skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>there’s no better platform than macOS on apple silicon for developing ai systems.

Lmao WHAT?

The ANE system isn't even remotely useful, since is primarily designed for running Apple AI stuff. This is why its integration is so spotty. IIRC, Tinygrad is faster on apple silicon than pytorch at this moment, solely because they did a whole bunch of reverse engineering.

Laptops for ML is just a lost cause as far as matrix multiply is concerned. Nobody is actually doing any serious work on ML stuff on laptops.

>In fact, the terminal integration in macOS is one of the biggest things over windows for me.

Which is funny, because Windows has WSL2 which works incredibly well, has native CUDA integration for ML tasks thats quite good, has an X server that lets you run GUI apps, and is actually linux (not BSD), without anything to get in your way, and its better because its an isolated system that you don't have to worry about bricking and not having a usable computer.

> stopped using Linux mint after installing it on my desktop and having the screen saver require a hard reboot -sometimes- when trying to wake.

The standard argument of "here is a particular bug that doesn't exist on Macs, therefore Macs are better" lol.

Like I said, its not really that difficult to say that you just prefer the Mac OS experience and end it there. You don't have to go on these weird tangents.
In the end we need a two-state solution with Israel and the Palestinians have self-determination and security. The faults of those involved are many, but the solution is known - it is a two-state solution, an end to armed attacks on Israeli civilians/homes and an end to the settlements.

Thomas Friedman has great takes on this regularly in his NYTimes column: https://www.nytimes.com/column/thomas-l-friedman
I was looking for Pasten's paper from Feb 24, but didnt find it publicly. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-024-01244-6

This summary is unsatisfying.

Ah, here it is in clear: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03566
Thank you for sharing such an interesting work.

A little comment: adding some more aggressive optimization optimization options to simd C++ code to see the performance difference.

On my side with a AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D CPU, I have

- 0.0592569 ms for `-O3 -march=native` option, and
- 1.7741e-05 ms for `-funsafe-math-optimizations -Ofast -flto=auto -pipe -march=native`
Please stop, and if you'd please review the site guidelines and stick to them,
we'd appreciate it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Charging money and banning at the payment provider level can be quite effective. It isn't a perfect answer but it cuts out gigantic chunks of the problem space.

I'll take a ~99% cheat-free experience over not having any improvement at all.
> they can offset the load when the sun shines, or the wind blows, but can't provide a stable source.

That they don't work when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow is such a tired and trite remake.

Yes, they don't provide consistent output on their own, but storage exists. If you need electricity store it in batteries or pumped hydro. If you need it for heating store it in thermal batteries.
> it consistently fails to produce better results

The performance of the English education system has improved markedly over the past couple of decades. At least, as measured by tests!
This link is 404ing for me. Anyone else?
I don't know about the commenter above, but most writers I read have been dead for at least a hundred years. Should I purchase their e-book online for $850 each or should I get it from a shadow library?
Stats Canada data disagrees with this. Do you have a source?
US steel very infamously did not do any R&D and stuck to outmoded technology.
Great. So Americans get to be the suckers propping up the decent lifestyles of the rest of the western world and much of Asia and the ME.

This country has a collapsing middle class, horrendously bad health outcomes, ever increasing amount of corruption and little chance to turn things around because of entrenched interests.

I can just picture the thought process going in your head(and many others) right now. If you hate it so much why dont you leave.
> reasonable humans will decide that, actually, the form being in a filing cabinet in the basement isn't actually reasonable.

Like how multiple courts (up to the Louisiana Supreme Court) ruled that it was reasonable that when a suspect said "I want a lawyer, dawg." that police interpreted it as him asking for a canine who had been admitted to the bar, and since they couldn't find one, he had not made a valid request for counsel, and so they were free to continue to interrogate him without one, and not be in violation of his rights?

Or how about SCOTUS ruling that in order to invoke your right to remain silent, you actually have to state that you are doing so specifically, and that merely remaining silent doesn't mean you are ... remaining silent?

That kind of reasonableness?
This is such a strange take to me.

A phone is fundamentally a communications device. I use mine to catch rides, figure out where I'm going, call and text my loved ones, all of these things connect me to other people. I listen through headphones to music, and to talk to people, neither of these are isolating experiences. AirPods even have a mode which specifically turns off audio when someone is speaking to you, I like this, because I do enjoy listening to music or a podcast when I'm alone at the grocery store, and I do not like to be isolated by that from people around me, or the cashier.

I also use it to take photos, and then share them with people I care about, sometimes photos of people I care about, which I can then enjoy when they aren't around. These things enhance my senses, they don't steal them.

