skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be cool if most PCs had a general purpose FPGA that could be repurposed by the operating system. For example you could use it as a security processor like a TPM or as a bootrom, or you could repurpose it for DSP or something.

It just seems like this would be better in terms of firmware/security/bootloading because you would be more able to fix it if an exploit gets discovered, and it would be leaner because different operating systems can implement their own stuff (for example linux might not want pluton in-chip security, windows might not want coreboot or linux-based boot, bare metal applications can have much simpler boot).
> Maybe Amazon will start firing those customers.

But does this actually hurt Amazon in any significant way, or do they simply externalize this cost by penalizing the original seller?
I thought it was funny until a couple hours later I checked back and some people, who probably think of themselves as much more funny than they actually are, were straight up being cunts.
You don't. Same as a physical key for your home, you have backups.

Whether that's having multiple separate keys/devices registered with your accounts or a single key stored in a password manager, you need to have a fallback plan.
Modern chips have to dedicate a certain percentage of the die to dark silicon [1] (or else they melt/throttle to uselessness), and these kinds of components count towards that amount. So the point of these components is to be used, but not to be used too much.

Instead of an NPU, they could have used those transistors and die space for any number of things. But they wouldn't have put additional high performance CPU cores there - that would increase the power density too much and cause thermal issues that can only be solved with permanent throttling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_silicon
Human artists get in copyright trouble if the spam out a copy of something they studied and sell it. The businesses using AI artists do not seem to.
>My concerns are around the normalization of pointing high-resolution cameras at people around you all the time.

This already exists with CCTVs on every major city streetcorner and Ring cameras on every doorstep. Not to mention Tesla cloud-connected cameras pointed inward and outward.
Deploying a model on an NPU requires significant profile based optimization. Picking up a model that works fine on the CPU but hasn't been optimized for an NPU usually leads to disappointing results.
Yes, and we can (somewhat humorously) reference Wikipedia's own page on the "argument from authority" page to dig in to the fallacy. [1]

Quoting Wikipedia: "scientific knowledge is best established by evidence and experiment rather than argued through authority". The author of this post has collected evidence, presented it, and had it reviewed by a domain expert (Larry Signani is the person who first surveyed Rainier using GPS in 1998).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority#Use_in...
Quake3LLM: Quake 3 Arena bots using LLMs to chat during the game
It looks like you're doing great work here, thanks a bunch; looking forward to seeing this project develop.

Selling custom integrations, managed instances, white-glove support with an SLA, and so on seems like a reasonable funding model for a project based on an open-source, self-hostable platform. But I'm a little disheartened to read that you're maintaining a closed fork with "goodies" in it.

How do you decide which features (better test suite?) end up in the non-libre, payware fork of your software? If someone contributed a feature to the open-source version that already exists in the payware version, would you allow it to be merged or would you refuse the pull request?
>Which in itself would summon the vitriol of the super-trolls. "Moderation is censorship" is the most absolutely ridiculous mantra to gain traction in the last decade.

Even worse is "moderation of this kind would disproportionately impact disenfranchised LGBTWBIPOC+ users since they're more likely to have new accounts", "gatekeeping" is therefore racist, etc. ad nauseam.

That's for sure is the most absolutely ridiculous mantra to gain traction in the last decade.
> Sadly this is not the case with Scheme and it makes for very unergonomic code,

How so? If car of nil returns nil, then how does a caller distinguish between a value of nil and a container/list containing nil?

The only way is they can check to see if it's a cons pair or not? So if you have to check if it's a cons pair then you're doing the same thing as in scheme right?

I may be missing something, but isn't it effectively the same amount of work just potentially? Need to check for nil and need to check if it's a pair?
I have to imagine it's about as old as propositional logic (so, as old as the hills).

I most closely associate it with Gödel and his work on incompleteness.
Not joking: maybe we need tools to audit / disassemble binaries and match their symbols against known GPL libraries?

Would help a lot, I think.
"People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks."

- Mark Zuckerberg (when asked about how he obtained the information for his newly launched social network.)
The conditions you need for that to be true are substantially weaker than being Euclidean (though, when people are talking about "weird" behavior in high-dimensional spaces nowadays, it's in the context of ML and Euclidean stuff anyway). If you have a meaningful notion of dimension (basic properties like <1,0> being different from <0,1> and <1,0> being closer to <1,1> than <0,1>) and and don't have discretized shenanigans (which would collapse the inequality I'm exploiting to a strict equality, with some sort of 1^n=1 behavior) then the natural measure induced by the metric in question will exhibit the described behavior. You can easily verify that for every metric represented in scipy or whatnot, and a proper proof isn't too much more work.
Asteroid mining is wildly uneconomical. There is no material to be found in large quantities on any asteroid in the solar system whose value justifies the development and installation costs of the infrastructure needed to get that material back to Earth.

