skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For Compatibility with no_std tgts, e.g. embedded, Use the no_std feature.

Note, this is not the recommended way to use Rust feature flags. They are additive and so the correct way to make a `no_std` compatible crate is to have a `std` feature flag that conditionally enables use of the `std` library.

Referring to Effective Rust:

> Note that there's a trap for the unwary here: don't have a no_std feature that disables functionality requiring std (or a no_alloc feature similarly). As explained in Item 26, features need to be additive, and there's no way to combine two users of the crate where one configures no_std and one doesn't—the former will trigger the removal of code that the latter relies on.
- https://www.lurklurk.org/effective-rust/no-std.html
Sorry but you were arguing that Discord should snoop even more into what we're doing for ethical reasons, and now you're saying privacy is a virtue. Do you have a reason to think Discord doesn't already do these things and just doesn't get it right every time?

Phone and email aren't more private than Discord either. Arguably less. Difficult to get a phone these days without buying it on camera. And a phone company will give up all your messages.
I’m on there sometimes, haven’t seen any…
no, i mean like this https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rTCInAXSzKA

that works for crypto because all the CPU sends to the card is the target ledger sha256sum (simplified) and the GPU generates nonces until the `sha256sum(sha256sum(nonce += ledger sum)` has however many zeros in the front. So until a card finds the correct nonce, or the server sends "new work" - a new ledger shasum, there's no traffic, really, between the GPU and the CPU. housekeeping, whatever, but not like 1GB/s!
I mean, do people still use it in large amounts, is it popular, don't be so literal
Interestingly, that animation at the end mainly proceeds from left to right, with just some occasional exceptions.

So I followed the link, and gave the model this bit of conversation starter:

> You still go mostly left to right.

The denoising animation it generated went like this:

> [Yes] [.] [MASK] [MASK] [MASK] ... [MASK]

and proceeded by deletion of the mask elements on the right one by one, leaving just the "Yes.".

:)
Ten Machine Requirements to Satisfy Essentials of Joint Activity
There are a couple of generations of filesystems in between FFS and ZFS. And for modern filesystems it's also worth looking at btrfs, Microsoft's Resilient File System, and Apple APFS.

Also note that ext2 is basically a re-implementation of FFS, without the interleaving because it's designed for disks with integrated controllers.
Keep the Future Human
China’s strategy is to prevent any one bloc from achieving dominance and cutting off the others, while being the sole locus for the killer combination of industrial capacity + advanced research.

You're acting like these startups are controlled by the Chinese government. In reality, they're just like any other American startup. They make decisions on how to make the most money - not what the Chinese government wants.
I never found Athena expensive. Compared to employment cost it will be miniscule.

And some times, if your query is CPU extensive but the queried data size is not huge you can get a ridiculous value for money, like many CPU-days in 10 minutes for just $5 if your query covers 1TB after partitioning.

Query size limits are also configurable.

Obviously it depends on what data you are working on, but not having to set up and pay for a computational cluster is a huge cost saving.
You can use structured outputs, or something like my https://arthurcolle--dynamic-schema.modal.run/

to extract real data from unstructured text (like that producted from an LLM) to make benchmarks slightly easier if you have a schema
> But for Bhartrihari it goes even further than this. [...] learning new words for experiences is not just learning a new way to communicate. It is, in some sense, gaining new experiences. When we expand our emotional vocabulary, we expand our range of emotional experience, even if the experiences we are acquiring are not radically new, and did not come ex nihilo, but are built out of the stuff of our minds.

This is as good a reason as any for reading poetry, learning Sanskrit, engaging with the culture, etc.
Walmart is selling the 8GB M1 for $629. It presumably won’t ever get Apple Intelligence but it’s a great starter if money is tight.

I’d be tempted to buy a used machine with more RAM because I’ve had really good experiences with used electronics like laptops or phones.

BTW I have Apple Intelligence turned off but I’m not prepared to say it won’t ever be useful for anybody.
Unthinkable Thoughts
Probably a lot more. Those are server-grade GPUs. We're talking prosumer grade Macs.

