skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, it's just incredibly contrived.

You might as well replace "hardware bug" with "a wizard put a curse on the OR operator" or "the president put a tariff on OR imports", and it would be more believable.
Vice versa for me: I cannot understand how people with small screens can use anything but tiling.
So in a thread about Mars's atmosphere, we wind up at category theory.

Never change, HN, never change.
This polls suggests that there's some decision holding back Mozilla from ditching Google, and that with enough pressure, they'll finally do it.

They're long aware that they should. They made the strategic announcement some 7-8 years back if I remember correctly. Since then they tried to diversify and failed miserably.

Sure enough incompetence is involved but we should also consider how very hard it is.

Making hundreds of millions from a new tech product in the consumer space is impossibly difficult. You're up against Big Tech and a generally very competitive and saturated space where any idea can be easily replicated. And you're up against consumers that really don't want to pay, hence ads.

That said, I do feel Mozilla barely tried and wasted a lot of money on distractions. They're way too comfortable raking half a billion for effectively doing nothing at all: keep the search box pointing at Google.
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2 years ago, while deploying the Valosan press relations platform to AWS, I made a mistake, which resulted in a $4.5k USD bill overnight. After that, I learned that AWS CloudFront CDN charges are not immediately reflected in cost management, and my billing alerts do not help.

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Indeed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon
To use an analogy, it's a car but not a self-driving one -- it augments my natural ability to super-human levels; but it's not autonomous, I still have to steer it quite a lot or else it'll run into oncoming traffic. So like a Tesla.

And like you I don't see how to get there from where we are. I think we're at a local maxima here.

To continue the car analogy - are you really suggesting we're at 'peak car'? You don't believe that cars in 20 years time are going to be significantly better than the cars we have today? That's very pessimistic.
I did mention people specifically. Mammalian brains are fairly more complex than piscine brains.

People are important because we can't tell a fish to perform an action or to think of an elephant, etc. So while we can image, we can't know what correlates with a high degree of certainty.

But even in other cases, a working brain is an entirely different object than a non-working one. Finding those foundational ideas and basic operating principles because we can't test a living brain. It's almost chicken/egg. Being able to experiment on a living human brain would probably give us much better ideas of the basic operating principles. And once we know those principles, we could probably move from experimenting on living human brains.

Like, we can dick around with muscle. We can force it to perform as it were living and receiving signals. And that's partly because you can cut open a living person and watch those muscles operate. You can manipulate those muscles in a living person. You can measure things, etc. It's much harder to do that with a brain. Because it's incredibly easy to make irredeemable mistakes.
I tried it, but never found myself using it much, I think it made more sense for something like Writerside to just be a plugin.
To anyone interested in this article I highly recommend “The Cerebral Code” by William Calvin. (https://williamcalvin.com/bk9/index.htm)

It’s the only theory of how the brain works that I’ve come across that seems like it could be valid. Unfortunately, like other posters have already mentioned, neuroscience is incredibly complex and we just don’t have the tools to test it.

Even if it ends up being completely wrong, it’s a beautiful theory and well worth checking out!
What are you testing? I found in math that my test scores went up when I quit using a calculator. All the exam questions were carefully designed to make the arithmetic easy if you did it right. Thus anytime the arithmetic looked hard I knew to start over and find/fix my mistake.

In physics that didn't always apply, but it did often enough that I didn't pull out my calculator until after double checking that I was sure I did all the steps right.

In engineering classes the math was never easy. In the early classes you should still use a basic calculator though as the point is to understand the math behind the problems. In latter classes you can be assumed to understand that and computers to do all that complex math while you focus on the large problem might be good.
As someone who had the misfortune of moderating a platform with filesharing features, I agree that the name is... really bad.

(Cheese) Pizza is slang for CSAM.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cheese%20piz...
Real hacker new ! I definitely have to try it.
Recruiters often do not operate like the rest of the company. There’s not always a universal culture at a company, nor consistent work patterns between groups/orgs. In other words, I wouldn’t at all associate a recruiter’s behavior with potential future work experience.

If it’s a small company, different story. Any company that could feasibly qualify as “big?” Ya, just bad luck perhaps
I'm not the person you replied to, but for projects I maintain at work we've got a plugin for Confluence called Mark. It allows using Markdown to create Confluence pages, which is useful because the company uses Confluence for some reason. For diagrams (Mermaid, GraphViz, etc.) the source for the diagram is kept with the Markdown & I've got a CI job that generates diagrams & then runs Mark to update Confluence.

