skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like 'running on CPU considered to be competitive to running on GPU' and my BS alarms are going off...

...buuuuut, to be fair, I don't either a) particularly care, or b) really have that much knowledge about the Ryzen AI 9 HX 37 CPU.

Anyone care to point me vaguely in the direction of something meaningful that would suggest that CPU based inference would, in general, be even remotely comparable to dedicated GPU performance for AI?

I remain pretty skeptical.

(That reddit thread kicks off with someone saying 'LLM isn't particularly compute intensive workload', which is obviously a) false, and b) gives me no confidence in their review. If LLMs were just memory intensive, we would all just be getting machines with more RAM and no one would be going crazy with 4 parallel 24GB GPUs just to eek out the performance for inference; they'd just slap a 64GB sim in their machine and be done with it).

LLM inference it is memory intensive, but it IS compute intensive too.

Being able to run on a CPU at 1 token per century is not what anyone wants.
Your second point is questionable at best.

Making money hard to trace most directly hurts countries like the USA that are used to using the financial system to enforce their will. For example virtually every crime worth doing turns into money laundering when you try to turn your profits back into money you can use in normal ways.

The bad actors that you name generally come into conflict with the USA at some point, and the USA tries to use the financial system to punish them. Conversely those bad actors do not want effective financial controls, because the may exploiters of their poor financial barriers are powerful insiders who manage to funnel money to their own bank accounts. The rank and file will get punished for the attempt, but who gets punished is political. Top leaders are always taking money, and don't want it to be trackable.

Is that bad for the country? Sure. But so is dictatorship. This is unlikely to convince dictators to step down though.
It’s interesting to consider how our priorities have shifted
It's not certain the next administration will stop the attempts - remember that tech companies are "woke". Musk's companies certainly won't be probed, but Microsoft and Google will probably be offered deals that involve certain restrictions on speech for dropping the probes.
I also purchased a cover for mine, although in a pinch, the removable stickers on fruit work well.
Do we have to complain about the title of every single post here?
Being able to take unusual and drastic actions to prop up a currency does not mean that the economic malaise indicated by the falling currency has been fixed.
I’m still bitter that PEP 440 didn’t win: https://peps.python.org/pep-0440/

It’s way better than semver and has all the metadata you may want.
Sure, and people that already agree with you will feel good reading it, but other people who don’t agree see it as an attack. It’s pretty much impossible to slip a new idea into someone’s mind if your approach made them slam the door before even considering it. So what’s the benefit of saying it like that?
I know Forbes is not known for its journalistic integrity, but this is some real garbage here. Where’s the “viral social media thread”? I tried to search for it, and couldn’t find anything. There’s nothing on the guy’s Twitter or LinkedIn.

“Many software engineers at major tech firms are making between $200,000 and $300,000 dollars annually while pushing as few as "two code changes a month."” What’s the source on this? Who is even being quoted?

Is this whole article an AI hallucination?
Membrane "switches" have a pretty high actuation force all things considered (40-100g+), which is what the older MS keyboards use. There are plenty of mechanical switches that require less force to actuate, and Hall Effect switches can even have an adaptable activation point.
> In my college days,

> Also, in my previous job at Alibaba

Are these complete hallucinations or fragments of real memories from other people? Fascinating.
I encourage you to open the `typing` documentation [0] and search for the word `deprecated`.

Spoiler alert: the search result will be three-figure.

Some of the results are already scheduled for removal.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html
This sounds like a more robust tool, however I wanted to keep our external tooling to a minimum. The contact sheet generation sits as part of our transcoding pipeline for uploaded media which already uses ffmpeg.
I’m not familiar with Hall effect switches - any recommendations on a keyboard for ergonomic use?
For a current day overview of mechanical keyboard switches I don't think buckling-spring is that relevant. Deskthority probably has pages for it though.
Unrelated, but does anyone know what's the deal between wiki.nixos.org and nixos.wiki? The former appears to be actually functional, but the latter ranks much higher in search engines and seems to be incorrectly treated by them as the primary source.
Aren't there additive manufacturing 3d printers that project a hologram to cause the fluidic printing medium to cure the layer of material drawn out of the solution?
u guys go get a room
15 minutes and no hair-washing
You don't think that Blue Origin could be a competitor? They are quite behind, but they are backed by quite a lot of money, I feel like I remember even hearing news about Blue Origin placing their own internet satellites.
And despite the click bait "billions wasted" headline, at no point does the article offer any information on the alleged billions wasted.
IBM Microelectronics was a fairly significant fab and semiconductor player until the early 2010s.

