skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: having ads in the pause screen is bad UX. I can't pause and read things, or take a picture, or a screenshot, etc. It's bad for the consumer, AND bad for the company.

I want to see more criticism of ads from people who believe ads are good for society. I'm trying to fill this gap here.
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The Apache #’s pretty much give the game away: An Itanium clocked 50% higher was losing to a 2yo Alpha by about 20% on throughput at peak.

This is not just a benchmark of the CPUs, but also of the compilers involved. It is well-known that it was very hard to write a compiler that generates programs that could harness the optimization potential of Itanium's instruction set.
I'm currently working on a new blockchain technology called Roughchain. Earlier today, I shared the whitepaper in this HN thread [1], and I’ve already received some valuable feedback.

The core architecture is split into two components: a timestamping signing service and a P2P gossip network. By decoupling the gossip network, I'm simulating its performance using a Monte Carlo approach. With a basic gossip protocol, the simulation reaches ~10k TPS on a 100-node, randomly connected network (not fully connected), and I see a lot of potential for further protocol optimizations.

Initially, I considered a more resource-intensive approach using Shadow [2] for more realistic node simulations, as outlined in this discussion on libp2p's Gossipsub stress metrics [3]. However, the Monte Carlo method allows me to simulate the network more efficiently without needing to deploy full nodes.

In parallel, I'm exploring game-theoretical concepts for selecting signers and ensuring the system remains open to new entrants. One paper I'm currently diving into is "Collusion, Efficiency, and Dominant Strategies" [4].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41687715

[2] https://shadow.github.io/

[3] https://discuss.libp2p.io/t/rough-stress-metrics-for-gossips...

[4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089982561...
> This election is a simple choice — do we want more of the Snowden-revealed evil of the establishment or do we want to poke the establishment in the eye?

I agree this election is a simple choice, but not the one you proposed. It's the choice between electing someone to power that we can be fairly confident will release that power when the time comes and someone who is, by his own admissions and actions, an aspirational autocrat envious of and enamored with despicable world leaders like Putin.

As for the other issues you raise, as long as democracy survives, we have a chance of addressing them. When we start electing non-democratic leaders to fix our democracy, we have, by definition, lost.
One would have to run a similar BASIC interpreter on this processor to make that a reasonable comparison, and that would only highlight how ridiculously impractical this demo unit is.

If you want an computer that you can wrap around a pencil, I bet it could be done simply using a very small conventional silicon chip embedded in a flexible medium. Perhaps some of this technology could help with interconnections.
I didn't accept them either. That didn't prevent LG from auto-enabling the ACR.
I genuinely dislike CBOR. Formats which require me to calculate the length of the message before sending it lead to bad library design which often leads to easily compromised code. Add in an "indefinite length" option and you've got potentially unbounded client memory usage to watch out for. As if that wasn't enough you get extensible tags so the meaning of any message is entirely dependent on the context it was sent in.

It gives you a lot of decent protocol wire design and then flatly ignores everything we've learned about these types of designs in the last 3 decades. Be on the lookout for client libraries to slowly add in all of these checks as the vulnerabilities are discovered in them.
No sign of ghostly dark photons in afterglow of Big Bang
He's dissembling. He vetoed the bill because VCs decided to rally the flag; if the bill had covered more models he'd have been more likely to veto it, not less.

It's been vaguely mindblowing to watch various tech people & VCs argue that use-based restrictions would be better than this, when use-based restrictions are vastly more intrusive, economically inefficient, and subject to regulatory capture than what was proposed here.
I pay for Hulu. If I start seeing ads after paying >$20/month for it, why would I pay for it instead of torrenting web rips?
If you read Gavin Newsom's statement, it sounds like he agrees with Terrance Tao's position, which is that the government should regulate the people deploying AI rather than the people inventing AI. That's why he thinks it should be stricter. For example, you wouldn't want to lead people to believe that AI in health care decisions is OK so long as it's smaller than 10^26 flops. Read his full actual statement here: https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SB-1047-Ve...
I'm working on https://www.ironcalc.com as a side project.

A spreadsheet engine with an open source permissive license. I have high hopes for it but I'm still in early stages of the project.
There is a lot of good things to be said about Alpha and it is probably the most RISC of all 90's RISC ISAs, but the actual hardware is full of weirdness and all the real CPUs were deeply pipelined OoO designs (think Intel NetBurst) that prioritized high clock rates and huge straight-line throughput above all else (which is also why that ran really hot and could not be really scaled down for embedded use). Taking good ideas from that while discarding the “speed-demon” design is a part of why AMD become relevant again in 00's with amd64 cementing that position (but well, AMD K7 is very much Alpha-related design, to the extent that the chipsets are interchangeable between K7 and EV6. The interesting part of that is that these CPUs do not have FSB in the “bus” sense, but there is a point-to-point link between CPU and chipset).
Thankfully programmatic. It’s a common UI table widget, essentially, and I’ve written some custom code to handle multi-region support, updating the AWS credential handler, pagination, and response processing. From there, it’s a matter of plugging in some common options for each AWS service: the service name, SDK method to call, pagination property (annoyingly, AWS API has numerous ways of paginating responses), etc. Takes about five minutes to add a new service.
I tried the £299 full-body scan that checks health risks in minutes
South Korea set to criminalize possessing or watching sexual deepfake videos
There is no concrete concern past "models that can simulate thinking are scary." The risk has always been connecting models to systems which are safety critical, but for some reason the discourse around this issue has been more influenced by Terminator than OSHA.

