skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool!

The wasm file here could be optimized more. It looks like a 43 MB wasm is downloaded, and wasm-opt -O3 shrinks that to just 14 MB. It might also be faster that way (due to inlining and other optimizations). Startup will definitely be faster.
End-to-end it would require something like a web-of-trust or similar. There is little benefit in knowing that your package was definitely built by GitHub Actions definitely from the code that definitely came from the fingers of the random guy who maintains that particular tool.

Unless you have some trust relationship with the author, or with someone that audited the code, the whole cryptographically-authenticated chain hangs from nothing.

Tools like Crev did a lot of work in that area but it never really took off, people don't want to think about trust: https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev
If he’s smart he’ll go Jordan Belfort style and make money with book, speaking, and movie deals.
The trick is to find such problems with enough training data and some market potential. I am terrible at it.
Evo: Version control that works the way you think
Group chats and multi-device users maybe
from Uncle Sam
> WASD are the normal commands for movement in games

Maybe for first-person shooters, but not for shmups, and definitely not for classic arcade style games.

To your second point the reason it feels unnatural is because mapping movement + actions to a single hand is usually not a good idea if you have the opportunity to distribute them.
Suggestion: calculate the out-of-sample Sharpe ratio[0] of the suggestions over a reasonable period to gauge how good the model would actually perform in terms of return compared to risks. It is better than vanilla accuracy or related metrics. Source: I'm a financial economist.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_ratio
Add some nuclear power and you’ve suddenly got a big bill
You see, this is where I think libertarians get it so wrong. They are focused on the state as the problem. But the way I see it, the problem is the conditions and antecedent causes that lead to the state becoming authoritarian. Libertarians are so focused on attacking the state but they just aren't effective at preventing state power misuse, because they don't understand the deep causality that leads to these bad outcomes. If you have antecedent causes like: high inflation, rampant crime unchecked by a liberal state, concentrated media ownership, a toxic information landscape, a population that isn't educated, extreme inequality, etc -- you will get authoritarianism, guaranteed, and there is no amount of small-government ideology that will be able to overcome the population's desire for a strongman personality. History teaches us that you must use state capacity to attack the antecedent causes, paradoxically it is the only way to prevent an authoritarian state.
Quite possibly pulled out of their asses...

If Son can actually build a 500B Vision Fund it can only come from one of two places...

somehow the dollar depreciates radically OR
Saudis

Vision Fund was heavily invested in by the Saudis so...
Here’s an article addressing what the framers of the amendment meant: https://static.heritage.org/legal-and-judicial/birthright-ci...

Haven’t had a chance to dig into it in detail, but it addresses evidence from the drafting process that isn’t addressed in Wong Kim Ark.
Let’s be real the 5T was a wild ass guess
rednecks rush in where angels fear to tread.
Why this submission is [flagged]? It fits all the HN guidelines, and is pretty interesting (to me) for the arguments they present.
OpenAI will not exist in 5 years, I'm calling it now. First movers to market dont always win, and they will surely lose.
Looks like Cloudflare are still sending out the airport locations and hit status on the response headers. Maybe I'm missing something but it seems like if you had a large VPN network you could run a distributed query to figure out which edge nodes have cached the url.
I have the metal ones, just looked and I bought them in March 2018 and they’re fantastic - definitely not enshittified. I particularly like the adjustable grind size!
I don't have strong magnetic fields in my house (as far as I know...) but I am the bad combination of clumsy, anxious and forgetful. They're not a big worry for me either (I don't plan on sticking them to the fridge). But
Big opportunity cost.
Oracle actually has a ton of gpus

Not sure how they knew to buy them or why but they have them. Mostly seem to be lending them out. Think mostly OpenAI. Or was it MS. One of the big dogs
Yup. Drugs and the accompanying business disputes (there's a reason street dealers are armed or have armed people around) that would be normal in any other industry are sooo many people's (who would other wise not be violent criminals) entry point to violence. Letting parties remain at arms length yet transact successfully is such a huge step forward compared the prior status quo. Anything that gets buyers and sellers (either at the retail or distribution level) in illegal industries farther from each other is a win as far as I care.
Well, do your community want to move off facebook?

Im in the same situation, in my rural area everything happens through local facebook groups. If you are not there, you will not get party invitations , voice calls etc
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That was my literal point to parent.
The folks who listen to you and don't see the fact that we are entering a weak singularity deserve to be destitute when this is all over.
Do you know many people who'd be willing to risk their life to give the Sinaloa cartel a bad yelp review?
Open-source browser port of Pitfall from the Atari 2600
Ah right. That makes sense.
Stripe laying off 300 employees
At the end of the day you're just wrong. You said models fail to count r's in strawberry because they can't "break" the tokens into letters (i.e. predict letters from tokens, given some examples to learn from), and seem entirely unfazed by the fact that they in fact can do this.

