skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is just a symptom of the scale of coruption in the banking industry, and the
overwhelming need to do anything performative to create the idea that they are so vigilant as to be unquestionable.
but the simple reality is that there have been trillions of dollars of crime money moved through the banking system over thd last 10 years alone, drugs ,weapons, human traficking , illegal mining and forestry,fishing, and thousands of other
mega scams go through without a hickup
a very high percentage of all of the "aid"
money just never shows up anywhere near where it should, and 100 mill by 100 mill
just evaporates, quite litteraly while in the banks sole care
I'm proud of my little joke on dogmas: "The only dogma I believe is that all dogmas are wrong".
Fairly obvious for those who've spent enough time online, I'd say most people would only recognize that first sentence. The Unabomber Manifesto has become something of a copypasta
Optimal memory layout isn't something you can know in advance. The optimal way to lay out objects in memory is exactly in the order that they will be accessed, but the runtime doesn't know that until after the user program has accessed them.

And if the program accesses a set of objects in different orders at different times, there is no one optimal layout.

I did ask Lars Bak once if they spent a lot of time thinking about cache usage and organizing objects in memory to take best advantage of it and, if I recall correctly, his answer was basically "no". They definitely think about it terms of packing objects into small amounts of memory. But in a dynamically typed language like JavaScript where every property is a reference to some other object elsewhere in memory, using the cache well is just profoundly hard.

Hell, it's hard even in Java where at least you do know the set of fields any given class has.
NATO kinetically trying to prevent Russia from damaging subsea infrastructure WITH a formal UN policing mission is also an act of war, its just more clearly not an act of aggression.

Of course, that would also be true of NATO doing so as part of a broader collective defense operation reported to the Security Council, directed against Russia and explicitly aimed at rolling back the Russian (UNGA-condemned) aggression in Ukraine under Article 51 of the UN Charter.
Who would possibly buy Chrome? Letting any of the large tech companies purchase it (the only possible buyers) would just give someone else monopolistic power.

Chrome can’t exist as a standalone business without being even more consumer hostile.
This is very useful, I use it with Docker Compose in my Flask course to handle sending email in development and tests in a way that doesn't require making an external network call or set anything up on my host. It's perfect for local development and the maintained Docker image supports amd64 and arm64 CPU architectures.

An example of that is here: https://github.com/nickjj/build-a-saas-app-with-flask/blob/d...
Eliminating the delivery of kWs doesn't change the grid costs one whit. Grid costs are driven mostly by the number of customers, the max demand that the grid has to support at one time, maintenance, and the distance the lines have to travel to reach you. Just like a water main or sewage pipe, reductions in demand only change the cost of distribution when they are large enough and prolonged enough to allow for smaller equipment and fewer lines.

Having a residential power connection from the grid allows you to demand up to 200Amps of power, at any time of day or night, 365 days a year, with zero notice. The power company has to build the lines to support that potential demand, whether you use it or not. Over all of California, distributed solar probably has reduced the expenditures we would have need to have made on new transmission and generation facilities compared to a world without distributed solar, but that doesn't affect the baseline cost of a ubiquitous grid that serves from Crescent City to the border with Arizona at Yuma, and all points between.
If the success is not cheered we might regress to the old bad times. It is not like the only path forward is even less violent crimes.
This seems like the best case scenario for them.....losing Android would have been a far bigger problem
well, but machine learning is the major reason we use GPUs in the datacenter (not talking about consumer GPUs here). The others are edge-cases for data-centre applications! Apple is uniquely positioned exactly because it is already solved due to a significant part of the ML-engineers using MacBooks to develop locally.

The code to run these things on apples GPUs exist and is used every day! I don't know anyone using AMD GPUs, but pretty often its nvidia on the cluster and Apple on the laptop. So if nvidia is making these juicy profits, i think apple could seriously think about moving to the cluster if it wants to.
Russia. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/concerns-...
Maybe one of the big spyware players will buy chrome
I've flipped that idea around in a few of my own language designs, where pairs are the central feature and lists are just pairs with pair cdrs. Works fine from what I can see.
Or station nukes in Venezuela
> Have you spoken with SWAT team members?

