skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Death of the Middleman

Let's think about that - the middle man. Google, TripAdvisor, the tour providers - right now these are websites, and they support themselves by showing ads to users, or by partnering/commissions (e.g. TripAdvisor could receive revenue for directing users to day tours)."

What is OpenAI if not another middleman.

OpenAI does not produce its own "content". Like the other middlemen websites OpenAI relies on other peoples' content.

Like the other middlemen websites who might manipulate the presentation, e.g., "ranking" of the content, OpenAI can manpulate the composition of the output. These middlemen can perform such manipulation for whatever reasons they publicly claim, e.g., eliminate bias, perform censorship and/or other, commercial reasons.

Meanwhile the so-called "tech" company middleman does not disclose how this might be done. The "algorithm" is not disclosed. The operations of the middleman are non-transparent.

The source and destination parties are not in control of the content. The middleman is in control.
Yea, there is way too much “everyone below me in [skill | cleverness | intelligence | creativity] is a drone (or NPC)” attitude in tech. Not saying OP thinks this, but the word use is kind of icky.
Very little is 100% wood, mostly because it doesn’t need to be. The best mid century furniture is typically veneered. That said the Stockholm range from IKEA comes with a 20 year guarantee and is vastly better than almost anything sold by supposedly “proper” chain furniture stores. IKEA know a lot about how and why things break and wear.
Not in my experience (I have a EU address and payment card).

The sign up was smooth and easy.
Zeroing out home, the boot sector, and everything else would cause no harm by the same ethics logic that a DDOS causes not harm. It is just information. This seems like the poster is a hero, because he prevented wrongdoers from causing harm to potentially innocent people. There's not an ethical way to execute a DDOS. It targets someone, and the botnet is compromising and stealing compute from someone.

It taught them a valuable life lesson about trust and humility, and maybe even ethics and the risks of criminal activity in very mild fashion. Recovering from being hacked might stir feelings of empathy for their victims and lead them to learn valuable forensics skills.

Stories like this are part of the personal evolution of a lot of white hats. I think aaza did a real service to the world.
There’s actually a site to test this… https://fingrprintr.pages.dev (i made it)

It routes you to a chat room based on your browser fingerprint. You can check back every so often and see that your room has changed. If your hardware/fingerprint is generic enough, you’ll see other people’s messages in “your” room.
I already sourced it, but if you missed it here it is again: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

* A California Driver's License or Identification Card does not completely demonstrate one's right to vote, it only demonstrates residency. Neither does a Social Security Number, it only demonstrates taxes being levied. You must be a US citizen to vote, but anyone can get any or all of the three mentioned pieces of identification without US citizenship.

* Signature verification is of questionable efficacy at best. Most of us here likely agree that signing the back of your credit card in this day and age is hardly secure, why is that different in elections? Recounts also don't matter, because at that point the ballot is separated from the voter (ballots do not have identifying information); recounts cannot remove illegal ballots.

* California explicitly refuses asking the hypothetical voter to demonstrate their eligibility; see the cited law again.

* The claim that asking for voters to demonstrate their eligibility is disenfranchisment is, as someone who cares about free and fair elections, patented bullshit.

* Last is my anecdote, which I doubt needs repeating. I have no trust in Californian election integrity because California does nothing to convince me so.
Same here. I did use the ZX Spectrum in India. Late 80s.
Volla Phone Quintus with a 6-nanometer Mediatek Dimensity 7050 processor is another option: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/volla-phone-quintus#/?per...
Anyone wondering why you'd need a linker script: They are essential on bare metal, as you have to tell the linker where the hardware requires you to put stuff. There are lots in the linux kernel repo, u-boot, probably Arduino, etc.
The red states decide to ship the migrants via bus to us in the blue cities, frequently under misleading circumstances, in an attempt to demonstrate hypocrisy on our part. We accept them, understanding the value in growing our population, productivity and tax base.

Now they’re coming back instead to terrorize our cities with gestapo tactics.

If only Elon was actually concerned about population growth instead of disgusting racial nonsense.
What can YOLO detect actually? I am interested in satellite imagery, what are the options in this field?

Disclaimer: i am working for myself, i have no money, a 15 year old laptop and obsessions
https://hasura.io/blog/how-typescript-template-literal-types...

Access to template literals at type-level is available since TS 4.1.

https://github.com/ghoullier/awesome-template-literal-types
I can’t wait for 2040 when these weapons make their way into the hands of the police in the US through the surplus programs that currently get them MRAPs.
Ah, "Speed of Time"
> The real Achilles heel is having a viable business model.

