skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been literally 0 production SMR deployments to date so there’s no possibility they’re basing any of their plans on the availability of them.
Just leaving this there:

> Over 90% of political donations from employees at major tech companies like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google have gone to Democrats since 2004.

> In 2020, 90% of contributions from the internet industry went to Democrats, while only 9% went to Republicans.

> However, there are signs of a slight shift in recent years:

> In 2024, 15% of donations from employees at major tech companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, and Meta went to Republican causes, up from 5% in 2020 and 8% in 2018.

It sounds like your definition is "a few visible billionaires donated to someone I don't like"

> broadcasting Nazi ideology and making Nazi salutes.

Look, I get it. You have your politics and that's fine. But if you want to win hearts and minds, try another strategy. It's all just so exhausting and people check out.
When I released my last Java project, I came out with a MacOS DMG, a Windows EXE installer, a Windows MSI installer, and a Fat Jar for Linux.

Now we have MacOS ARM, MacOS x86, Linux ARM/x86, Windows ARM/x86.

Even for a basic "cross platform" Java program (that bundles the JRE), that's 6 installs, which ostensibly need to be built on their respective platforms. Add on to that if you using something that includes a binary (like, say, SQLite, much less JavaFX which I work with).

The release burden is, well, frankly, daunting for a small project.

My honest thinking for my next project release is simply to tell folks to install the JDK, download the source code, and have them run:

./mvnw javafx:run.

(Or they can run go.sh/go.bat which essentially does the same thing.)

That'll download all of the stuff it needs including the Maven runtime and all of the libraries, as appropriate, build the project, and run it. It's Fast Enough (maybe it's awful on a small RPi, I dunno).

When I get more than 5 downloads, folks can vote as to which installer to work on.

Creating the executables was quite the black hole. I didn't create one for Linux because I honestly didn't know what packaging scheme to use.

In theory, the CI infrastructure on GitHub will let you build on different platforms, yet another black hole of time to sink into.

So, yea, at least initially, I think the maven wrapper will be my "release model". SHOULD be pretty simple.
Notably it is significantly more than the revenue of either of AWS or Azure. It is very comparable to the sum of both, but consolidated into the continental US instead distributed globally.
Ouch; License: EUROPEAN UNION, UNITED KINGDOM AND SOUTH KOREA

TENCENT HUNYUAN 3D 2.0 COMMUNITY LICENSE AGREEMENT
Tencent Hunyuan 3D 2.0 Release Date: January 21, 2025
THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT DOES NOT APPLY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION, UNITED KINGDOM AND SOUTH KOREA AND IS EXPRESSLY LIMITED TO THE TERRITORY, AS DEFINED BELOW.

https://github.com/Tencent/Hunyuan3D-2?tab=License-1-ov-file
You might want to move, but do all ~49,999 other people share the same view?
I'll see what I can find
It's Snowing in Florida
Texas seems to be where Oracle already has a DC project underway
Modern phones have LiDAR that give you the near exact volume and dimensions of everything on a plate. That's what we do:

https://www.snapcalorie.com/

We co-authored a paper on this with Google AI and showed it got about 2x the accuracy of a nutritionist because of it.
Personally I wish they invested in optical photonic computing, taking it out of the research labs. It can be so much more energy efficient and faster to run than GPUs and TPUs.
>2 out of 5 people getting all the way to the end and discovering that research or teaching are not them living their best life sounds either very sad or pretty good depending on your perspective.

Research and teaching can take place outside of academia.

>A lot of people convince themselves that what they aren't feeling now will finally come to them after one more milestone, and as long as there enough milestones ahead of them they can play for time until it happens. Or they hit Sunk Cost and feel like they can't tap out now because they'll look like idiots, ignoring how much bigger an idiot you look like for wasting X more years of your youth and saddling yourself with even more debt. Or existential crisis with much the same outcomes. "Who am I even if I'm not..."