Not only do I have zero interest in speaking with SWAT team members, I have very real reasons why I choose wherever possible to not talk to any cops at all.

https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE

The fact that you "know a few" SWAT team members immediately makes me strongly suspicious that you are part of the problem, perhaps not directly corrupt yourself, but very likely to be complicit in hiding the misbehaviour of police you know who are corrupt.

ACAB
NetChoice Sues California to Block Its Misguided 'Social Media Addiction' Bill
The full article title is:

> NetChoice Sues California Once Again To Block Its Misguided 'Social Media Addiction' Bill
Well, to be fair, it's suspiciously close in time to the recent US/UK/France permission to use long-range missiles against the Russian territory. So it may be indeed a transparent hint towards them from Russia regarding how asymmetric response could look like.
CUDA moat is highly overrated for AI in the first place and sold as the reason for the failure of AMD. Almost no one in AI uses CUDA. They only use pytorch or Triton. TPUs didn't face lot of hurdle due to CUDA because they were initially better in terms of price to performance and supported pytorch, tensorflow and jax.

The reason why AMD is behind is that it is behind in hardware. MI300x is more pricey per hour in all the cloud I can find compared to H100, and the MFU is order of magnitude lower compared to NVIDIA for transformers, even though transformers are fully supported. And I get same 40-50% MFU in TPU for the same code. If anyone is investing >10 million dollar for hardware, they sure can invest a million dollar to rewrite everything in whatever language AMD asks them to if it is cheaper.
You are 100% correct, I lost a full prefix of performance there. Edited my message.

Which does make the clusters a fair bit less impressive, but also a lot more sensibly sized.
> There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate. Human activity is the principal cause.

https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/evidence/
Very interesting but why would a browser report different coordinates depending on the monitor? I'd assume browser would treat the webpage as if it was the entire screen irrespective of which display it was on. Is there a reason for web APIs to have this information at all? Seems like a potential security/information/tracking risk.
Facepalm. So I guess this weak cookie cutter approach is what we get for the high water mark of opposition before the imminent corporate coup against constitutionally limited government.

Splitting the surveillance giants into different vertical markets makes no sense at all, and this particular division illustrates it well. We might have had a chance if government, two decades ago, had worked towards creating new specific types of regulations that reflected what competition in the digital realm actually requires - for example prohibiting this now widespread bundling of proprietary client software with hosted services, by mandating that hosted services must only be offered through published APIs. Instead we got some token opposition of "selling off" (checks notes) a web browser that's ultimately "open source".
Outstanding news!
Who would buy Chrome and why would they buy it? And why would they be trusted to not do something nefarious?
Try Firefox
Mitchell Feigenbaum and the End of Chaoplexity
Honestly it's just that how I've always done this, other ways seemed too noisy for me and breaking the flow of the game :)

That might or might not be due to the games we've mostly been playing on our LAN parties are coming from a bit different profile than "chill co-op" — more MOBAs or tactical / arena shooters. In those styles of games visual cues don't really help and not having the clear audio puts you at a disadvantage

The music is still playing in the background, though — the headsets are not 100% soundproof and you may still easily communicate via VoIP

