skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK, the FCC ban pertains to particular applications (or marketing of products for such applications). It did not apply to consumer applications.

"On November 25, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released new rules restricting equipment that poses national security risks from being imported to or sold in the United States. Under the new rules, the FCC will not issue new authorizations for telecommunications equipment produced by Huawei Technologies Company (Huawei) and ZTE Corporation (ZTE), the two largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

The FCC also will not authorize equipment produced by three PRC-based surveillance camera manufacturers—Hytera Communications (Hytera), Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology (Hikvision), and Dahua Technology (Dahua)—until the FCC approves these entities’ plans to ensure that their equipment is not marketed or sold for public safety purposes, government facilities, critical infrastructure, or other national security purposes. The FCC did not, however, revoke any of its prior authorizations for these companies’ equipment, although it sought comments on whether it should do so in the future."

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10895/1
And you know that from experience.
The deep learning variety of neural networks are heavily simplified, mostly linear versions of biological neurons. They don't resemble anything between your ears. Real life neurons are generally modeled by differential equations (in layman terms, have many levels of feedback loops tied to time), not the simplified ones used in dense layer activation functions.

Here are some examples

https://snntorch.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/tutorial...
> No doubt there is some element of this on such a big platform, but it seems vastly overblown to me. I have yet to see anything really suspicious, with kids of my own

I'm not trying to suggest that you ban your children from the platform or anything, but this is really reminding me of all the deniers and apologists I've seen for Amazon and their working conditions in online discussion spaces (including on HN), in spite of the massive amounts of media harping on it. (I used to work in an FC.)
DL did not take 'direct inspiration' from neurosciences. Maybe some ideas were borrowed such as the integrate-and-fire nature of neurons and Hebb's very vague rule, but those are very old ideas. Most of neuroscience research in past decades is in molecular biology , and particularly in the study of neural diseases (that's where all the funding goes). Learning and biological plasticity is notoriously complex and difficult to study, it's still very much undeciphered, and none of that plasticity research has made its way into ANN training.

In fact it is the reverse: the recent success of deep learning has sparked a race in neuroscience to try to find processes in the nervous that might mimic deep learning and in particular to build biologically plausible models about how the brain might implement gradient descent or more generally credit assignment.
I agree, fantastic book.
HuggingFace really is such an amazing resource to the ML community. Not just for storing datasets, but being able to stand up a demo of my models using spaces for anyone to use? It's hard to overstate how useful that is.
It's always worth remembering that when people suggest not writing an engine the sentiment is usually "Don't try to write a Unity/Unreal/Godot equivalent".

This is very reasonable advice. Those tools are software behemoths, by design, because they have to account for all possible use cases and give people a way of opting in to any possible combination of provided features, along with providing various abstractions (scene hierarchy, gameplay scripting, graphics API abstraction, materials, VFX, animation state trees, etc., the list is seemingly endless) as they need to support making essentially any kind of game.

And not only are they software behemoths, they also represent a huge amount of mindshare in the form of documentation, support, community, customer-provided content, (marketplace assets) and so on.

If you're making a game and you know what your requirements are up front, it's possible you just don't need most of what the engine provides.

If you don't need to support multiple graphics APIs, you can get away with just using the specific API yourself (and then you don't need a different shading language). If you don't need complex VFX you might not need a VFX graph. If your rendering code is closer to your gameplay code you don't need a separate gameplay scripting system, you could actually write your gameplay code in the same language and build them together. Don't need rigid body simulation? Great! Throw that away. Don't need RVTs? Goodbye. And so on.

That doesn't mean throwing away some engine-like structure, you'll almost certainly still end up with some representation of a scene, but if your requirements are minimal you can get away without most of what's in the above tools.

And there's always the middle ground (that seems to get forgotten). Open source rendering libraries such as Ogre integrated into your own program, such that your game stops being a completely isolated component that sits on top of the engine and is regular code integrated with rendering (and so on), while being a more cohesive whole.

Of course, if you need the features in Unity or Unreal and you don't have five years to burn then maybe you should just use them after all.
not just this one, I've been tracking this too

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/109534
You don't. Any language that tries to do both turns into an unusable abomination like C++. Good languages are stable and the bleeding edge is just the "new thing" and not necessarily better than the old thing.
I'm very grateful so far by the comments. I've learned a lot and it will help me on the next iterations of the library.
I mean, isn't the whole idea of a web browser kind of contrary to the ideals of the web? It implicitly divides people into speakers and listeners.