Maybe you should tell Altman to put his $500B datacenter plans on hold, because you've been looking at your toy model and figured AGI can't spell.
There's a real difference between Discord itself knowing your location and any Discord user in the world knowing it. Just like there's a difference between the VPN provider knowing your ipaddr and every website you visit knowing it.
This is where Garmin shines - the niches.

They're also the Cadillac of dog tracking and training collars.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/c/outdoor-recreation/sporting-d...
I had an LLM create a playlist for me.

I’m tired of the bad playlists I get from algorithms, so I made a specific playlist with an Llama2 based on several songs I like. I started with 50, removed any I didn’t like, and added more to fill in the spaces. The small models were pretty good at this. Now I have a decent fixed playlist. It does get “tired” after a few weeks and I need to add more to it. I’ve never been able to do this myself with more than a dozen songs.
I’m investing in EM startups. Talked to the founder of the leading food delivery company there.

Will try to visit the country in March and share some notes in public web
From the article: “Stripe plans to grow its workforce by 17% to 10,000 by year’s end — but first, a few hundred people are losing their jobs”
They’re in the US (their fund stuff). Not far from an oracle campus actually. The parent org is in Japan.
I thought it was digits only but see there's always been the option to use an alphanumeric passphrase as the "PIN". That prevents brute-forcing for anyone that bothered to use one, right?
I'm often asked, "Will AI agents replace digital marketers and site builders?". The answer is "yes", at least for certain kinds of tasks.

To explore this idea, I prototyped two AI agents. See how they use a browser to automate two basic content editing and digital marketing tasks.
I like the aesthetics of the system. Wish they would include real examples of the "modular" aspect otherwise it appears as a ready-to-go mini PC hardly different from others on the market or could build your own
I gave an AI agent edit access to my website
Genuine question: Of all the people to pardon, why him?
I've got this OXO version and it has worked great too. The singular down-side being that its rubbery bottom tends to grip too tightly to surfaces so it falls over instead of sliding.

This makes sense due to that end being the gripped side during use.

https://amzn.com/dp/B08DL86ZCQ

I also own the aforementioned Unicorn. I use it for "bulk black pepper" grinding and use this model for finer grinds of white and green pepper.
App stores unconvinced by TikTok ban pause, which may be on shaky legal ground
That’s great news
MGX has at least $100bn: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/a-100-billion-middle...

This is Abu Dhabi money.
It's a trite thing to say, but when it comes to Trump it fits the pattern of inside dealing ... I'm guessing he personally will profit from this somehow / someone promised a donation / money.
The Grubbyhub whale you delivered whale vomit to gave you a $1Million tip in Crypto!

Ohhh, snap too bad when you tried to deposit it they stole your whole account. Sleep in your car tonight so it doesn't get repossessed.
And Russia is transparently lying. “But you call everyone a Nazi” isn’t particularly persuasive - it’s just Republican agitprop.
I take back a fair amount of what I said.

It is pretty good with some easier assets that I suspect there's lots of samples of (and we're comparing to other generative models, not to what humans make. Humans probably still win by a good margin). But when moving out of obvious assets that we could easily find, I'm not seeing good performance at all. Probably a lot can be done with heavy prompt engineering but that just makes things more complicated to evaluate.
Counterpoint: you don't know what you don't know.

When scrolling Hackernews, intriguing topics abound that I never thought about before, much less even asked myself the question about. And I read the comments and become interested in a new area.

Counter-counterpoint: attention moves to something else before much learning was performed...
> In Kazakhstan, a country located in Central Asia, public health officials try hard to raise awareness about the importance of iodine to intelligence. Pamphlets are distributed and studied by seventh graders. Valentina Sivryukova, president of the national confederation of Kazakh charities, was never sure the message got through until, while walking through the market one day, she heard one young Kazakh boy tease another, calling out, “What are you, iodine-deficient or something?”
Unfortunately one of those things that authoritarianism has a lot more methods to solve than other systems, which really underscores the importance of beating them in the long term.
“People's interpretation of this 3-second video clip are determined by their prior feelings about this person.”

I and many others see something very blatant in the video, and you dismissing that is lazy and frankly, it makes you look biased.

Ive generally been impressed with HN moderation, but this is a very glaring exception.
Question related to 3D mesh models in general: has any significant work been done on models oriented towards photogrammetry?

Case in point, I have a series of photos (48) that capture a small statue. The photos are high quality, the object was on a rotating platform. Lighting is consistent. The background is solid black.