Remember PowerPCs? That was IBM and was used everywhere from iMacs to Xbox 360s to Thinkpads.

Sadly, fabrication became commoditized because of outsourcing to Taiwan and South Korea, who gave unfair advantages to their state adjacent firms like TSMC and Samsung.
I think that's the reason why it didn’t catch on
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Yeah, I've always wondered if there's any basis for the idea that mechanical keyboards prevent RSI. This article doesn't help -- it says that the mechanism by which mechanical keyboards prevent RSI is "hard to explain without getting too technical" and then stumbles over some strange "gym mat" analogy that made no sense t ome.
> Rowell is quick to note that by “we,” he means people over the age of 25, and that he’s focused on “the hold rock and pop music from the past has on us.”

Pop is timeless almost by definition, and rock music is pretty much dead. Beyond being the general trend, I'd bet one reason rap is ascendant is that it's so damn easy to get started - you don't need to gather up friends and buy instruments, everything can be done on your own with just a phone. Running a sequencer or a synthesizer doesn't require the kind of physical talent and training that playing musical instruments does. You don't need to have a great voice or vocal training to spit bars worth listening to.
Apple silicon is pretty damn viable.
A small minority, but apparently it includes all the floats you’re likely to use. It seems the insight is that you only need 8 bits of exponent in most cases. (And single-precision floating point only has 8 bits of exponent.)

Most double-precision floats are never used because they have high exponents.
Teaching quantum physics in schools: Experts encourage focus on 2 state systems
It depends on what you do with the tool. Going with your murder analogy, if there's a stabbing epidemic what do you do? 1) Ban knives 2) invest in public safety 3) investigate the root causes and improve on them?

I'm also not sure what's so regulated about the internet besides net neutrality in certain countries. Of course the government can put limits on the network, like banning services, but it's easy since they are rather easy to target. With content traveling on the network it's much harder to say if it's legit or not.

> lots of countries

What about those countries that don't regulate it and people will keep pumping out better, leaner and faster models from there? Spreading software is trivial, all you achieve is the public won't be aware of what's possible.

The more I think about it if anything should be regulated that's a requirement to provide third party (probably government backed) ID verification system so it would be possible for my mom to know it's me calling here. Basically kill called ID spoofing.
After scrolling past a week of tweets, the thread (6.5M views): https://x.com/deedydas/status/1858929066264379629

Is Section 174 motivating VC interest in "efficiency"? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=section%20174
Given that there are only three companies in the world even capable of competing on the sand side, I'd say that window of opportunity is increasingly shrinking.
or, you can have a physical switch, like the Framework. that also hits your BOM but its not complex!
And uses orders of magnitude more water
If you are concerned about security you should not be running arbitrary programs. For example if you have a lots crypto assets, you shouldnt keep your wallet details on the same computer you are running programs you don't trust. However, practicality often forces you to adopt a more yolo approach toward security. What people often dont realise is that emacs is almost an operating system, and installing emacs packages is kinda like insralling .bat or .exe files. To me personally emacs is the single best piece of software ever produced, by a long shot, but it is a good idea to be aware of its powers.

Emacs can infact be great for security. Its code and language are very nice and well documented and if you care to understand the code you are running and you are THAT concerned about security it can be an excellent aid toward peace of mind.
> This version is but an early step on a longer journey - a student still learning to walk the path of reasoning. Its thoughts sometimes wander, its answers aren’t always complete, and its wisdom is still growing. But isn’t that the beauty of true learning? To be both capable and humble, knowledgeable yet always questioning?

> Through deep exploration and countless trials, we discovered something profound: when given time to ponder, to question, and to reflect, the model’s understanding of mathematics and programming blossoms like a flower opening to the sun.

Cool intro text.
ScholarlyArticle: "Design and evaluation of a questionnaire to assess learners’ understanding of quantum measurement in different two-state contexts: The context matters" (2024) https://journals.aps.org/prper/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevPhysE...

"Making quantum physics easier to digest in schools: Experts encourage focus on two-state systems" https://phys.org/news/2024-11-quantum-physics-easier-digest-...
Because nixos.wiki was the primary source, until very recently. Then, wiki.nixos.org was introduced, and mass edits were made (without the owner of nixos.wiki being ok with that) trying to redirect people from nixos.wiki to wiki.nixos.org, and now both co-exist.