In a parallel universe, web browsers are called webitors, and they can edit websites as well as view them. People can suggest changes. People can publish annotations. Web hosting is like email--pick (or build) any service you like and pick (or build) any client you like. The protocols will sort it out.
I feel like that ship has sailed. Every software company I have ever worked for is dysfunctional in this regard. You might think your "delete my data" request succeeded but there is absolutely zero way to guarantee that it actually did, and chances are it didn't.
>then at least you should know when it was produced to know if it is fresh enough for "YOUR"your consumption.

Most consumers have no idea how long something is good for past it's produced date though.

>It shouldn't be up to the govt to decide what is or isn't fresh enough for you.

That's sorta what the law is addressing. They are getting rid of meaningless 'best by' type labels that have no bearing on the product quality.
I think you should reexamine the Hugo getting started workflow. I think it is pretty scary for a non tech literate person. Even as a programmer, I thought the initial bootstrap to getting a theme in place is clunky. Should come with an out of the box template that lets someone immediately bang out content.

I could guide Mom how to connect to a Wordpress host. I could not say the same for Hugo.
Maybe you just haven't found the right static site generator for your needs?

Jekyll is the most well known in Ruby space, but it's tailored to a specific niche - authoring a blog with Markdown or another lightweight markup language. You can certainly massage it into doing other things, but it's not that ergonomic as a general purpose static site generator.

If you want something that's easy to copy/paste into rails, a rack based static site generator like middleman is great because you can start writing with erb/haml and ActiveSupport from the very beginning.

If you're looking for the simplicity of handwriting HTML and CSS but you want some niceties like includes, partial templates, link helpers, nanoc is a good static site generator that's progressive. Start with plain HTML/CSS, only add additional features as you need them.
This would not apply to the smaller 1B and 3B models, though, if I'm reading this right, since they are text only, not multimodal. Is that correct?
Still breaks on, for example, Turkish i vs İ. It's impossible to do correctly without language information.

> (No, Python can't turn 'SS' back into 'ß'. But doing that requires metadata about language that a string simply doesn't represent.)

Yes that's my point. Because in typical languages strings don't store language metadata, this is impossible to do correctly in general.
The world is bigger than NYC, and even New York is bigger than NYC.

you are right about Uber bringing accountability, but Europe solved that through regulation. NYC could have done that-- the right to run a cab is linked to owning a government-issued medallion-- but regulation is not the US way.
Well, publishing online also has a reach problem. The nice thing about journals is that they consolidate all the material on a subject. Arxiv does this for some fields (and I guess similar aggregators in other fields) but really it is nice to have the thoughts still be _curated_, like a magazine, without necessarily being to a citeable/publishable standard.
Yeah just like the free market takes care of walled gardens.
That's not a huge problem, though, unless you drink the hot tap water.
I've been tracking this one: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/109534, but there are multiple others raised in the cpython repo over on Github. Searching for asyncio or sslcontext shows multiple issues raised over the years with no fix in place.
>If customers knew when their food was made, people would be grossed out .... it would force corps to have more sales to rotate inventory more often.

That sounds like it would increase food waste because consumers have no idea how long things commercially prepared should be allowed to be sold for and would be basing it on flawed assumption from their own cooking.
I didn't know they used to call computers "ordenadores" in Portugal. Interesting.
It also turns out that it allows for a bunch more compiler optimizations to be implimented with a lot less pain. I got very nerd sniped on this this week leading to https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/56030 and https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/55913 which allow allocation removal in a number of cases and saves ~4ns (~10ns->6ns for Memory{Int8}(unef, 4)) for constructing Memory objects.
> that challenges your worldview

Would you be willing to share some concrete, context-specific details about what you believe yourself to be referring to here?

> with Cartesian nihilism

Is this knowledge?

Is it necessarily accurate (in no way misleading)?

> That’s fine. Faith is powerful...

Is this to say that I am operating on Faith with respect to a certain proposition? If so, would you mind sharing what that proposition is with the rest of us?

And, does this apply to you as well? Or, are you perhaps under the impression that you have, in fact, a superior methodology to me in this regard?

For example: do you realize that you made a claim of fact above? Do you have the ability to substantiate that claim, in a matter that is resilient to valid questioning?
Still no content migration from instance to instance :/
Plus it is easy to plug in a CMS if you need to upgrade for a team solution involving non technical people
https://www.texasmonthly.com/article/houston-fayez-serofim-d...
A Diwali based crash game quickly prototyped on Versel 0
Cuneiform codepoints are 17 bits long. If you're using UTF-16 you'll need two code units to represent a character.
It was a strange time also in the EU:

- French authorities confiscated four million masks from the Swedish health care company Mölnlycke [1] which were destined to Spain and Italy.

