skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://bauble.studio/ is a programmatic 3D art playground that I've been working on for a while now, and I'm pretty excited about it! It's based around signed distance functions, which are a way to represent 3D shapes as, well, functions, and you can do a lot of like weird mathematical distortions and operations that give you cool new shapes. Like average two shapes together, or take the modulo of space to infinitely repeat something... it's a really fun and powerful way to make certain kinds of shapes.

SDFs are very cool in general, and widely used in the generative art communities, but kinda hard to wrangle when you're writing shader code directly. They really are functions, but GLSL doesn't support first-class functions, so if you want to compose shapes you have to manually plumb a bunch of arguments around. So Bauble is essentially a high-level GLSL compiler that lets you model SDFs as first-class values, and as a result you can make a pretty cool 3D shape in just a few lines of code. And then 3D print them!

I need to do some actual work to promote and publicize it once I'm done with the documentation and implement a few more primitives, but it's very close!

The docs have lots of examples of the sorts of things you can do with SDFs: https://bauble.studio/help/

And for examples of some "art" that I've made with it recently:

https://x.com/ianthehenry/status/1839061056301445451
https://x.com/ianthehenry/status/1839649510597013592
https://x.com/ianthehenry/status/1827461714524434883
The performance problem with D-Bus is the increased number of context switches over Varlink, not serialization.
In the blog post, they announce MediaTek's widespread usage, the deployment in multiple generations of TPU with increasing performance each generation, Axion, etc.

Chips designed with the help of AlphaChip are in datacenters and Samsung phones, right now. That's pretty neat!
Does Newsom believe that an AI model can do this damage autonomously or does he understand it must be wielded and overseen by humans to do so?

In that case, how much of an enabler is an AI to meet the destructive ends, when, if the humans can use AI to conduct the damage, they can surely do it without the AI as well.

The potential for destruction exists either way but is the concern that AI makes this more accessible and effective? What's the boogeyman? I don't think these models have private information regarding infrastructure and systems that could be exploited.
Making a tab manager for powah usahs

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...
What qualifies to you as a home? Is it “nice”? Fully finished? Large? In a nice area? In an area with good weather? In good repair?
Are you talking about the press release that the story on HN currently links to, or the paper that press release is about? The paper (I'm not vouching for it; I just skimmed it) appears to reduce AGI to a theoretical computational model, and then supplies a proof that it's not solvable in polynomial time.
What is your doubt about paracetamol? This drug's pharmacology is rather well understood.

About the analgesic activity
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31734950/

About the antipyretic activity
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29738273/
https://pkg.go.dev/go.uber.org/automaxprocs is another useful one if you set CPU limits
> How is this bad?

The power is being used wastefully.
If there was just one quasi-monopoly it would have probably supported the bill. As it is, the market leaders have the competition from each other to worry about. Getting rid of open models wouldn't let them raise their prices much.
Well it's a mix of concerns, the models are general purpose, there are plenty of areas regulation does not exist or is being bypassed. Can't access a prohibited chemical, no need to worry the model can tell you how to synthesize it from other household chemicals etc.
Sure, by way of traumatizing an entire generation. Nobody thanked you.
Bookbinding class. Its really fun to make things with my hands!
Is this just a newer release of the Stock firmware, or is it a custom branch?
"There will never be enough computing power to compute the motion of the planets because we can't build a planet."
> 1) How would wiring to you processor work?

My (relatively limited) experience is that this is what really makes wearable projects obnoxious.

Even if you have a chip with a tiny footprint, you either put it on a breakout board that isn't tiny or you spend twenty hours soldering nearly microscopic bits of magnet wire to it. It's the same for the piles of passive components and peripherals that every project requires, the voltage regulators and smoothing capacitors and power transistors and stuff: You either attach everything to a big PCB or you're faced with a spaghetti nightmare of point-to-point wiring that makes "normal" dead-bug circuitry, the kind you might find embedded in a block of resin for aesthetic points, look like a walk in the park.

Flexible processors don't necessarily solve that problem, but they definitely demonstrate that flexible circuits in general are advancing in useful ways, better signal quality and longer runs and better process yield. The bigger these things get the better they are for replacing that mess of integration spaghetti that I always see DIY wearable projects suffering from.

(I think that industrial wearables typically solve this by concentrating everything complicated down to a rigid brain-box, c.f. smart-watches or those heated jackets that have a socket for a power tool battery in the pocket.)
Many people that escape prison kill people immediately after doing so. Either in the process of running from the law or simply taking over a house for a few days of cover.

It seems to me like taking care of business before that happens is a more beneficial thing.
> why is money such a big point in this article?

There’s no such thing as a reasonable quality of life on an average income anymore. People who don’t prioritize money will live like poor students for the rest of their lives renting with roommates. They will never have a family, healthcare, hobbies, or respect from their community.