Yeah, the "live talking" aspect without headsets isn't there, but I've found it doesn't bother me in the slightest. You still are in the same room, you get the "shoulder sense" of your team there, you still celebrate and have fun as one and lose as one singular organism, and that's the feeling I've kinda been chasing on my LAN parties and in my LAN centre
Yeah, especially if this breaks Chrome Remote Desktop in any way, seems like that capability would be tied into the Google ecosystem... I wonder how long we will have to say goodbye to the simplest remote desktop that has ever existed.
Also, the rent-seeking middleman business for PC games is easier and more profitable.
maybe its a uk thing but i've never been in a house with ceilings high enough to do a burpee
Yes it's called hyperbole
For me it feels like this problem has become far worse. I often see unsolicited text messages and phone calls coming from a couple problematic platforms like Sinch (who also acquired Mailgun, Mailjet, Inteliquent) and Bandwidth.com (a VOIP provider). These platforms have terrible anti abuse programs that are ineffective and basically force you to repeatedly submit reports so they can stop one source at a time, when in fact they’re just enabling businesses who are fundamentally built on abuse. They often also just reply and say it isn’t their responsibility because they’re just reselling to someone else and that it needs to be taken up with THAT third party. The FTC needs to do a lot more and fine these companies, and jail their executives.

By the way, to help, people should:

1. Report text message spam to 7726 (“SPAM” on the dial pad), which will give your carrier info

2. If you get iMessage spam, click report junk so Apple takes action

3. Go to the FTC and FCC websites to report the abuse. For the FCC visit their site (https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/stop-unwanted-robocalls...) and click the text link for filing a complaint. For FTC visit their site (https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/) and click “report now”. These forms are painful to fill out and ask for a lot of information, but it will help regulators build a case against these companies.

I personally don’t bother reporting abuse to those companies’ own abuse process anymore, because it just helps them temporarily hide what is a bigger problem with their business practice as a whole.
Is a coach a bus? Honestly, I'm not sure what makes them different, if you pressed me I think I'd say a coach has luggage compartments underneath. A UK coach is not a bus... although Megabus run mostly coaches, and Stagecoach run mostly buses.

Is a scooter a motorcycle, what about a pedal-and-pop, an ebike? Is the backbox (rear carrier) part of the motorcycle?

Is a single light at a junction, ahem intersection, a traffic light? Is the outer-container part of the "light"? What about the lights for pedestrians, are they part of the traffic light?

Are house steps, that don't carry you to a different storey, still stairs? Is a single step also stairs?

Are fire hydrants always red?

So, yeah, usually I just leave the website and come back to HN.
Anyone with a search engine or equivalent product to sell that is not a monopoly.
Swedish defence is organised according to a system called 'totalförsvar' or 'total defence' which includes not only fighting forces (army, air force, navy, marines, etc.) but also civilian support forces. People who are included in this system - which can be anything from medical personnel to linemen and truck drivers - have assigned roles and a command structure or 'krigsplacering' (wartime assignment). The message that 'Sweden will never surrender' is aimed mostly at civilians who are outside of the military command structure but may be included in the civilian support forces. It is not aimed at keeping some bearded Swede with a rusty axe hiding in the north-western mountains for 30 years after Sweden has lost a war, it is aimed at the trucker who may be exposed to enemy propaganda.

If Sweden ever were to surrender in war it will most likely be broadcast by the prime minister and/or the king/queen (Sweden is a constitutional monarchy). Until such a time and until such a message is confirmed we'll just assume that Sweden has not surrendered.
> That's an argument that the US isn't morally perfect.

It certainly seems to me like its also a strong argument that much of the US's wealth is based on colonialism or colonialism-adjacent policies, no?

> I don't see how this invalidates the idea that the US culture is better at creating and running a great economy

I didn't argue that. If US culture is/was in favor of colonialist antics and colonialism produces wealth for the US, that would actually be an argument in favor of US culture being better at producing a great economy. I would argue that the ends don't justify the means when the means are abusing far poorer neighboring countries.

I also wouldn't argue that colonialism is the only reason the US is wealthy. There are clearly aspects of US culture that are conducive to productivity and innovation that are more or less independent of colonialism.
> So by supplying the kWh locally to neighbors, the grid costs have been avoided.

No they haven't. The grid cost is to build and maintain the wires and equipment. Your solar output isn't reliable enough for them to downsize the grid, so even though selling to a neighbor bypasses the grid it doesn't reduce the cost of having a grid.