- The EU commission blocked the shipping of the vaccine purchased by the UK [2].

- At the same time, Boris Johnson wanted to launch a military operation to recuperate them in the Netherlands [3]!

- Italy blocked a shipment of 250,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to Australia [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_France#Sh...

[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-coronavirus-vaccine-s...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-ex-pm-johnson-says-he-p...

[4] https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-56286235
Most people on the Internet and in a certain orange forum might consider it seriously. (I do think about it myself.)
Unless you're doing anything at all to help, maybe try being a little less cynical about the people who are.
Tajikistan: New Law Bans Muslim Clothing and Limits Religious Celebrations
I also have kids and have toyed with the notion of making games with/for them. Thank you for the inspiration!
Technical purity does not win business. Solutions do. WP has delivered a rich ecosystem that lets normal people put content on the web. Even if it annoys programmers at its technical debt.
Wouldn’t it have been easier to just install an RO filtration system on your drinking water source at the sink? Then you get the benefits of RO drinking water and the cost is minuscule. You don’t drink from the toilets and showers and all that.
And NY Cabs were actually generally trustworthy. Cabs were absolutely worse everywhere else in the US, with many more shenanigans.
It is also my prerogative not to care about your opinion. You claimed you come across this a lot and don't get it. I just told you. Take it or leave it.
Computers continue to work "forever" if you only use its own closed system, like writing Word documents on the harddrive. It's the complexity of the internet that makes hardware obsolete today. The internet consists of too many parts working together to make it profitable to focus on longevity and stability, the focus on the internet is instead flexibility and broad usage. And it's mostly the security standards that force us to buy new hardware in the end. From SSL to TLS, to TLS 1.2 & 1.3, almost all sites upgraded to the new standards and made old web browsers not work to browse the internet with anymore. And if the newest web browser your computer supports is one before 2014 (before TLS 1.2), your computer is dead, because it can't visit the internet. So it's mostly the software layer of the internet that makes us not get "forever computers", and therefore "we" software people maybe are the ones with the power to make a change here?
C++ doesn't try to do that. It aims to remain as backwards compatible as possible, which is what the GP is complaining about.
Daemons suck if you're not in the microservices camp.
Which is a inconsistency that has nothing to do with this law.

Now the words are the same, but still determined completely arbitrarily.
Your implying the only way to keep prices down is to continue to overbuy and leave it sit on shelves.

I’m not asking them to throw out more inventory. I’m asking them to buy less to begin with.

Go work in a grocery store for a few months and see how much junk gets thrown away now.

I’m also not asking for lower prices. I’m 100% fine paying the same prices if the quality is there. That’s why now I drive much further out of my way to go to stores that have fresher inventory at the same price. Unfortunately not everyone has that privilege.

The current system of keeping shelves full and throwing away massive amounts of food anyways, while charging the same price as when it’s new is the worst of both worlds.

Your attempting to create a dichotomy in which grocery stores can’t have less inventory and keep prices the same.
Further: the "Nobel equivalent" maths prize is the Fields Medal:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal>
Taking your comment at face value (and ignoring any sarcasm), yes, this is worth spending taxpayers' money on, because one of the symptoms of lead poisoning is antisocial and violet behaviour.
Took them over an hour to mention it on their status page…
All valid points. All points brought up the last time each pre-AI advancement came up. Before, it was "AI will take all our jobs", it was "Automation will take all our jobs". Nonetheless, important questions, but I think we need to refrain from "the sky is falling" mentality and stay focused on positive solutions.

> AI is a powerful tool, but its impact depends on how it is developed and deployed. The challenge lies in ensuring it solves more problems than it creates, while addressing ethical concerns and potential unintended consequences.

I think this premise is flawed. Ethics vary between groups of people. Those in power, in business, and regular people have different, often adverserial, interests.

I.e. mass surveillance is a problem for regular people, but a problem solved for those in power or business.

The key is to demand an acceptable compromise between what are effectively opposing interests.
That’s interesting since Path of Exile 2 is coming out in November.
In instances like that I tend to push back on the requirement, for example with this classic DB + Elasticsearch case:

1. How often is a user going to perform an update and then search for the exact same thing immediately after?

2. Suppose they did: if elasticsearch was updated in the background, is the queue/worker running fast enough such that the user won't even notice a latency of a second or two max?