Learning can exist for the sake of learning and doesn't necessarily need to be reflected in career choice or identity.
"Publish or perish" is fundamentally a wrong diagnosis. Publishing is generally the good part of the academia. If you are interested in your work, you obviously want to tell about it to other people in the field. Some specific publication venues are tedious and bureaucratic, but the pressure to publish is generally internal, not external.

Moving directly from being students to faculty is rare. It mostly happens in fields where the demand for PhDs is unusually high. Because universities can't compete with salaries, they have to offer positions people may not be ready for if they want to attract top candidates.

The norm is doing PhD, postdoc, and the first faculty position in different institutes – precisely to avoid the echo chamber effect. And unless you are from a particularly large country, you are expected to do at least one of them outside your home country.

Success measures are what they are for two reasons: competition and long-term focus. Academic research is fundamentally interesting, and there are far more competent people trying to do it than funding. And because people can't afford to wait for decades to measure the real-world impact, the academia must base career progression on something that can be determined quickly enough. If you are doing the kind of research where practical applications can be expected in a few years, the industry is a better place for you. They have a lot more resources for research than the academia.

I'm currently doing research on a topic I started working on ~15 years ago. In that time, the topic has progressed from something interesting and potentially valuable to a mainstream idea with plenty of research funding. If the work is successful, we may start seeing measurable real-world impact in 5-10 years.
It creates MacOS packages, Windows MSI, and Linux bundles. Those are all "installers", right?
There are many YouTube videos for teens on how to bypass ScreenTime. It’s a mess that Apple needs to clean up quickly
It's not even new:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project
Besides the various metrics other have mentioned (and which you could in theory put all in one screen, unless you're interested in a lot of them), you might want to interact with the workout and e.g. set it to the next interval. If you planned a 15min warmup at low pace but already feel good after 10min, you might want to already go to the main part of your workout. On Garmin that's one button away, I'd be annoyed if I had to touch the screen for that.
I actually also wondered about this because if Signal does not encrypt attachments and delivers them via CloudFlare and that would suck as CloudFlare could just look into all them.

It seems that signal is indeed encrypting all attachments and therefore the encrypted attachments are cached and served via CloudFlare.
I had the opposite experience. I am an avid note taker, love the idea of a remarkable and got one for all the benefits you mentioned, especially the screen share part and just found it unsatisfying. Couldn't stick with it, wound up sending it back and going back to pen and paper
MGX seems to be in Abu Dhabi/UAE rather than Saudi Arabia. Hadn't heard of it before.
A sheikh, a famously overzealous Japanese firm and Larry Elisson walk into a bar.

Ordinarily a joke would follow, but now America is volunteering to be the punchline.
Not sure it qualifies, but I've started building an Android app that wraps bergamot[0] (the firefox translation models) to have on-device translation without reliance on google.

Bergamot is already used inside firefox, but I wanted translation also outside the browser.

[0]: bergamot https://github.com/browsermt/bergamot-translator
At some point this becomes No True Scotsman. They have disclosed a lot
The original term is ときめく (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%A8%E3%81%8D%E3%82%81%E...).
My son just had an X-ray and there were checks and balances and careful professionals. It’s taken a hundred years plus to go from early tech to available in local hospitals.

We have barely begun to address the sharp edges of social media, mobiles and more. We will get there, a calm UI and backgrounded tech (hint AI won’t do it magically we need to intentionally give up selling ads every second) but democracy helps.
You are correct. I thinko'd and missed the edit window. I meant to say:

Math usually considers (-7 mod 5) === (3 mod 5). But in C, (-7 % 5 != 3 % 5).

The issue is that -7 and 3 are congruent, but the % operator keeps the sign. So -7 % 5 yields -2, not +3. Those are congruent, but not equal. I've never had a use for this behaviour, but I've definitely had to work around it. The lazy way is ((x % n) + n) % n which is safe (assuming n > 0).
> Buying millions of ebooks online would take a lot of effort

Let me put that into perspective:

- Googling "how many books exist" gives me ~150 million, no idea how accurate but let's use that.
- Meta had a net profit of ~40 billion USD in 2023.
- That could be an potential investment of ~250 USD per book acquisition.