Reminds me a bit the archlinux.fr vs wiki.archlinux.org fr wiki situation from 10 years ago.
1) I was the person who suggested hiding the cords.

2) Zooming into the picture of the hanging digital picture, those looks like fat highly insulated consumer cables to me.
Doesn't know how the first two things about python type hints. Must be shit. Great article...
I can remember when someone spotted tape over Zuckerberg's laptop camera. Ref: https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/21/11995032/mark-zuckerberg-...
Which makes me doubt the anecdote, besides the lack of any specifics or reference.
> hey, they also don't need tumblers

Yes they do need tumblers. Otherwise when they spend their undeclared crypto it is likely to be tracked by the government.
For a man sure, you can do your hair in 2 minutes. But if you’re a woman it is going to be a multiple of 15 minutes.
Ah, those beautiful times when people actually cared and believed the future will be better.

I guess this is where Star Trek got the idea of "sonic showers" from?
They invented .gitignore to prevent those files to get checked in into the repository.

Head, paper, keyboard is what we did in the 80s when compilers were too slow to afford throwing code at them and fix the errors later. Was that code in the HN story a substantial piece of code or some 100 lines program? Our programs used to be small.
This was just published by UI showing a potent effect of high dose vitamin C + chemotherapy: https://medicine.uiowa.edu/content/high-dose-iv-vitamin-c-pl... and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221323172...
> Everyone, and I mean everyone, regardless of their personal political views, wants to silence people they disagree with

Pure projection.
You need to check after the floating point operation though just in case. Or after the boundary where you pass the float to something else expecting this scheme.
Since you can download weights, there's no hiding.
It’s a high level language.
Ok, so it was not a hallucination. But still, this guy’s source: “I made it up”.

It might as well have been written by AI. An article about a Twitter comment thread is the laziest, most useless form of “journalism” I can think of. Making something up at least requires some imagination.
This tech is not only great for bulldozing grandma, its great at stealing content from other creators and rebranding it as your own. Based on the github, it kind of seems like thats exactly whats being advertised as the use case. Steal content from BBC, cut it up and pull the noise out/vocals/revoice the content so the algorithm cant detect the plagorism easily. The imagine detection is no where no the audio detection for copyright strikes.

There is a massive problem with this on youtube. Pretty much every category on youtube now has a host of these bots trolling content and playing the youtube strike system like a banjo. There are channels detected to showing you how to setup these content mills. This tool can make you good money.
Hall Effect switches are a pretty recent (re)addition to the keyboard market, so it might be difficult to find an out of the box ergo keyboard with HE on them.

Most of them are on gaming keyboards due to the possibility of getting super small actuation and rebound windows for faster input.

So you'd probably need to do some DIY (there are switches available for purchase, might have to do more reasearch).
Geese
Perfect for sharing on

I honestly love these naming conventions.

And all the Muppets inspirerad NLP names from five years ago were also great.
It’s the Fifth Circuit. Coinbase steered the case there given its record of judicial activism. I wouldn’t take the outcome for granted.
Apparently it was purely in software on iPhone/iPad. However, starting with the iPhone 16 and M4 iPad Pro, the LED indicator is rendered by a separate secure exclave:

https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/iphones/iphone-16s-a18-chip...

https://mastodon.social/@_inside/112552696723119626
It fills with (hot) water up to the neck, which feels like a huge risk for unattended disabled people
I would be pretty content if I could run macOS in a VM on an iPad, the core HW is near enough the same and macOS supports paravirtualised graphics, and yet...
I'm not claiming that any particular chatbot has an equivalent experience, I'm claiming there is no basis beyond its behaviour that it does not.

With the duplicate mother problem, if you cannot tell then there is no reason to believe that it is not a being of equivalent nature. That is not the same as identity, for a layman approach to that viewpoint, see Star Trek: TNG, Season 6, Episode 24. A duplicate Will Riker is created but is still a distinct entity (and one might argue, more original since has been transported one fewer times). Acting the same as is not the same as being the same entity. Nevertheless it has no bearing on whether the duplicate is a valid entity in its own right.

You feel like I'm not living in the real world, but I am the one asking what basis we have for knowing things. You are relying on the presumption that the world reflects what you believe it to be. Epistemology is all about idetifying exactly how much we know about the world.
It calls attention to the ethical implications of using a part of someone else's personal identity without their direct involvement.
It doesn’t matter. Really doesn’t.

