skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went down this path. The OEM support isn’t going to be your main problem.

Google has pulled more and more of android out of the open source project (AOSP) over the years and replaced it with Google Play stuff that has hard dependencies on letting them surveil your phone.

In practice, this means that stuff like GPS lock “needs” the cloud and won’t work reliably for most apps (it works fine for ones in fdroid, and in third party map apps, but not in Lyft, Uber, EV charging apps, or other commercial stuff that wants location).

On top of that, many apps will silently crash at startup. Sometimes, giving them google play services fixes them, sometimes not. When I installed graphene, my phone battery got 2x the manufacturer estimate. When I added sandboxed google play services, it went down to the advertised battery life, so the phone spends about half its power budget spying on you.

On top of that, if the iPhone not pro / max were an android, it’d be one of the smallest on the market.

Good luck. I’d love to be proven wrong on either point.
Yeah well, OpenAI compressed the whole internet into proprietary weights and is now providing access via paid subscription while the original internet gets deleted from our culture.
The way it works counts if you bring prompting into it. It could easily have learned enough style chops of [author] from other sources to mimic/predict those stanzas from raw data points.

Whatever the ruling one thing is for sure, plagiarism is no longer the sincerest form of flattery. The human authors are out for AI blood on this.
Prefacing every statement with "In fact,..." does nothing to assure me that you have creators interests at heart.
I don't know about co-working specifically, but meetups for startup founders, educational meetups for software engineering, and hackathons attract plenty of people of both genders.
is he still use that office? I thought he mostly spent his time in his home office
This is one small blip in an incredibly long history of companies being able to not care about copyright while individuals must.

Workarounds with a VPN are great and all, but they are a band-aid on a systemic problem.

(You are not immune, by the way, if your VPN company is subject to a subpoena and isn't one of very few actually no-log services)
USAID has already been shut down
We're specifically talking about files encrypted E2E using ADP. Can you point to any such files being used in prosecutions?
What applications care about this improvement, considering it's not cryptographically secure?
Did they consider connecting to both grids at the same time making a bigger 'supergrid'?

If there is insufficient connectivity between the grids and the connections all disconnect due to overload, you just end up back in the two-grids situation that they have planned anyway.
The problem is that people are really bad at that kind of precision.
Preserving wealth is actually an uphill battle. It likes to leak; the wealthy need the help of systems and institutions to keep their largesse intact. If you want it to diffuse throughout society, stop guarding it, stop bailing them out, and tax them like you mean it.

So many policy decisions are about who to throw under the bus; flip the incidence from "mostly people without wealth" to "mostly people with wealth".
DIY Telephone Build
Interesting. I don't think I've noticed that, but I have run into various issues with SMS when there's poor signal.
On one occasion I could receive but could not send, just at the perfect time when someone was waiting for me and I was unable to get to them.
I remember calling a taxi 3 hours before my flight to get to SFO. After an hour and four different phone calls to the taxi company, I took BART and barely made it before the counter closed.

The feedback system incentivizes drivers and riders to behave.
OpenAI Deep Research Guide
Anna's Archive encourages (and monetizes!!) the use of their shadow library for LLM training. They have a page dedicated to it on their site. You pay them, and they give you high download speeds to entire datasets.
The official source of government spending data
Do you have a citation for that claim? I've not seen a claim that none of the material had copyright before.
"Say they hood robin, ain't that a b*, take from the poor and give to the rich."

- Ice Cube.

Meta will face no consequences. Say your a small publisher and you'd like a bit of compensation. If you dare sue Meta can just blacklist your books on its platforms. Even if they don't, you probably don't have the money to sue one of the biggest companies on earth.

I think copyrights should be limited to 25 years after first publication. This would fix plenty of issues and give the AIs of the world plenty to learn from.

Who am I kidding, Meta will take what they will. For that author making 20k a year, be honored to be of use to Meta.
The US Government Is Not a Startup
"Europeans think 100 miles is a long distance. Americans think 100 years is a long time."
True, but I'm thinking more from a UI standpoint -- how would you present that complexity to the user, and how would you help them pare it down?
Off-topic;

Why does America use 60Hz? I've never found a satisfactory answer.
I doubt they think that way, but even if they did, they'd be right - for 99% of the works in question, the biggest value they gave to the world is, by far, being part of the LLM training corpus.