I don't know how to calculate tokens/s for H100s linked together. ChatGPT might help you though. :)
Yep. And tbh you probably don't even have to do this; the R1 paper found that just running SFT the base model with a relatively small number of monolingual reasoning traces was enough for it to get the idea and iirc they didn't even bother selecting for language specifically in the RL training looop itself.
Any social app with one click to join communities (all of them) will fall under this.

And how out of touch with teenagers are you that you think cartoons in the UI (whatever that means) are why they use it. What is a kids hobby? Gaming? You cannot call that a kids hobby.
I work from home... which is it's own set of problems.

One thing I did going through divorce is choose to live somewhere that there are a lot of people around. I have a few restaurants and bars within walking distance... I have found a huge improvement in quality of life just by getting to know some of the bartenders and locals.
50 years in filesystems: 1974 – Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp
My car does not have DCT. so it just has a wack transmission!
So basically Hacker News.
Deep latent representations aren’t a hoax
Open the "see more" link to get a pretty robust list and links .
The insurance companies have already enshittified the medical back office to levels beyond comprehension.
If you're not making some joke that I'm missing it's just 10^4 = 10000, which is a just a fancier way of saying 0000-9999.
Right, of course, I think I misread the parents’

> but also any future objects sent from Earth to do the same things

As somehow saying something about the “furthest”
I was talking with a fellow Matrix server admin and comparing our on disk DB sizes, theirs was 430GB and mine is ~7.3GB, total media size of 14GB or so. They said the MatrixHQ room bloated the database by 1100GB.

however, on the client side, you don't cache all that stuff, only what you can see; you have to scroll up and wait for the server to fetch it and show it to you if you wanna see older stuff. You can use the search, too, and that's "relatively" quick, and will scroll back to the correct spot.

But in larger rooms with more media, clicking the result to get the context is hit-or-miss.
Detecting when one user of a conversation has finished talking.

It’s a big deal for detecting human speech when interacting with LLM systems
Turn detection is deciding when a person has finished talking and expects the other party in a conversation to respond. In this case, the other party in the conversation is an LLM!
US charges Chinese hackers who targeted dissidents
Ransomware Readiness Tool
Yep! Though one could argue the Amiga wasn't true unified memory due to the chip RAM limitations. Depending on the Agnus revision, you'd be limited to 512, 1 meg, or 2 meg max of RAM addressable by the custom chips ("chip RAM".)
It's nice of you to assume they pay a "fair" tax rate but based on Tesla I don't see that happening:
https://itep.org/tesla-reported-zero-federal-income-tax-in-2...
I don’t know if it’s totally solved but it’ll we are definitely making progress on it.

Most of the comments on this thread are needlessly pessimistic
Have a goal in mind. A social network is a tool to an end. What is the end?

I have found several use cases all trying to go on at the same time.

1. People with important group communications needing a large audience; i.e. scientists sharing research, organizations needing to contact people, special interest groups like Ham Radio (cuz they can't broadcast on their gear), photographers, musicians and so on.

2. Hot news feeds. These were added not to share news, but to lock people in with echo chamber news.

3. People simply wanting to communicate privately with friends and family and so on.

4. Local information of interest and need. Some is quite urgent, as in evacuation alerts; Some is important, like road closures and events, and some is caustic bullshit as in community gossip and flame wars. And LOCAL advertising can actually be useful and not just the "sports talk radio" carpet-bombing of tax attorneys, divorce lawyers, dick stiffeners, and house flippers.

5. Politics. I find that this is best in affinity groups that are heavily moderated. Trolls and bots gonna troll.

6. Probably more.

The more you address, the more diluted the product.

And the money model?
Archived version: https://archive.is/HXP8y
Humans train AI, now AI trains Humans
Show HN: Stealth Interview
Coding interviews are broken.

They're a gatekeeping ritual that has NOTHING to do with actual software engineering. We're forced to memorize obscure data structures and algorithms we'll never use, while being watched like lab rats through screen-sharing.