Phones certainly have some apps available which are addictive, I see people enduring self-imposed isolation in the presence of others due to that addiction, and that's sad, which is why I've dropped those social networks from my life and don't have those apps installed. Apple doesn't make those apps though, the closest thing is Messenger, which is a way to communicate with others, it doesn't have upvotes, it isn't public, none of those things.

I don't see a way to square all that with the thesis that Apple's specialty is isolatory sensory theft. Even the headset, which is clearly not designed to enhance the social parts of life, has several features which exist specifically to connect the user at least in part to their surroundings, and I think the fact that Apple never sold a VR headset without those features is a better reflection of their corporate philosophy than some paranoid yarn about how they make more money if users are cocooned in some Apple-provided sensory replacement bubble.

Did you mean to say Meta? Because if so, you made the mistake twice in the same post.
Sure, here's the list of the things you have to do to trade with EU that you previously didn't had to:

https://www.gov.uk/eori

https://www.gov.uk/check-customs-declaration

Commercial Invoice: A detailed invoice for each transaction is needed for customs clearance, containing information like the value of goods, description, and terms of sale.

Packing List: Provides details of the goods being shipped, quantities, weights, and packaging information. It's used by customs to verify contents.
Commodity Codes (HS Codes): Classify the goods you are trading. These codes determine the duties and VAT that may apply.

Certificates of Origin:If your goods are eligible for preferential treatment (e.g., lower tariffs), you might need proof of origin to claim this benefit under the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA).

VAT and Duties: If you're selling to EU consumers, you may need to register for VAT in the EU or use the One-Stop Shop (OSS) scheme for simplified reporting.

Proof of Transport:ocuments such as bills of lading or airway bills to demonstrate that goods have left the UK or entered the EU.

Product-Specific Documentation: ome goods (e.g., food, chemicals, or electronics) may require additional certifications, safety data sheets, or compliance with product standards (e.g., CE or UKCA marking).

Trade Agreement Compliance: Ensure that your business complies with the terms set out in the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement, especially regarding rules of origin and applicable tariffs.

Here is some reporting on the impact of the businesses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-7rDYo3FR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2lWmgEK1Y

I'm sure Brexit even created jobs(for bureaucracy) to sustain previous levels of trade. I guess there's no evidence that increased bureaucracy is bad for business and the stats suggests that UK is doing great according to the government and some business with interest of processing EU users data not being able to do the things that Samsung is doing is a proof of reduction of bureaucracy. No?
> Inheritance tax is a way for the establishment to take land from small landowners

In the USA, you must have a net worth of at least US$13M per person to be subject to the inheritance tax.
The provider or the insurance company? The provider can give you the cash price, but that's a made up number with no relation to reality. The Insurance company can give you what the standard discount would be on that procedure, but they can't say if they'll cover it, give only that discount, give nothing, or anything in between.
Amazing! The DTMF sounds look like the pins on the barrel of a music box. I am intrigued, I wouldn't ever have pictured them like that.
You later added this part, so I will respond to it as well:

> And what indications are this? Israel partially demobilized and scaled back military operations just a few months after the initial campaign. The majority of casualties in the last year happened the first couple months of Israel's response.

This is completely wrong, the death toll has been steadily rising every day since October 7th till today. Here is a graph lasting until August this year [0]. The slope decreases somewhat with time, but the majority of the 40k dead by August, the 20k died after December.

> The Gazan conflict is decelerating not escalating. Can you elaborate on what you see is an indication that Israel's goal is to kill 1.5 million Gazans?

Here is a Times of Israel article discussing Itamar Ben-Gvir (national security minister), Shlomo Karhi (communications minister), and Zvi Sukkot (member of the Knesset) talking about the "voluntary" resettlement of Gaza [0].

Here is a European Union condemnation of Bezalel Smotrich's (finance minister) declarations that it might be acceptable to let 2 million Palestinians starve to death if this brings back the Israeli hostages [2].

Here is a HuffPost article quoting a press conference with Isaac Herzog (president of Israel) assigning collective blame to the people of Gaza [3] for October 7th (this same declaration was also cited in the ICJ determination of the plausibility of genocide happening in Gaza).

Here is a Times of Israel article quoting Yoav Gallant (defense minister) calling the population of Gaza "human animals" [4].

Here is a tweet from Israel Katz (energy and infrastructure minister) announcing that the people of Gaza will be left without water and electricity until every single Hamas member is killed [5].

And these are all only top officials of Israel. If we looked at declarations from various members of the Knesset or from people in the more extreme parties, we'd see far worse.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Israel%E2%80...

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-calls-to-encourage-em...

[2] https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/israelgaza-statement-high-re...

