skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if they're buying a fake sewer inspection van they're probably smart enough to find one that doesn't look to people on the Internet like it's a prop out of the movie Enemy of the State.
Only the initial SDP needs to be fudged. The attacker could just set up two clients that pretends to be the sender/recipient. Then the data can just go through regular Google TURN servers.
Where are you getting this? All Mozilla says is that "the LEGAL definition of 'sale of data' is extremely broad in some places". They don't that it's the EU and definitely not that the EU has defined "sale of data" to include any use of a computer network, which would be absurd.
Somebody give the number on the van a call and post results
Pat seemed to have it
> [B]ones … discovered in a cave in the Atapuerca Mountains [(near Burgos, Spain)] … suggest[] that Homo erectus … lived in Europe during the Early Pleistocene (2.6 million to 800,000 years ago).

- Nature paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08681-0
It might be time to pick up some books and reading up on this stuff. What's nice is that you can directly ask ChatGPT/etc questions about all this tech, and the math behind it! It's never been an easier time to learn new things.
YouTube has bigger revenues than Netflix. While the majority of that revenue is from ads, they get it by providing immense value in the form of near-unlimited entertainment.

That's just one of their many business units.
Personnaly I didn't felt as if I was trying to recognize a place and period in history, but trying to guess what prompts were used to generate the pictures. Or at least for some of the pictures where I wasn't as sure of the event (like seeing the rose on a picture for the war of the roses).

Also I didn't listen to many of the sounds, but I got English voices for something happening in France (the Fauvisme guess).

But still I had some fun and it's nice to see a good use for AI
Age 79/80 ?
I agree that it's not possible to have them do 13th century architectural style perfectly right now. But I believe it will be soon. The image/video models are improving, but so are the reasoning models, and they can check for and fix anachronisms.
this also caught my attention. the author also questions why the screens are blue

I think he has just forgotten that in the late 90s, these color choices were entirely obvious and followed the Windows design precedent, which is why he probably didn't think much about it at the time
https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser...

They basically just want to keep the copyright to their UI. You can see the source but they don't want anyone to rip off their UI.

And let's be real, every browser (even Firefox) has closed source server side code.

Also, the comment I initially responded to was about why isn't there a European browser not controlled by "big tech"... Vivaldi is an independent company in Europe making a browser.
> If he wants to succeed, he will need to reconsistute the board.

Intel is a publicly listed company.
I work at a BigCorp with a fancy md-to-html generator that supports graphviz via code blocks, e.g.

```dot
digraph { a -> b }
```

But day-to-day, I actually use graphviz inside emacs org-mode (and in a private git repo). If you press C-c C-c with your cursor on the code blocks, it plops the rendered graph below.
Great video, I really enjoyed how down to earth it was. It reminded me of The Secret Life of Machines [1], where we get to peek behind the curtain and see how seemingly "magical" machines (in your case a digital computer) emerges from simple fundamental concepts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Machines
Docs have largely been uploaded.
I was working on a Raspberry Pi at a hackathon, and pip install was eating several minutes at a time.

Tried uv for the first time and it was down to seconds.
John Vincent Atanasoff has written in 1940 a very good report about the design of the Atanasoff-Berry computer (“Computing Machine for the Solution of Large Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations”).

In this report, he had analyzed which are the possible solutions for implementing a computer memory. He enumerated 5 kinds of memories: with mechanical bi-stable devices, with electro-mechanical bi-stable devices (e.g. polarized relays), with ferromagnetic materials, SRAM (with vacuum-tube flip-flops) and DRAM (with capacitors).

His list covered very well the most important kinds of memories used later.

The report “First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC” written by John von Neumann in 1945 added to these alternatives the memories made with delay lines (an idea presumably taken from the discussions with the ENIAC team). Moreover, the von Neumann report has also added a second variant of DRAM besides that using discrete capacitors, i.e. the DRAM made with a charge-storing image tube, like those used at that time for video cameras ("iconoscope memory").

