skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cooldown period built into HN is there for a reason: taking time to reflect on messages and do any necessary background research makes for better discussions than impulsively saying whatever is top of mind. I suggest you use this time to understand what an LD50 actually is and how the concept generalizes.

(cc @dang, seeing this growing trend of people misunderstanding the missing reply button and evading the timer via edits, perhaps UI affordances could be developed to better introduce folks to the feature?)
"Count De Monet: I have come on the most urgent of business. It is said that the people are revolting!

"King Louis: You said it; they stink on ice."

As always, Mel Brooks captures the vibe perfectly.
The warnings you're seeing are because they are Manifest V2 extensions.

Blocking/routing is harder and less configurable in Manifest V3
My MacBook Pro has one HDMI and one DisplayPort on the right side. The left side has two DisplayPort and a MagSafe.

Edit: And a MacBook Air would have just the two DisplayPort on the left with no HDMI, plus headphone jack on the right.
IIRC main difference was that DP1.4 at 26gbit was more than enough to drive 4k displays
> DisplayPort, for most intents and purposes, has lost the format war. You buy a laptop - it’s HDMI on the side, not DisplayPort.

The laptops USB-C ports probably speak DisplayPort though. There was another USB-C alt mode which carried HDMI instead but that spec was abandoned, DisplayPort is the de facto standard USB-C video protocol now.
Does that work with other stimulants? Pretty much all the stronger ones dialate capillaries with fewer side effects than caffeine
Ohhh, my mistake I misread you and revealed my ignorance. Thanks for clarifying.

Edit: I'll further reveal my ignorance. What's the function piping API in node? Is it in the browser? Does work like the pipe operator |> in R, Elixir, and F#?
This talk is not for a 2024 NeurIPS paper.

This talk is for the "NeurIPS 2024 Test of Time Paper Awards" where they recognize a historical paper that has aged well.

https://blog.neurips.cc/2024/11/27/announcing-the-neurips-20...

And the presentation is about how a 2014 paper aged. When you understand this context you will appreciate the talk more.
My iOS ad blocker seems to block it all since I see none
The manufacturers very much care - every HDMI port (physical or virtual) involves tithe to the HDMI consortium, whereas DisplayPort does not.
Python DX is terrible, Go DX is awesome
> There’s numerous amazing ferroelectrics that you can grow tons of that would absolutely spank NAND flash. However, they’re not silicon fab, so nobody makes them.

So why doesn't somebody new start making them and put all the current flash producers out of business?
Duolingo bucks edtech post-pandemic blues
>Disregarding that use case, it shows that GPUs can actually do things like fprintf or open sockets.

Can you elaborate on this? My mental model of GPU is basically like a huge vector coprocessor. How would things like printf or sockets work directly from the GPU when they require syscalls to trap into the OS kernel? Given that the kernel code is running on the CPU, that seems to imply that there needs to be a handover at some point. Or conversely even if there was unified memory and the GPU could directly address memory-mapped peripherals, you'd basically need to reimplement drivers wouldn't you?
Not true at all (or only in limited circumstances that do not apply

First, it was not the original energy expenditure that is the problem. The problem is that the CO2 CHANGES the solar energy exchange equation, by allowing ~the same amount of solar energy to the earth's surface, but REDUCING the earth's ability radiate that energy back to space. That newly captured energy VASTLY EXCEEDS the original energy that went into adding the CO2 to the atmosphere. That original energy spent has almost zero impact on climate change.

Next, capture requires none of the things you say.

— Carbon capture can be done by 'farming' high-uptake organisms, which has extreme leverage for energy expended. Examples include iron-seeding of water to make algae blooms, planting high uptake trees, etc.