We are talking about a device from 50 years ago where concerns were wildly different than the ones today. Water was cheap and plentiful.
I assumed they had jammed a new DXE into the UEFI capsule, which would probably be able to subvert secure boot.
This "CCP vs people" model almost always lead to very poor result, to the point that there's no people part anymore: some would just exaggerate and consider CCP has complete control over everything China, so every researcher in China is controlled by CCP and their action may be propaganda, and even researchers in the States are controlled by CCP because they may still have grandpa in China (seriously, WTF?).

I fully agree with this "CCP is CCP, Chinese are Chinese" view. Which means Alibaba is run by Chinese, not CCP. Same for BYD, DJI and other private entities in China. Yes, private entities face a lot of challenges in China (from CCP), but they DO EXIST.

Yet random guys on the orange site consistently say that "everything is state-owned and controlled by CCP", and by this definition, there is no Chinese people at all.
What features would you like to see added my virtual web OS?
https://sacred.neocities.org

I'm thinking about adding an MS Paint equivalent or an actual desktop that displays files and folders next. What would you like to see on it?
Are you suggesting government action against putting up code like this to GitHub? It’s ok if you are, but I want to put into more concrete terms what we’re talking about.
I'd say, if we want to reduce casualties, give nukes to everyone. Wars of aggression would disappear pretty quickly if mutually assured destruction was just as true for small and weak countries as large and powerful ones. A lot of money and manpower wasted on conventional military stuff could also be redirected into productive endeavors.
Damn I guessed the answer to be 9...
Is that a problem though? The other day I got a whole lecture on HN, complete with math, proving that keeping the water running entire time while showering isn't meaningfully wasteful... I still can't believe it on an emotional level, but the math checks out...
It’s clever, but not random chance. That would be too much of a coincidence. They rotate the floats to make it happen the way they want.

It’s hardly random that only 8 bits of exponent are needed for many calculations.
After GCHQ was discovered doing this back in 2014 with their 'Optic Nerve' program[0], I have tried to avoid computers with integrated webcams for use as my personal devices (exceptions are mobile devices).

An exception to that rule is if they have hardware switches for turning off the power supply to the camera and microphone.

Currently, I am very happy with my Framework, where the LED is hardwired into the power supplied to the camera[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optic_Nerve_(GCHQ)

[1]: https://community.frame.work/t/how-do-the-camera-and-microph...
> Somebody here has also mentioned Apple using the camera for brightness and maybe color temperature measurement, for which they wouldn't want to enable the LED (or it would effectively always be on).

That is not true. MacBooks have separate light sensors. And the camera physically cannot activate without the LED lighting up and a notification from the OS. People say a lot of stupid things in the comments…
There was a similar (contemporary?) Japanese model shared on here a few days ago, which was basically the same sans ladder. As long as there's nothing to stumble over on your way in, and it's not too hard to get situated in the chair, one of those would be amazing for people with mobility issues.

There was a New Yorker short story I read years ago about an elderly woman in a nursing home, and this wasn't the point of the story at all, but the main thing I remember is how the woman wanted to live with her daughter until her daughter pointed out that assisted/accessible bathing would be impossible in the daughter's tiny apartment shower.
Did you run through Buyers Walk right inside the building, or do you mean Grand Ave, the short and often slippery vehicular road that cut the building in half?

Either are cool, although I like the image of you running through the actual market like Rocky Balboa in the meat locker or something
This. AGI-enthusiastics are disconnected from reality as they want something but don't grasp the consequences of having that said thing.
Exactly like kids would want a dog because they only see they could play with it. But don't see the fact the dog needs to eat, go out for a walk, and sometimes go to the vet, can sometimes bite.
AGI-enthousiastics are not ready to face an AGI, and no one of them is ready to take responsability for an AGI, given we'll see one in the next 50 years.
Chinese Ship's Crew Suspected of Deliberately Dragging Anchor to Cut Cables
Lots of countries impose exactly what specific regulations with respect to open source tooling?

The closest thing I can think of is maybe the regulation of DRM ripping tools, but they're still out there in the wild and determined actors can easily get ahold of them. So I'm not at all confident that regulation will have any measurable meaningful effect.
Your suggestions are fine, but if you really want to support your favorite musicians, you should attend their concerts and buy merchandise there. They personally get far more profit from ticket sales and merch sales than from selling music directly. And of course, the concert experience is something way beyond just listening to a track from Bandcamp or a CD.
RightTyper: Auto-generate Python type hints