Therefore the idea of the Williams tube has been taken directly from the von Neumann report. It is not known whether this idea has originated from von Neumann himself or whether he had got it from someone else.
You don't agree with monitoring the communications of adversaries at all, or you don't agree with doing the equivalent for communications made in the recent past?
I love using it. I'm concerned that they go the route of Terraform and put in play pricing and values that differ from what their users support.
But you typically don't get to be a director with an org of 5-10 people, at least not in engineering, which OP indicated he's in. (It's different in other functions. PM/UX directors frequently have 10-15 people under them, and my wife is a deputy director in finance and has 2 reports. Her boss is the director and has 3 indirects, just her and her reports. I joke that their management chain really is a chain. Startups are also different - I once interviewed for a VP role at a startup that had 8 employees.)

For that promotion to director, you usually need at least 50 reports and at least 2 levels of management. And then the span of responsibility for (senior) director goes on up to about 500 reports. It's not unusual to have directors with less than that - but usually that is because they once had a big org, their scope and responsibility decreased in some re-org, but upper management is keeping them around so they have a deep leadership bench. Another re-org and they can easily end up with 500+ people again.
Showcase of Tcl/Tk apps running in browser
Start selling $100 notes for $50. I am confident you can get your company to $65M revenue.
AKA "bike-shedding"
That would be the go sign for Apple to develop their own search product.

They'd just have to watch out for similar antitrust action.
Just tried it (gemma3:12b) using ollama and also through open-webui

It's surprisingly fast and pretty good. Was really impressed that I can feed it images through open-webui

However, it keeps failing, both on the terminal and through open-webui. The error is:

"Error: an error was encountered while running the model: unexpected EOF"

It seems like it's an ollama issue, although according to tickets on GitHub it's supposed to be related to CUDA, but I'm running it on an M3 Mac

Up until now I never had this issue with ollama, I wonder if it's related to having updated to 0.6.0
Big feature for me. In frontend dev, 3k dependencies in a hello world app is considered normal. In systems, a free-for-all dependency graph is a terrible plan, especially if it's an open ecosystem. NPM, Cargo, etc are good examples.

This is also why systems people will typically push back if you ask for non-official repos added to apt sources, etc.
To keep objects few, load lazily. E.g. if you need a List<Long> of ids from a List<Thing> create a lazy list view using (some library and..) Thing::id as a map/transform function. Way faster than the Streaming API. Works better if you only work with immutable types.

~2c
How do animals sound across languages?
I don't agree with mass collection of data of non-guilty/non-suspected citizens for "just in case" situations in the future.
iPad is a product segment, its not really comparable with legions of windows 10 machines not getting windows 11, which is vastly the same operating system as 10 with TPM2 and secure boot becoming hard requirements.

Yeah it sucks apple doesnt give you root access to your tablet. And it does suck that microsoft wont let us upgrade our PC's. But they are different unique variations on sucking for largely different reasons.
I am an avid iPad Pro user (on #3) but it took me making a concerted effort to unlearn over three decades of my understanding of what a computer is to me, my old standby app favorites, and to be willing to force myself to use the new instead of leaning on the comfortable old. Prior to that I’ll admit that it was an entertainment device. Now it can basically serve all of my computing needs.

What caused me to make the switch is the portability, battery, immediacy, and cellular option. For me it provides the utility of a smartphone and laptop, but with a better form factor

I hated it at first but its use quickly became second nature. Caveat here is I no longer write code or require total configurability into the bowels of the machine…and to date, for me, I haven’t found a computing task that I need or want to do that it cannot handle.
> The thing is, the laptop is just a bad format period. Ideally you don't want to be looking just above where you type: good ergonomics requires distance between those two. An elevated tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard is a far far better option.

