skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't really change the fact that it's exhausting (and worse, "commercially offputting") to be reminded that we're careening towards the worst futures literally imagined. I stayed away from Soylent and I'll probably stay away from this, but thanks for the head's up. rimshot
I know it has. That's why I said "still". To be honest, yank is also not great. Both terms were invented back in the day the industry hasn't settled yet on copy and paste. For new software, choosing such names is counter-productive.
Don't post AI slop on HN comments please.
It's quite common with engineering-adjacent or some hard sciences people. Attacking the semantics as if imprecise communication makes it valid to use technicalities to go around the main message.

I've been guilty of being somewhat that person when I was younger. Until I realised it doesn't lead anywhere, you just become a pedantic boring person, not dissimilar to these hollow debaters talking fast over people on the internet.

Imprecise communication still annoys me when I misunderstand what someone said because they used it but life is so much better when trying to understand what someone actually meant to say, and conversing about that. It leads places, or at least to some understanding. The other side is just self-stroking your ego to tell yourself you are "smarter", or "more intellectual" than someone else.
Does anyone know why the most common method to speed up inference time is quantization? I keep hearing about all sorts of new methods but nearly none of them is implemented in practice (except for flash attention).
> Groovy support? Haha! You're funny

Thank God at least someone speeds up eradication of this abomination from mainstream ecosystem.
Ah yes, also pedals in case you run out of battery. And a tullock spike so you drive safely.

The only reason Tesla succeeded is by making sexy car.

Sure we are at the cost point where you can making boring EV. It would cost almost the same and only appeal to 1% of market.
Bruce Ames, 95, Dies; Biochemist Discovered Test for Toxic Chemicals
It runs on Linux. That’s enough for me..
https://archive.ph/mD62Q
On some cars (recent VWs in particular) when you plug the battery back in you need to twiddle some settings in the computer otherwise the charging circuit will fry the battery prematurely. We've gotten ahead of our skis with this nonsense, time to rein it in.
I think that a Domain Specific Language without the scaffolding of a language like python to generate test data is a great use case.

You have a specific DSL to generate test data and store code written using your DSL with your test cases.

You then have a security model that separates the responsibilities of the test team from that of other developers. The team can generate many test cases in a secure environment. You could then seek community input into your test processes with having to worry about rogue code.
About the Dow Jones Lawsuit – Perplexity
Apple forgot to disable some cache debugging registers a while back which in effect was similar to something GP described, although exploitation required root privileges and would allow circumventing their in-kernel protections; protections most other systems do not have. (And they still didn't manage to achieve persistence, despite having beyond-root privileges).
Only when a flight attendant is asking on the intercom: "We don't mean to alarm anyone, but is anyone on board a pilot?" and you happen to be one.
There's a mechanism for bypassing the Security Council by the GA during deadlocks caused by vetoes (Emergency Special Sessions convened under Uniting for Peace—5 of the 11 convened so far have concerned the Arab/Israeli conflict, including one of the two that is currently open, which is now on its 27th year), but no combination of countries otherwise willing to act to constrain the conflict has the capacity to effectively act against both Iran and its proxies and the Israel (directly) backed by the US.
Model 3 is like $5k more and you get completely different level of tech.
These RISC-V cores are an internal implementation detail of their GPUs, so although the architecture is open they aren't really open in the sense that you can actually program them. Nvidia is doing it to save a buck because they no longer have to roll their own architecture (as they did previously) or pay for ARM licenses.
IMHO your critiques have more to do with Ruby's promotion of class hierarchies and the fact that ActiveRecord requires inspecting a DB to infer what's going on and Rail's abuse of monkeypatching.
> what does open hardware mean?

Great question. Most hardware projects I've seen that market themselves as open source hardware provide the schematic and PCB design, but still use ICs that are proprietary. One of my companies, Tillitis, uses an FPGA as the main IC, and we provide the hardware design configured on the FPGA. Still, the FPGA itself is proprietary.