— Carbon capture can be done by accelerating natural chemical processes, e.g., exposing rocks that react with water and CO@, or crushing those rocks and spreading them on fields (iirc, Google just contracted with a company doing exactly that)

— Carbon capture can be done by enzyme-driven processes that make the desired reactions happen with minimal artificial energy input

— Even if you want to use a chemistry that requires direct energy input, there is zero requirement to recover the original highly complex and energy-dense molecules previously used for fuel, it only needs to make a compound that can be captured. Still requires less energy than original used.

— Even if you insist on producing new molecules as energy-dense as the originals, there is vastly more energy available via non-CO2-outputting sources, such as solar, wind, etc. which often produce surpluses. Again, the energy of the process has almost zero to do with promoting climate change.

So, NO, it neither a bad joke, a process that requires breaking laws of physics, at fantasy, or a scam.
Emergency unmanned airborne spectrometric (HPGe) monitoring system
This is only slightly less practical than a black hole starship.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_starship
Toxicity is in the dose.
Even good old H2O can be lethal in sufficient quantity.
Usually it's raw DisplayPort connection using some of the SuperSpeed lanes on USB3/USB-C connector. Encapsulation is optionally available when running Thunderbolt/USB4 on the port, then between consenting devices you can setup a virtal circuit where DisplayPort packets are encapsulated in Thunderbolt/USB4 packets.
Sounds like a worthwhile undertaking. Do you know someone who is actively working on this problem?
Live Dashboard of New Jersey Drone Sightings
If you view it all as statistics sure but how would you feel hearing about a loved one’s death as getting scythed?
The point of HDMI port is that access to it is controlled by the consortium, and that it includes DRM.

This isn't necessarily compatible with FOSS.
If you wanted to discredit the environmental movement, I couldn’t think of a better way than forcing everyone to switch to paper straws. And as far as I’m aware, most places it wasn’t forced, it was voluntary.
Real-Time Text-to-Cypher Query Generation with LLMs for Graph Databases
This is why travel is so important -- it gets us out of our bubbles.

Once I was brainstorming with a German colleague about a new business chat feature, and he said we should target WhatsApp as a channel. My American colleagues were like, "No one uses that these days."

But Americans have little idea how popular WhatsApp really is in Europe, and Brazil (where it's colloquially called Zappy Zappy), and vast swaths of the world. The American experience isn't as normative as we assume. I only know this because I'm part of a diaspora network and I have contacts from all over the world -- FB Messenger and iMessage are not as popular as we think outside of certain high GDP countries.

Conversely, some suggested targeting iOS in Germany, but my German colleague immediately said that iOS marketshare in Germany is actually fairly low. That surprised me but he was right.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/461900/android-vs-ios-ma...

Even France, with its reputation for liking premium products, does not have a high iOS market share.

Japan does have a very high iOS market share however because they appreciate craftsmanship, and due to Softbank's efforts in the country.

I remember the early days of WhatsApp -- it was the non-SMS messaging platform of choice in an era when phone plans changed for texting.
And don't forget that LBJ had a 5-year mission to create a shower with enough pressure and nozzles to satisfy his need to pressure wash jumbo.
EXIF tags in images can have your camera and GPS info.

You can clear EXIF tags before sharing files.

Most social networks will remove EXIF tags from pictures before serving them to other people. Except silly social networks used by insurrectionists.

But even without the EXIF tags there's plenty of info that can be extracted from a picture. Face biometrics is one of them.
Problems with Python dependency management
Mutation XSS: Explained, CVE and Challenge
It can't be done when the possibility exists for large corporations, I think. Anti-competitive practices have made it a thing for big companies to buy small ones, and for small ones to have the goal of being bought.

I don't think Google was ever great, because it was fundamentally based on offering a free service for advertising, and that can't lead anywhere good.

We need a new set of laws that prevent corporations from becoming huge. It is the hugeness that allows for the level of degeneration we see in big tech platforms and the internet in general.
Sure, but if we're talking about high-end displays, 4K by itself isn't exactly high-end anymore. A 4 year old Playstation 5 can output not just 4K, but also 120hz with 10-bit HDR colour. This requires ~32 Gigabit/s, more than DP1.4

https://linustechtips.com/topic/729232-guide-to-display-cabl...

