skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks amazing if it pans out at scale. Would be great if someone tried this with one of those simulated robotic training tasks that always have thousands or millions of trials rather than just CIFAR-10.
The cover on my laptop's camera is behind the glass. I suppose there is a chance that the slider itself could get damaged, but at least they minimized the exposed surface that could be damaged.

That said, I really can't comment on how durable it is. I only remove the cover about a half dozen times a year.
Here in New Jersey our property taxes are crippling. However if you have a big 5+ acre yard and can sell $1k worth of produce you are "farm" and taxed at a much lower rate. You might need a second job to stay afloat...
> This allows unboxing the vast majority of floats, which leads to big speedups on float-heavy benchmarks.

NaN-boxing allows all floats to be unboxed though. The main benefit of the self-tagging approach seems to be that by boxing some floats, we can make space for 64-bit pointers which are too large for NaN-boxing.

The surprising part of the paper is that "some floats" is only a small minority of values - not, say, 50% of them.
Jim Keller is working on a small fab design that is intended to make small runs economic. Atomic Semi. Hasn't yielded anything yet, but they only started in 2023.

https://atomicsemi.com/
You assume everything is in good working order. Perhaps it was. Is this the type of vehicle that is designed for offroad abuse? Is this the type of owner that would do that anyways? Was there a secondary malfunction or perhaps something caught in the area before or after the accident that contributed to the cause?

Brakes get hot. Hot enough to burn you pretty good even on a car that hasn't been to the track and maybe even hot enough to light organic debris that comes in contact with it on fire. Which is probably pretty difficult normally but might be a lot easier if you bash a bunch of that structure to bits in a high speed accident.

Real mystery though.
We had to make do with Shape Tables in AppleSoft BASIC…good times drawing those out manually on graph paper. And then XOR-ing them onto the background. Amazing how good games were on the Apple ][ without dedicated graphics hardware.
It's working out great for me, actually, as the entire Canadian tech industry is based on outsourcing. We're less of a national security risk as an American client state.

For critical infrastructure though, outsourcing is the wrong move. This is because the consequences of failure are borne by society instead of the corporation.

If Americans were banned from all social media tomorrow, realistically there wouldn't be mass rioting and civil unrest. Contrast if you found out tomorrow that the USA only has 7 days worth of food for all its citizens, and no more is coming. Are you going to start killing people to boost your odds of survival?
The easy test is ask someone who has known an area for 50 years how many new houses have gone up. You might be surprised. Even in depressed areas with some reduction in population, such as some areas of Appalachia, there are many new houses in rural areas.
Do the rates for leasing farmland go up with farmland prices?
Brain learns through pain. LLMs learn through expending energy.
R.I.P. Sheldon Brown. I'm glad his pages still exist both as useful resource and as a time capsule of what the best of the old web looked like: useful, content rich, no ads, fast loading, stable urls.
Astound seems to be some PE buying up local ISPs and it's probably very different depending on which ISP is Astound in your area, but having service from a local ISP before and after it was acquired by Astound I could not help but notice severe degradation of the service (which was not stellar to begin with but cheap enough and local). Frequent price increases (every 2-3 months) were some of the Astound's "improvements" to the old service.
This is Apple, so that assertion isn’t guaranteed valid like it would be for non-enterprise HP or Lenovo. They absolutely would invest in a capacitor if that’s what it takes, as they are maximally focused on camera privacy concerns and have made a point of that in their security marketing over time; or else they wouldn’t be allowing hardware security engineers to brag about it, much less talk publicly about it, at all.

EDIT: It’s not just a capacitor, it’s a full custom chip, that can’t be software-modified, that keeps the light on for 3 seconds. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42260379
Yeah the first day I read about RATers... jesus. The camera LED seemed to be a major thing for them, because if they could bypass it then the chance their RAT would be discovered was much lower.

Really nasty world they've made for themselves, blackmailing, extorting and generally controlling other people (mostly women and girls, but some men too) with threats of releasing compromising material.
The capacitor has to see the common mode voltage. Where do you put the other end?
> nearly everyone in the USSR was a farmer, so not proletariat and not communist

This statement has a number of flaws.

> nearly everyone in the USSR was a farmer

True during the early years, but after WW2 changed rapidly (in line with the West). [1] shows rural population percentage dropped from 67% in 1939 to 56% in 1956, and it rapidly decreased after that. [2] is female specific but by 1975 under 1/3 were working in agriculture.

In addition, everyone other than the actual owner of the land was considered "The Agricultural Proletariat". Engels wrote [3] about this in 1845 well before the establishment of the Soviet Union.