Other activitypub projects are going well with a small minority of people donating the server costs, and project leaders just keeping those servers there because they want it.
Why Northern England is poor
More specifically, everyone is using some variant of rainbow-parens
This desk is pretty useless, despite having an office chair: https://www.tripoffice.com/nigeria/lekki-ng/souz-suites-apar...
Keto diet
People who did it: We did it this way.

People who didn't do it: You couldn't have done it that way.
AI Improves Student Learning and Engagement
Excellent article - thank you.

The ideas are very hard to apply in incident response situations where things must happen quickly.
I'm in such an organization, but this does not echo my experience.

I write a ticket describing the work (takes no more than five minutes), open a PR, and get someone on my team to review.

The engineers on my team dictate the process because we've repeatedly earned our manager's trust (and he's a great manager).
I have a few reasons I want to go to the UK, and seeing an Arsenal game at their home stadium is one of them. It's not so much that it's my favorite team as that I (1) want to see a Premier League game, (2) their stadium looks beautiful and (3) I enjoy watching games from there because they are better equipped than average for telecasts.
man, I am so poor
Ask HN: How do you handle observability and alerting at tiny companies?
What's your usual solution when you want better visibility into problems than you get from going through unstructured text logs with grep and vim, but your dev team of 1-10 people is too small to operate a bunch of complicated cloud software like Kubernetes and the ELK stack?
"No, don't finally release the top-secret files that have had a huge impact on our culture and have led to decades of confusion, distrust in government, and wild conspiracy theories."

..said no one, ever.
Very nice! I see the pronunciation is in Cantonese but it gives the mandarin pinyin. Do you want to make it consistent?
DeepSeek R1 Runs at 200 Tokens per Second on Raspberry Pi
First, parents are responsible for the actions of their children.

Second, we assign blame to the person that pulls the trigger, not the maker of the gun.

Third, these people are likely to never face any other form of punishment.

Personally, I think these facts justify this level of retribution. That doesn’t make it “legal” or “right”, but I definitely do not think it is “wrong”.
I thought domain modelling through types is considered standard in functional programming?

(see for example Scott Wlaschin)
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You are technically correct. Which is the best kind of correct.
Synthesize kick drums that sound real using the power of FM
R1-Zero is trained differently than most reasoning models, such as the "normal" R1 model, in regards what steps are done in training. TinyZero applies the same approach (but only on a subset of use cases) on a much smaller model to show it can apply on much smaller models as well.

The details of how it's trained different start to get into "machine learning expert" territory but you can get a decent high level via a casual read through of the DeepSeek link if you want to dive deeper.
Much slower than I would have guessed
Why bantering?

150k a year puts you in the 1% earners in UK, plenty to comfortable live on.

As you mentioned, having such a job in ones CV can only help.

But, I've been a Chelsea fan for most of my life, if I take such a job at Arsenal and do it properly, I'll be actively working against the organization that brought me so many emotions over the past 30ish years.
"The government" is a bunch of humans. If those humans do bad things, then no "I can't believe they would _____" indignation by outsiders, nor intervention by (say) Santa Claus, will somehow magically stop them.
The biggest problem with Tailscale and/or WireGuard is that I can’t inform IOS to only connect to VPN when home assistant app is running or when notification comes in.

I have to run it on my phone all the time effectively routing all mobile traffic through my home VPN which is not ideal for bandwidth and battery life.

I end having to manually turn it off and on.

Instead I wish home assistant had a way to make mobile notification resources easily accessible without VPN - say behind a short lived access token so that I could quickly view the notification media without having to expose local HA install or having VPN always on
As far as business investments go, I’d need to see some really solid market research showing enough people were willing to choose a hotel for these amenities in-room rather than a one with a “business center” as many currently have, a coworking space, coffee shop, or even a public library. People wanting specialized private spaces like that don’t generally look to hotels to meet their needs, and considering how quickly hotel room outfitting expenses scale, it really has to be worthwhile. For example, an in-room stationary bike would probably be cheaper and more popular than a good office chair and monitor, but it just doesn’t make sense because enough people will be satisfied with an in-hotel fitness center. I think its really easy to assume our use cases are far more universal than they are.
GPD Pocket 4 Review: My Travel Buddy [video]
It depends on your needs for reliability and how many users you have.

