes down to Valve having the staff with the key knowledge and skills to provide support, and the other half comes down to not being public.

I'm sure many devs and publishers are filled with people who know that acts like this can garner trust and future support for their company, but will have efforts cut short because someone above complained that the line didn't immediately go up.
You can argue your point all day, it will not resolve their cognitive dissonance.
No matter how convincing, high-quality or entertaining it was, no matter for how long they happily consumed the content: it's AI-generated, they hate AI, therefore it's vomit, period.
I think the most acheivable way of having some verification of AI images is simply for the AI generators to store finger prints of every image they generate. That way if you ever want to know you can go back to Meta or whoever and say "Hey, here's this image, do you think it came from you". There's already technology for that sort of thing in the world (content ID from youtube, CSAM detection etc.).

It's obviously not perfect, but could help and doesn't have the enormous side effects of trying to lock down all image generation.
It's not that simple:

[1.2,1.3,1.4]

is 13 bytes, the equivalent binary storage is 3*sizeof(double) (24 bytes) + whatever overhead exists for representing a dynamic array in your language
Impressive release!
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Do pseudocreoles include concreoles, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belter_Creole ?

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Like I wrote here [0], corporate has an azure subscription. All the companies code repositories already live there, including build automation. A capable vscodium isn´t going to eat into Azure baseline.

I don´t think MS is after solo hobby devs. For startups they have other incentives to lure them into their ecosystem, like free Azure credits.

And that is why open source projects on github are free too. Because the paying organizations depend on the free software ecosystem, build by volunteers in their free time. MS wants control [1] about that nonetheless, because not having that is a risk to their baseline

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0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41695356

1. That is not necessarily harming libre software per se, but keep in mind that MS is only interested into OSS as long as their commercial customers depend on it.
Point out what [constitutionally valid] law it’s broken; if it’s audible to the ear from a public location in San Francisco (or anywhere in the US) then you’re allowed to record it (similarly if you can see it from a public vantage point, then you can photograph it).

If you weren’t it would be legally impossible for any two people to leave two voice messages simultaneously while in earshot of each other. You also couldn’t use Spotify in public ever.

You can certainly get in trouble for the uses you put that recording to, but as the OP isn’t selling or rebroadcasting and would have a solid fair use defense for any incidental copyright infringement, I don’t see any colorable claim that anyone this thing can hear has any reasonable expectation of privacy from it.

BTW, it’s making a very good point about actual surveillance equipment that is quite possibly installed all around you.
Theres a ton of fig and dates in socal people don’t pick. That being said its hard to pick these trees. They might be located in clumsy areas like by some razor wire in a parking lot. You aren’t sure when its time to harvest unless you know this tree well. Harvesting might not even be practical considering the best fruit is picked not dropped and picked up, and these trees could be huge. Then of course these being unsprayed trees the fruit is going to be full of wasp larvae at least for the figs. Then the rats will eat most of whatever is there thats worth eating anyhow before you realize its there.

Commercially its a different story. Trees are planted and pruned to maintain easy harvesting. They are sprayed and rodents managed, as well as being overall outproduced by the yield on the farm. Fruit trees are a lot of work. Even literal money growing on trees would be work, against what the saying might imply.
You could use AI to...Find what it is :-)
>Behind the scenes, your Awala app connects to an Internet gateway, which is a server that acts as a bridge between your device and the rest of Awala on the Internet.

It's literally just a proxy.
I'm predicting the future a little with that. As always people accept new ideas at a glacial pace.

At what point do we consider some entity alive? At what point do we decide to consider it a species (of living thing)?

If we find out there are aliens, biological and therefore similar to us? Sure. What if we meet aliens whose physical forms are synthetic? What if we meet the synthetic creations of biological aliens?

I'm not saying that LLMs are alive, of course. But I am saying that I'd consider LLMs to be a precursor to AGI, along with all our our historical artificial intelligence experiments, in the same way that prokaryotes were the precursors to...us.
That analogy still doesn't mean LLMs are a form of intelligence with reasoning capability.
Optional for the developer. Mandatory for the player. Although I heard rumours it's easy enough to install alternate Steam DLLs that always return "yes" to "is this game licensed?"
I disagree.

On this topic, I’m seeing too many ideological and uninformed claims.

It is hard for many aspiring AI startup founders to rationally and neutrally assess the AI landscape, pros and cons.
Back during the early 2000s, when OpenOffice threatened to eat Microsoft's lunch, they created the new .docx/.pptx/.xlsx Office Open XML file formats and got ISO to standardize them as ISO 29500-1.

The standard isn't detailed enough to create your own Office implementation. Not even Microsoft Office implements it correctly. Microsoft only created the standard so they could claim they were as open as OpenOffice, to prevent OpenOffice from becoming the standard, to make sure third parties would continue building upon Microsoft Office, and to ensure third party implementations would always be slightly worse.

As leaked emails later showed, even Microsoft employees used the Embrace Extend Extinguish term to describe this project.

I'm not sure why you think the VSCode situation is so different.
It wouldn't surprise me if some bike shops are clearing over a million dollars in sales a year if they're good.
Alt History: Amiga as a IBM “PCjr2”?
I know, there are even ports for the original Game Boy (not even the Color, the less powerful B/W one). I ran Calypso and Tristam Island on these as an experiment.

But I meant 1GB for the quantum computer OFC.
Might have a lot of worms and be poor eating for the casual picker
I'd say it's a US-only number and most US shops hire US-only remotely.
> this is not a hard problem to solve in idiomatic Go.

Genuinely asking, what would the solution look like in idiomatic Go?

Let's assume for a second that the premise of the article is valid and exactly the behavior we want - "asynchronous execution but to report the results in order, as each becomes available".
Yes, it's quite a big release, with a ton of things that were underway, and they got merged!
Interesting stuff, but the music and the well, falls are quite depressing.
If IBM had outbid Commodore buying the Amiga startup around the time of CES 1984, imagine how the 90s would have been!
Easy just live in a neighborhood built before 1970. Odds are if you work in a city these are available in spades in a reasonable distance to work. Nicer homes and neighborhoods than the newer plastic siding stuff thats come since too.
Yeah, this is funny. It's like presenting someone with a thought experiment and them saying "yeah but that would never happen".
> That's a paid service that some people balk at.

AFAIK, it's only a paid feature to play video in the background.
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Some times the boundaries between words in English are clear, and sometimes they are a bit blurry.
Never "trust" a vendor to do something in your best interest for free. That's like trusting your landlord not to raise your rent.
(the Amiga chipset would have been the graphics and audio card for this successor platform)
I'm told that GPU-based encoding (Nvenc etc) can't possibly match a "brute force' CPU encode if you want truly tiny filesizes. Nvenc's encoder is also miserable in terms of quality

Does this "Vulkan based encoding" mean we'll be able to get the best of both worlds? A 'pure' software encoder, but with the massive parallelism of a GPU?

If so I'd be extremely excited. Getting to shrink my DVD and Blu Ray rip collection down by moving it all to AV1 at rest would massively reduce my storage cost
China is very special case of totalitarianism with low entropy, but most other totalitarianism cases have low entropy only in capital City, and extremely corrupted outside capital, especially on borders.

This is don't mean that you could run across border on station wagon filled with prohibited content, but somebody could hide something like microSD in clothes.

Exists paradox - people usually thinking, jails have very strong and serious security system so inside there should be sterile environment without anything prohibited, but in reality usually there exist black market of prohibited things.