What you could do is split out the grid cost, make it be a fixed fee per location instead of per-kWh. That would drop the price of buying a kWh until it's much closer to the price of selling.

But if you do that, someone with a lot of solar panels would end up with even less money in their pocket, since their reduced kWh purchases used to let them skimp on grid fees, and now that no longer happens.
I was happy to see them get funded, but its fair to be wary. They are a new company after all, but I think there are a lot of emerging markets where this type of vehicle makes more sense than a wagon. I'm pretty pessimistic about US manufacturing in general tho so I'm willing to admit that there's a good chance that you're right about Aptera.
I think a lot of video game companies get into this trap. I can't speak for others but for me, I don’t care about technical innovation, just give me more Skyrim, Witcher, Fallout, Half Life, Baldur’s Gate, Elden Ring story. It’s not rocket science. Put all the money you wanted to give to tech guys that want to revamp the engine every year into hiring amazing writers and art direction people.
Not to be dramatic, but from a security perspective, it feels a little like the scene in Ghost Busters where the EPA inspector orders a Con Ed worker to shut down the containment system.

I'm trying to imagine all the operational implications and this particular suggestion feels hasty.

I'm open to hearing different opinions.
I mean it's not like developing countries are doing much to steward their best and brightest. Counties with brain drains also have serious issues with nepotism and cronyism limiting the ability of talent to rise up.

My parents are from Sri Lanka the former leaders family filled up the cabinet and ministry positions. They put forward wonderful plans like banning fertilizer imports. I think we need to accept that they're their own worst enemy here
"make" Mozilla buy it, give em a heaping grant from the Library of Congress to keep the open web open, and be the engine behind every browser keeping things fair... sounds good to me!
Chrome??? Dude. THAT plus:

* Android

* Search

* Advertising

* YouTube

Smash it into tiny pieces. Then the same for Apple and Facebook.

We've been stalled for technological progress for 15+ years. Tear down the giants holding us back.
I mean, no product is better than a shitty product in this case.
So I understand trying to break up monopolistic companies to provide better competition in the market which is generally better for the consumer as a whole. This strategy of saying Chrome should be sold off seems strange to me because unlike other monopolies Google's monopoly with Chrome is fundamentally different.

Since Chrome at its core is the open source chromium browser engine the ability for your competition to leverage what you do is already there. The dynamic here is fundamentally different than many other monopolies of the past due to this fact. It must be asked are people gravitating toward Chrome because they feel there is no other viable option to offer a similar experience or is it because they choose that because it feels to them to be the best choice to make in a free market.
PageRank is one of several interesting centrality metrics that could be applied to a graph to influence RAG on structural data, another one is Triangle Centrality which counts triangles around nodes to figure out their centrality based on the concept that triangles close relationships into a strong bond, where open bonds dilute centrality by drawing weight away from the center:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.00110

The paper shows high efficiency compared to other centralities like PageRank, however in some research using the GraphBLAS I and my coauthors found that TC was slower on a variety of sparse graphs than our sparse formulation of PR for graphs up to 1.8 billion edges, but that TC appears to scale better as graphs get larger and is likely more efficient in the trillion edge realm.

https://fossies.org/linux/SuiteSparse/GraphBLAS/Doc/The_Grap...
Nord Stream Part II
> I wonder if it would be able to summarize the prior sentence!

I tried using Writing Tools -> Summarize and got: “Notifications lack context, resulting in poor performance.”
Yeah, so you misrepresented what I said to call me an alcoholic and thus denigrate my point via an ad hominem. Instead of actually engaging with my argument on the merits, you misrepresent it and act like a troll.