If you don't mind being offline when doing maintenance occasionally and being down on the rare occasion when the hardware fails (like once in a few years) until you get the replacement part, then look up "server housing". You can buy a computer, either rack mounted, or tower, maybe used, and you put it into a datacenter that manages bandwidth, power and cooling.

That would be probably the cheapest option but pick something close to where you live.
The ones in europe are submarine. AC has its own challenges under the sea.

This one for example at 600kV and 2.2GW

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

There are of course issues with all undersea cables (AC or DC) in today's climate with cable cuts being so frequent. I wonder if it's easier to locate AC cables
> a number is divisible by 3 iff the sum of the individual digits is divisible by 3

And how do easily verify this divisibility when "Numeric types, number literals and their associated methods and operations are forbidden?"
Well, sure - if someone wanted to be the hoster for all mail traffic on planet earth, then they would need a lot of resources and a business model to finance it.

But if that is their plan, why would they have used ActivityPub in the first place?

So I guess they could just shut their door as soon as the traffic is too much for them to handle. And tell people to look for another host or host themselfes.
You definitely have to be a radical optimist to put faith in crypto at this point. Maybe Trump is an optimist too though
How do you center a div?
How did you feel about it? Were you dissuaded from further script-kiddieing?
I understand the want for these new social networks to be less-controlled and more distributed, but I think there is a line in general for dopamine dependence and algorithmic targeting.

TikTok, Reels, YT Shorts, all are a net-drain when it comes to doom-scrolling/wasting time. I [[kind of]] understand keeping more traditional methods and making more open versions: Pixelfed (Insta), Bluesky (Twitter), etc. as people want some form of connection, but I don't think these short vid platforms should be put on a pedestal.
I love to eat peel, but won't it have pesticide? Hard to decide on the tradeoff.
London's an expensive place to live.
This sounds similar to the EU/UK ban on any type of dissenting speech.
I don’t understand this reply. The suggestion I’m replying to is about charging people (e.g., creators) for hosting the videos. It’s not about charging viewers. Perhaps you replied to the wrong comment?
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Emerging Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning Is Both Effective and Efficient
If the interviewers thought the hardcoded sum table was cheating, they surely should have said that demanding the inputs come in base 15 was also cheating. (I think base 15 is the best solution though. The instant I saw the rule that permitted the dev to choose the input representation, I knew this would be the way to go.)

But if the interviewers have to be persuaded that 0 is divisible by 3, I guess you can't expect too much from them. Or anything from them.
Bloomberg Announces Effort to Ensure U.S. Honors Paris Agreement Commitments
He did promise to do this, for sure. It's one of the reasons he was voted into office. I think taking this personally is a mistake, it's really not about blue cities or red states. Having said that, I don't expect fairness, or equality under the law, from this administration. Right now we feel very far from the pledge "... with liberty and justice for all".
YOLO is a pretty simple and flexible architecture. Like most of these models, you can label some data and just freeze the intermediate layers and just retrain the final predictor head.

Checkout as well darknet, which runs at really high fps on super cheap hardware
For typical rails like applications that are "bottlenecked on the database", latency is a much bigger factor than actual query processing performance. Even if careful about placement of the database and "application servers".

Just as an example, here's the results of pgbench -S of a single client, with pgbench running on different servers (a single pkey lookup):

pgbench on database server: 36233 QPS

pgbench on a different system (local 10gbit network): 2860 QPS

It's rare to actually have that low latency to the database in the real world IME.

If the same pkey lookup is executed utilizing pipelining, I get ~145k QPS from both locally and remotely.
LOL. well DUH! That's ALL he is about...
Online the ultimate countermeasure is being a dog. If your currency brings you to the conclusion that you must be protected at all times with deadly force so you don’t get ransomed, I don’t know what to tell you.
You have very valid points, variation in CRTs was very high back in the day, and the example image does have a gamma/brightness discrepancy, I agree with that. Back when CRTs were dominant, gamma and brightness were all over the map, almost nobody knew what those were. You couldn’t even count on where the visible edges of the screen were. And you’re right that saying “the way it was intended” is perhaps slightly hyperbolic or maybe isn’t quite meant the way you’re taking it. It’s not that using CRTs or not was a choice, but it is fair to say artists used CRTs when creating game art and intended for it to look as good as it could on CRTs, and they did not intend for the pixels to turn into multi-pixel solid color blocks.