I'm personally on a 1440p240hz monitor. With HDR, this barely squeaks over DP1.4's bandwidth.
The decision to replace VGA with HDMI on Thinkpads was literally driven by market research deciding that likelihood of encountering HDMI setups was bigger than VGA by then.
That's really odd, if they did it for privacy reason they missed some news.
Plus who you write on Whatsapp, plus what you like on Instagram, plus what ads you see online, what ads you click through on, etc.
Thom did great work on the Plato stuff. Also be sure to check out his Fujinet work, really nicely done. Ported to many platforms too.
On top of this at 1g it takes ~1 year accelerating to that speed and another year decelerating. So even the nearest star is going to be a multi year subjective journey or a really unpleasant trip.
It looks like your account is using HN primarily for political battle. That's not allowed here, for reasons I've explained many times (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). We end up having to ban accounts that won't stop doing it, and we've had to ask you about this kind of thing many times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ehm no I've always been in favour of public transport. That's not annoying. Europe isn't as car centric as the US.

And like I said I'm not against these things. I just understand that some people speak up.
The research has been complicated in the US because so many of the cell lines pass through fetal tissue. But IIUC it's ongoing (and not so encumbered in other countries). Not to say all are intertwined with fetal cell research, only that it's one of the cheapest sources of stem cells and law has made using it complicated.
> 12/12/2024, 7:17:00 PM "Another huge drone spotted soaring over the Bronx"

My interpretation: It's a pic of a drone that is a few tens of feet away.

It was the only link I followed. Maybe other reports are more persuasive.
UnitedHealth's Optum left an AI chatbot exposed
Perchance – platform for creating and sharing random generators
It's worth remembering here the incident that led to Conda existing in the first place. There has never been a culture that would allow for this. And keep in mind that, aside from being a completely incompatible project, Pip is not part of the standard library.

People don't agree that "package tooling fragmentation" is an actual problem, anyway. I'm one of them. The real problem is that a few of the basic tools (mainly, Pip and Setuptools) don't work properly. They have fundamental design flaws and are ridden with technical debt. The underlying implemented standards have also lagged behind, and Uv can't actually fix that.

But once a solid base is established, I don't actually want to have a single tool making all the package management decisions for me. I want Unix-philosophy tools that handle specific individual development tasks, built around a proper, integrated user tool for installing applications and libraries (Pipx would be very close to such a tool, if it exposed its underlying Pip copy more elegantly and if Pip didn't suck). I don't want someone else's "project manager" to decide for me what build backend to use, or even to just bundle one. And I'm perfectly happy using `build` as a build frontend, `twine` as a PyPI uploader etc. Writing `uv upload` or whatever it actually uses, is not an improvement to me.
I tried the example provided but it is not working. Are AMD GPUs supported?
Maybe. But the intellectual curiosity I'm talking about is not purely technical, and HN does host a lot of historical, social, and (yes) political* conversation.

What we want to avoid is having the site taken over by the latter and bursting into flames. That's actually the default outcome, so we have to spend a lot of energy avoiding it.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
The PTerm app no longer works on modern MacOS unfortunately.
I suppose that this xkcd (https://xkcd.com/1425/) is relevant enough, just that we already took those 5+ years of research to be able to tell what is in the photo.
So, I just click the example pic with a guy and two kids, one on his shoulders, and it describes saying it "shows a detailed close-up view of a textured surface, possibly a fabric or wallpaper". And then it goes on to say that the "photograph itself seems to be devoid of any human presence, focusing entirely on the abstract design."

I click another one with a family on a field. It says mostly the same as before.

EDIT: Oh, wait a minute! I had Resist Fingerprinting activated. So they're probably just reading the image through a <canvas> and getting shit from that.