There's lots of content out there. Most of it is noise. People forget because they're only ever exposed to an aggressively curated fraction of it.
I agree.

Just pointing out strange fact of accelerated evolution after mass extinction. There are limits to what earth chemistry will allow for in life, and likely earth's climate and temperatures have been particularly hospitable to life forming and propagating.
Beg to differ. I live in Yaletown in one of the Concord Pacific towers. David Lam Park and George Wainborn Park are vibrant as is the whole seawall. My kid goes to the daycare along one of the parks.

I'm sitting at my desk in an office in Gastown in a low-rise. The streets are covered in feces and broken crack pipes.
Hooray! Or wait, are we not doing that anymore?
Requiring people to advocate for their changes is not ill-intent. It handles all cases such as forgetting/missing a patch, and disagreement whether something is needed. The point is there's no system in place to track which patches "should ideally be included but weren't for some reason", it's up for the people who need them to push for them.
In 10 years we'll all be shocked to discover this headline should have read "US Tells UK to Demand Apple Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor".
Using AI to decode language from non-invasive recordings of the brain
No, the point is nonsense. Rust is a consumer of the APIs just like every other driver / subsystem is. Any change to the C APIs would likely require collaboration with those other maintainers no different than Rust. And CH would be immediately shut down if he tried to roadblock some random driver that needs DMA purely because he doesn't want the existence of that driver to "increase his workload".
> From an implementation point of view, I'm not sure how this could work

This could probably be a plugin for Cobble, the new Pebble companion app, which is capable of performing bridge tasks (like checking the weather or a to-do list).
s/Tech Giants/Giant Monopolies/

"Tech" is far from the only area where America has problems with this
This would require both grids to be exactly synchronized.
> If you voted for this Tory-lite government

If you agree that Brexit happened under the Tories and not Labour, then we can also agree that THIS order is happening under the newly elected "Labour Party" and not the "Tories", or so-called "Tory-lite" names.

It's completely pointless trying to remove accountability of this government's illogical actions and then to immediately resort to blaming the previous government for bad decisions like this one.

Just admit that this is under the Labour government.
Earlier:

Estonia to disconnect from the Russian-run electricity network on Saturday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971959
I sort of agree, except they are already picking by making Office their IT procurement choice. Choosing to only use documents in .odf format would definitely do something, and they could start funding bugs etc in whatever libraries/office software would bring value to their org.
Magnetic levitation of large water droplets and mice (2010)
I don’t mind locked down hardware as long as it’s usable. I don’t open a microwave or a tv for fun, but I mind the experience while using them. If you want to do one thing, do it well. And do it even after the manufacturer collapses unless there’s a service involved. What I don’t like is when it’s my computing ressources that are involved, but they want to reassure the mothership that it’s legitimate use.

Let’s take an ereader as example. I can buy it knowing that it can only display books from Amazon Kindle and I need an active subscription or a license for the book. Or I can buy it knowing that I can display any ebook file I have. It’s one or another, or both together independantely.

Which is why I don’t mind the old App Store model. I know that it’s locked down and I can license apps which will be tied to my account. When it’s no longer supported, I can still download the version that work. But now the license is temporary so as soon as you’re not able to pay, the app breaks.
> There's a tremendous leap between "Not supporting Tesla because of Musk" and climate denialism.

Not really. Because it doesn't matter if you choose to support an alternative EV maker. If you actively campaign against Tesla you are hurting EV sales. There are Tesla's built today that should be purchased instead of ICE vehicle. Anything you do that stops someone else (even if you're not going to buy them yourself) is actively hurting the fight against global warming.

The only reason you would hurt the fight against global warming, is that you don't think it's as important as your reason for hating Musk. And that's a form of denialism. You're denying (if only to yourself) that climate change is going to cause death and destruction.
Thanks for sharing this. Reading his story is kind of insane honestly. He created the CC licenses which I did not know. What an icon, truly.
Newer models, yes. But newer versions of the same model seem to get much dumber over time.

That is to say, the release version of ChatGPT GPT4o seemed much better than the version today. This does not apply to the API.
It has certainly not been made simply because of the fact that Linus is not a boss to the people who are contributing or maintaining the code. There was however a decision to have Rust as an experiment in the kernel but not such that it will bend and change the rules and put a technical burden on everyone else. This issue is solely a technical burden and not a good guy vs bad guy, as many Rust developers would like it to appear by cherry picking the comments from the context.