Stop pretending that not prioritizing money is an option. It’s incredibly condescending. In most parts of most developed countries you need at least a top 20% income just to live with dignity.
The bill included language that required the creators of models to have various "safety" features that would severely restrict their development. It required audits and other regulatory hurdles to build the models at all.
A new kind of document editor which blends features of word processor and jupyter notebook. Email me (see bio) if you want to try it out.
I agree with you completely that you need trust.

> Our job is to highlight the tradeoffs they’re making so they can make informed decisions.

This is an oft-stated thing that I oft-disagree with. It states that engineers ought to be subordinate to PMs, which shouldn't always be the case.

If you have shit engineers and great PMs, the best outcome is likely to shift decision making to PMs. If you have great engineers and shit PMs, decision making should shift towards engineers.

If they are both equivalently shit or great, it should be a balance. I believe this is the most likely scenario. I believe that balance is thrown out the window if engineers "highlight the tradeoffs" while the actual decision making is lies with the PMs.

How to actually achieve balance is extremely idiomatic to the team and organization. It's hard to get people to have adult, non-confrontational discussions about this sort of thing, however. Too many people will treat it as a negotiation.
That's right, we perform static dataflow analysis to determine what data can get discarded. GC itself is done lazily as part of LSM tree maintenance. For MAX specifically, we don't have this optimization yet. In the general case, incrementally maintaining the MAX aggregate in the presence of insertions and deletions requires tracking the entire contents of the group, which is what we do. If the collection can be proved to be append-only, then it's sufficient to store only the current max element. This optimization is yet coming to Feldera.
I associate "wokeness" with what disney does. Putting black people everywhere to show how progressive they are, but being one of the worst corporations that exists.
They do have gpu, but pricing is not on the website. They also support non gaming use case. They list stuff like virtual rehersal studio, iot and some other non-gaming use cases as their customers.
Can you explain this a bit more. What’s the triangle? What type of contractors are you looking for?
That's a total non sequitur. Just because LLMs are scalable doesn't mean this is a problem that requires government intervention. It's only idiots and grifters who want us to worry about sci-fi disaster scenarios. The snide dismissiveness is completely deserved.
The main benefactors of DEI are white women, not sure if this is what "woke" is to mean or not.
My job title is Senior DevOps Engineer. I have no high school diploma and what they call "some college" (less than 2 years). I've been working as a sysadmin since the late nineties. I've done stints as a Director of Operations, and entrepreneur (trainer/consultant). But mostly ops work. I've been working remotely for the past 3 years (thanks COVID!). I live in a rural area. I try to put in about 40 hours a week, it's been a bit under recently as we're moving and it's been a distraction. The job opening was posted for under 200K but I asked for a bit over and got it. I was told my experience and enthusiasm was far above the other candidates. Hope this helps! (I majored in biochemistry when I was at uni.) I'm in Texas now.
Brazil: Illegal salvage from Nazi ships poses oil threat
Binder was invented at Be, Inc. for BeOS, and many Be refugees joined Android in the early days. (I just learned this recently on HN, so congratulations!)
Three of the four options of what an "artifical intelligence safety incident" is defined as require that the weights be kept secret. One is quite explicit, the others are just impossible to prevent if the weights are available:

> (2) Theft, misappropriation, malicious use, inadvertent release, unauthorized access, or escape of the model weights of a covered model or covered model derivative.

> (3) The critical failure of technical or administrative controls, including controls limiting the ability to modify a covered model or covered model derivative.

> (4) Unauthorized use of a covered model or covered model derivative to cause or materially enable critical harm.
Subliminal Git Commits
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41547395
Imagine being concerned about AI safety and then introducing a bill that had to be ammended to change criminal responsability of AI developers to civil legal responsability for people who are trying to investigate and work openly on models.

What's next, going after maintainers of python packages... is attacking transparency itself a good way to make AI safer. Yeah, no, it's f*king idiotic.
I believe that chips will get more efficient as they get tuned towards AI needs. Also, energy costs will continue to fall as they have for thousands of years. Think about this, at one time we would have to put a lot of wood or animal matter to get enough energy for a few hours of light at night. Now it takes very few resources to get enough light for a whole night. It's so relatively inexpensive that we can light an area all night without having to think twice about the cost.