> so not proletariat

As seen above, this doesn't follow especially after the establishment of collective farming where everyone were considered workers.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/1233891

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_working_class#Women

[3] https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-w...
Why is it that many of the examples for the "typing.protocal" class right below this involve meth??? Python WTF?
Amazon Must Defend "Yelp Law" Claim–Ramos vs. Amazon
Yes, photos of naked people are used to extort them (usually into just paying the holder to delete them).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42261730
try drawing a straight line through 8+ billion scattered dots.
Do all float operations need to reconfirm those bits afterwards though? I suppose if you have some sort of JIT you can end up with a bunch of unboxed floats and would only pay the cost on boundaries though
Gender dysphoria is a recognised medical condition. Cisgender is the word for someone without that condition. It is scientific, a term derived through empirical observation of the world. You just happen to dislike that science. I have had my posts censored on X for using the word "cis". While I still used the site, posts containing that word were consistently flagged, deleted, and hidden. I think I still have some of the emails they sent me, warning me about the use of this word. I would occasionally try to avoid the censorship by writing "c*s" and my posts would still be hidden and I would still receive a warning. Perhaps he has since unbanned the word, but I don't use the site anymore so I wouldn't know.
For some inexplicable reason Dell has chosen to mark the button as "mute mic" (mic icon + X). So if the LED on the keyboard is lit up, the microphone is off, or rather, the microphone muting is on on. Brilliant design.
Alibaba's cloud has data centres around the world including the US, EU, UK, Japan, SK, etc - so i'd assume they can legaly get recent tech. See:

https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/global-locations?_p_lc=1
This one is pretty impressive. I'm running it on my Mac via Ollama - only a 20GB download, tokens spit out pretty fast and my initial prompts have shown some good results. Notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/27/qwq/
Go for it. Econ 100 textbook bs about supply and demand are trivially dismissed by a casual examination of housing and rental prices in the US in gentrified areas. What happens when the real world intrudes on academic platitudes is rather straightforward: pricing for everything goes up and the folks who were struggling get pushed out. Nobody who couldn't afford housing in the market before the shift is served.
method? Or are you being sarcastic?
you didn't vote for it either. the only vaguely "socialist" candidate in the recent history was Bernie Sanders, who got passed over in favor of bland, faux-progressive neo-liberals both times he ran.
Maybe I'm wrong then. But there has been many slightly-different-sampling-method papers in the past that showed impressive results which were then difficult to replicate on other models or experimental setups.
Written language is rarely just a transcription. It usually has a number of distinct differences in both lexicon and syntax. There are languages that are only written.

Art is not writing, true. Distinct symbols and syntax are required for writing. But it need not be transcription of anything spoken.
I'll admit I was expecting an explanation of how to extract sprites from retro video game footage using FFmpeg, which I can see totally being possible with a bit of work.
Yeah, I think that was it. Most of what I remember from that era was the pile of printed OS/2 programming manuals on my desk.
Absolutely. We've switched from (much simpler than hackerrank) coding tests to debugging problem. It relies on external API, so we get to see candidate's train of thought, and naive methods of cheating using ChatGPT are trivially detectable.

But this is arms race of course. I have no doubt LLMs could solve that problem too (they might be able already with the right prompt). And then we'd have to make to even more realistic... How does one fit "here is a 1M lines codebase and a user complaint, fix the problem" in a format of 1-hour interview? We'll either have to solve this, or switch to in-person interviews and ban LLMs.
It's a strategy to keep up during the scale-up of the AI industry without the amount of compute American companies can secure. When the Chinese get their own chips in volume they'll dig their moats, don't worry. But in the meantime, the global open source community can be leveraged.

Facebook and Anthropic are taking similar paths when faced with competing against companies that already have/are rapidly building data-centres of GPUs like Microsoft and Google.
Which is part of the design (see comments from the security architect elsewhere in the discussion).
This is my problem in a work context. I know I'm distractable, yet for security reasons I have to have a distraction device which I have to pick up and use for signing into certain applications.
What I'm Thankful For
Similar to the author, I infrequently write Python code (though I have a long history with it), but I feel quite the opposite about type hints. A few specific comments:

- The LLMs can really help with typing tricky situations. If your editor can't already tell you what to use, asking an LLM usually can give me the answer.

- Type annotations for code that might change is a lifesaver, because when I change it later on I now get a bunch of conflicts where I've used it using the old way.

- Feel free to add annotations where it makes sense and is easy, and if something doesn't make sense or it is too hard to figure out the right type, you can skip it and still gain the benefits of using it elsewhere.

- Annotations don't "force you to think about types", you already are thinking about types. They let you think a bit less about types I would argue, because they're documented in function calls and returns. "Can I read() from input_file, or do I need to open()read()?" "input_file:Path" makes it better documented, without encoding the object type in the name.