If you're building a megastructure in space, that's a different story. But please understand that mining gold or platinum from asteroids, at (literally) astronomical cost, will not do anything to advance the state of life on Earth except, at best, reduce the price of gold and platinum, which are not societal bottlenecks.
We have a Zulip which is similar to discord (but self hosted and it has better threading): https://zulip.archivebox.io
> with or without a runtime

This is the point - no, you actually DON'T get all the benefits of a runtime. C# famously, and extensively, used runtime code generation. Not possible in Rust, kind of possible in C++.

> Necessitating certain things happen at runtime

Not how it works. The language is still compiled. You can 100% implement a borrow checker for C#, there's nothing stopping anyone. It's just not what they want to do.

For example, C++ and C are BOTH compiled languages. But C++ is able to verify the type of various operations at compile-time, but C has to wait until runtime. For example, C's qsort takes void pointers and then you cast and dereference them at runtime. In C++, this is physically baked into the type of function template std::sort.

But they're both compiled languages with no runtime. But because C++ has a much more complete type system, it can do those things at compile-time while C cannot.

Another example: while C# has polymorphized generics, it checks them at compile time! The generics are not monomorphized like C++ or Rust, which allows smaller linked libraries that you can load and use at runtime, which is not possible in C++ templates or Rust generics. The trade-off is then that generics can't be checked until runtime - but actually no. The C# compiler will go out of its way to check generics when it can and will fail if they don't meet the type constraints, just like C++ or Rust.

Rust is very powerful, BUT:

1. It doesn't cover all the usecases of more powerful languages with rich runtimes like C# or Java

2. Using async rust, which is typically a requirement for webdev, requires a runtime anyway.
Plus it's wild they staff an entire agency to handle these types of calls. Talk about a loser's mindset.
> why would you want to share your EV battery capacity with the grid?

Because you'd get paid for it, and you like free money.

And it should be pretty trivial to set an option to ensure you always have the necessary range for your daily commute by a little bit before you leave your home.
I can't wait for the LLM fad to be over so we get some sanity (and efficiency) back. I personally have no use for this extra hardware ("GenAI" doesn't help me in any way nor supports any work-related tasks). Worse, most people have no use for that (and recent surveys even show predominant hostility towards AI creep). We shouldn't be paying extra for that, it should be opt-in, and then it would become clear (by looking at the sales and how few are willing to pay a premium for "AI") how overblown and unnecessary this is.
Oh, that's an easy one.

- GOOD software are simple and easy to understand, which makes it EASY to cheat.

- BAD software are needlessly complex and finicky, so it's HARD to rig it for a cheat.

- Anti-cheats intentionally make software BAD and over-complicated, so cheaters would have hard time modifying it. But computers are brittle and also aren't smarter than humans so cheaters will eventually find a way.

- Security is completely irrelevant topic since game clients are "bought" and run on your hardware; Digital Restrictions Management built to work against you as user is anti-consumer, anti-right-to-repair, anti-human, super bad thing, and lots of efforts are made to keep PC away from it as much as practical.

It has nothing to do with laziness or cost. If anything it'll be the best programmed game that gets hacked fastest. And PS2 that gets emulated last.
Oh wow! I saw your project while looking for this project. It's unfortunate that this project has such a similar name to yours. It's still pretty early; maybe they'd be open to rebranding. Best of luck!
Mostly we cannot have nice things because bad guys will come over and exploit it for some nefarious reasons.
If the truly cared about that they would let us run a desktop OS on their iPhones so we don’t carry laptops all around.
I got mine two days ago, with no reminder. When I went in to the Account page, the "Notify me by email 3 days prior to renewal" was unchecked. While possible, I can't imagine a scenario where I'd have ever knowingly unchecked that.
RTX to pay $950M to resolve US defense fraud, Qatar bribery charges
what's the point of this if it just duplicates the browser built in function of installing a PWA?
What's 'Troma Srogline Heme' mean?
> That's what dinosaurs thought and then the asteroid hit the Earth.

An asteroid-ravaged Earth is still more habitable than any planet in the solar system.
To the degree that this is a risk, I'd note that airports and train stations tend to have a _large_ quantity of cameras in them; some of them owned by the airport operator, some by law enforcement, and some by lessees of retail space within the airport.

This problem is real, but it is better managed by creating massive, punishing fines for companies that engage in that behavior than it is by attempting to ban augmented reality devices (or laptops, or tablets, or phones, or any other camera-containing device).
This is good. One thing holding me back from fully embracing passkeys has been the inability to export passkeys in a format that I can store in a way that suits my preferences. This should solve that. Well, at least 1Password claims it will...
Largely true. Lack of money in some cases can be compensated by investing more time and efforts.
That sounds like it could be an intiresting metric. Worth noting that there is a difference between an algorithmic "best of n" selection (via eg. an FID score) vs. manual cherry picking which takes more factors into account such as user preference and also takes time to evaluate, which is what GP was suggesting.
Even backed by batteries renewables are still winning. How good things look depends on how much battery you decide to include, but fortunately we don't need that much battery, especially while we still have some legacy dispatchable generation.