These normally are ideal variables for photogrammetry but none of the various common applications and websites do a very good job creating a mesh out of it that isn't super low poly and/or full of holes.

I've been casually scanning huggingface for relevant models to try out but haven't really found anything.
Libertarians are very hard to take seriously because of shit like this. Nothing about Donald Trump is Libertarian.
1. There is no evidence jefferson ever said this

2. There is no evidence anyone else ever said this, either

The closest you get is MLK.

See https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jeffers...

But MLK also talks about moral obligation and not other forms of obligation.

He was not trying to create a free for all where everyone gets to decide which laws are okay or not, because he (and jefferson) were not complete morons.
Is Trump pushing for broad drug decriminalisation? I feel like that would be necessary for this pardon to make sense on the basis of current drug laws being unjust.

Last I heard he was promising to make drug dealers eligible for the death penalty: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-wants-e...
IMO it is perfect, or at least better than anything else that's been found so far.

"Purity" means different things in different contexts. Ultimately you can give programmers more tools, but you can't get away from relying on their good judgement.
> I have nothing in particular to say about the dead comments in this very young thread, but they're sort-of-interesting comments to have been killed so quickly!

[dead] is different than [flagged][dead]. [dead]-only (no [flagged]) means they're auto-dead, they aren't killed by someone reviewing the comments (moderator or users flagging). One of the two commenters was shadow banned years ago but still gets vouched for occasionally (including by me at times). The other one was shadow banned (looked through their history) 11 days ago, with a comment from dang at the time stating as much. They also get vouched for on occasion, based on their comment history.

> Maybe "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity." or "Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."?

dang does usually respond to people with something like that first, then for people who get repeatedly flagged or repeatedly engage in certain kinds of behavior, he bans them.
He never actually said it, either.
Is there a windows or android NetNewsWire-equivalent?
> This is going to be the grift of the century.

Pretty sure that was musk and his 50+ bn bonus
The anti-defamation league agrees with me. Take that however you want.
According to Trump, he is doing this to get libertarian support.
Broligarchs
You can't block AGI on a whim and then deploy 'superhuman' without justification.

A calculator is superhuman if you're prepared to put up with it's foibles.
To the libertarians.
What the future holds for someone who was pardoned is likely decided based on very different rationalization compared to how one acts while serving a lifetime prison sentence.
Then it's a good thing that this isn't being claimed
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Quora isn't horrible, but sadly it seems it's kind of intrusive from a privacy perspective. Still it has interesting insights on psychology and personal experiences, with people who enjoy writing. It's like an organized Q and A blog.
"how is this even legal?" - I find myself asking this very often.
Wouldn't be surprised if he is sitting on a billion dollars of hidden crypto somewhere.
> The new entity, Stargate, will start building out data centers and the electricity generation needed for the further development of the fast-evolving AI in Texas, according to the White House.

Wouldn't a more northern state be a better location given the average temperatures of the environment? I've heard Texas is hot!
Not exactly, fentanyl epidemic was specifically started by one family seek profit and ousted doctors to over prescribe it while claiming it was mildly addictive.

The war on drugs have caused immeasurable harm due to failure to understand most people use drugs either as escapism or as a tendency.

That's why it has failed.
Going to toss my hat in the ring about community shift. You don’t need to get everyone to move over to a new platform. You have to get the 5 most active members to switch. Communities are very largely built up of lurkers and a very small majority carry the weight of providing leadership and content. No matter the tech you choose, find a way to get those key people to switch and maybe the rest will follow.
Pardoned from the crimes convicted of? Or pardoned from any crime. I found the Biden pardon to be particular egregious because of how vague it was.
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That's the old way of doing things.

Now it's all about podcasts, energy drinks and crypto coin rug-pulls.
This is actually helpful. Just downloaded and playing with it now. Some features I wonder why they're not default, like FancyZones and AlwaysOnTop
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Well there was this random dude early that was rambling something about „drill baby drill“…
So that he doesn't block the substantial involvement by Abu Dhabi in a supposed American project.
Maybe they will invest in nuclear reactors.

Data center, AI and nuclear power stations. Three advanced technologies, that's pretty good.
Why now, and not 4 years from now when Trump is about to leave office?

How do republicans in Idaho (who don't even have medical marijuana on the books), defend Trump pardoning someone convicted of drug trafficking?
Crypto currency proponents benefit from the existence of dark net marketplaces because they are some of the main places for the non-speculative use of crypto currencies. I think Ross and his pardon represent a sort-of metaphor in crypto-currency proponents' eyes for the government's toleration of these dark net crypto marketplaces.
Thie article is very wrong - it is absolutely not true that PMF is random.
Given there are at least thousands if not millions of people who "provide online forums," and pretty much this single one is in prison, I have to wonder if there's something unique about this case?