It makes it a lot easier to keep the documentation in sync with the code than having to remember to go to Confluence and update things. And avoids the pain of dealing with Atlassian's slow-loading site.
Been visiting this website for some time now and just made the courage to create an account and leave a comment. I'm glad and grateful this place was made.

Another year gone, new one to come. Happy Birthday!
NEMO is essential for directing the kinases IKKα and ATM to sites of DNA damage
Every night I can hear ubers reversing up the road with their obnoxiously loud lorry-style reversing warning beep. If I'm not already asleep, it keeps me up (and for some reason it takes them forever to park or whatever they're doing).

Obviously it's marginally more safe than not having a beep! So, you know, ancillary impacts be damned...
Baseline – Web Platform Features
See also https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/baseline-evolution-...

Helpful context for the endless discussions about leveraging web platform-native features vs. implementing them in JS.
An 80k house in the 80’s means inflation alone accounts for ~$300k of the current sale price of the house. If the general area has built up at all in the last 40 years, that could account for a bunch more of that cost. Absolutely some areas and places are climbing way faster than their market wages are keeping up, but I also think a lot of housing discussion compares a house 1 hour outside of the nearest big city with that same house now in the middle of that expanded big city. Location matters a lot, and what is a great location now might well have been out in the sticks 40 years ago.
My default position nowadays is “Postgres” and engineering should have to justify why it is insufficient if engineering wants to use something else. It’s worked pretty well
And even "open-weights" is generous, as they're released under a proprietary license with usage restrictions, not an open-source license.
You need to give more details about it.
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/11456:

“Space Invaders uses a simple display format where bytes are read from memory in order via an address counter, and shifted out via a shift register. Timing is controlled by discrete hardware.

The video hardware has priority over the CPU. When it needs to read a byte it asserts the 8080's READY signal, giving it exclusive access to the memory bus. This can be seen on the schematic (https://www.robotron-2084.co.uk/taito/documents/space-invade...) at 5F.

This technique has the advantage of the 8080 not having to be synchronized with the display hardware at all.”
They've already picked back up, I check the numbers weekly
It could but a national government is more likely to block sites at the ISP level.

Also ... private companies can block things they don't like, such as competitors...or alter their search rankings.
Clearly Big Pentest wants to have work in the future.
But it is security. It's one layer of it.
I find Miro the least vexing to use, but they are all pretty limited.
OK, that sounds like a good plan. But that's the opposite of what was proposed further up this thread.
Some numbers to try and make an idea: if I understand correctly, Gemma3 uses a fixed (in its versions by size) vocabulary 256k entries big; the smallest 1B version has ~300M embedding parameters and ~700M non-embedding parameters; the largest 27B version has ~5x embedding parameters and ~35x non-embedding parameters.

Multilingualism covering 140 languages is quite a big feat. Gemma3 apparently aims to be compact and efficient. The two goals and features put together raise questions. You wonder for example how much does such extensive multilingualism impact the above numbers, on a benchmark of similar results. It may e.g. be a general question to wonder how much multilingualism complicates an embedding space (owing e.g. to omographic collisions), and the question becomes more prominent when you crammed 140 languages in one model.

> non-english speakers

You would produce more specialized models (where it makes sense): Eng; Eng-Fra-Esp-Deu; Man-Can... For a billion weights per model it could probably be financially acceptable.
I’ve been using IntelliJ’s JDBC-based UI, this will add a lot more capability. I’m using the manifold-sql[1] project with duckdb for analytics, amazing.

1. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/blob/master/doc...
You have to trust the server to not serve a page which will exfiltrate the encrypted data with Javascript (and why wouldn't you if it's self-hosted).

Though I'm not sure exfiltration is actually prevented since extension scripts can still run in the page context.
It's a UPS. It doesn't do any back feeding. Compare it against APC SmartUPS and CyberPower.
If that counts then you can use a flash drive and the problem is solved.
Big and loud cars are antisocial and should be forbidden to drive as a private person. CHANGE MY MIND
Vivaldi is roughly 1000 times slower. You need a pretty good computer to run that UI. It also lacks extremely basic features Opera had; like working LRU tab switching. I liked the idea, but it's impossible to recommend.
> the Dept. of Education might shake up things. Not for the better, I think.

Given how mediocre and even harmful public education in the US is, especially relative to its (now waning) superpower status, how large the US is, as well as the promotion of weird ideologies by the DoE, I cannot help but welcome its death. In general, I welcome to end of all sorts of vast educational bureaucracies, including those that have occupied private universities and drain them of resources without providing any justifiable benefit.