Energy will get so inexpensive in a few years (10?) from now that power consumption by AI will not be a problem.
California’s Office of Legislative Counsel always provides a “digest” for every bill as part of its full text: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

It’s not an opinionated pros/cons list from the industry but it’s probably the most neutral explanation of what the bill does.
Kagi has a small web thing too. But very few of those places are a community
Stencil has a way better DX. Especially if you’re doing a whole library of components. You pay a slightly higher perf tax for their auto loader and light vdom. Lit is the way to go if you have opinions and want no magic
Updated it, but if your response to a study demonstrating racial bias in US law enforcement - where overt racial bias has been established for decades - is to say they're not comparing like-for-like, when even if the comparisons were different you should be expecting approximate matches to racial population proportions, it's clear you are saying "that race is intrinsically more criminal" - and it's a response being made without actually going to the effort to read the sources, which explicitly say they're comparing speeding tickets, i.e exactly the thing the reflexive commenter is claiming they're not.

I get that labeling people leads to flaming/raging but at the same time saying "you can't call out racism or racial bias" (or sexism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-christian, anti-muslim, anti-whatever bias) fundamentally means saying "these attitudes and comments are acceptable and reasonable".
Also I bet there is extreme income inequality among studio potters. Could even be more unequal than the overall population.
Yeah, I think the argument that "this just hurts open models" makes no sense given the supporters/detractors of this bill.

The thing that large companies care the most about in the legal realm is certainty. They're obviously going to be a big target of lawsuits regardless, so they want to know that legislation is clear as to the ways they can act - their biggest fear is that you get a good "emotional sob story" in front of a court with a sympathetic jury. It sounded like this legislation was so vague that it would attract a hoard of lawyers looking for a way they can argue these big companies didn't take "reasonable" care.
Modifying the ThinkPad 13 Gen 1 to unlock its full PCIe potential
This is no way to run a state. The Democrat-dominated legislature passes everything that comes before it (and rejects anything that the GOP touches, in committee) and then the Governor needs to veto the looniest 20% of them to keep us from falling into total chaos. This AI bill was far from the worst one.

"Vote out the legislators!" but for who... the Republican party? And we don't even get a choice on the general ballot most of the time, thanks to "Open Primaries".

It's good that Newsom is wise enough to muddle through, but this is an awful system.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/california-gov-ne...
I’ve been building some friendly CLI and web tools around the terrific Dialog interactive fiction language.

https://github.com/hlship/dialog-tool

Learning Svelte for the web UI part.
Just harvested my chilies and first time trying to ferment a jar and pickle a bunch as well.

Trying out https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021581-pickled-jalapeno... but using lots of different chilies instead of only jalapenos. In-progress pic: https://ibb.co/XFBpyYV
If you spent $100MM+ on training.
This is silly. They article talks like we have any idea at all how efficient machine learning can be. As I remember it, the LLM boom came from transformers turning out to scale a lot better than anyone expected, so I’m not sure why something similar couldn’t happen again.
go build -o some/dir/ ./...

will actually output the binaries
Council on Foreign Relations is pretty good. Also longer-form documentaries on YouTube from DW, Al Jazeera, CNA Insider, Bloomberg Originals.
Implying that the way Palestinian authorities use Sharia to persecute some minorities is not a dehumanisation of a group. That’s the truth. That’s not approving what Israel is doing either. Please don’t deform what’s being say to suit your agenda. It doesn’t help your argument.
Healthcare in the US is an elite graft, the system will pay the full price. That is actually why prices are so high and hospitals try to keep price tags a secret, because the bill does get paid, and all those executives and investors and even the insurance companies all make off with riches, increasingly paid for by the public. The real crime is setting up indigent people now using drugs on the street to become a massive market for psychiatric medication on the pretense of a pseudo-scientific "disorders" like schizophrenia.
TCR could have been justified by everyone having massive faith in the future, as OP is suggesting happened with roads. But you're quite wrong that "few people sat around asking whether or not it was worth it", as Iron Empires details:

https://www.amazon.com/Iron-Empires-Robber-Railroads-America...

it was hugely controversial in Congress.

I don't happen to know about roads, since that wasn't one single thing. But I doubt they happened because of blind faith in the future, either -- it was probably more businesses demanding roads NOW. So the argument that no one questioned them is dubious at best.
> 1) How would wiring to you processor work?

Sure, there's a modulus gap to be interfaced, but flexible circuits have been worked on forever.

The whole point is of this tech is that the transistors themselves are flexible.

But since the transistors they end up with are orders of magnitude worse than what the microprocessor age started with, to me this just shows that this tech is not anywhere close to practical application.
Yeah, it'd be much nicer if libraries were designed to be driver agnostic, like redka which supports 4 different SQLite drivers:

https://github.com/nalgeon/redka/tree/main/example
When I went to high school, I'd walk through an allotment garden to get to school. Always great for a snack on the way home, someone had amazing raspberries! Some lovely cherry trees as well as several varieties of apples.

Public? Free? Pschht, everyone knows that what's outside the fence is free for the taking!

But there were also tons of fruit trees in nature in the city. Went jogging one time at a jogging trail, saw chanterelles in the forest, came back with my t-shirt full of tasty, tasty mushrooms.