Yes exactly CRTs were blurrier, and that alone affects artistic choices. It is fair to say that CRT art looks different than LCD art because CRTs are blurrier. Games developed on CRTs with low resolutions don’t look as good when displayed on high res LCDs with up-resing and nearest neighbor sampling. The problem with using a solid 2x2, 3x3, 4x4 block of LCD pixels to represent a low res CRT pixel is that it’s a poor reconstruction, introduces unwanted high frequencies, and looks very different from the original. It’s true from a signal processing perspective that 4-up LCD reconstruction of old CRT art is quite wrong and bad.

This does extend into music, kinda. We can look at music from the 30s and 50s for an even stronger example - early recorded music was both technically limited to, and also artistically designed for, a frequency range of, I don’t know, like 500-3k Hz. Some audiophiles do argue that using an old record player to play old vinyl is a superior experience to listening to a digitized copy on modern hardware, and often with the same argument - that the old stuff is the way it was intended to be heard.

However, the analogy to music is slightly broken since today’s digital music - unlike LCD up-resing of old games - never tried to reconstruct old music using nearest neighbor sampling. When you do that with audio, you can instantly hear it’s all wrong. If you were actually comparing nearest-neighbor audio reconstruction to blurry reconstruction, you would 100% agree that the blurry reconstruction was the ‘way it was intended to be heard’. The biggest problem with this whole argument that neither you nor the parent addressed is that LCD nearest-neighbor reconstruction is crappy, and as long as we try to blur when using LCDs, most of this discussion is moot.

So anyway, in many ways I think your argument already does agree with the idea that games designed on CRTs look better on CRTs than, e.g., 4-up reconstructions on LCDs. The entire sticking point in your argument might hinge on how you interpret the word “intended”. I’m saying the original argument isn’t necessarily claiming that the intent was conscious or explicit, it’s merely saying that the intent was a byproduct of having used CRTs during the creation process. In that sense, it’s a valid argument.
Funny! Context is key as with anything.
Composable SQL
like, really old news...
That's why I asked about attitude, not anything else. It's perfectly fine to decide to not to support someone, but...

"I release my code under FOSS license, but if anyone distribute it in a way I consider not nice, I will re-license it just to screw them over." [1]

When I was considering using HA and was casually browsing community discussions, there were many posts gave me similar feeling like above case. There were other technical reasons that I decided to not to use HA, but this certainly left a really bad taste in my mouth.

1. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86...
This is an old thread but: I didn't take it as sarcastic - I just wanted to clarify.

Enjoy the weekend, friend.
If this is one of the main things you want to demonstrate, wouldn't it be better to focus on this one goal first, instead of the whole pipeline from a C preprocessor to directly linked executables?

Essentially, if you say that LLVM's mid-end in particular is slow, I would expect you to present a drop-in replacement for LLVM's mid-end opt tool. You could leave C-to-LLVM-bitcode to Clang. You could leave LLVM-bitcode-to-machine-code to llc. Just like opt, take unoptimized LLVM bitcode as input and produce optimized LLVM bitcode as output. You would get a much fairer apples to apples comparison of both code quality and mid-end compiler speed (your website already mentions that you aren't measuring apples-to-apples times), and you would duplicate much less work.

Alternatively, look into existing Sea of Nodes compilers and see if you can build your demonstrator into them. LibFIRM is such a C compiler: https://libfirm.github.io/ There may be others.

It just seems like you are mixing two things: On the one hand, you are making some very concrete technical statements that integrated optimizations are good and the Sea of Nodes is a great way to get there. A credible demonstrator for this would be very welcome and of great interest to the wider compiler community. On the other hand, you are doing a rite-of-passage project of writing a self-hosting C compiler. I don't mean this unkindly, but that part is less interesting for anyone besides yourself.

EDIT: I also wanted to mention that the approach I suggest is exactly how LLVM became well-known and popular. It was not because of Clang; Clang did not even exist for the first eight years or so of LLVM's existence. Instead, LLVM focused on what it wanted to demonstrate: a different approach to mid-end optimizations compared to the state of the art at the time. Parsing C code was not part of that, so LLVM left that to an external component (which happened to be GCC).
I don't think there really is any reasonable way to disagree with "constraints liberate, liberties constrain", sorry. Anyone who has spent any amount of time with algebraic structures in mathematics will grasp this intuitively, as will anyone who has written code in a type-safe style. It really is a basic law of nature, similar to other basic principles like Bayes' law.

I only brought in Rust because it does polymorphism in a non-OO style.
Eat a curb, fashie