In any case it's interesting to know that it works as a way to block some of it. But Google & co. just run it on their servers so...
So, are we headed towards a bitter-sweet zone and modeling is going to get more prominent once again? massive datasets going to take a backseat?
If you want a rabbit hole of trivia to go down https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose is a great read.
There are millions of free apps.

They had some estimated 10M paid users a few months ago.

>Is a paid user generating profit right now?

For themselves ? I don't know and neither does the person saying they have no PMF.

There is nothing stopping Open AI from inserting ads into GPT's responses, either explicitly with the search tool or weaved into predicted responses.

Their revenue nearly quadrupled year on year and model training and inference costs have reduced by several orders of magnitude in the last few years.

I'm not saying that Open AI are foolproof. But the money being pumped to them is more or less expected.
You can hit 100% compliance by actually firing people. 98% means lot’s of scary memo’s and little action.

So yea 98% says a lot about how toothless this all was.
By that logic HDMI would never have gotten popular in the first place. No small business owner ever cared about what cable they connect to their TV as long as they have access to it.
DP doesn't have eARC for audio, that won't work.
'namow yrgna' means 'atārī'
My backups work though. As a Linux user, it's exhausting watching people complain about macOS and Windows every single day on this site, because there's nothing you can do about. You're a captive prisoner on their platform.

For some of us, dealing with GIMP's warts is more tolerable than the alternatives.
You're assuming the person who complained has high gas bills.

Gas produces much more useful energy than a heat pump can. And the installation is much more simpler and space efficient.

If heat-pumps would be at least as good most likely they would be more successful on their own and there would be no need to be forced onto people by the government because "think of the environment".
Using a Google api reveals much more….
A cardboard straw covered in pfas no less. Definitely not an improvement that one.
Tesla is buffing Foundation Series badges off Cybertrucks to sell them cheaper
As much as I appreciate the effort to create a technological solution that avoids big tech like Google, I find the best way is still prints. I'm usually 'the photographer' in the family and after an event I just order prints to the house of the relevant family members (or bring them over myself). Nothing can really compare to holding the physical product in your hand.

Additionally, due to the small cost of prints, there's a real incentive to only show a few of the best so that it doesn't devolve into endless scrolling.
Korea also saw almost nonstop protests since Yoon came to power - TBH I think there was always some part of Korea protesting the government, since forever. But you can't just kick out a president for being hugely unpopular - they must do something so drastically and flagrantly unconstitutional that the majority of citizens must say "Yep that's unconstitutional, we have to drag him down because our Republic is at danger."

Whether you like Trump or not (I don't), Trump of 2016/2017 did not meet the threshold. (Half of America had just elected him, what would you expect?) I think Jan 6th clearly met the threshold, and Biden should have seen that Trump ends up in prison. He somehow didn't - I get that precedents are important in politics and America had never seen an ex-president in prison, so would have been very controversial - but I think it was a wrong decision and America is now paying the price.
Wonderfully you don't need to trust my words, you've got my code :)

If semantics are different, that's a bug/todo. It'll have worse latency than a CPU thread making the same kernel request. Throughput shouldn't be way off. The GPU writes some integers to memory that the CPU will need to read, and then write other integers, and then load those again. Plus whatever the x64 syscall itself does. That's a bunch of cache line invalidation and reads. It's not as fast as if the hardware guys were on board with the strategy but I'm optimistic it can be useful today and thus help justify changing the hardware/driver stack.

The whole point of libc is to paper over the syscall interface. If you start from musl, "syscall" can be a table of function pointers or asm. Glibc is more obstructive. This libc open codes a bunch of things, with a rpc.h file dealing with synchronising memcpy of arguments to/from threads running on the CPU which get to call into the Linux kernel directly. It's mainly carefully placed atomic operations to keep the data accesses well defined.

