skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. People only look at success.

The question is to fully see (and boringly like the parent post was talking about) what are the rewards and the risks to decide if it is worth it or not. What if it made the company tanked financially (like you would have to go back to the state before but have to rewrite the rewrite because you had to change the database design in your first rewrite or something) and not be able to ship for another 6 months? Being a small team you don't have all the cash you want unless you already made it big. Also you have to explain to your investors why you won't ship. And really how come you are an expert in tech when you had to redo it from scratch so next time maybe they can reinvest.

This type of decision needs clear planning, reward and risk, and a real business goal to happen. But let's be real many times it's not the case and X is the new cool tech. I am all about being audacious but in a calculated way.
Hey now let's not downplay what a wonderful vehicle it is for state-sponsored political propaganda and misinformation.
From the NYT:

While consulting Title 31 of the U.S. Code (to see how much annual penny minting was required by law), I came upon a statute outlining general instructions for the apportionment of American coins. “The Secretary of the Treasury shall,” Section 5111 reads, “mint and issue” denominations of coins “in amounts the Secretary decides are necessary to meet the needs of the United States.” I reread the sentence several times. Groping for a light switch in a bolted room, had my fingers brushed over the knob of an unlocked door? Amounts the Secretary decides are necessary. What if the secretary decided the amount of pennies necessary was zero?

I contacted Christine Desan, a Harvard law professor who specializes in the constitutional law of money. I asked what she made of Section 5111. “The way it reads to me as a lawyer,” Desan said, is that “there’s nothing in here that indicates the secretary has to issue them.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/briefing/the-penny-us-cur...
Well if you have just one solar panel you can double all installed solar in a matter of minutes and 5x it in matter of an hour.
Flying Dublin to US was incredibly backward. First you go through Dublin airport security, then you walk through a beautiful terminal, lots of food, drink, etc., so you grab a bunch of drinks, maybe a sandwich, unaware that you are about to have to throw it all away because you have to go through TSA and US Customs once you reach the "American" terminal.

So after throwing away perfectly good food and multiple bottles of water because our flight was coming up, we then had to sit in a terminal that only had 2 snack choices and no real food offerings.

I've decided to never fly out of Dublin to the US again. Even if that means I have to fly to London just to transfer to the US.
Origami Guide
The same way linguists are already using audio recordings to preserve dying languages that belong to people who have never had access to audio recordings. You can make a record of a culture in a medium that they didn't/don't have themselves.
Lol. Yes, I do. I should have clarified...
Hah, you're right - I completely forgot about section 174.
lemmy dot world is similar to the other big forum you mentioned.

I've tried many but most don't have enough interesting traffic to keep you coming back.

bsky dot app is taking up more of my time, one of my tech interests, kicad, posts there a lot.
hey, this is really nice. Have you seen web audio modules? https://webaudiomodules.com

It is an audio/video/midi plugin standard for the web and it is rather mature.

During covid I worked on a collaborative browser-based DAW, https://sequencer.party. I definitely bit off more than I could chew, but you can wire up plugin chains at least.

I would strongly suggest you consider adding webaudiomodule support and instantly get ~50 plugins supported in the DAW. I also packaged up a bunch of them ready for consumption here: https://github.com/boourns/wam-community
Won't denser areas have less sunlight ?
On the other hand, neonazis and their enablers are united in the inevitable cry for proof and "truth", and then looking the other way when it's delivered. Obviously this is a very efficient tactic, and I agree with you it's why the left lost.
Just going to add this RE: reliability. Today CPUs are so powerful you don't need DSP systems anymore to do things like low latency tracking. It is still up to the user to manage latency by carefully selecting plugins, etc. With DSP based systems, the latency is generally fixed and extremely stable. I still use a very old PTHD system because it works great for recording audio :)
That's a good thing, I suppose, because I am told you are supposed to love your enemies.