I'm coming up on 30 years of using Python, and I never really missed typing, but honestly I write basically all of my new code with annotations because of the IDE benefits I get from it. I love that the Python implementation allows me to get the benefits without forcing it on me. In my distant past I very much loved coding in C, but was quite happy with Python's lack of strict typing. This feels like a good middle-ground.
The Zero 2W has much better availability and at $15 it should still be cheap enough to essentially be a no-brainer if specs fit your needs.
The New New Class?
You’d be surprised what’s executable with the right attitude.
> I think that type hint are making python source code messy and unreadable.

I hear this sentiment a lot from people who rarely use strict(er) typed languages: Rust, C++, Java, C#, Go, etc. Can you imagine a developer in any of those languages complaining that "oh, now the code is messy and unreadable because we added explicit types"? It seems bizarre to think about it. Sure, Java and C# is a bit repetitive, but at least you always know the type.

There is an ongoing debate in C++, Java, and C# if the newish keyword "auto"/"var" is a good idea to hide local variable explicit types. The real issue: For the person who wrote the code, they already know the implicit types.. However, for people reading the code, they have a harder time to understand the implicit types.
The article takes that angle because Bluesky users are currently harassing and threatening a researcher. Read the replies to his original thread: https://bsky.app/profile/danielvanstrien.bsky.social/post/3l...

From the article:

>Per a report by 404 Media, Daniel van Strien, a machine learning librarian at AI firm Hugging Face, pulled 1 million public posts from Bluesky via its Firehose API for machine learning research, pushing the dataset to a public repository. Van Strien later removed the data due to the controversy that ensued; however, it serves as a timely reminder that everything you post publicly to Bluesky is, well, public.
huh. they've eased it up quite a bit since the last time I tried chatting it up about controversial topics.
Translated, unpaywalled:

https://www-ftm-nl.translate.goog/artikelen/ruzie-tussen-zie...
says some 60+ npr guy who thinks AI wants his watermarked digital slr pic of a sunset so it can profit from his creative genious.
I think I had a seizure trying to parse that sentence.
Is that worse than Meta, X or Google hoarding up for themselves?

Or is it worse than Reddit selling to anyone with money?
for small teams we mostly see workflow automation on their alerts, for bigger teams it’s also unified API for alerts from many tools and single pane of glass for alerts
Ask an average person who Larry Summers is. Again, different bubbles different priorities.
Turning off camera LEDs and recording video is an old hack and old news. This is for a specific firmware and computer model and attack surface via USB to update the webcam's firmware, so I am assuming that makes it news?

EDIT: I keep a piece of black electric tape over any of my notebook's webcams.
This core was announced in December 2022

https://mips.com/press-releases/mips-announces-availability-...

They announced ending MIPS ISA development and switching to RISC-V in March 2021:

https://www.eejournal.com/article/wait-what-mips-becomes-ris...

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wave-computing-and-...
Does bsky have an actual plan for how they'll make money long term?

The users are all in a honeymoon phase about how it's so different from twitter, but it seems like it's only a matter of time until they're directly selling data for AI training, offering paid corporate accounts, intrusive ads, etc. In the end, I imagine it'll end up just like twitter but with a different CEO. I use it simply because lots of others who I follow migrated, but I'm under no delusion that it'll be any different long term.
> I’m not disagreeing, I’m saying the reasoning doesn’t hold.

Fair enough

> But the argument that such measures are problematic because they sidestep an individual consent that we don’t bother getting in other analogous situations makes it moot.

I guess this is where we don't agree. If I'm understanding correctly, your point is that existing contaminants in the food and air are analogous situations to these mosquito vaccines, and since we already don't give consent for the former, we shouldn't bother with the latter. I disagree: the fact that we have no control over these contaminants entering our body is not a reason to give carte blanche to the government to go even further.
I knocked out a dating app for horses back in '86 .. as long as dogs aren't just short horses I reckon you're good to go.

Now, fingers crossed, hopefully no one's going for the Turbo AI button for laptops idea I'm betting the farm on.
> If you add new code to a sw project in c or c++ that should be a solid case for negligence when your customers sue for losses.

Sure, as long as you are ok being similarly sued next time you install or use windows, macos, or linux on some box you administer. Those are all written in C. I guess you're OS-less until you write one in something safe. Ditto for web browsers and bootloaders.
Total shit article.

This is people leaving twitter and then after the fact justifying it with some virtuous ideal espousing. Not only, if those ideals mattered to people they wouldn't have been on twitter in the first place, I bet 80% of the bluesky converts will be back on twitter within 3 months. This isn't a shift, it's the end of nothing.