There's also nothing in here which random GPU devs can't build themselves. The header files are (now) self contained if people would like to use the same mechanism for other functionality and don't want to handroll the data structure. The most subtle part is getting this to work correctly under arbitrary warp divergence on volta. It should be an out of the box thing under openmp early next year too.
But what value does that have? The difference between a armchair lawyer and a real actual lawyer is in knowing when something is legal/illegal, but unlikely to be seen that way in a court or brought to a favorable verdict. It's knowing which cases you can actually win, and how much it'll cost and why.

Most of that is not in scope of what an LLM could be trained on, or even what an LLM would be good at. What you're training in that case would be someone who's an opinion columnist or twitter poster. Not an actual lawyer.
ICQ and AIM were pretty much dead already.

Microsoft really missed an opportunity, I remember using a third party app for Messenger and the mobile experience wasn't great. Skype was too focused on voice and video calls, not seen as an instant messaging app, even though it could very well have been.

The biggest fumble really comes from Google though. I was using Google Talk as my main messaging app on PC, and Android had pretty much everything ready before iOS, including video chat over 3G.

However Google went through a pointless revamp with Hangouts and never managed a convincing SMS integration.
I uploaded an old image of a keyboard PCB from when I was troubleshooting it and it gave a very detailed response including naming the keyboard the PCB comes from, the time of day the photo was likely taken, and where the photo was likely taken.
They already exist. I recently bought a 33 foot fiber DP1.4+USB3.1/2 (depending on how much video bandwidth you’re using) cable on Amazon for about $130.
These are the obvious things they can see in the photos. Not shown are the various assumptions they'll make about you based on your photos such as: gay, likely uneducated, high income earner, most likely republican, narcissistic, etc.

Also not shown is what they'll learn by the totality of the data they collect from your pictures such as how often you go on vacation, how often you're seen in new clothing and what kinds of clothes you typically wear, your health, what types of foods you eat, social graphs of everyone you're seen with and changes to your relationship status over time, how often you consume drugs/alcohol, your general level of cleanliness and personal hygiene, etc.

Even a handful of photos can give companies like Google, Apple, and Amazon massive amounts of very personal data but nobody thinks about that when they pull out their phones to take pictures or install a ring camera on their front door.
Someone I know goes to a moms group where they play this dice game called Bunco¹ They've been playing it for 20 years.

Tables of four people quickly form, play and move.

The game is based on luck, not skill, so people are social not competitive. They're also concentrating on each other not so much the game.

I got to attend it once and play, and found it to be an exceptional way to get to know absolutely everyone in the room.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunco

"over 59 million women have played bunco and over 27 million play regularly"
A seminal work that influenced David Macaulay's lesser-known efforts.
Many are, it is just not a trivial problem to create or copy living organs.
> It takes 50K to 100K years for a 100 ppm change in atmospheric CO2.

> Nothing. Absolutely nothing we do can improve on this rate of change

Trivially false—humanity has already changed the CO2 ppm by larger, in a shorter span of time. For the most part without even noticing.
Ah, but that wasn't true social-science research :)
Just checked, still broken, looks like the “-“ between chord nebula needs to be a “_”
I’m surprised that this piece mentioned Microsoft, but didn’t touch on Microsoft’s solution to this problem: project silica (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-sil...), which stores data on etched pieces of quartz glass that are supposed to be able reliably store data for thousands a of years. Of course, you still need to solve the dispersal problem, and need to make sure that the knowledge of how to read the glass tablets is passed down, but hey, nothing’s perfect!
For most people, it is too taxing to be on guard 24/7 and they have other things going on in their life that are more pressing like paying rent. I don't blame people for not thinking twice about that Ring camera because unlike most open-source solutions, "it just works."
Comparing the site that was #8 in Internet worldwide traffic last month, has 300M weekly active users, 1B messages a day and is basically the fastest adopted software product in history to NFTs, VR and Blockchain does not make any sense.
“Slow” doesn’t show up when I do a ctrl+F, so again, it seems like you’re just confused about how the law works?
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(55 points, 2 days ago, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42403886

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