I have found that advice paradoxical, confounding & frustrating, in turns, but ultimately very effective.
Posting their cool essay on a computer that needs internet that needs electricity that needs power plants that needs natural resource extraction that needs heavy machinery that needs metallurgy that needs large factories that needs engineers that needs universities that needs thousands of years of human capital etc etc etc

If you don't like the modern world, stop being a hypocrite make the first move and throw away the computer and go live in the woods.

Why is it always other people that need to change? You change.
It can be used for more LLMs or whatever that was somewhat trained with material that have some kind of license attached. Like Github's Copilot, for starters, even open source software have licenses. And they might have taken part of training of most LLMs. If you enforce copyrights in one case then you are enabling it for the other case.
Linear algebra doesn't have many preconditions - so being used to math texts is much more important for it than having some pre-knowledge.

Easiest to start will be either Linear Algebra done right by Axler or Linear algebra done wrong by Treil - try both, they take very different approaches to introducing the subject, so one of them may be compatible with you.

After finishing either of these I heartily recommend you Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces by Halmos - it's way more abstract, so I cannot recommend it as first introduction to LA, but it proves its results in very beautiful and a bit uncommon way. It's probably my favourite book from undergrad.
FLAC 1.5 Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding
The problem for me with making such an investment is that next month a better model will be released. It will either require more or less RAM than the current best model- making it either not runnable or expensive to run on an overbuilt machine.

Using cloud infrastructure should help with this issue. It may cost much more per run but money can be saved if usage is intermittent.

How are HN users handling this?
PreCheck probably makes less of a difference than it used to. But, as you say, if you fly any amount, getting PreCheck (or Global Entry which comes with PreCheck) is a drop in the bucket in terms of money.

I think PreCheck probably goes faster too because people with PreCheck mostly know the drill.
in the us that's the precheck line...
Why can’t you read at the airport?
> Can passkeys fix that?

Not until they are as easily usable as regular passwords without installing or configuring any additional software.
A question, does the executive order (if it was actually signed by the President) have the "law power" to actually oblige Google Maps to make this change?

If not, is this correct following USA law? Also is this matter being questioned in superior Justice instances?
The problem is that I would have to remember them all; It's a metaphorical pile, not a literal one. A large majority are games where the DRM no longer works for whatever reason (Silent Hunter 3 and 4 come to mind), but games where malware/microtransactions/etc. were added after release or not disclosed prior to release included Civilization 6 and Red Orchestra 2. IIRC the latter game specifically is why Valve added the ability to read the EULA prior to purchase, as the ads were only disclosed in the EULA and the EULA was available only after purchase.

(Edit: I don't consider piracy/cracks a solution to DRM. Solutions solve problems. Piracy and cracks are workarounds at best. The problem is still there.)
So invest all your money in Coca-Cola and maybe beat inflation by one or two percent.

Or you can gamble it all on a meme stock and maybe 100x your wealth.

Institutional investors are doing both.
The best math book for a software engineer imho is Concrete mathematics by Knuth (of TAOCP fame).

Problems in it are a bit tough to chew through though.
> spend a ton of time and money

Not necessarily. For non-professional purposes, I've spent zero dollars (no additional memory or GPU) and I'm running a local language model that's good enough to help with many kinds of tasks including writing, coding, and translation.

It's a personal, private, budget AI that requires no network connection or third-party servers.
The issue with Macs is that below Max/Ultra processors, the memory bandwidth is pretty slow. So you need to spend a lot on a high level processor and lots of memory, and the current gen processor, M4, doesn't even have an Ultra, while the Max is only available in a laptop form factor (so thermal constraints).

An M4 Pro still has only 273GB/s, while even the 2 generations old RTX 3090 has 935GB/s.