I got fed up and built Stealth Interview - an undetectable AI assistant that works during technical interviews. It runs silently in the background while you're screen-sharing on Zoom or any other platform. The interviewer sees nothing, but you get the help you need.

THIS is the only way you game the system, because the game is rigged.

This is leveling the playing field.

Real engineers use Google, Stack Overflow, and AI tools every day. Recruiters use AI to screen you out or look for Ivy League grads who barely got any experience but inverting trees in CS102.

We're witnessing the demise of the Leetcode era. Companies are slowly realizing these artificial puzzles don't predict job performance. Until they all catch up, Stealth Interview is here to help you get past these arbitrary barriers.

I built this out of frustration, but also hope - for a future where we judge engineers by what they build, not how they perform in high-pressure algorithm recitals.
It's just written by the CPU during a ucode update
This site will find any subdomain, for any domain, so long as it previously had a certificate (ssl/tls)

https://crt.sh/
Holy cow! Did you say 10000x?!?!
esProc SPL: Equivalent to the Python-enhanced DuckDB
I have RAID and offsite backups.
As I pointed out the 10000x speed up claim is smoke and mirrors, and any of your team could have spent 10 minutes and figured that out by profiling the code. It's a silly claim that doesn't hold up to scrutiny and detracts from your project by setting off the bullshit detector that most programmers have on marketing hyperbole. It's not the flex you think it is.
What if aligning with Chinese interest becomes the best way to make money? What stopping the Chinese government from providing better incentives to businesses and academics?
This is wild. Long time lurker here, avid modeling and simulation user-I feel like there’s some serious potential here to help provide more insight into “emergent behavior” in complex agent behavior models. I’d love to see this applied to models like a predator/prey model, and other “simple” models that generate complex “emergent” outcomes but on massive scales… I’m definitely keeping tabs on this work!
Why not just abandon everyone that I love to suffer?
Oh I see. Not like segmenting a conversation where people speak in turn. Thanks.
Correct. Sadly, it's not cheap to unlock, but it's easy and worth the price.
Turns out conservatism and far right demagoguery is not great for progress.
WebAssembly Crushes Technical Debt
We need to estrablish a Strategic Bullshit Reserve - there's currently a surplus, but we may need more in the future.

Also, Government Cheese.

And maybe stockpile qbits.
Thanks, also written in full here: https://discuss.james.network/public/d/25-shownotes-for-epis...
You ain't owning anything. I've seen countless "coaches" like yourself with questionable experience. Looks more like a BS artist honestly.
The Kernighan-Lin Search Algorithm
US butterflies 'all in trouble' as their numbers rapidly decline, report finds
There is server creation in the sense that you can host the whole backend on your own domain: <https://github.com/revoltchat/self-hosted/blob/master/compos...>.

Not sure if their own hosted offering has a "click to spin up new server" button. Probably not.
Breakup of SpaceX's Starship Rocket Disrupts Florida Airports
The worldview where "both sides" must have valid points is also extremely problematic. There's no need to give equal time to fascists. Sometimes one "side" is wrong and the only appropriate thing to do is say so.
I'm building some really good new friends, but I don't get to see them often due to distance.

I am also kind of fearful of leaning on people too much.

Getting to see more people regularly has helped with the deep meaningful vs casual acquaintance thing. Right now it's a battle of attrition to have enough opportunities that some more significant opportunities can happen organically.

The harder I try to force it the less progress I make. It's very difficult to deal with even being able to observe it. A perverse target fixation.
I think Grigori Perelman, who solved the Poincare conjecture and declined the Fields medal and Millennium prize money for it, then said he has retired from professional mathematics to avoid the fame, might qualify as the most famous in recent memory.
Starting small is great advice. The feedback for a pilot is just as valuable as any other feedback. This attitude of putting ideas out and being open to feedback can yield amazing results.
Why would anyone put so much trust in to the US in the past?

I'm American, an army vet, and proud. Yet, I fail to identify anything other than the US acting in their own self interest since WW2. The list is long, but to name a few, Vietnam, War on terror, mass surveillance network, etc...