I think this is where people don't grasp that we didn't always have the kind of overbearing, cabinet-level department of education we have today. This really only goes back to the early 80s. Meaning, opposing the DoE isn't the same as opposing education. The principle of subsidiarity ought to be respected. Decentralization is good. It should be liberating.

So, in practice, I anticipate a greater diversity of curricula. There already exist competing views on pedagogy. This would allow greater flexibility and educational liberty, but also the opportunity to observe how well various pedagogical approaches work. It also introduces a certain accountability, because while you can blame mediocrity on a distant DoE today, the responsibility for education will lie closer to home when there is no DoE to blame.

Incidentally, people like Feynman ostensibly lamented that he expected physics to stagnate given what he saw as the homogenization of education. A similar principle could be said to apply here.
> C++'s stdlib contains a lot of convenient features, writing them myself and pretending they aren't there is very difficult.

I've never understood the motivation behind writing something in C++, but avoiding the standard library. Sure, it's possible to do, but to me, they are inseparable. The basic data types and algorithms provided by the standard library are major reasons to choose the language. They are relatively lightweight and memory-efficient. They are easy to include and link into your program. They are well understood by other C++ programmers--no training required. Throughout my career, I've had to work in places where they had a "No Standard Library" rule, but that just meant they implemented their own, and in all cases the custom library was worse. (Also, none of the companies could articulate a reason for why they chose to re-implement the standard library poorly--It was always blamed on some graybeard who left the company decades ago.)

Choosing C++ without the standard library seems like going skiing, but deliberately using only one ski.
Except most emissions are not leaks. A leak implies an unintended or unwanted behaviour. But most emissions are from indented behaviour of the system. The equipment is. designed to vent to atmosphere as part of normal operation, and it’s not worth it for them to burn it until they have to pay for this pollution.
Have a feed I can add to mine?
> He said, uh, "The answer's not in the box, it's in the band."
YouTube-transcript-API 1.0.0 released
More often than not you keep just one or two windows visible in the screen, and switch to another app with <super>+<number> or similar. Since you use most apps fullscreen, the small screen doesn't feel so small anymore. Feels good, honestly
> Since then they tried to diversify and failed miserably.

I wish my miserable failures brought in $65 million annually.
Do you have concrete capex and opex numbers for ammonia-from-electricity plants? I understand we should expect those to go down over time because of the learning curve, but I don't even know their order of magnitude right now. It would also be nice to have an idea of how much efficiency the electrolyzers lose when operated intermittently instead of continuously (so, for example, you can't keep them at their optimal temperature). But, since we're presupposing that intermittent electrical energy will be very cheap, efficiency is less important than capex per output and non-energy opex.

Supporting your point about solar panels continuing to be cheap, "mainstream" panels went up to 0.11€ per peak watt last month: https://www.solarserver.de/photovoltaik-preis-pv-modul-preis... which was a new historic low price in September and down 21% from 0.14€/Wp in February of last year, itself a historic record low price at the beginning of last year.

The last time something like this happened to the energy supply, it was James Watt's steam-engine.
We should improve libzfs somewhat
China is automating [1], they know the demographics dividend is ending. More industrial robots are built and sold in China than anywhere else in the world. They are going high tech [2], and will outcompete the US in high tech (based on all available info). They have the will, the US does not (too busy chasing short term gains and ideological wins), based on all available evidence [3].

[1] https://itif.org/publications/2024/03/11/how-innovative-is-c...

[2] https://www.aspi.org.au/report/critical-technology-tracker

> Our research reveals that China has built the foundations to position itself as the world’s leading science and technology superpower, by establishing a sometimes stunning lead in high-impact research across the majority of critical and emerging technology domains.

> China’s global lead extends to 37 out of 44 technologies that ASPI is now tracking, covering a range of crucial technology fields spanning defence, space, robotics, energy, the environment, biotechnology, artificial intelligence (AI), advanced materials and key quantum technology areas. The Critical Technology Tracker shows that, for some technologies, all of the world’s top 10 leading research institutions are based in China and are collectively generating nine times more high-impact research papers than the second-ranked country (most often the US). Notably, the Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks highly (and often first or second) across many of the 44 technologies included in the Critical Technology Tracker. We also see China’s efforts being bolstered through talent and knowledge import: one-fifth of its high-impact papers are being authored by researchers with postgraduate training in a Five-Eyes country. China’s lead is the product of deliberate design and long-term policy planning, as repeatedly outlined by Xi Jinping and his predecessors.