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/4167
At first glance, this looks like it's going to be a lot of fun. Would be nice if the built-in samples featured some one shots as opposed to just loops, though I haven't dove in deep enough to see if there are facilities for chopping up longer samples. Definitely plan to fool around with this some more after work and see what it can do.
I'm game: give me the steps it takes to get a kid with an electric guitar and an appropriate USB connection to A) start making noise with the guitar in the software, and then B) start filtering that noise to sound like electric guitar distortion.

My post reads like a person who has tried every DAW I know of and ended up with at least 10 steps (usually involving "sign up" and "log in" for no fucking reason), when there should only be 3: Plug in, open app, pick guitar.

I've mastered enough CONTENT to know that Ableton is great! Not just at MUSIC but at sound effects, at atmospheric/environmental engineering, too. But Ableton is still an engineer's software, not a musicians.

Again, I'm not complaining that the good things work good at what they're good at. I'm complaining that no one seems to be working on different good stuff for different kinds of people.
Look at all the third world countries in latin america that have been through a coup, that's where it ends.
If that was the case Delta wouldn’t have like 5 cabin classes.
They spent it running ads and stuff, Musk went ahead against the taboo and legalnrestrictions against buying votes/voter registeration and did a million dollar a day lottery for registered republicans in a swing state.
The pay increases just enough to make it slightly less uncomfortable to stay at work, than to do something else.
What they want is in/inout/out, with the compiler determining if the semantic is better implemented by value or by reference.

In Ada, there are also requirements that some types are always passed by value or by reference. And as of Ada 2012 there's a way to force the "always pass by value" types by reference.

A while back someone wrote a post comparing Rust to the sort of design your parent prefers https://web.archive.org/web/20241009004034/https://jedbarber... I remember it being... fine.

The short of it is, Rust doesn't do great because STEELMAN wants subtyping and contracts (though I see contracts may be coming to Rust...) as well as return values instead of exceptions.
I was under the impression the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) defines the naming of international waters.
I understand the frustrations with the current DAW offerings. Many of them have a very long history in taking over where the analogue tape machine left off.

Some have developed much further though to support a more digital-first approach.

But it's true that the barrier to entry can still be very high. Trying to explain any of these packages to a musician who is not also a computer power user is extremely challenging, believe me I've tried.

If we could arrive at a point where a DAW can be intuitive to a musician and not technically overwhelming that would be very interesting.

What would be more interesting though would be if that same project could be viewed in an "engineer mode" which exposes the technical view for someone else to work on at a different level.
Show HN: Cross-Platform eBook Reader for Win, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS and Web
Hey! I’ve been working on a new ebook reader app called Readest—a modern, feature-rich ebook reader with seamless cross-device sync! If you have ideas, feedback, or just want to try something new, I’d love to hear from you!
> If not, is this correct following USA law?

Why wouldn’t it be? What’s stopping them from calling it Gulf of Google if they want to?

Trump isn’t forcing Google to do anything. They use a database for their place names and use what is in that database.
Indeed. While I was surprised by the name, I quickly noticed that this was a vibes-based reaction.

I'm British by birth, I grew up with news stories about the IRA, and the second-largest city in Northern Ireland is either "Derry" or "Londonderry" depending on if you're a Republican* or a Unionist.

The English Channel, if you're French, is La Manche.

The country I currently live in is Saksa in Finish, Tyskland in Danish, Allemagne in French, Niemcy in Polish, or Germany in English, none of which is close to the endonym of Deutschland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Germany_Name_European_Lan...

* i.e. "not a monarchist" — this has nothing to do with the US political party.
What does trust and safety mean in this context ? Who is trusting who; and who/what is safe ?
>HN is great, but I’m interested in more than just tech and tech people. Any recommendations?

No recommendations. But can you articulate what you might be looking for? ( certainly not easy to answer f you have not spend time thinking)
Show HN: Generate Notion-style line avatars using AI (open source)
There's a style of "line avatar" popular on X and the design community at the moment, inspired by Notion's illustration style. If you want one, you need to find a designer to create one for you (costs up to $150) or make one by picking each feature of your face e.g. pick your style of hair, nose, eyes.