People are waxing poetic about an America that never was.
Out of curiosity, I've just looked at the front page of lemmy.org, and its community seems virtually indistinguishable from reddit.
https://archive.is/qN21O
Well, it's not PoliticalScientistNews, regardless of our collective delusions.
I sure wish we still did.
like Gerald Bull's Space Research

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Research_Corporation
Flutter could be pretty productive?

I do feel flutter delivers more on the one codebase and relative simplicity technology than most things I've tried.

It would remain my first choice if I was starting, and I'd hire non Flutter devs for it.
Geekbench correlates with SPEC, the industry standard in CPU benchmark and what enterprise companies such as AWS uses to judge a CPU performance. It has .99 correlation.

https://medium.com/silicon-reimagined/performance-delivered-...

Passmark is an outdated benchmark that isn't updated to use ARM instructions.
Evaluating Mistral OCR Against Gemini 2.0 Flash
Universality is a great thing to consider.

Speed of iteration is too.
Maintaining bug-for-bug compatibility between our SRT implementation and libsrt
> 16" SVGA

These things existed? I never heart of them. I thought it was 14", 15", 17", and 21".
canonically a cannon
It looks nice! The homepage did take >10 seconds to load, and the "get started" button is completely white for me unless hovering, probably a minor CSS bug. The main diagramming tool has a clean and professional look to it, but pretty much every action from dragging a box around to adding a new box has ~1s delay for me, which seems strange. Also I might make the menu on the left a little bigger, I'm on a monitor and I nearly missed it. Without the latency issue, seems like it could be handy though!
This is kind of sparse, pardon the pun. The previous chapter covers one Unix filesystem and that's it, as if that's all there was in 1974-1984. The 1984 chapter is again just one BSD Unix filesystem.

How about something lesser known, but excellent?
There's something great about enforced anonymity. It gets rid of people saying what they think they should say, and instead simply what they think.

It reminds one of the wisdom of the masses experiments. If you take a bunch of people and ask them how many peas are in a jar, the average will come out extremely close to the right answer. But if you let those people collaborate, debate, and try to pick the smartest answer - it tends to be far less accurate.

It's part of the reason that I think decentralize everything is the way to go. You'll never reach the utopic highs that a perfect centralization might offer, but you'll also never reach the dystopic lows that a flawed centralization can impose.
I think recurrent training approaches like those discussed in COCONUT and similar papers show promising potential. As these techniques mature, models could eventually leverage their recurrent architecture to perform tasks requiring precise sequential reasoning, like odd/even bit counting that current architectures struggle with.
Lean AI Native Companies Leaderboard
You may not have made up the number, but you did invent a contextual framing where you could claim that number accurately. But the framing is not a useful or practical one. It's like saying that your car is faster because the driver can turn the key in the ignition more quickly.

Instantiating an agent is not the bottleneck for LLMs. Two hundredths of a second is a rounding error compared to what the model costs in time.
Invoke is actually one of the easier tools to use - providing the ability to download model checkpoints in place, relatively easy inpainting, etc.

ComfyUI is definitely for the bleeding edge.

Forge is a good middle ground. With the huge number of tutorials available on YouTube (Olivio's channel is good for novices), I don't think it's that particularly difficult for beginners to grok, but it does require some patience and follow through.

If all you care about is generating some generic looking images for your blog and don't want any flexibility, you can always pay for a subscription to Midjourney.
Visit Washington, DC.
This is very interesting. I've been chasing novel universal Turing machine substrates. Collecting them like Pokémon for genetic programming experiments. I've played around with CAs before - rule 30/110/etc. - but this is a much more compelling take. I never thought to model the kernel like a digital logic circuit.

The constraints of boolean logic, gates and circuits seem to create an interesting grain to build the fitness landscape with. The resulting parameters can be directly transformed to hardware implementations or passed through additional phases of optimization and then compiled into trivial programs. This seems better than dealing with magic floating points in the billion parameter black boxes.
U.S. will control key systems on F-35 fighter jets, putting Canada at risk
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> I clearly was aware of them.