That sounds like a ludicrously high budget to me. So yeah, Meta could very well pay. It would still not be ethical to slurp up all that content into their slop machine but there is zero justification to pirate it all, with these kinds of money involved.
I also heard about this mill on HN and can also say it’s by far the best peppermill I’ve ever used. It is rock solid. I also bought the salt mill.
Grid is fine, snow is melting, everything is business as usual. CenterPoint had 99.9% deliverability for the past 24 hours, and ERCOT has 14,781 MW in reserve power available (https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/gridconditions). Source: I live in Houston.

I know this was tongue in cheek, but c'mon, we can respect each other, right? :)
This is my question too, but I haven't seen a journalist ask it yet. My baseless theory: Trump has promised them some kind of antitrust protections in the form of legislation to be written & passed at a later date.

An announcement of a public AI infrastructure program joined by multiple companies could have been a monumental announcement. This one just looks like three big companies getting permission to make one big one.
Couldn't you do this with your router/firewall? Of course, this would mean managing devices by MAC instead of DHCP, but one of the wifi routers (maybe a Tomato upgrade) allowed designating blocks of time to allow/deny WAN access
Is this tied to EU regulations around AI models?
No, he didn't. Both links have zero mentions of solar or wind, and very specifically define their terms thus:

"a) The term “energy” or “energy resources” means crude oil, natural gas, lease condensates, natural gas liquids, refined petroleum products, uranium, coal, biofuels, geothermal heat, the kinetic movement of flowing water, and critical minerals, as defined by 30 U.S.C. 1606 (a)(3)."

This is Trump accepting bribes from the legacy and fossil fuel industries to keep those "nasty" new clean energy sources from competing with them.
So? What I said is correct
This is really cool - it's a relatively well known idea, but it's great to see it get refined and better understood. It's amazing how sparse the brain is; a single neuron can trigger a profound change in contextual relations, and play a critical role in how things get interpreted, remembered, predicted, or otherwise processed.

That single cell will have up to 10,000 features, and those features are implicitly processed; they're only activated if the semantic relevance of a particular feature surpasses some threshold of contribution to whatever it is you're thinking at a given moment. Each of those features is binary, either off or on at a given time t in processing. Compare this to artificial neural networks, where a particular notion or concept or idea is an embedding; if you had 10,000 features, each of those is activated and processed every pass. Attention and gating and routing and MoE get into sparsity and start moving artificial networks in the right direction, but they're still enormously clunky and inefficient compared to bio brains.

Implicit sparse distributed representation is how the brain can get to ~2% sparse activations, with rapid, precise, and deep learning of features in realtime, where learning one new thing can recontextualize huge swathes of knowledge.

These neurons also allow feats of memory, like learning the order of 10 decks of cards in 5 minutes, or reciting 1 million digits of pi, or cabbies learning "The Knowledge" and learning every street, road, sidwalk, alley, bridge, and other feature in London, able to traverse the terrain in their mind. It's wonderful that this knowledge is available to us, that the workings of our minds are becoming unveiled.
>Can someone explain a meme coin like I'm a 3-year old?

It can't be done.

Some things are too technical for a 3-year old no matter how you put it.

This isn't one of them.

It's simply defined as a shitcoin, because it's not worth shit, and you're not supposed to say that to a 3-year old.