I thought it would be possible to create using AI, so I used Google MediaPipe Solutions to identify face landmarks and generate a line avatar for you.

You can try it out at LineAvatars.com, it's open source so if you can think of a way to improve it, I'd love for you to open a pull request.
The current Pi 5 is on a 16nm node[1], down from 28nm for the Pi 4.

So, far off needing a bleeding edge node[2] to see further improvements.

[1]: https://chipwise.tech/our-portfolio/raspberry-pi-5/

[2]: https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/log...
> popular science and journalism has not done any favours by framing the IE studies as "The Aryans brought the Vedas with them from Europe",

I don't believe any reputable journalist or popular science publication has pushed that view in recent decades. Please post links if you have them
> The worst case scenario is not being delayed - it's being falsely accused.

Being falsely accused is just one form of being delayed. The kind where it takes longer to clear it up.

> Your bags are misplaced or stolen.

Does worrying help with this? Does it make it less likely for it to happen?

> You can't take your water bottle so now you have to buy another for 10x the price.

Yes. That is how it is. Does worrying help with this?

> Your passport was accidentally torn so you now have to explain that to a skeptical border police officer.

Border guards see torn passports all the time.

> our flight is cancelled and you must now rush to the only hotel to book a room before they sell out

I don't know where you are flying where there is only one hotel. Is this a real worry or are we just catastrophising here?
SpaceX's total funding from government grants and subsidies is effectively $0. They do sell commercial services to the government and bid on competitive commercial contracts, but those are neither grants nor subsidies.
Valuations are based on what you think the companies will do over a decade or two into the future. AI will almost certainly be a big deal over that time period.
How is the performance difference between using a dedicated GPU from Nvidia for example compared to whatever Apple does?

So lets say we'd run a model on a Mac Mini M4 with 24GB RAM, how many tokens/s are you getting? Then if we run the exact same model but with a RTX 3090ti for example, how many tokens/s are you getting?

Do these comparisons exist somewhere online already? I understand it's possible to run the model on Apple hardware today, with the unified memory, but how fast is that really?
For datacenters and especially hyperscalers, the power and cooling bill is a huge part of the TCO.

You make somewhat more power efficient chips, you get to sell it for a lot more.

Your chips are inefficient, and you won’t be able to sell to a hyperscaler even for $0.

The latter is the position Intel is quickly arriving at for DC; Epycs are much more efficient and Intel’s wildly slashing prices.

—

For Apple, A-series dies are pretty small, they basically prefund a large part of TSMC and almost certainly gets the lowest prices of any customer.

That said, Apple’s strict fascination with always jumping to the latest node, even when it seems premature, puzzles me from the outside.
The "coinage clause" of the Constitution.

https://constitution.findlaw.com/article1/annotation37.html

> Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 is known as the coinage clause. It gives Congress the exclusive power to coin money. The Supreme Court has also interpreted clause 5 as giving Congress the sole authority to regulate every aspect of United States currency.

That supreme court interpretation is from 1820 so it's both "settled law" and "an outdated ruling", depending on who you ask.
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983898

Additionally:

* In some European countries newspapers cannot publish the names of people on trial. In the US they can.

* In some European countries you cannot take pictures of people in public and publish them. In the US you can.
_Trains_ which can do 400km/h have been around for a long time. SNCF (the French railway company) has a modified TGV set that can do 570km/h(!!!)

But trains are just one part of the system.
There are at least 3 distinct things in your post.

1. Authors' works were (are?) illegally distributed in 'Books3': This seems to clearly be a copyright infringement. That being said, I'd be shocked if someone could prove this copyright infringement made an appreciable impact on an author's income. Something tangible, not a hand-wavey "but they would have bought my book". I know that I don't go out downloading books from places like ThePile if I want to read something. I'd wager most people don't.