Goodbye, you aren't worth my time.
JPEG allocates very few bits to the higher frequency elements of the blocks, especially in chroma. https://vicente-gonzalez-ruiz.github.io/JPEG/#lossy-jpeg
Is this a jokey reference to that time Paul Graham upset large amounts of Nigerians on Twitter? Or, rather, genuine concern at the thought that the article may have been generated by chatbots?
Bro it's just a video game, and at the end of the day you need inspired people to make a art. I would prefer they just stop and refocus instead of forcing out some corporate slop.
Agreed. Not enough processing power for anything onboard, no IO out the back (seems like a missed opportunity tbh) for expansion to do fun things. Not sure what I'd do with this.

A quick search shows Hirose has a 0.5mm tall FPC connector that could fit 25 contacts within the width. Looking at their pictures, they have some spare height (unsure if enough though) and depth to move components forward. Even with good grounding, idk 12 IO is a decent amount.
I would think that when spec'ing something like this out, it's pretty concrete how powerful the machine will be - how were they able to undershoot the performance by that much? "we are going to place X parts in each node, and have n# nodes". Generally I would think that the projected outcome is pretty straightforward.

Questions aside, 1.74 exaflops is absolute madness. That is mindboggling amounts of compute.
Rust traits are a local maxima
What would that even mean? Chrome doesn't make money. Who would buy it, except maybe someone who plans to do something even more nefarious?
WhyIsItNotDoneYet
What is the actual asset to buy precisely? The code is already mostly open. You'd be paying for a user base who could leave at any moment?
> You would think that Hospitals would be able and willing to pay for residents.

Why would you think that? Pay... out of their profit margins... to reduce their profit margins? Or do you mean in la-la-land where American CEOs make investments that are likely to show returns only 10+ years out in the future?
4090 tensor performance (FP8): 660 teraflops, 1320 "with sparsity" (i.e. max theoretical with zeroes in the right places).

https://images.nvidia.com/aem-dam/Solutions/geforce/ada/nvid...

But at these levels of compute, the memory/interconnect bandwidth becomes the bottleneck.
They also built up the myth both internally and externally that nothing they developed for the game was good enough, when people were already satisfied with the current mechanics. They wore themselves out saying it could be anything and accepting nothing. A monster of their own creation that is easily killed with a little humility. It is their desire to be unreasonable that led them there.

Not reasonable at all IMO.
Brax3 to Include IodéOS Premium
I'm glad to see Robert Braxman has chosen iodéOS for the latest version (3rd iteration) of his privacy phone. The reason this is interesting is that it will include an os-based adblocker and parental control (without using the vpn slot! or invasive family link) for the life of the device, which is a big improvement. Expect to ship by march.
We can live without exotic hardwood species splattering our floors. The look and feel of laminate/engineered wood can be quite good and it will only improve with time.

I’m not a conservationist but I don’t think it’s proper to cut down trees only to waste it on flooring if the replenishment of the tree species cannot be accomplished.

With that said, I think all floors should be made out of bamboo.
I actually don't agree! They need to resolve the cliffhanger. Leaving it unresolved retroactively makes the whole package worse.

That's not to say I'd be happy with a Mass Effect 3 style ending, but it doesn't need to be some earth shattering gameplay experience.
Probably only rich people can afford to travel in a sustainable way. I’m thinking specifically if the carbon costs are priced into airfare (for example), flying may be out of reach for many of us.
If getting more open protocols/APIs for that kind of thing is a consequence of this then I’ll take it.

Next please make Apple open up all the secret integration between iOS and Watch so that Fitbit and others can more fairly compete.
You might know that it was stored properly, but the pharmacy doesn't know it wasn't kept in a parked car that got hotter than the medication can normally tolerate, degrading it. Or whatever. So the chain-of-custody so-to-speak was broken. Maybe for most medications it would be fine, but it seems sensible to not offer refunds. Wouldn't even be surprised if there were federal and state laws preventing the re-use of second-hand medications. Have you successfully tried returning medications elsewhere? Even for over the counter items like Tylenol, if a store does accept returns as a courtesy, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they just throw it away, rather than take the risk of putting the item back on the shelf.

https://carecard.com/blog/can-medicine-be-left-in-a-hot-car