I bring a laptop to the office, put it on a stand, plug two external screens and a USB-C hub with a keyboard and mouse. But I can also use it on a train, at an airport, on a ferry without all that extra gear. In the latter configuration the distance from where I type to where I look is bigger than on your default iPad.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I do also like my 64GB RAM, 1TB drive, and 12 cores.

The laptop is a perfect form for me. I'm sorry it doesn't work for you. The only thing for me "ideally" would be to be able to plug two more screens in (so... it's time to upgrade to an m4 max...)
I thought this how she got started. She started making the videos for her own son who was having delayed development.

It's pretty wild to be how young babies can start signing compared to speech development.
You’re assuming it’s an issue of attraction, and not what happens after you get the partner (maybe bullies keep their partners more often, or are more prone to having kids). I’ve got an alternative theory that somewhat agrees and somewhat disagrees.

Bullies are, if anything, people who conform to the unspoken desires of the group over the spoken ones. Groups have things that they say that they want, and a normal person conforms to those vocalized things. The bully, in an attempt to get the group’s approval, detects a deeper, unspoken set of wants and conforms to those instead. I think that someone naturally talented at that is more likely to be rewarded in our economic system. Isn’t the most successful businessman the guy who can detect those things people don’t know that they want and meet that demand? So maybe bullies end up richer, so more able to support kids and attract partners as a consequence.
It’s hard but not impossible. First thing is to realise you’re going to work longer hours than everyone else.
Brian Nicol the CEO had the audacity to use the term "Imagine" to make it seem like it's his idea. Clearly his pathetic useless fake dumb butt read my posts I tagged Starbucks in on social media raving about why I switched to Crave Cafe locations years ago when I ditched Starbucks before 2020. I included that fact that Crave gives free refills on coffee and tea without having to use an app, has warm lighting, warm air temperatures, full kitchen menu, plenty of outlets, televisions, free ice water you pour yourself, open until midnight and later.
Lab founded by the CIA.
Why would an analyst at the NSA be looking at your communications data?

It's a bit like the police getting a search warrant to look around your home. If there's no legitimate reason to do it, like having reasonable suspicion of a crime that requires investigation, then they're not going to.
this subreddit suffers from insufferable admins that purged any useful activity and sense of community from this sub
Ah I see, that’s my bad.
The main page implies it only does decoding, am I reading it wrong?

Edit: stb_image_write exists, I was reading it wrong
Ever since OpenAI showed (but did not release) this type of multimodal output with 4o, I have been waiting for this to be available to the general public.

It seems like really combining visuals at the level of generation capability means language understanding is fully grounded in a richer world model.

I am hoping for a step up in real world common sense intelligence areas like those covered by SimpleBench. Although they are static images, so there might still be room for improvement ad far as physics understanding.

Also, if they can get it to the point of really accurate (probably larger models), this unlocks whole industries in terms of being able to do useful work.
Why specificallly throw stones at Mozilla?

EVERYONE should ditch goggle 8-/

but, but, muh g-stuff!!! pathetic, really.

The corps has been for the purpose of user surveilance from the beginning.

If you want your donations to be well spent, send them to a firefox fork maintainer...
I don’t know if the author realised they proved Apple’s point: they have paid money for an ipad but they will pay more money for an m4 macbook air anyway.
Climate change will reduce number of satellites that can safely orbit in space
> Is there a way to get something going on hardware a couple years old?

Tensor accelerators are very recent thing, and GPU/WebGPU also recent.
RAM was also limited, 4Gb was long time barrier.

So, model should run on CPU and within 4Gb or even 2Gb.

Oh, I forget one important thing - couple years old mobile CPUs was also weak (and btw exception was iphone/ipad).

But, if you have gaming mobile (or iphone), which at that time was comparable to Notebooks, may run something like Llama-2 quantized to 1.8Gb at about 2 tokens per second, not very impressive, but could work.
Container tabs is the most useful browser feature anywhere. Now if they would just add tab history tracking.
Ah yea the old “web scale” phase. I think everyone’s more or less accepted that very, very few startup-level (or even SMB-level) workloads need more scalability then Postgres/mysql gives.