Then they bring up AI. Gotta bring up AI. And that's gonna be... "the algorithm." No thanks.

Just use nostr already and quit pretending some revolution is brewing.
I wonder how much of this is Elon’s idea or if it’s actually the idea of the people he is employing. AI is a very obvious place where video games will see some kind of innovation, good or bad as that may be.

I personally don’t think the problem with games is the big corporations. The main problem is the missing middle. Similar to movies, you’ve got big budget lowest common denominator blockbusters and you’ve got scrappy indie titles and not much in between.

I think it’s hard for interesting niche games with deep mechanics to get enough funding to be fleshed out as a satisfying experience. Instead, those niche titles might get created by indies but they can never really live up to the ideal vision of that game.
Bluesky Social Dataset (235M posts from 4M users)
Pollution of online social spaces caused by rampaging d/misinformation is a growing societal concern. However, recent decisions to reduce access to social media APIs are causing a shortage of publicly available, recent, social media data, thus hindering the advancement of computational social science as a whole. To address this pressing issue, we present a large, high-coverage dataset of social interactions and user-generated content from Bluesky Social.

The dataset contains the complete post history of over 4M users (81% of all registered accounts), totaling 235M posts. We also make available social data covering follow, comment, repost, and quote interactions.

Since Bluesky allows users to create and bookmark feed generators (i.e., content recommendation algorithms), we also release the full output of several popular algorithms available on the platform, along with their timestamped “like” interactions and time of bookmarking.

This dataset allows unprecedented analysis of online behavior and human-machine engagement patterns. Notably, it provides ground-truth data for studying the effects of content exposure and self-selection, and performing content virality and diffusion analysis.
Simon Willison's blog: https://simonwillison.net/
That's not how the scaling laws work. The number of samples required to reach a given quality level reduces exponentially over time. Most researchers use small datasets.
I've got a more limited and performant library I maintain. It frequently comes in first in speed comparisons.

It can only tell you things actually included in the UA string itself as it's just be a parser and not a "knowledge engine"

https://github.com/donatj/PhpUserAgent
You appeal to rationality then immediately abandon it. The COVID vaccine was not a traditional vaccine and the definitions were changed after it's release to match it. It relied on an entirely novel technology and novel delivery technique that was a part of a military strategy goal for a decade for no practical reason. The goalposts were constantly changed and "boosters" added to measurably diminished returns.

Which is all bad enough, but for people with your sort of "rational" to then decide that vaccines are _all_ uncritically "good," and any questions or any sort of reservations that I've just covered were thus uncritically "bad" and those having them deserved to have their civil rights stripped from them, is what made this a horror.

Finally, we have sanitized water and sewers and we live in first world conditions, the precursors to the diseases you mention are almost entirely absent from our living conditions, and those vaccinations use time tested and proven technologies which haven't ever been in question. Perhaps some of the popular adjuvants are worthy of concern, but in your version of rationality, this is apparently an evil thing to even consider out loud in the presence of the vaunted "technophiles."

You completely fail to maintain rationality in the face of a very narrow and specific critique.
All US government agencies are created through congress, by your elected representatives. It is the executive branch (the president, who is also elected) that is then responsible for carrying out the agency's mission. All the high-level government bureaucrats are confirmed by the senate, all elected officials. If a president dismisses them, the senate has to confirm their replacement.

This kind of government is described in the US constitution.
What's the point of "enable[ing] users to communicate their consent preferences", when none of the entities who receive those preferences are under any obligation or restraint to respect them?

This is a "close elevator" button. It's a placebo button your users can press that can make them feel—without any basis in reality—more safe, more private, more $whatever. It's deceptive. An ethical company should get rid of those no-op preferences settings altogether.
People have to realize that many problems that are hard for humans are in a dataset somewhere.
I'm more than open to reading anything about that! Literally anything!

Most respectfully and deferentially, I don't think "more things available makes price goes down" is a platitude or textbook or academic thing!

I must confess, the fact this Fat Tony logic and not some theory invented in an academic textbook ivory-tower divorced-from-reality impoverished-intellectual safe haven is why I cannot provide a proof: the note about the margin was an attempt to inject some levity, via a reference to Fermat!
Well, the second they'll start overwhelmingly outperforming other open source LLMs, and people start incorporating them into their products, they'll get banned in the states. I'm being cynical, but the whole "dangerous tech with loads of backdoors built into it" excuse will be used to keep it away. Whether there will be some truth to it or not, that's a different question.
Trump was elected. The president is supposed to be the head of the administrative branch of the government. He has actually been quite straightforward about what he wants to do.

If a country elects a bunch of bad eggs, it all falls over. There isn't a way around it.