It "helps" that nuclear is just so slow and expensive to get going that everything else just ends up looking pretty good. If it were cheap, fast and safe that would have been great, though.
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I understand your concern, but our paid tier simply boosts visibility, not rankings. It’s not “pay to win.” The underdog feature gives lesser-known projects a fair shot, chosen randomly from those with fewer upvotes. This ensures that every product, regardless of budget, has a chance to shine without favoritism. also, we have a plan to change all voting system for the future too.
> It’s 2024—Is SwiftData Ready?

No way.

At least right now, SwiftData shouldn't used for anything but quick-and-dirty PoC's, demos, or other limited-use, low-stakes things.

There are some good ideas in it, especially how it integrates with SwiftUI. But it's alpha quality right now.

The article actually oversells SwiftData, IMO. I don't think it wasn't usable in iOS 17.

And its concurrency story isn't great. E.g. if you want to do queries or other data access in the background, you'll need to create and maintain separate, Sendable variants of your models. Now, I get that SD is really a memory-based database (typically backed by sqlite), so you can probably do a lot right on the main thread, but you'll end up wanting to move some things for various reasons, and it's awkward and boiler-platey. Not to mention, models have a magical connection to containers. You can't see it directly, but try to instantiate a model without a container (for, you know, preview -- a core feature of SwiftUI).

There are also some creaky design decisions. On one hand, it acts like an ORM, that wants to persist an object graph. But it also leaks relational concepts all over the place. They probably should have picked one approach or the other... as it is, at every turn you have to figure out if they went relational or object graph, and program accordingly.

Now, CoreData has it's own issues, and, I assume, Apple is no longer going to focus on it, so I'm not sure it's a good idea to use it either.

Personally, I've just started using sqlite3. With that you've got all the speed, power, and reliability, and don't have to hope Apple doesn't blow up your project on each release.

(I use some utilities to take the boiler plate out of passing Swift values as parameters and receiving Swift values as results. Other than that, you can just call the sqlite3 C API directly.)
Sorry that's probably because I used the moving excuse very often when I was younger to get them to shut up.
Nah, we don't need to archive their targeted harassment.
Okay, so the author linked to the Seattle Times for a published citation of their measurement. And indeed the author's measurements are confirmed by Signani in that very same article:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/mount-...

That looks to me like a legitimate Wikipedia source. Plus it's recent and doesn't seem to be disputed by any other recent article.

Is there a reason I'm missing on why this person isn't being allowed to update the elevation for Mt Rainier on Wikipedia?
WeChat is basically one of the tools the communist party uses to control the population. If something is on there it is most likely by design.

Off topic (or is it?): While back a western journalist in China reported that her wechat account was banned 10 minutes after changing her password to "fuckCCP"...
Haha, you're right, joyful isn't the right word but there's something pleasant in all the twists and turns. There's something comical about Henchard's sadness.
Wow, that dominator tree algorithm I wrote as an intern (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666426) seems to have lasted 13 years! At the time we assumed that graphs would be small enough to not warrant the constant factor against Lengauer-Tarjan. ...And of course, browser-based apps have gotten much bigger since then.

Semi-NCA hadn't even been published yet and seems like the clear choice nowadays, so I'm glad to see it in place! Great work!
Sounds like a solution to this would be for the consumer to have the ability forward these emails to a regulatory body who would fine the offending party and give a cut of the fine to the offended consumer.

This would pair nicely with a progressive fine structure based on the income/assets of the offender that grows exponentially after every offense.
I have been using ArchiveBox recently and love it.

About search, one thing I haven't yet figured out how to do easily is to plug it to my SearXNG instance as they only seem to support Elasticsearch, Meilisearch or Solr [0]

So this new plugin architecture will allow for a meilisearch plugin I guess (with relevancy ranking).

- [0] https://docs.searxng.org/dev/engines/offline/search-indexer-...
Out of curiosity, why do you think that's a problem for boys, in particular?
In modern times I seldom reach for a linked list... cache friendly data structures almost always win.
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Do data centers really have off-hours?

I was under the impression that whatever drop in consumer usage exists overnight is made up for with ML training, video transcoding, etc. That there's never any shortage of tasks to run.
Like I said for the other message, this just reads like a cheap trick to suppress the vote that can help address climate change.

If it was 2008 or 2012, maybe. It would have been stupid just the same, but McCain or Romney might not have been a death spell.