Another aspect to consider is whether you can audit and modify the design artefacts with open source tooling. If the schematics and PCB design is stored in a proprietary format I'd say that's slightly less open source hardware than if the format was KiCad EDA, which is open source. Similarly, in order to configure the HDL onto the FPGA, do you need to use 50 GB of proprietary Xilinx tooling, or can you use open tools for synthesis, place-and-route, and configuration? That also affects the level of openness in my opinion.

We can ask similar questions of open source software. People who run a Linux distribution typically don't compile packages themselves. If those packages are not reproducible from source, in what sense is the binary open source? It seems we consider it to be open source software because someone we trust claimed it was built from open source code.
"echo chambers" are groups with ideological consistency. Expecting everyone to prioritize "thoughtful discussion" is asking for consistency: some people aren't interested in discussion. A few accounts saying the same stuff doesn't mean that all the accounts are.

I'm not saying anything said against Matty are good or bad, just that like, you're taking one incident and claiming that the whole site is one thing. It's really not.
Did you just say India isn’t a big market? How in the world do you rationalize that?! It’s one of the largest populations in the world in one of the fastest growing markets in the world.
One of my finals during my masters degree required us to implement a 2048 engine using OCaml. I had a bit of practice with OCaml but this specific exercise really made something click in me. It made me understand how to leverage a type system to represent a state, and make impossible states impossible to represent. I don’t use OCaml anymore but this exercise has definitely made me a better developer. That’s in part thanks to OCaml, and in part thanks to 2048 so thank you for inventing the game :)
Working with Igalia to Improve RISC-V LLVM Continuous Integration
On the first part, yes there are pleanty of wire-compatable redis clones. And while those are interesting, its your second part that I find interesting as well.

The idea of having a strong templating engine with a fast storage backend able to use dynamic content to deliver efficiently renderes websites with minimal hardware.
I quit social media after the Snowden revelations.
No it doesn't, it means cited in a misleading manner to make marketing campaigns and drive policy counter to the actual take-aways of the study. Go look up the "trans women have a male-pattern of violence" study as a perfect example of weaponizing scientific results to the point where the author had to come out to correct folks that that isn't at all what the study said.

If you want gross misinterpretation of scientific results in a different field go look up the "99% of people don't become addicted to oxy" study whose weaponization for policy outcomes is credited for starting the opioid crisis.

Your priors for "how puberty blockers affect mental health outcomes" should be glued to "doesn't make it better (how could it), doesn't make it worse" and that's what they're claiming the study showed.
I acknowledge the exceedingly particular wording of your statement and happily exercise my choice to kill the author and read it as the (true and cogent) general indictment that justifies my reply. :) In any case, that was the monied conservative wing of the DNC - pre-Southern Strategy - going after not just the man but the coalition he represented (so you're kind of wrong there too?).
I tried one out of a 7-11 in Hawaii and was terribly disappointed... to be fair, it was exactly as good as one would expect convenience store food to be.
Using my Raspberry Pi 4, I find that interestingly enough, even just using the SD card slot on 1 GB of RAM, device usability is perfectly good.

As soon as I need to use a web browser, performance goes out the window, and you're nearly stranded in terms of usability.

I think that easily qualifies as "desktop usage," and it leaves this desire for a low resource consumption web browser.
“where are you and where are you going?” Is a delusional question for a transit system but it’s a good question for Uber.

When I was involved with the Green Party we were thinking of “just doing” the things the local government wasn’t doing and I think we set a fire under the bus company’s butt to fix a large number of usability problems that we were going to fix for them (and stick our logo everywhere.)

The bus company was very negative on us extracting schedules from their web site because they wanted to see what people were searching for — hypothetically they could have added new service somewhere if there was demand for it but (1) it seemed hard to believe they’d really do it because changes are so infrequent and (2) they never showed any sign of caring what people thought, why would they start now?
Not getting it.. yeah the famous 32 bit ms overflow after 49 something days. But why then 51 here? Shouldn't they be required to reboot after 49 days please please? :D
People do not seem to understand that these chips are in different price brackets, even between Qualcomm and Mediatek. That is why there is a discrepancy in performance.