As a researcher in the field, I believe there's no risk beyond overconfident automation---and we already have analogous legislation for automations, for example in what criteria are allowable and not allowable when deciding whether an individual is eligible for a loan.
It's possible we see some ways in which AI becomes increasingly AGI like in some ways but not in others. For example, AI that can create novel scientific discoveries but can't make a song as good as your favorite musician who creates a strong emotional effect with their music.
There are approximately 330,000 web hosting companies not listed there, including a very long list that are larger than WPE, generate an order of magnitude more revenue than WPE, and host more WP installs than WPE.

WP Engine has contributed full-time developer hours to the core WordPress code base for over 10 years, is a current Five for the Future contributing member, sponsors WordCamp events globally, produces the DE{CODE} series of conferences for WordPress developers, and maintains some of WordPress's most essential and popular plugins.

To say "without giving back or adding any value whatsoever" is libel. It's defamatory and deeply untrue. You're committing one of several crimes Matt committed to start all this drama. Maybe you'll get to meet the "good guys" in person when you respond to the lawsuits in the same court system.
but all Muslims have the concept of the Ummah, the collective group of all Muslims, and it seems unlikely to me that any Muslim would approve of the dehumanization of Muslims as the OP had done. In fact it was the OP that projected an assumed belief onto all of the Palestinians. He seems more like yet another Israeli posting on the internet pretending to be a Muslim.
To eat, or…
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“I couldn't be bothered reading that source to see what was being compared, and instead I'm going to brush off yet another study showing racial bias in US law enforcement as it not comparing like-for-like, despite the study literally doing exactly what I've decided that they did not”

If you actually could be bothered reading the article - they are comparing stop+ticket for speeding vs camera driven tickets for speeding. They explicitly ensured that they were doing a like-for-like comparison to avoid responses like this.

Speeding tickets issued by machines: speeding tickets are issued to black people at the same rate they’re issued to white people

Speeding tickets issued by police officers: tickets are issued at overwhelmingly higher rate for black people than white.

There are two options:

* black people drive worse than white people, but only when police are present and cameras are not

* police are racially biased when enforcing traffic laws

Given the overwhelming evidence of racial bias in other parts of policing I don’t see any - non-racist - reason to believe that the former is more likely than the latter.
So what you are saying is that people have some hangup on saying ‘I don’t want to say’ and instead say all kinds of vague stuff that I might want to clarify, and that I should recognize that and just let it go?

I’m not quite sure how to distinguish that from people unintentionally being vague.
What do you think about Ellul's arguments in that book?
https://archive.today/22U12
Ohh this is awesome! Thanks for sharing! How much time per week do you work on something like this?
Also: https://search.marginalia.nu
I realize this is mostly focused on XG-PON, but I’m curious if this is as much of an issue with WDM-PON that’s in use by some providers (Google Fiber is one, I think).
That is one risk. Humans at the other end of the screen are effectors; nobody is worried about AI labs piping inference output into /dev/null.
If you can find a way to sell billions of dollars of eggs, even at a loss, people will invest. At scale you can increase the price of eggs, make the eggs cheaper, etc. Obviously the fact your eggs are artificially cheap is helping you sell them, but that won't be all there is to you as a seller.

People underestimate how hard it is to sell things: you could have the cure to cancer in your hands today and still need to lose mllions to get anywhere with it.
You definitely don’t need those things to be in decent shape, I’m just saying they help tremendously.
Syncthing is probably the best sync software on market right now in my view. I have had very positive experience with it.

I have an always on device that runs various applications including syncthing. Works great and sync is fast. Like send a movie from a computer to phone, and it gets there fast.

I have started to use encrypted folders (beta feature). If you have a VPS, this might be a useful feature for you.