[3] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israel-gaza-isaac-herzog_n_65...

[4] https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/defense-ministe...

[5] https://x.com/Israel_katz/status/1712876230762967222
Saturday school was common when I was in school a while back. A girl I rode with was late and I had to do it a few times. They even tried to hold my transcript and said I needed to make one up after graduating but they sent it anyway.

If you had to work you could get out of it that weekend. You’d still need to make it up and if you worked every weekend maybe you’d get another punishment.
The write up on the GitHub repo is much more informative than the blog.

When running int8 matmul using onnx performance is ~0.6TF.

https://github.com/usefulsensors/qc_npu_benchmark
That would be misleading. They aren't open weight (3B is not available). They aren't compared to Qwen 2.5 which beats them in many of the benchmarks presented while having more permissive license. The closed 3B is not competitive with other API only models, like Gemini Flash 8B which costs less and has better performance.
We're going to add TLSNotary support for real cryptographic signing, see my comments below :)

Timestamping is also on my roadmap, definitely as a plugin (and likely paid) as it's more corporate users that really need it. We need to keep some of the really advanced attestation features paid to be able to support the rest of the business.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41662105
Using a dish washer for all of that? I tend to question whether small amounts of dish washer detergent or SLS/etc in toothpaste might change us as environments for our bacteria and replacement bacteria. But that's also a tough area for rigorous scientific study.
I halfway expect a v2 specification where keys are only stored on a few "Certified Attestation-capable" providers (i.e. facebook, google, apple, amazon)

Then watch them get hacked through a systems management plugin like Clownstrike, or Solarwinds.
In general MAC unit utilization tends to be low for transformers, but 1.3% seems pretty bad. I wonder if they fucked up the memory interface for the NPU. All the MACs in the world are useless if you cannot feed them.
Ah man, this thread is horrible for my wallet.
yeah - I don't think we should go so far as to write a config file for a test. But if we have something that is already readily convertible to/from json, it should be used. Not seeing it so much as a config for a test but as an argument we're storing in a separate file.

For example if we had a dto that serialises to/from json we should be storing json not creating this dto manually - I would push it further and say any structure which is also easily/transformed from json, like extracting a certain property and using that in the test (although this is also context dependant, for example: if there are other tests using this same file). As a counter example I wouldn't advocate for using json config files to test something completely unrelated to an underlying json structure.

> That can ultimately be reduced to a P-NP problem

Yeah ideally the goal should be to write the simplest code possible, however we get there - shoehorning an approach is always going to add complexity. I think there's a lot of danger from taking rhetoric too far, sometimes we push an abstraction to its limits, when what's really required is a new perspective that works well at these limits.

Effectively I think there's a range in which any argument is applicable, its a matter of assessing if the range is large enough, the rules simple enough, and it solves the actual problem at hand.
> What I am saying is you're not going to escape those 20 pages.

I don't think that's clear at all. The part you quoted mentions tax forms as an example of what will need to be filled out afterward. Of course you'll need to fill those sorts of things out, and that feels very distinct from some sort of multi-page application where you have to tell them why you believe you deserve the grant. And the start of the sentence you quoted is, "If your application is accepted", which to me implies that they're going to make a firm yes/no decision as to whether to give you money based solely on the funding.json thing.

Of course only time will tell how this will work out in practice, but their initial wording seems to suggest they will make a go/no-go decision based on a very simple "application".
I always found it funny how ip bans seemed to be so popular despite being apparently completely ineffective until I realized this was mostly a US thing. In my country (2 of them that I've lived in, in fact) ISPs always assign the client a dynamic address from their very large pools every time I reconnect. This was as true back in the 28.8kb dial up days as it is in the 10gbit FTTH days we live in. Having a static IP address here has always been a service you have to pay for.

I remember this being hilarious when idiots would ip ban me back on the IRC days: "oh no, I have to press the reconnect button!"
ASML just gave us a glimpse into how chip export curbs will dent its China sales
Even the base example would make that specific scenario trivial: an account that is new has no business "being better" than everyone else.

The only group you'd punish with that is skilled players that lose their account (and create a new one), but if you use a moving skill window they can grow back into their plausibility pretty quickly, and it's a small cost compared to everything else. And you could even mitigate that by making things like the first 10 matches require a different plausibility score than the matches after that.

And with different I don't mean "no scoring at all" or something like that. But a cheater tends to not cheat "a little bit". You might have togglers, but that sticks out like a sore thumb (people don't suddenly lose or gain skill like that). And even if that fails (lots of "cheating a little bit" for example), you've still managed to boot out the obvious persistent cheating.