If you've grown up with always being able to pick fruits and berries and mushrooms in nature, maps like this are so weird. Why would you need a map? Nature is full of it?

Oh, you're not allowed? Oh, you can't access it? Oh, there aren't any around, really? How sad.
I know you're being sarcastic, but there is truth to that. Without judgement, it is well-documented that those in poverty will spend, as a proportion of their income, 20 or 30 times as much on lottery tickets as someone who is rich. Now they have their reasons, I think a lottery ticket lets one dream what life could be like, at least until the draw happens, but the truth is their financial situation could be much better if they chose a different hobby.
Many have definitely been motivated by the wish to share information. But there also wasn't much of an alternative. If you wanted to actively learn something, get someone else to use it, or get them to share what they knew, you almost had to interact with others. Which doesn't mean there wasn't a genuine want to help others. But it was also wanting what you shared to become better. Something that was a direct consequence of many of us having experienced a scarcity of computers, software, and information. And then experiencing network effects.

That still exists in some ways. But much of the Internet is very much being gatekept. Including YouTube, Wikipedia, GitHub, Reddit, and Hacker News. There is almost no point in posting things publicly anymore because not only is the average user not genuinely interested, but they are genuinely not interested. That is why kids grow up with TikTok. Because it is one of the few platforms where you can post on almost the same terms as you consume. And thereby experience those network effects.

I've ended up enough times on the Raspberry Pi forum to understand why anyone young today would not want to go into computer science or electrical engineering.
Radarr has made my movie collection/watching experience super easy after some initial setup. Highly recommend
He meant Scott Wiener but had penis on the brain.
Don’t forget sonarr for tv shows
I don’t think that is either legally, or morally, true.

Sure, it would be better if devices weren’t broken by attack attempts, but if you are purposefully trying to attack something, you are to blame for your attack succeeding?
I'm working on my second novel (genre fiction, both superhero, for fun, no interest in publishing—read: i'm not that good yet)

Last year i wrote a novel about what it'd be like if you were the parent of a teenage superhero, but all you saw was the aversion to touch, panic attacks, unexplained absences, and falling grades (they're obviously lying to you about what the problem is, but you don't know why!).

And how would you handle discovering that it wasn't drugs or her being a victim of assault, but was instead so much worse: that she's the one fighting for her life on the news all the time?

I've just started writing my second, which is superheroes arguing over what to do about one of the villains, who turned good and helped them defeat a Big Bad. The story is still in early stages, so there's plenty more ideas to come up with still.

For a stay at home dad like me, writing is really enjoyable as a hobby because I can do it at the soccer fields while my kids practice for two hours, or I can do it while they're at a gym playing, or at night when they're asleep. I don't have to schedule out a three-hour block to meet up with buddies for tennis a month in advance.
If that bill had passed I would have seriously considered moving my AI company out of the state.
taking one last editing pass on a novel, gotta get some folks to read it this week.

also, bookhead - inventory and e-commerce software for booksellers: https://www.bookhead.net/

just finished an mvp. gonna try to find some users during the next month. email me at sam@bookhead.net if you wanna be a beta user. you can list those old books you've always thought about selling! just add the book to the inventory and it'll be listed on ebay, biblio, and your bookstore's custom e-commerce website.
Well the reason is that nobody knows what society needs… or stated differently, what ends up being useful is non-obvious. So you can’t plan it outside of some general parameters.
If Matt tells you what I just told you, will you believe Matt? Here it is on his website, wordpress.org:

https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/pledge/wp-engine/
Ubuntu/Debian/Mint family will get it, one day...

Reminded that Debian-family is outdated linux that uses the marketing 'stable' which has 0 relations to the number of bugs.

Modern Linux like Fedora has those bugs already fixed.

I say this as a warning. I thought we were trapped with Windows 11 and 'Linux'(meaning Debian-family). No, turns out that is outdated linux and Modern linux is amazing.

I'm a bit reluctant to lump Fedora in with 'Linux', because its not fair to Fedora.
I've been working on a site that helps you find in-person work in NYC that is actually convenient: https://walkablework.com

I cofounded a remote startup in 2021 that I ended up leaving after a few years because I found the remote culture to be very isolating and I didn't feel like it would lead to a successful company. Many companies have started implementing return to office policies that unfortunately don't make sense for a lot of employees. I wanted to build this site to give people the power to find good jobs, companies, and teams that are convenient for them. Let me know if you have any feedback or want to post a job on it!
All PMs I have seen so far were just passing on management’s desire for more features quickly. The only approach I have seen work is if engineering adds refactoring as part of the normal work that needs to be done without asking for permission.
Fundamental research slants towards public institutions, advertising and the clinical trials are the main spending the drug companies do, though they have research beyond trials too. Lots of acquiring university spinouts as well.