I like that the transfers are peer to peer, and syncthing has been very secure so far.
What does this unlock that the standard stock Flipper Zero does not?
And are these Trumpians in the room with us right now?
I didn't illustrate the thought clearly. I didn't mean that the building's roof would be the only source of PV cells. The solar farm could grow all around the data center, but the roof would not need be a hole in the farm.
> I very rarely see meaningful criticism of ads in mainstream discourse. Most criticism is of the form “ads are evil, burn it all down”. This is silly. The reason people who hate ads aren’t making any progress is because ads are actually good for civilization. If you ever succeed in destroying ads, people are going to reinvent it, bottom up, by running around yelling in the street. You know, like we used to:

Can you say more about why you believe ads are good for society? This paragraph just says they're inevitable, but it doesn't mention anything about them being good.
"Group Chat: The Best Way to Stress Out Your Team"
I feel like every time this device shows up I need to yell from the rooftops how dangerous(and illegal) some of the wifi and Bluetooth attacks can be. Even if it's totally baffling WHY any safety critical devices including industrial cranes and pacemakers have consumer radios in them, that doesn't make you less responsible when you crash tons of metal into someones skull or stop someone's heart.

Cool device, and I'm not saying it should be illegal or anything, but I've met people who have zero clue with these devices and it's a bit scary.
Excellent move by Newsom. We have a very active legislature, but it's been extremely bandwagon-y in recent years. I support much of Wiener's agenda, particularly his housing policy, but this bill was way off the mark.

It was basically a torpedo against open models. Market leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic weren't really worried about it, or about open models in general. Its supporters were the also-rans like Musk [1] trying to empty out the bottom of the pack, as well as those who are against any AI they cannot control, such as antagonists of the West and wary copyright holders.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/26/elon-musk-unexpectedly-off...
We do web components better than the web. We just call them Parsers.

Geniuses build for The Scroll first. Retards build Web first.

(Don't misinterpret, I love The Web, but The Scroll is on track to be 100x better)
In what sense are you proposing pharma production is funded by tax dollars?

Selling a product to the taxpayers is not the same as funding.
To be fair, I have the tier with ads. I'm fine seeing ads in the middle of the show. Or even every time I un-pause if they REALLY have to. But covering the pause screen itself is just inexcusable. It breaks functionality. There's no good reason the company should do this, even for profit. It's damaging, there's better ways to make profit.
It's an easy thought to have. I live in one of the US's larger metro areas in a leafy, former streetcar suburb then annexed, neighborhood. Near me, just down the street, is an old industrial plot that supplies materials and tools for other industrial uses. Their trucks are large. Their lots are small. Each day is a dance of large flatbeds loading up for the next day, moving in and out of the lots, and other customers and their large flatbeds coming to stock up. Many leave by driving down the street in front of my house.

Is it annoying? Yes. Their trucks are heavy enough to shake the house when they go over a bump. They are loud as hell too. [1]

Do I want to shut the company down? Of course not. They are my neighbors, for better or for worse. I have to try to make the relationship work. They employ dozens of people and make it so other companies can build things easier in my city.

The instinct, however, is to think "I wish they would f** off with their big dumb trucks and their blocking traffic and their dangerous blahblahblah. I'm fine with industrial supply companies, but not in my backyard!". It takes an effort to stop yourself and remember to recognize their value. I could lose my job tomorrow, and maybe walk down the street and ask them if they need another set of hands moving gas cylinders around. I might one day need their services, or need the services of someone who needs theirs.

1. I wish the federal government would regulate the amount of noise pollution coming off some of these vehicles, yes, but that isn't a local issue.
> Depends on whether you're trying to move topline - or trying to move the "typical".

If this is an important difference, you should define the "typical" population prior to running the experiment.

If you take "typical" to mean "the users who didn't accidentally produce annoying data in this experiment" you will learn things that don't generalise because they only apply to an ill-defined fictional subsegment of your population that is impossible to recreate.

If you don't know up front how to recognise a "typical" user in the sense that matters to you, then that is the first experiment to run!
https://hn.garglet.com/similar/stories/27929194
Amazon, Cloudflare, Discord are building servers in Rust but you should not
Cloudflare's web application firewall adds various kinds of bot detection and blocking. It's one layer of defense against spam, but not as good as content based blocking like Akismet.
> There will never be enough computing power to create AGI using machine learning that can do the same [as the human brain], because we’d run out of natural resources long before we'd even get close

I don’t understand how people can so confidently make claims like this. We might underestimate how difficult AGI is, but come on?!
He very early assumes/disregards we remain confined to earth. In the face of exponentially growing energy resources, this is a terrible assumption.
OpenAI's Business Plan
That's nice. I'm glad you have one of those by you.
Yes but loperamide doesn't alleviate pain, which maybe just that opioids only alleviate pain if they do reach the brain, but I did see trials for non-bbb crossing ones that were for pain so not sure what's going on there.
> most on the left have a strong support of Hamas

"most" is a vast exaggeration.

support of a two-state solution is not "support for Hamas"

having concerns about the massive civilian casualties in Gaza is not "support for Hamas"
The page mentions improvements but I can't tell from the main readme what is the advantage over the stock firmware, which I found to be quite nice for my personal use.
>you should want more thoughtful representation than this.