Would not be fair to compare a $20 toaster to a $50 toaster and say that the $20 toaster is slower.
Or maybe the rest of the world has way less population per area and therefore more gas stations, therefore filling up was less of a problem compared to the US...
This is cool. It looks like the creator of the ScriptEase engine wrote about it here [0].

It would be cool to see a style or testing guide to see how they prevented bugs from shipping.

[0] https://brent-noorda.com/nombas/us/index.htm
I like your Mag World initiative. I had a similar idea… we should reform / simplify how units are dealt with
An enhanced in-console editing experience for AWS Lambda
If anything, not having AI is a bonus in my book.
Because Harvard sold out to big sugar back in the 60s.
Splats are good for generating new images from an existing place even if no photograph exists from that exact viewpoint.

They can be used for video special effects, for 3D images/video, and for VR. The technology is nascent but shows promise.
> How would you determine that the hardware being used is identical to the open hardware design?

FPGAs can help with this. They allow you to inspect the HDL, synthesize it and configure it onto the FPGA chip yourself. The FPGA chip is still proprietary, but by using an FPGA you are making certain supply chain attacks harder.
One would think a shift to larger, less expensive armies would favor established, reasonably centralized states that could muster large, local populations over small forces of foreigners.
But it's not a progression. There's no transitioning. It's just the introduction of new media alongside prior ones.

And as a sibling commenter noted, the individual history of these media are disjoint and not really in the sequence you suggest.

Regardless, generative AI isn't a media like any of these. It's a means to transform media from one type to another, at some expense and with the introduction of loss/noise. There's something revolutionary about how easy it makes it to perform those transitions, and how generally it can perform them, but it's fundamentally more like a screwdriver than a video.
1 kg of hydrogen is roughly 40 kwh of energy - lets assume 50% efficiency to electricity, to reach the energy of a Tesla battery (roughly 100 kwh) you’d need roughly 5 kg of hydrogen. That seems extremely viable as a power source for a car, it can’t be that difficult to compress a few kilograms of hydrogen into a tank..
This was news in 2020. Has it been fixed?
Anthropic is selling a product to people, not software engineers.
Very strange, because for me, an aircraft(medium) is never alive for more than 24h. A big one like 787 may be alive for up to 72h(assuming longer routes). 50 days for me would be a dream and a lot less headache but it is very expensive to keep an aircraft powered that long with ground power.
There's also the intriguing possibility that many other diseases and even addictions have a heretofore-unknown metabolic component. The idea of some addictions -- even to things like heroin or gambling -- being partially metabolic does not seem far-fetched to me.
What do you think a right wing position is? These were democrats writing literacy tests. Democrats were pro slavery, then pro jim crow. I imagine the right winge position is to support highlighting every real literacy test as a history the legacy of the democrat party.
Probably the museum of failed products

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Failure

It’ll look good next to the Sony Betamax and Google glass
A lot of people seem to be focusing on how this program isn’t sufficient as a guarantee, but those people are missing the point.

The real value of this system is that Apple is making legally enforceable claims about their system. Shareholders can, and do, sue companies that make inaccurate claims about their infrastructure.

I’m 100% sure that Apple’s massive legal team would never let this kind of program exist if _they_ weren’t also confident in these claims. And a legal team at Apple certainly has both internal and external obligations to verify these claims.

America’s legal system is in my opinion what allows the US to dominate economically, creating virtuous cycles like this.
Suitability to do what?