My favorite example is that Twitter used mysql for all tweets, writing ~5k/s 24/7/365, until about 2016ish. Well into being a public company with billions in revenue and 300mm+ MAUs.
Simon Tathum is British and I have never knowingly seen a lightning bolt coloured cyan hereabouts. Our "Danger of death" signs are black on yellow (1)

To be fair an image search for lightning does look decidedly cyan on royal, with purple, red and more options.

(1) https://www.hse.gov.uk/electricity/nearelectric.htm#signs
Two seeds have bad metadata, their magnet links are on these pages:

https://academictorrents.com/details/b67dfb8cc94a98c4dc5e4fd...

https://academictorrents.com/details/198bd721c54aa5bf426fd8f...
Archived versions: https://www.archivebuttons.com/articles?article=https://www....
This is just a rewording of the "nothing to hide" argument.

And your edit seems to ignore that the analysts are humans. Police get caught abusing their access to data resources for personal gain frequently, why are NSA analysts different?

(Not even touching on the fact that mistakes happen, leaks happen, breaches happen, laws change, political winds change direction)
This was awesome! I think this project is super creative and original. Also, I got top 63%!
You don't have any guarantee that the SIMD operations are actually done in parallel (which is of of the assumptions needed for “the latency matches that of the slowest element”). E.g., I believe VPGATHERDD is microcoded (and serial) on some CPUs, NEON (128-bit) is designed to be efficiently implementable by running a 64-bit ALU twice, AVX2 and AVX512 double-pumped on some (many) CPUs likewise…
You're spending money in the wrong place - spend it on marketing instead of dev, and you've got a shot.
UIs in React are very verbose. I'm not saying this is running 24/7.
$260M isn't a few million.
Was this for phones or home routers?
One of the areas LLMs has been most helpful to me personally has to be getting over naming choices lol, whether it's repos, variables or structs for some reason I tend to have a hard time coming up with names :').
They also made one of the greatest British ads of all time:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=odCBml5TuNI
This looks right up my alley, thanks! Will give it a shot.
I hope you're right. Are you aware of any image-gen models that apply chain-of-thought style reasoning (either agentic or via reinforcment learning to shape outputs?)

For example, consider this imagery from today's challenge: https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/fastab-f08e9.app...

These are some incredible monoliths: if they were real, I feel like I would have heard about them? And if they did... that's so cool. But because it's AI generated, I have a very low confidence level that this ever existed at all. Which is sad.
Reasoning models aren't needed for this. The loss function for the image models needs to take year into account.

This is entirely possible, as the incredible accuracy[1] of non-generative picture location models (a very similar problem) shows.

[1] https://paperswithcode.com/sota/image-based-localization-on-...
I wish the article spent 2 sentences introducing wtf Shenmue is
I'd be interested to read about the gibberish in UMAP, I know the paper "An improvement of the convergence proof of the
ADAM-Optimizer" for the lemma problem in the original ADAM but hadn't heard of the second one. Do you have any further info on it?
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Snowden also swore an oath to uphold the constitution, including the fourth amendment that the NSA was illegally violating (one NSA crime) and covering up (second NSA crime), including by lying to congress (third NSA crime), as well as to protect America from domestic enemies, like the kind of traitors who'd come up with a secret plan to violate the constitutional rights of the entire country and lie about it to congress.

Thank goodness he took his oath more seriously than the "I was just following orders" crowd. We know from WW2 that "I was just following orders" is not a legitimate excuse to help facilitate grave atrocities, like all of those other NSA employees did every single day, in violation of their own oaths that they each swore.
US is pushing for these to replace classic crypto in commercial applications by 2030.