It really depends on what you're doing, because if Elasticsearch is operating as its own source of truth with data that the primary DB doesn't have, then yeah, you're going to have trouble keeping both strongly consistent in a transactional manner without layering on complexity (like sagas with transactions and compensations). But if it's merely a search engine on top of your source of truth (for example, you search ES to get a list of primary keys and then fetch all the data from the DB), you've got some breathing room.

I mean, we're talking plucky upstart here and not enterprise FAANG, so there's definitely a case for 'less is more'.
Imagine being one of the original Tetris devs knowing that decades later people have made it their livelihood to work around your bugs.
I'm not seeing anything in the Swift documentation about strings carrying language metadata, either, though?
That's absolutely something homeowners notice, and a house with a lead pipe has a lower market value than one without. It's normally called out on the home inspection report.

The hard part comes after: The person bought a cheaper house, but didn't use the money to replace the pipe.

And even bigger issue is that most people do not buy or sell their home, they'll live in it for many years. So yes, it's less valuable, but that doesn't turn into anything actionable.
been my experience with F500 telco and mining orgs.

they managed to jam their way into a sweet spot years ago, for whatever reason. now they're the antithesis of agile and productive, but they have so much inertia and marketshare they're hard to beat.

the corporate structure means there is little reward for real changes internally, and in a lot of cases serious growth or losses came from externalities, like the Chinese economy demanding Australian iron... and then not.

they paid for my certs, though...
I don't do much "smart home" stuff, but could someone explain the value of allowing your vacuum cleaner talk to the internet? Does it use cloud resources to process stuff remotely like I believe Alexa does?
Thanks for the link and the work.

I wonder what would be the other uses of web components.

Practical case : at work we want to distribute a subsidies simulator. It's currently an iframe. What would be the advantages of distributing a web component instead of an iframe ?
Show HN: Parliament Wow makes sense of UK democracy
Over the weekend we built Parliament Wow. It's hacky, buggy and slightly broken but it does the job :)

Parliament Wow makes it easy to find out what is going on in parliament and what it actually means for you and me.

We know that nobody has the time to watch hours of debates, drown in legal paperwork or keep up with the implications of every vote. Not me or you and least of all your MPs. There is just too much data.

So we made a solution. We paired some semantic search with every publicly accessible document, audio recording or transcript we could get our hands on + some generative models to make it all look pretty. And we built a demo of what democracy could become.

Parliament Wow won the a16z London Hackathon in the Build Back Britain category.

Where should we go with this?
I have several computers that are 40 years old. I think the reason the old 80s microcomputers last so long is they don't have any moving parts like disk drives that go bad (I've had really bad success with the external disk drives I've purchased). Unfortunately, I think the reason why computers and phones don't last a long time now is because the companies designing the phones, computers, and operating systems WANT them to quit working.

The reason computers slow down and stop working worth a damn has nothing to do with the hardware, it's the operating system's receiving "updates" that make them quit working. I have a TRS-80 Color Computer running the Microsoft BASIC "operating system" that Bill Gates wrote himself and it still works great 40 years later.

And then the big issue with phones are the batteries. The phone manufacturers know that the batteries go bad, so they glue them into the phones so you can't replace them. Obviously if you wanted the phones to last a long time, you'd make it to where you can put a new battery in the damn thing. They also know that the screens break, so they'd make those easy to replace yourself as well if they cared.

That is nice you can take phones to those little repair places and they seem to do a nice job replacing screens and batteries, but they could probably design a phone where you can do it yourself.
Singapore got rich because so many foreign firms moved there to use it as their base of operations. That isn't a scalable approach for a larger countries (Singapore's population is only around 5 million) that can't rely on foreign firms to supply all their jobs. In terms of producing successful local firms Singapore has actually been quite unsuccessful.
>It is also my prerogative not to care about your opinion.

Sure

>You claimed you come across this a lot and don't get it. I just told you. Take it or leave it.

I'm not OP. And i don't think a few comments on Nobel prize threads is a lot in the first place. Nothing for me to "take".
I love our robot vac. Not because it's faster or better than me, but because it's labour-free, and I can run it every day after the kids go to bed and have nice clean floors.

However I also agree about not putting smart spy devices in my home - mine is a very basic cheap model with no cameras or wireless connectivity. Absolutely INSANE to have any type of connected camera inside your home. Even baby monitor cameras, such a huge vulnerability for so little utility.
Certainly unfortunate, thanks for the insight.
My thinking was that north of Tampa to Tallahassee is less populated.
Only about a 20dB improvement for something that has a zero safe exposure level.