I think you missed the Linus reply on the topic

> How about you accept the fact that maybe the problem is you.

> You think you know better. But the current process works.

> It has problems, but problems are a fact of life. There is no perfect
Hmm i'll check out the pagerank stuff, IMO RAG isn't super great. I think RAG overall has been oversold since embeddings KNN hasn't proven to be super accurate.
When a feature is both conceptually flawed and technically unworkable, the real question is why it still shipped. Engineers typically push back—unless job security concerns make silence the safer option...

And when the decision-maker can also steer the narrative...say...by mobilizing downvotes...The outcome is predictable. :-))
If any modernization is yo be done. It should be done by any trustworthy and reputable. Not someone who brags about credentials.
The price people are willing to pay sets how nice a cab fleet can be while still turning a profit.

Same reason you don't see landscaping crews filled out with stellar employees.
These frequencies are often inherited from whoever was the first grid operator, and electricity producer. Same goes for lot of other parameters.
The spec [1] only requires that the sequence of pseudo-random numbers is repeated for a given seed within a single process ("subsequent" and "is then"). That means rand as specified is useless for reproducible sequences in fuzzing and so on. So, programs which do that already need to supply their own random number generators, and are not affected by this change.

Whereas lots of programs use rand as a source of general-purpose random numbers, but get the seeding wrong, and so suffer from various problems. This change fixes those programs.

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696699/functions/ra...
If they paid me enough, sure.
I'd need an upfront payment for a perpetual license for any use,
and recurring residuals as a % of revenue generated.
I think the concern goes to the point of copyright to begin with, which is to incentive people to create things. Will the inclusion of copyrighted works in llm training (further) erode that incentive? Maybe, and I think that's a shame if so. But I also don't really think it's the primary threat to the incentive structure in publishing.
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I've hit issues with bad quality PRNGs when using them for Monte Carlo path tracing. With a non-uniform PRNG, the simulation can take a lot longer to converge to a clear image, because some ray paths can be severely under or over represented.
I ran it, it came out to zero
Battery Charts – battery storage in Germany
Paper: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jan-Figgener/publicatio...
Anecdotally, this is true even as an adult. As a non-trad student the application side of things as they are taught are fairly effete, we learn how to translate graphs in algebra, quadratics, polynomials... I don't recall much in the way of meaningful application in either trig or algebra and what was there was remembered solely in the context of future examination.

In one hand I would argue there is virtually no incentive for play, or discovery, or superfluous activity with the math due to grading, and in fact it's disincentivized as it is one factor of a multivariate optimization problem. On the other hand I would argue that it's taught too fast as an effect of the former condition - as someone who isn't in a highly mathematical branch of STEM the use of mathematics is comparably infrequent when considering the TEM, as such atrophy sets rapidly after examination. And this could be said more generally with the S as well, though there is some degree of reinforcement there.

As things are, I feel that the timeline is askew, the won't if these institutions to produce biologists along the same timeline as they did a few decades ago is a little ridiculous considering the ballooning of quantitative discovery that has occured since, for instance, it wasn't so long ago that DNA was a conceptual exercise.

Moreover, the failure of education to keep with the times and adapt a realistic curricula for the modern era is also inhibitory. Indeed I would argue that the current academic zeitgeist is working against itself. At once being a trade program and while also trying to facilitate the development of "academia" itself are forces acting against one another. The number of premed students running the gauntlet in my program far outweigh the number of people with [let's say] legitimate interest in learning about the concepts in the program, which are also made to compete with the premeds in the limited slots available for lab internships. In my experience this leads to a chilling effect. Fortuitously, once in a lab things tend to be a little more facorable in terms of rapport.
What does it actually mean to disconnect? Is there some physical connection being broken? How is that done?
this is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while and I'll take inspiration from the article.

Also, funny how in the blog post it says the Github will come soon and now almost a decade later there is still no Github link :)
I would argue the second.

I think it is a human trait to like to win arguments. In some card games, there is a thing called a trump card [1]. The trump card has this special ability to beat all other cards.

Rust has a kind of trump card: memory safety. If you get in an argument about code it is often possible to maneuver the argument in the direction of memory safety at which point the Rust advocate gets to default win the discussion.