2. Facebook (et al.) acquired illegal collections of books vs legally acquiring the books: If that is true (seems likely) then they should suffer punishment for the acquisition. That being said, it's the same cudgel that'd be used to sue individuals into oblivion, so the end outcomes might be less constructive for the rest of humanity. I do feel like corporations involved in mass copyright infringement should be held accountable though.

3. Facebook (et al.) trained foundational models on collections of books they acquired (disconnect #2 from #3 here): I'd argue strongly that the foundational model training is not a copyright violation. It's not storing copyrighted works and distributing them. It is using them to model language patterns and token frequencies that could be used to create an approximation of a copyrighted work if the training was poor and you prompt it properly. There are plenty of experts in this matter that could discuss this in depth, but the essence of the fight boils down to if you believe that the copyrighted works are being distributed via these trained models or not. Now, if people want to change copyright law such that there are specific laws around how ML models are trained on copyrighted works, then perhaps this problem gets resolved in one direction or the other. Until then, all parties are just talking past each other and hoping the courts eventually agree with their arguments.
Still waiting on a “copy time” function to magically appear
> Archaeologists have for 30+ years noted that there is zero-evidence for mass-migration.

That's not true. Please cite sources
Have you had the opportunity to interact with less wrapped versions of the models?
There's a lot of intentionality behind the way LLM's are presented from places like ChatGPT/DeepSeek/Claude, you're distinctly trying to talk to something that's actively limited in the way it can speak to you

It's not exactly nonexistant outside of them, but they make it worse than it is
It's Stephen Miller's take on a strategy out of Steve Bannon's playbook - Flood The Zone.
The allocator hints only makes sense with at least two devices. Btrfs is metadata heavy, so offloading metadata to faster devices can make a big performance difference. For example a HDD combined with a small SSD or NVMe disk, you would set "data preferred" on the HDD and "metadata preferred" on the SSD/NVMe disk.

One advantage with these patches compared to using dm-cache, lvmcache or bcache is that everything is native Btrfs and fully compatible with non-patched kernels (though the 'hints' won't apply for new writes). Btrfs allows for adding additional devices to existing filesystems, so no mkfs and data-shuffling is needed. If you do not like the result, simply set default hint (type 0). You can then "btrfs device remove" your previously added SSD/NVMe devices.
Isn't that's asking for terrible UI latency?
That's a throwback! I remember being excited about the Optimus Maximus back around '06! Never heard of any actually making it out into the wild...
heh, nice. i used to manage the mud.at domain for some time. unfortunately we let it lapse and now the domain is in the hand of squatters.
That was my assumption too, I guess what I got out of that thread was that they would have no idea of whether they were going to be in violation or not or what the consequences would be.
You did it, you posted the meme.

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
> How are HN users handling this?

Combine the best of both worlds. I have a local assistant (communicate via Telegram) that handles tool-calling and basic calendar/todo management (running on a RTX 3090ti), but for more complicated stuff, it can call out to more advanced models (currently using OpenAI APIs for this) granted the request itself doesn't involve personal data, then it flat out refuses, for better or worse.
Except you made the failure of assumption that it would be of random people exactly like jury duty. I contend that it would be better to pick from a pool of professionals who, as part of their entrance into a professional society, agree also to lend their talents to civic duty for the benefit of all.
What's next? Will New Mexico be called New America? /s
Mastodon works for me, but you do have to work to build your network.

Discoverability is a problem, but you follow people on your home server, follow the people they boost, see who they follow and follow them ...

Then cull ruthlessly.

Repeat a few times and quite quickly you find your personal feed full of things from interesting people.

If you don't have "algorithms" to suggest things to you, you need to do the work for yourself. Thing is, it takes some effort.

That's another thing. Most of the people active on Mastodon have done, or are doing, that work, which is a positive filter.
And the airport is already crowded. The last thing we need are people not even flying anywhere.