And that's just with 1 example and 1 scenario. Granted, that bypasses the fact that it is still difficult and doing it broader than one example/scenario is even more difficult, but that's why I ended the previous comment pointing out the difficulty and associated cost, which goes hand in hand with the balancing difficulty you pointed out. Even tribunal-assisted methods (not sure if Riot games still does that) have the same problem.
Amazon today won't even remind you that they are about to charge your card $150ish for an annual renewal, unless you specifically opt-in.
Show HN: I made a free tool to help extract any text from image
hello,

I made a free tool to help extract any text from image. would love to know your thoughts!
From what I have heard, getting license from them is also far from guaranteed. They are selective about who they want to do business with -- understandable, but something to keep in mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Israel%E2%80...

This graph clearly shows a decelerating rate of death. This is exactly proving my point: most Gazans died in the conflict by the end of 2023, and the violence is decelerating not growing.

None of the other links you spammed give any indication that Israel aims to kill 1.5 million Gazans as per your previous comment.
Here's a webcam that has a small arm that drops down placing the sensor in front of the screen. It blocks a little bit of the screen, but allows more eye contact, without using AI to modify eyes.

https://icontactcamera.com/
No tests yet, that's been on my list since the beginning and I now have the incentive to work on them:

https://github.com/jaysylvester/citizen/issues/24

I don't use TypeScript myself, but based on what I know, I don't think it would be difficult to add support. I just opened an issue to track it:

https://github.com/jaysylvester/citizen/issues/131
No! After about 10 years of writing software professionally, I moved over to product management, and my time spent coding decreased drastically (in the last 15 years, only some Python to show my kids a thing or two).

But I'd love to try! Maybe I'll take an online class for fun.
Yup, already doing that in the betas. Thats what I'm referring to as the beginnings of a "content addressable store" in the article.

In the closed source fork we currently store a merkle tree summary of each dir in a dotfile containing the sha256 and blake3 hash of all entries / subdirs. When a result is "sealed" the summary is generated, and the final salted hash can be submitted to Solana or ETH or some other network to attest to the time of capture and the content. (That part is coming via a plugin later)
This is terrible.

medConfidential is right to point out: "once he has the data he can do what he likes".

The government will claim to act with my interests at heart. I don't believe it will do so. Even if the current government can be trusted to thoroughly vet all consumers (it can't), it is naive to believe a less scrupulous future government would do so. It is also naive to believe take data consumers at their word.
> The Supreme Court is explicitly not supposed to represent the will of the people.

Source ? Asking as a non American

It seems to me there are multiple understanding of the role of scotus in general and the inoperative rules of the constitution. "Explicitly not supposed to represent the will of the people" seems to be one perspective but not the only one.

Every constitutional democraty will have a tension between the constitutional and democratic part. And that tension will be felt in all of its institutiona
Winamp came onto the scene about the time I was learning to really code and there were a few projects I didn’t start because the wisdom at the time was of a poison pill/ship of Theseus variety: if you use code you didn’t write as scaffolding to write a new system, even once you’ve replaced all of the sections of the code you borrowed with completely new code, you are still stuck with the old license.

One of the reasons libraries are useful. You can replace the library in one go and if you do it right (ie, don’t replace it by the same modification process described above) the license is moot.

I worked for a company that did sales in Europe and we ran afoul of a public domain library. At the time the EU didn’t recognize PD release as a legal act. One library was easy enough to replace with a similar one, the other had no suitable peer. Luckily the library we used was small and we didn’t use much of it, but that use was important.

I wrote a bunch more unit and functional tests in our code to serve as pinning tests, then asked a lead dev on another team to write a library to replace it without referring back to the existing code. I’d stepped through it enough I could practically rewrite it from memory. I knew that wouldn’t stand up legally, but he had no reason to obsess about that part of the code. Nearly took me longer to explain the gambit to him than it did for him to complete the task once he understood it.
Unironically linking this.

https://archive.is/jRGPS
I find this[0] statement by the American Anthropological Association on the topic of race to be quite illuminating.

[0] https://americananthro.org/about/policies/statement-on-race/
Oh, I'm surprised you didn't find a startup to list instead :)
But they ARE in that country.
Apologies, I specified "filtration" but meant "quality", which I would define as filtration + fresh air intake.

I'd have expected a better mix (more fresh air) since even with filtration removing many particulates and viruses, high CO2 levels still cause worse cognitive performance.
Nitrated explosives are detectable by airport security scanners. Dogs also pick up the scent of nitrates in seconds.
internet archive
Irrelevant. Nvidia WON'T.
I laughed when I saw that the Qualcomm “AI PC” is described as this in the ComfyUI docs:

"Avoid", "Nothing works", "Worthless for any AI use"