This time around, 95% of messages like this are from Trump/Putin/whatever trolls trying to get their guy in, to hell with the climate. If that's not you, apologies, but good luck convincing people you're just being misguided rather than disingenuous.
Wow, thanks for your comprehensive takedown.

I was aware of some of these issues but not aware of the huge developer dislike... it does make a difference to the ability of a system such as Drupal to be able to capitalise on WordPress issues.
At least one of the covers of GEB specifically had artwork that shows GEB/EGB : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
Fusion will not be economical in our lifetimes. Compared to fission, you've replaced an expensive and dangerous fuel with a cheap and safe fuel, and replaced an expensive containment vessel with the most complex machine ever engineered by mankind, that also needs to be disposable because of the absurd energies contained within.

We already have a perfectly good fusion reactor. It's about 1 AU away, and it's beaming more power to us than any Kardashev Type I civilization could ever use (and small-scale fusion will be useless to any Type II civilization anyway).
Why a Minnesota Man Walked Around the World, Traversing 13 Countries
My understanding, after having learned more about this topic in the last year, is that this runs much deeper in the Israeli political establishment than Israel's image in the west would suggest.

E.g., I found it notable that Likud's founding charter explicitly rejects a two-state solution, fully endorses the settlement policy and calls for an Israel "from the river to the sea" - in 1977! [1] (More recent updates to the charter are more ambiguous though)

That, btw, is itself already the "moderate" position in contrast to Likud's predecessor parties - which were platforming on extending Israel into the (back then occupied) Sinai [2] or taking over all of Jordan [3] (due to it having been the other half of Mandatory Palestine).

Every country has its fringe groups with extremist views, except in this case, the groups became the dominant government party.

A recent tweet [4] from Netanyahu in response to Macron also makes it clear that the "we conquered it fair and square, so it's ours now" mindset is still alive and well today.

None of that excuses the atrocities done by Palestinian groups - but it definitely calls into question who is the escalating side in this conflict. It also makes the west's one-sided support for Israel appear increasingly jarring and at odds with it's own values.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likud#Ideological_positions

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_Greater_Israel

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionist_Zionism

[4] https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1846242196531339413
Most of the CCTV and Ring cameras are pretty lousy and they're in fixed locations. All the time I'll be out walking and hear an obnoxious "You are currently being recorded" announcement, but I'm far enough away from that cheap camera that I'm probably a shadowy figure in a grainy video.

These VR headsets on the other hand are high-quality, very close to other people, and mobile.
Thats one of the shortcomings of using a river with variable flow over an ocean or large lake
Copyright laws.
The motion to dismiss is revealing.

https://regmedia.co.uk/2024/10/15/dismiss.pdf

The AI policy starts at the bottom of page 5. Students have to mention any use of AI, even generating ideas. They must include an appendix with "the entire exchange, highlighting the most relevant sections" and provide an explanation for how and why everything was used.

It seems overly strict to me, hastily written when ChatGPT became popular perhaps.

Pretty soon most students are going to be say "Hey Siri, help me with my homework it's about X" and get an AI answer - are they all academically dishonest?
So you are against this new spec becoming a standard then?
Yeah, I would happily subscribe for a month to read an article I'm interested in if it weren't so hard to cancel.

This is basically what I do with The Guardian where I donate after reading.
I wholeheartedly agree with the general message of the essay, and it really explains my experience with groups.
The point being made in the preceding comment is that the threat model for WeChat already overtly includes its operators being able to puncture its confidentiality. It doesn't make a lot of operational sense to introduce complicated cryptographic backdoors (such as the IV construction, which the authors say could potentially introduce an AES-GCM key/IV brute forcing attack) when you control the keys for all the connections in the first place.
Isn’t solar energy a SPOF? It goes to zero MW roughly every 12 hours at any given location on Earth where most people live due to the availability of the Sun’s light.
I've always wondered how Vanguard gets away with this. They send a lot of promotional emails that all say this near the bottom of the message:

> Because you're a valued Vanguard client, we thought you'd be interested in this information. If you prefer not to receive emails of this type, simply email us. Please do not reply to this message to opt out.

> The material in this message is promotional in nature.

No unsubscribe link.
I am not living there anymore and I still like to take the train and enjoy looking at the window. Sometimes it is just looking at people doing stuff.

You might find that real life is boring, I find that most tv shows and movies are super predictable, following the very similar scenaristic mechanics and aren't more entertaining. Obviously some are also very nice, but these are the ones you would like to watch comfortably on your sofa or in a theater, not in a train or plane anyway.
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> AI is predicted to add 0.8% energy growth a year to American power use [1]; lots of that is going into gas.

And given past performance, the nuclear projects being proposed here are projected to add 0% energy capacity to the grid within the next 20 years.