If coding is done by AI that will mean humans will be hired to do something else and whatever that something else is, the interview process will try to measure how good a candidate is at doing that thing the candidate is being hired for, whatever that thing is
I think doing things like this in a language like C can serve as a reminder that it is, very much posible, to do actual work with minimal tools - In my case emacs and a clang.
They seem very ... concerned.
How Las Vegas Became the Weirdest, Wildest, and Most Futuristic City in America
In general the courts shouldn't be pushing big ticket ballot propositions... That isn't their place. The reason they're not elected is explicitly so they can't be (to the maximum extent possible) affected by the ballot box.

A lot of people seem to forget but the maximum amount of democracy isn't the best. Mob rule is not a good system of government.
They would also offer to hang up and when the person finally found the official number and called back, that same code could be given back over the phone to reconnect to the original agent. Or they could go through whatever process they want.
I don't think I have ever seen home-made beans in Australia, even at fancy cafes. Beans on a breakfast menu means Heinz, or Wattie's if you're in New Zealand.

I do recall my shock at visiting the staff canteen of a large UK corporation and finding out that the most popular menu item by far for lunch was chips (fries) and beans.
'They wish this technology didn't exist': Perplexity responds to the lawsuit
> Meanwhile you can write and run very similar code across everything from the zero all the way up to the 5—which is enormous flexibility that x86 simply doesn't offer.

This doesn't make sense, can you elaborate?
I get it, they don't want competition for selling that data; so how much to just buy it from Apple directly?
A Misreading Of Yoda
>We've been prescribing GLP-1s [for diabetes] for almost 20 years now

The dosage though for losing weight is 3 or 4 times the dosage for diabetes.
No, you're exemplary of my point. I switched to an MVNO that used the same network, and I've never experienced degraded service. It's not just the hidden "unknowns" that are a problem, it's the "unknowns" that you think you know and that are staring you in your face.
The Active Cooler part (that contains a heatsink too) fits well under the HAT.
The Most Annoying Website Usability Issues in 2024
Isn’t it on the decline yet?

Facebook is for boomers.

Twitter is weird and we all realised how pointless it is to spend time falling out on there.

Instagram feels a bit long in the tooth.

LinkedIn is a parody of itself.

Reddit feels like it’s growing but I think that avoids the worst of social media.

TikTok and YouTube shorts seem popular but aren’t really social media. It’s just time wasting junk.

All in all, social media feels like it peaked a while back.
Their Resharper is indeed C#, only GUI is written using Kotlin.
Good question! It's 1/(2**23), because 32 bit floats have 23 bits after the decimal point
Show HN: I made a tool to save time translating while reading
As someone who loves reading to learn new languages, I recently decided to start reading books in Dutch to improve my skills. However, as a beginner, I quickly ran into a frustrating problem: I was constantly stopping to look up translations of words I didn’t understand.

It felt like I was spending more time on my phone searching than actually reading the book! After a while, it really started to take the joy out of the experience.

That’s when I started thinking – what if there was a tool that could help me translate words as I read, without having to manually search for them? So, I decided to build something myself that would allow me to read more fluidly without these constant interruptions.

For anyone who's faced similar frustrations while reading in a foreign language, I’ve built a solution that help me a lot. If you're curious, feel free to check it out. I’m very open and eager for feedback, so if you have any suggestions or thoughts, I’d love to hear them.

Thanks for reading!
And 4.5 years later, what's new?
Everytime I somehow go to reddit without the old. subdomain I think "How does anyone use this? How is it still around." Just happened to me again yesterday.
I keep seeing folks who say they’ve built a “full application” using or deeply collaborating with an LLM but, aside from code that is only purported to be LLM-generated, I’ve yet to see any evidence that I can consider non-trivial. Show me the chat sessions that produced these “full applications”.
Reading their replies felt awfully similar to how LLMs get stuck in loops, repeating the same patterns over and over.
Most hardware projects I tend to look at dont need the power of a Pi5 and are fine with a 2040 or zero.

The niche of the Pi5 just has gotten so much smaller, imo.
Why Safety Profiles Failed
I wrote sorted_set_nif, the lack of activity isn’t a lack of care about the library but more just a reflection that the library is done.