You cited them as examples of tasks that would be difficult to automate. The pickers have been commercially deployed for the last four years.

> This Star Trek stuff is improbable because everything has to be coordinated somehow and waving your hand and saying magical future ai is the only proposal anyone ever has.

Redistribution already occurs without the use of an AI.
These are the days I really love HN. Despite having been in this field for 30 some odd years, I'd never heard of "succinct data structures" until now. And had I not seen this post, maybe I never would have.

Is that important? Well, maybe. As I started digging in and looking for libraries that implement some of this stuff, I found that a popular graph processing library (JGraphT) uses a succinct data structure library (Sux4J) for working with large graphs. And working with graphs is something I've been doing a deep dive into lately. So yeah, if these data structures represent something that has practical applications in graph processing, then maybe finding this is important.

Certainly I'm glad I stumbled across this in either case; the topic strikes me as fascinating.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38008987
> Start a side project that nobody needs but you, purely for the sensation of making a thing that you like.

I did this and it's led to making friends and a lot of really good things in life. It's so good that not being able to give it the attention it needs to flourish is one of the things bringing me down most.

I can see what I want just beyond the fence in front of me... I don't know how to get over it yet.
about 500km from today's position (1cm/year drift).

https://images.theconversation.com/files/325868/original/fil...
If any of them hold the mailbox of someone that you or one of your users needs to reach, it quickly becomes your problem.

Now suppose you contact that server and complain about being rejected.

Wouldn't it be ironic if they respond like this: "We receive e-mails from gmail just fine; fix the problem yourself, or use gmail".

This is how self-hosted e-mail people throw each other under a bus and let gmail win, while pretending to hold self-hosting as a cherished value.

(They would most likely be right about having to fix the problem yourself, unless they imposed some locally authored and highly unreasonable/dichkeadish filtering rule. The superfluous rhetoric about gmail would be almost as obnoxious as their rule, though.)
That's pretty cool. There are other wrist-worn continuous blood pressure monitors, but they are peripherals for something else like a smartphone.
A telling example where such a ploy failed to play out and got exposed was Ruby Ridge. An independently minded off-grid man with his family, some loose social contacts with a nearby neo-nazi group. Randomly gets paid to turn a 16 inch shotgun into a 15 inch shotgun, which is a felony crime, now they blackmail him to hook up with the neo nazis and inform or take those sawing off of a shotgun type charges.
Ended up with a standoff outside their house when a dog barking at agents snooping around became a gunfight, lost his wife and newborn kid to an overly exuberant DEA sniper
Not the poster or repo author, but:

Homomorphic encryption is a way of applying logic transformations on encrypted data without having to decrypt it first. A simple example would be multiplying a number field in an encrypted blob by 2.

The repo title is JPEG compression (a file format used for photograph-like images that uses lossy compression to reduce filesize).

The repo links to another project which converts bitmap images (an array of pixel colors… basically the completely uncompressed representation of an image) to JPEG compressed format.
I put "Stab self with fork" on my to-do list.

Every other task gets done first.
According to my hippy dippy regenerative/sustainable agriculture no-till organic living soil youtube education, the availability of nutrients to plants is determined by interactions among decomposing organic matter, the bacteria and fungi that cause the decomposition, and root exudates that entice the sugar-hungry decomposers to do their thing close enough to the roots for nutrients to be absorbed. And moisture levels and temperature and pH and redox equilibrium and microbe populations and whatever else.

That's probably hard to get right at scale, though (or maybe compost is just too expensive), so wouldn't it be nice if there were some rock-like substance that were distributed throughout the soil and leached bioavailable nutrients into roots (and everything else, I guess) at a similar rate?

As the paper points out, it's better than dumping fertilizer onto the soil multiple times per season and having it all wash out into rivers...
Doxxing, 1770 Style
You would think people deploying search would have an exclusions list to stop ai badness from news sites which opt in like the BBC or something.