Simple as can be but you're also supposed to grow up a bit before you get to handle real money anyway.
Calm tech isn't about nit levels. It's about how much the tech inserts itself into your attention.
Ants hold the key to cybersecurity's future
table salt, but not table pepper or table seasoners
That's not really true - the current generation, as in "of the last three months", uses reinforcement learning to synthesize new training data for themselves: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Zero
take-home sleep studies are common for sleep apnea, are they not? I did one...
I'm also curious how a global leader in multimodal generative AI chose this particular image. Did they prompt a generator for a super messy impressionist painting of red construction cranes with visible brush strokes, distorted to the point of barely being able to discern what the image represents?
In many dialects of BASIC (my first programming language), $ comes at the end of a variable name (e.g., NAME$) to indicate that the variable was a string (that example would often be read out loud as name-string). Remembering that, I never had to do the "it's the opposite" thing (for this case... I've done it for many other things). It's one of the few things I still remember about BASIC because I don't think I've written any ~40 years.
Someone on GitHub called him out for making a Twitter account in 2017, since he'd have to be 8 years old at the time... I don't see what's so unbelievable about an 8yo making a Twitter account.
Interesting. One of the diagrams suggests that the mesh is generated from the marching cubes algorithm but the geometry of the meshes shown above are clearly not generated in this way.
For those curious, this is called Focus and is pretty highly configurable after a little learning curve. You can use automations to switch modes by calendar, date/time, GPS location, connected Wi-Fi network, etc. No programming required. Programmable via Shortcuts, too!

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-a-focus-iphd62...
Screen time blocks are terrible

I use them myself to limit some websites that waste my time

It is way too easy to click on 1 more minute, or 15 mins or ignore for the day

The only way to really block sites is to add them as adult websites and turn on parental controls

But can’t do that with apps
Cuttle.cards
What approach/stack would you recommend for listening to an ongoing conversation, transcribing it and passing through llm? I had some use cases in mind but I'm not very familiar with AI frameworks and tools
FWIW, the author explains his reasoning about desktop environments in the middle of this page: https://ejmastnak.com/tutorials/arch/startx/

Basically recommending to start minimal, with the freedom to configure/add things afterwards.
Generative AI is going to drive the marginal cost of building 3D interactive content to zero. Unironically this will unlock the metaverse, cringe as that may sound. I'm more bullish than ever on AR/VR.
If the Chinese govt gives money to EV makers doesn't that mean you can buy an EV cheaper?

Given 100% tariffs on Chinese vehicles, we're not free to buy a $25K EV...

If the concern is security, instead of tariffs, why aren't we outlawing surveillance of users and private data telemetry by _any_ automaker, or any product maker?
I'm putting capactive sensors in my wearables to turn them on when in contact with a human.

I strongly believe that the class of widget I'm building should stay firmly out of the user's way. The point is to forget it's there. So, as simple IO as possible.
It’s not exactly overqualification, more misqualification. If all you have to say for yourself is “I have completed 23rd grade, look at all these papers I wrote,” your skills and experience, no matter how deep, have diverged from the needs of almost any conceivable employer. I strongly encourage anybody thinking of doing a PhD to get a job in industry first, even if just for a year.
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I live in Florida.

Is the new rail you’re talking about the brightline?

It pretty much exclusively goes to and from tourist centers and is far too expensive ($40-$60 per seat each way) to deter most residents from just driving to Orlando. I wouldn’t really call it infrastructure (like the tri rail is.)

Not to mention that it’s the deadliest train in the US. People here barely follow traffic laws, but when you have it passing through major foot traffic areas every hour like on antlantic avenue in Delray Beach, people are going to get hit.
Trump spent almost nothing to print up a fixed bunch of collectible "Official I Wuv Trump 2025" cards, and sold a fifth of them now, while holding on to the other 4/5ths for later.

Buying those other 80% from him using cash will be how companies and foreign governments bribe him for presidential favors or to hurt their competition, while pretending that they just wanted the cards. You might also be able to get minor favors by showing-off your existing collection, just to prove you're a fan.

Having a way to "use" the coin for real-world results actually makes it slightly less-silly than most... Alas, it happens to based on evil crimes that will hurt the vast majority of Americans.
Say I send a message to someone who has a phone with push notifications enabled, showing message previews. Will the phone still be connected to the VPN when it wakes up to display the message? Because my iPhone doesn't seem to stay connected to my VPN when it sleeps, at least not reliably.