With data structures that have some definite behavior unless someone finds a defect there isn’t going to be much activity.
What kind of fundamental discussion are you hoping to see under an article about an iterative improvement to a known model?

"AI will destroy the world"? "AI is great and will save humanity"? If you're seriously missing that, there's really enough platforms (and articles for more fundamental announcements/propositions on this one) where you can have these.
Use Moore's law to achieve unreal battery life and better experiences for users... or use Moore's law to throw more piles of abstractions on abstractions where we end up with solutions like Electron or I Duck Taped An AI on it.

Reading through this, I could not tell if this was a parody or real. That robot image slopped in the middle certainly didn't help.
Totally true. If you want a small server just get a N100.

The pi makes sense for something where you need power (eg more than esp32 or 2040) and gpio. Not as a small server. Those days are gone.
Ugh, that sucks. Any idea how to determine which ones are affected? I.e. what firmware version, or which models it started affecting?

Older models still support ~disableScreensaver -- at some point Amazon just stopped issuing firmware updates for them, I have to assume.
I think it's worth looking at the people taking it. While there is definitely nutritional education that needs to happen in behavior intervention, the key benefit to Ozempic is that people talk about it "turning down the food noise."

Those choices become easier when you have assistance.
The fan won't do much if there a second PCB stacked right on top of it though, unless there's cutouts for it.
I would rephrase it to “quit ad-based social media”. The incentives are perverse, there is an inherent conflict of interest in the business model and there is an intermediary between the user and information/community they want to participate in. This leads to most problems we see in legacy, ad-based, social media.

Most successful social circles are ones where there is a barrier to entry. In life we do not let everyone into the friend circle. Having a barrier to entry model may work well for an online community, although this remains to be seen. Were there any successful experiments with paid social media?
what's the alternative?

Struggling with food, being extremely overweight the rest of your life, and not being able to play with your kids because of it?
Yep rpi5 does not make sense anymore. N100 goes for $110 on sale with 512gb nvme/16gb of ram/psu/case all included. It completely roasts rpi5 while staying with x64 Linux.
Depends on where you live then. My home state of Minnesota has electricity for 11 cents per kWh, with only 19% coal.

Very different than, say, Germany. Power efficiency becomes a much lower priority.
A thing for talking to rfids might do this. Some phones have an rfid thing. If it could sweep a frequency range.
>thinking with people on the Internet is has dropped away down

What?

Also, congrats for being less tolerant. I like that.
This thread attracts a smaller audience than, say, a new version of ChatGPT.
Maybe, but base Nissan Leaf is $28k off the lot today with L2 self driving. Sure, air cooled battery, CHAdeMO, hatchback design... but it's not like those deficiencies would cost full $15k/car to fix; it's not like Big CHAdeMO is burning that much per each Leaf. So that kind of "Tesla would have this and that" arguments don't really hold water.
I recall looking at New Relic reports of slow transactions that suffered from stacked n+1 query problems because the ORM was obscuring what was actually going on beneath the hood at a lower level of abstraction (SQL).

My point is it's often difficult to just visually inspect a piece of code and know exactly what is happening. In the above case it was the instrumentation and empirical measurements of performance that flagged a problem, not some a priori theoretical analysis of what one thought was happening.
Well, not an NVMe maybe (yet), but at least a built-in eMMC slot.
That's not why it's disingenuous, it's very simple: This will reduce their profits. Any additional analysis is superfluous.

There is a good reason why Harris doesn't use the FTC (under Lina Kahn) to gain political capital. This is the sort of stuff that actually matters, so naturally barely anyone ever talks about it.
Yeah, just sell people computers that are completely owned straight off the factory. "Sell" it to them but keep all the keys and use them to enforce policy on what's supposed to be somebody else's property.

Computing is heading down a very dark path if people are seriously suggesting stuff like this.