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43338771
Unsurprising given articles about what was actually happening there. Europe doesn’t have any reason why battery manufacturing would be better there. It just wasn’t thought through properly. Maybe with more protectionism it could survive. But it’s weird that the EU has unfair tariffs against US automakers (four times the tariffs as US has on EU automakers) but didn’t think about how to protect Northvolt against cheaper Chinese manufacturers.
You state that the non-Firefox activities of Mozilla are good, as if an established fact.

I'd reason that there's no consensus on this at all. Some things might be perceived as good, some neutral or bad, and many might be perceived as well intended but ineffective.
Yet another web application.
The multimodal models aren't good for this. Refusals aren't the issue (they're fine with BERSERK, though occasionally they'll refuse for copyright). The issue is the tech isn't there yet.

You'll want to use custom models to segment the manga (panels, speech bubbles), OCR the text, translate (gemma punches above it's weights for this part).

That said, I've been experimenting with using Pixtral to do the analysis part with okay-ish results (providing individual panels with the character names) but it'll still mix up the characters when they're drawn differently.

> I'm not a big believer in abliteration, it seems to always hurt performance.

Agreed, it's fun to play with but it increases halucinations. And for creative writing, it makes the model write more compliant characters (they'll give in too easily during negotiations, rather than refuse, etc)

Could probably be improved with more targeted abliteration.
blog post: https://dev.to/daviducolo/building-fastrace-a-high-performan...
The brave comment I was looking for... I feel the same: Silicon Valley used to be holy Mecca to this French person; since I started having Internet access in the early 90's, all daily online activity was turned towards it - and some of that remains, as I log on here. To me, the financial success of the companies was a minor side-effect of the technological utopia which was the main point. But those who found financial success turned Silicon Valley into a toxic brand... They managed to make quietly progressive European companies look cool in comparison !
Make is quite a bit more headache these days to consume then make (in modern code bases anyway).
I see visual artists and musicians having some decent use cases for them. Everyone I know who has an iPad that isn’t one of these professions is usually using it as an expensive portable streaming device
Do you know if there is any open source TypeScript component that can be used in a project?
The best kind of cross-platform application
it's partly bc this would be extremely slow and expensive with many other databases (e.g. it'd be really slow on postgres, very expensive on snowflake).
> Musk squandered their first-mover advantage

Is that why I see Tesla Superchargers everywhere and not other brands?

They already have first mover advantage with their charging infrastructure (at least in the US), and FSD. Say what you will about FSD, but no other carmaker comes close to it.

I’m not trying to idolize Musky here. I’m simply seeing what Tesla the automaker has to offer compared to their competition.
> The basic problem here is that we don't understand what a neuron does, so how would we model it?

We understand lots of aspects of neurons and can model those. See the wikipedia page for some examples of well-understood principles.
> The bad news is that donations are unlikely to happen with the current massive misspending on overpaid people with no technical background that don't code that spend 95% of their budget on themselves, support staff that also doesn't code, offices they don't need, commercial products that flop, monetization schemes that fail, etc.

Mozilla already solicits donations, but I wonder if people who donate to them know that Mozilla funds things that are wildly not Firefox-related, like feminist AI conferences in Africa. Meanwhile Firefox looks more and more like an also-ran compared to its competition. All I ever wanted from Mozilla was a browser, not this.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozfest-house-zambia-...
I don't see any real innovation with those WM. It looks like they are just migrating the features of advanced Linux-WMs to the windows-world, in their own way.

Can you name any specific features you are considering as innovative?
On x86-type machines, you still have a decent chance, because the instructions themselves are so complicated and high-level. It's not that C is close to the metal, it's that the metal has come up to nearly the level of C!

I wouldn't dare guess what a compiler does to a RISC target.

(But yes, this was back in the early-to-mid 2000s I think. Whether that is a long time ago I don't know.)
HP 50g is "modern" and has RPN out of the box, I use it regularly.
I think it's because of all the NAT, which makes any attempt cumbersome for a lot of people.
Is it supposed to go straight to a log in page? If that is your intention, I don't believe people will explore further without any landing page information about your service.
Nice project and I always like playing with WebRTC but there is something that has me a little concerned .

> Transfers are now directly from the uploader to the downloader's browser (WebRTC without WebTorrent) with faster handshakes.

Maybe I'm wrong, but there is a signaling server in the middle somewhere along the chain here no ? unless it's just the same as PeerJS in which you first need the clients ID, but connection can be flaky.

From the source I can see it's using PeerJS but react is throwing me off a little bit. It's not clear to me what `useContext(WebRTCContext)` is..