There really should be a "never use the internet without VPN" mode on devices.
My apologies, I couldn’t find this in the documentation. Can you give me a link?
It's foreign investment money into the US. Softbank and MGX are foreign and presumably stumping up much of the cash.
> The red flag for anyone who has studied anything related to electromagnetism is the way it's described as a wall, not a force that gradually grows stronger as you get closer. Forces don't work at distance like that.

You might be taking “wall” too literally. I have no trouble believing that someone would call it a wall even if the force did gradually grow stronger over a significant distance.
More likely Collosus.
We have extensively used AG Grid and highly recommended it.

The learning curve is actually quite low (as you identified).

We primarily use it with Stimulus JS and Alpine JS.

The trickiest part was writing server side code for supporting all the filtering pivots, aggregations and calculations in a manner that is both performant and secure.

Have a play with the community version first and if you’re liking it, checkout the enterprise version.
Digital beanie babies.
Application Configuration, a Simple Approach
It made me laugh when Sam said "I'm thrilled that we get to do this in the United States of America", I shouted at the TV 'Yeah you almost had to do it in Saudi Arabia' !!

Here's the presser, Sam is at 9 minutes in.

[0] https://youtu.be/IYUoANr3cMo
I thought the business prop for AI was that it eliminates jobs?
I have observed a strange/alarming behaviour when I carry a notebook - because friends and family don't typically have one, they find it intriguing and so will sometimes absentmindedly snoop through what I've written if I leave it unattended. The same thing just doesn't happen with a ReMarkable (and even if it did, you can set a PIN code).
I was excited by the title
I wonder if these things had something to do with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_...

> Of the Act's top ten recipients, seven states had voted majority Republican, with Wyoming ($1.95 billion) and Texas ($1.71 billion) in the lead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act#Impact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act#Implem...
It's a strain gauge, and you have to push against it to move the cursor. Whether or not it actually moved? I'm not sure.
At the other end of the spectrum, the belief that the moon landing was faked seems to be steadily increasing in popularity. I don't get it at all.
A rat done bit my sister Nell, with whitey on the moon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_on_the_Moon
The dems have never taken the high road when dealing with him. They've talked as if they have, but their actions have never been that way.
I think you are conflating postdoctor with degrees like masters and bachelors, surely?
This will surely dissuade people from coming to work on work visa. It’s a big step to relocate your carrier to another country. If there is no perspective to fully commit and plan proper migration, then there is less motivation to even go in the first place.
I assume it's safe to ignore as model weights aren't copyrightable, probably.
I thought you were covered by Uber's car insurance when you were on their clock?
> we can respect each other, right?

If we taking cues from the leader of the country, probably not
If it’s a breach of federal law, they might just bank on a pardon or commutation, similar to what the January 6 defendants got.
Maybe it’s working by shocking muscles- it’s mostly acting on creatures not objects
I don't think the fellow deserves to be banned, and would like to vouch for him (if that's possible?). It's his or her livelihood we're talking about here, and which is at stake with the threats of AI. Understandably things can get a little bit heated.
The Janus cosmological model [video]
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That means you're always showering at home, which might work for you but it's a big constraint. If you work out / shower in different places and at different times, it might be harder to find a suitable charging routine.

I'm also wondering how it evolves. Batteries don't get better over time, I'd be worried of having to end up charging it twice a day in one year, which for a device this expensive is not great.
We are currently witnessing the merging of government and corporations. It was bad before but the process is accelerating now.
Depends on the industry. If planning to shift from biomedical research to pharmaceutical R&D a postdoc can be a major win.
You can do research during your postdoc with chill timelines and pretty much 100% autonomy on your topic and then bootstrap a company with the ideas you've developed during said postdoc? In many countries the postdoc owns the IP of the research they're doing