I don't know anything about this guy. Is there really nothing unique about his case?
I work in the sector and it's impossible to build a full-sized reactor in less than 10 years, and the usual over-run is 5 years. That's the time for tried and tested designs. The tech isn't there yet, and there are no working analogs in the US to use as an approved guide. The Department of Energy does not allow "off-the-cuff" designs for reactors. I think there is only two SMRs that have been built, one by the Russians and the other by China. I'm not sure they are fully functioning, or at least working as expected. I know there are going to be more small gas gens built in the near future and that SMRs in the US are way off.
Yes that is what I’m suggesting. Don’t ask don’t tell type policy would be acceptable to many voters where current dem policy is not. Fucked up but the voters were heard
Don't worry - jefferson never actually said this because he wasn't a complete idiot.

Don't take my word for it though, the monticello folks looked into it too - https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jeffers...

It is a fun quote though, because it's one of those quotes that people want to use to justify their own dumb behavior.

"If you don't like the law, feel free to ignore it" - Albert Einstein
That job sounds like literal hell on earth.
Drug dealers, cop killers and family members. America's institutions continue to devolve into a cruel joke.
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Most libertarians considered the Silk Road a place to buy psychedelics like LSD or mushrooms or experimental synthetic drugs (not that these don’t come with numerous risks). Not a bulk heroin warehouse. So the perception is different from that of a wholesale fentanyl clearing house.
Why does STOP work here?
Whilst I understand your point of view that the change in circumstances can change how someone decides to act, I don't believe there is much history to show someone who gained a surprising second chance outside of prison has gone back to their previous life.
Forfeit (YC W23) (https://www.forfeit.app) is a similar one!
Nothing wrong with HN in particular. Every polarising discussion on a platform with moderation or up/down voting system ends up this way. This structure is fantastic for technical discussions just not amazing for politics

Removing moderation or voting systems (simple chronological comment sorting) creates another set of issues so this problem can't be solved without entirely changing discussion formats
You can get most of the way there with something like the SLSA/BCID framework, with the final artifact including some trusted provenance from an attested builder. You could go further and aim for full reproducibility on top of the provenance, but reproducible builds across different environments can get messy fast if you're looking to independently build and achieve the same result. Either way the end result is you have some artifact that you reasonably trust to represent some specific source input (ignoring the potential for backdoored compiler or other malicious intermediate code generation step).

Now for the last mile, I'll admit I'm not particularly well-versed on the confidential compute side of things, so bridging the gap from trusted binary to trusted workload is something I can only speculate wildly on. Assuming you have a confidential compute environment that allows for workload attestation, I imagine that you could deploy this trusted binary and record the appropriate provenance information as part of the initial environment attestation report, then provide that to customers on demand (assuming they trust your attestation service).
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Why not now?

Trump isn't up for re-election. It's his act alone.

He promised in the election to pardon other criminals and it didn't hurt him.
However both Libertarians and Trump are transactional.
I am happy to see that Trump is a man of his word. I voted for him just because of this campaign promise. I would have voted for almost anyone who promised this.
The Streisand Effect exists and yet every company thinks they're the special snowflake that will get away with it.
> Large file support built-in

You've got my attention.

How does "bringing 2 copies into 1" (aka merge) work?

For big media files, lock / last timestamp is OK.

...but is there anything that helps merge changes in text? Not saying lock/timestamp for *everything* is bad, but IMHO, intelligent auto-merge of text is a main reason git is good.
What about a subreddit?
> Ironic that an authoritarian fascist was able to get elected by enlisting the help of anti-authoritarian communities with a single issue promise.

Ironic? It's the oldest trick in the book bro
Note sure if the downvoters realize that Trump did in fact just tear up Biden's AI safety bill/order.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/t...
sama, peter thiel ... they dgaf. there is a huge difference between an oppressed gay person and a wealthy one.

no one wants to bite the hand that feeds.
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This thread is a great lesson in "Politics is a mind virus"

I recommend you read the HN thread when Ulbricht was sentenced [0] first, then come here and read all the "Honest, genuine question, why?"s

Then start practicing not letting politics influence your thought process

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9626985
Sooner or later one of their bold swings is going to connect
If you come to disagree with the justice of a law, your options are to conform or, yes, decide that the law is unjust.
I'm not automatically pro or anti Stargate (the movie and show were cool) BUT

Who gets the benefit of all of this investment? Are taxpayers going to fund this thing which is monetized by OpenAI?

If we pay for this shit, it better be fucking free to use.