Your opinion on what "thoughtful representation" is is what makes this point partisan. Regardless, he's in until 2028 so it'll be some time before that vote can happen.

Also, important Nitpick, it's Scott Weiner. Anthony Weiner (no relation AFAIK) was in New York and has a much more... Public controversy.
For anyone that wants access just shoot me an email (it's on my HN profile).
I think the problem is that, even if they are making a profit, it’ll never be enough. They’ll add more ads to your ad tier, or add ads to my paid tier. You are captive because of media copyright and licensing, cattle to be milked for returns. And so, one must vote with their dollars and local storage if the UX degrades in pursuit of financial demands leading to enshittification.

Edit: I’m trying to be reasonable, you know? Services cost money, this is fair; have to pay COGS for everyone involved to get the bits to my devices. But the relationship is always in tension. I can go without, I can source the content elsewhere, etc. But mess it (the experience, broadly speaking) up and I will bail, you are competing with free. Disney owns Hulu and they’re are doing just fine financially (~$174B market cap, ~$90B/year in revenue). Don't mess it up, I want to give you money if I am getting value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Okay, so have AI build a nuclear plant in the desert so when they run it at 115% on the reactor, it's in the desert away from people. It's not like they'd be concerned about downwinders. Put the plant and the data center right next to each other again to avoid distribution lines. If they want power, make them figure it out. It should not EVER mean that normies have to sacrifice because AI wants
you've got the wrong Weiner dude ;)
I wondered if the article was over-dramatizing what risks were covered by the bill, so I read the text:

(g) (1) “Critical harm” means any of the following harms caused or materially enabled by a covered model or covered model derivative:

(A) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon in a manner that results in mass casualties.

(B) Mass casualties or at least five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) of damage resulting from cyberattacks on critical infrastructure by a model conducting, or providing precise instructions for conducting, a cyberattack or series of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure.

(C) Mass casualties or at least five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) of damage resulting from an artificial intelligence model engaging in conduct that does both of the following:

(i) Acts with limited human oversight, intervention, or supervision.

(ii) Results in death, great bodily injury, property damage, or property loss, and would, if committed by a human, constitute a crime specified in the Penal Code that requires intent, recklessness, or gross negligence, or the solicitation or aiding and abetting of such a crime.

(D) Other grave harms to public safety and security that are of comparable severity to the harms described in subparagraphs (A) to (C), inclusive.

(2) “Critical harm” does not include any of the following:

(A) Harms caused or materially enabled by information that a covered model or covered model derivative outputs if the information is otherwise reasonably publicly accessible by an ordinary person from sources other than a covered model or covered model derivative.

(B) Harms caused or materially enabled by a covered model combined with other software, including other models, if the covered model did not materially contribute to the other software’s ability to cause or materially enable the harm.

(C) Harms that are not caused or materially enabled by the developer’s creation, storage, use, or release of a covered model or covered model derivative.
Tinygo: A Lightweight Go Compiler for Microcontrollers and WASM
My want is for relieving pain in the body without making me feel high, I actually assumed you want it in the body not brain, as the brain effects are the feel-good effects, but really not sure or familiar with how they work.
https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/commits/dev/

(Edit: add two spaces so full url shows because HN parses)
> it is up to the PM to prioritize. Engineering’s job is to argue cost.

That’s a lot of words to say “more features lol” which is basically what every PM I’ve worked with has only wanted.
New York mayoral aide pushed city officials to hire AI firm Remark
For a more thorough discussion on pre-training, see this ISPD 2022 paper by the AlphaChip people: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3505170.3511478

As for external usage of the method - MediaTek is one of the largest chip design companies in the world, and they built on AlphaChip. There's a quote from a MediaTek SVP at the bottom of the GDM blog post:

"AlphaChip's groundbreaking AI approach revolutionizes a key phase of chip design. At MediaTek, we've been pioneering chip design's floorplanning and macro placement by extending this technique in combination with the industry's best practices. This paradigm shift not only enhances design efficiency, but also sets new benchmarks for effectiveness, propelling the industry towards future breakthroughs."
Consider who the author is: a wealthy investor for whom money is obviously very important.
Interesting, mine[1] is a static site hosted on cloudflare pages. Not sure how to implement this firewall though.

[1]https://rishikeshs.com
I wonder what happens if it specifies itself as the interpreter.
As far as I know (source, I still patch the LTS kernels), the fan control of the POE hat for the Pi 4 hasn't been merged yet.

This thing was announced on May 2021...

So not so good is really an understatement.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/announcing-the-raspberry-pi...
I read the docs, but wasn’t really sure that sets it apart from Duplicacy or Restic?
And to that last point, we don't hear about everyone who took the same risks and failed miserably.
Liveview is so much fun. I want to build more things with it.