The C in CNSA 2.0 is for "Commercial".
This is great news. I had hacked together some bash and fish scripts to mostly do this but they still had some rough edges. I missed that uv now had this ready for preview
Most techies not only know many, many people who aren't technical, they are also the ones who are called on when their family and friends get suckered. It is not ignorance that makes technical people think that everyone should be able to get root access to the things they "own," it is experience.

This is so much "you support free speech because you're a good person, but if you heard what some people say..."

> An exercise for readers who don't believe me

With the number of actual Windows installations I, and other technical people, have cleaned the slime off of, this isn't persuasive. People who use Linux generally aren't ignorant of Windows, although some extreme Apple partisans might be.
I’m watching Person of Interest for the first time. It’s interesting watching it today now that the premise, minus 100% accurate crime prediction, is largely a forgone conclusion. It was produced after Klein but before Snowden and does a good job exploring the expansion of surveillance and just how motivated the government is to have a system that tracks everyone. Of course it’s fiction but it’s a fun watch that asks a lot of good questions.
Ans you can now install Python and set it to the default in your path with the --default flag. Big plus for me to replace pyenv finally.
Yes, and I'm sure all those public shareholders are mighty unhappy with the current board's stewardship.
Well, if you say you don't want caching and speculation, then you've essentially given up on performance already. There's a reason why these small cores are slow.
> https://stack.lol/

The page layout is broken in Firefox 136.0.1 but okay in Chrome 134.0.6998.89 =(. I don't have time to debug what CSS feature might be causing this problem.
I could have word for word written almost exactly this blog post, that's how dead-on-accurate I find it, and how similar OP and I's experiences are (down to when and why we originally switched to Sway - mixed DPI long before Wayland was really "stable" for a daily driver).

Niri is incredible, and has completely eliminated the mildly infuriating bin-packing and layout-optimization problems that TWMs exhibit, without sending me back to the floating WM dark ages. I wish Niri had existed like 10 years ago, but I'll accept it existing now as plenty good enough.
What do you think would have happened to Snowden had he stayed on American soil?
You can just finetune an open model instead of starting from scratch... that's the point of them.
Why not using img2vid starting from an historically accurate picture or painting?
Author has not tried WSL - its pretty amazing on windows and is the designated cage breaker for Windows. I run nearly everything inside WSL and all apps runs faster!

Thanks to Windows security not scanning files inside WSL, the laptop fan doesn't start spinning up when doing I/O intensive work. Can actually rest the laptop on my lap without wincing.
I agree with the overt message of the post — AI-first folks tend to think about getting things working, whereas math-first people enjoy deeply understood theory. But I also think there's something missing.

In math, there's an urban legend that the first Greek who proved sqrt(2) is irrational (sometimes credited to Hippasus of Metapontum) was thrown overboard to drown at sea for his discovery. This is almost certainly false, but it does capture the spirit of a mission in pure math. The unspoken dream is this:

~ "Every beautiful question will one day have a beautiful answer."

At the same time, ever since the pure and abstract nature of Euclid's Elements, mathematics has gradually become a more diverse culture. We've accepted more and more kinds of "numbers:" negative, irrational, transcendental, complex, surreal, hyperreal, and beyond those into group theory and category theory. Math was once focused on measurement of shapes or distances, and went beyond that into things like graph theory and probabilities and algorithms.

In each of these evolutions, people are implicitly asking the question:

"What is math?"

Imagine the work of introducing the sqrt() symbol into ancient mathematics. It's strange because you're defining a symbol as answering a previously hard question (what x has x^2=something?). The same might be said of integration as the opposite of a derivative, or of sine defined in terms of geometric questions. Over and over again, new methods become part of the canon by proving to be both useful, and in having properties beyond their definition.

AI may one day fall into this broader scope of math (or may already be there, depending on your view). If an LLM can give you a verified but unreadable proof of a conjecture, it's still true. If it can give you a crazy counterexample, it's still false. I'm not saying math should change, but that there's already a nature of change and diversity within what math is, and that AI seems likely to feel like a branch of this in the future; or a close cousin the way computer science already is.