I think this "trump card" aspect attracts a particular kind of person to advocate for Rust simply because they like to feel technically superior to others. Whenever they are in an argument, no matter what the context, they simply have to play the game: how can I make this technical argument about memory safety so that I can win by default.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_(card_games)
It is possibly a religious thing. The puritan/protestant influence on american culture tends towards down-to-earth fiction that avoids discussion of fantastic situations that rub up against religion. Lovecraft's basic mythology is that there are things older than the earth. That conflicts with creationism and so would be a shunned in 18/19th century america. Such things certainly would not be found in school libraries.

The old people here might remember the anti-magic push in the 90s, the satanic panics and efforts to stop Halloween. Midi-chlorians were part of this, removing magic in place of scientific explanations. Then harry potter swept the movement away.
There was a long period of time where he _was_ ignored and underrated, up until 1981, when Stephen King gave him a shoutout in his book about horror writing (Danse Macabre) and the Call of Cthulhu RPG was published. Until then, his books were entirely an underground phenomenon, and even then it wasn't until the early 2000s or late 1990s that Cthulhu was anything but a shibboleth for ultra-nerds.

He was sort of a perfect fit for the generation of kids raised on computer games and RPGs that had voracious appetites for new mythologies.

It is funny how once you get tagged with "underrated" it just stays with you forever, though.
Linux is a cooperation between numerous companies to develop a shared artifact that works with all of their hardware, solves all of their use cases, etc. No one company involved can just go make their own replacement, because they need the cooperation of the other companies involved to get it to work on the hardware manufactured by the other companies.

Even ignoring the driver problem, it's not really an economically viable amount of work. Right now everyone benefits from everyone else's bug fixes, from everyone else's security improvements (like introducing rust!), etc. Going it on your own means you have to redo everything everyone else has done (unless you just fork linux), and that you don't get the benefit of everyone else working on the shared codebase (I suppose unless you fork linux and keep merging in upstream... which is actually what projects like Android do).

A complete rewrite also means a huge time lag before you start seeing payback in terms of faster development speed and a more reliable/secure operating system. Unlike introducing rust in new work to the existing kernel which sees relatively immediate payback.

I suppose I wouldn't be too surprised to see a project like Android just maintaining a whole series of rust changes in their own branch if the RFL project continues to be impeded by the maintainers. That's what Asahi linux (Linux on apple computers) is already doing (and poking at the android-mainline branch it looks like there are some rust additions that aren't in Linus's tree... but I'm not sure what the extent is).
> What some fraction of the public will hear, no matter how clear your messaging, is not Fuck Tesla, they will hear, Global Warming isn't that big a deal.

They're already getting that when the leader of Tesla is in bed with the political party that denies climate change. You're also comparing a theoretical harm with an active and ongoing one.
We should let the free market build all the roads as well. People will pay private corporations for the highways if they really want them. Do not force me to participate in your political desires for your roads by taking my money at gunpoint.
i hate when people quote random celebrities as authoritative on any topic, let alone as a counterpoint to actual authorities (google the authors of this study).

Edit: hn is just as anti-intellectual as any other place these days but y'all style yourselves as intelligentsia because your celebrities are special.

I'll repeat: check out the qualifications of the authors of this study and compare them to Feynman's on this subject. Any reasonable person would conclude that comparing them is exactly like comparing Kim Kardashian and Feynman's on QED.
Gosh I love these electricity grid posts. As someone with almost zero knowledge about the subject, I am fascinated by what I learn. The last one I saw was when Ukraine switched away from Russia days before Russia invaded them.
in my experience, taxi quality varies wildly depending on where you are

in bay area, it absolutely makes sense to invent uber, because the taxis were awful. and in vancouver (canada), they're also awful, and deserve the disruption: they would often tell you it'd be a 40 minute wait, and then just not show up

taxis in new york were and continue to be totally fine. you just stand outside and get in ~20 seconds later, with no hassles or apps. i've been in an uber/lyft a handful of times in nyc, but they're just worse (possibly cheaper, but the subway also gives them stiff competition, and i don't care that much if i'm in enough of a hurry to take a cab)
The interesting bit is that this includes Kaliningrad. See: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46628
I'm actually partially implementing that with the demo at the top being able to use WASM tech to run the conversion software in the browser. That way, you can still use a website and convert entirely on your own machine.

Working on improving it at the moment