skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a Docs question, but I recently came across Grist and I see that Grist is actually listed as a project under la Suite Numerique. On the other hand, Grist Labs (getgrist.com/about) claim to be the developers, are based in the US (NYC), and I couldn't see any mention any EU collaboration on their website. What is the connection here? How does it differ from the governance and funding model of Docs?

I love that you guys are building a suite of next-gen tools rather than just recreating LibreOffice. Seems really smart to me!
Probably enjoyed working on cool sci-fi shit. Invisible weapons are pretty cool -- though I think conceptually the heat ray class (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System?useskin=v...) is cooler than the LRAD class. How they're used or should be used? An unimportant question in the face of coolness. Then there's just basic pride in good engineering or craftsmanship that can help spark joy in whatever one is working on, from weapons to some hairy enterprise legacy ball of mud you're slowly making improvements to. A silly quote I've always liked, from Nathaniel Borenstein: "It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a "DestroyBaghdad" procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a "DestroyCity" procedure, to which "Baghdad" could be given as a parameter."
(Just to be clear, I think weapons in general can be used for good, as well as for bad.)

From your perspective, can you guess how you'd feel building a less-lethal weapons system like is the subject of this post, given what you think the typical uses of it would be?
> Remember that scientific method requires us to reject everything by default

You are nowhere near as smart as you think you are. You are a STEMlord who has never produced any new knowledge who just repeats some platitudes. People doing actual research do not talk like this.

You might benefit from watching this video https://x.com/styx_boatman/status/1811820327552315805

Our work is very much work in progress. I mentioned it because we have a very promising path to scaling EBMs and I wanted to have a convo about it.

If you were actually curious and you actually cared about my claims, you would have asked some concrete followup questions. You responded with the dumbest cliches, so I will ignore your comments.
My speculation is that the small on-device models are simply not useful enough for practical purposes.

The on-device transformer models are described as having 3B parameters[0]. Their own figures from 6 months ago show that humans prefer other models' output 25-40% of the time, which aligns with Gurman's reporting.

I don't know how well Apple's A-series chips can handle transformers, but if you play with their on-device diffusion models (Image Playground, Genmoji), you can watch your battery drop before your eyes. And the output of these models is also embarrassingly behind the state of the art.

If Apple can make great foundation models for Private Cloud Compute, that's great. But then what's the point of buying a new iPhone for on-device inference capabilities?

Secondly, I speculate that allowing a server-side model to query the personal context database is going to be hard to do performantly, requiring several round trips and uploading fragments of the data to the cloud for processing.

0: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple...
Bravo. Now Rust has its existence justified.
Does this mandate American companies provide a mechanism for a personal copy ?

In theory YouTube could geo lock these features if made to implement it.
Where did you even get that weird extreme take from?

O_o
He’d much rather get them on visa
Me coming from Amiga, I didn't love Windows (starting around 95-98 versions). It should have been more modern and quick, but in many aspects it wasn't. I learned to tolerate it, and I became good at working with it. After years I tried hackintosh (OsX Lion, 2011), and I was amazed at the difference. Even hackintosh was completely stable (unlike windows) on my hardware and I loved all the features and polished things. I still kept a windows machine or two somewhere around to deal with work, etc. and from what I've seen, it went downhill so much since the XP era. Although I think even macos goes downhill, but it's night and day difference to Windows. YMMV of course.
Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) (a follow-on to the 1925 "Geneva Convention") allows for the use of riot control agents (like tear gas) for law enforcement purposes.

https://www.opcw.org/our-work/what-chemical-weapon
The same year the tech industry got taken by storm by LLMs, Apple announced a brutally expensive, niche VR/AR headset with no particular use case. That product was essentially DOA.

I think this is the first time in decades where Apple took a step from their back foot. The Vision Pro announcement during the initial hype cycle of ChatGPT made it look like they were just totally out of step with the industry. It was a dud product that cost billions in R&D, the market for it was unclear, and the industry zeitgeist (and talent) was going in a totally different direction.

So their response was to rush something out the door to avoid looking like they were caught flat-footed. Now it's abundantly obvious they were unprepared for AI, they've failed to ship features they promised, and they have to commit resources to support an additional platform that no one cares about because they did ship that one. Worst of all worlds.

Had they slept on the Vision Pro, I'm pretty convinced they could have credibly kept their powder dry on LLMs, like they've done with many industry hype cycles in the last. People would've assumed they were doing the Apple thing of not being first to ship something, but the first to ship compelling.
You can do neither. Then other countries (e.g. China) will happily fill the vacuum. The Chinese aren't building all those hospitals, roads and bridges in other countries out of pure altruism.
Why? It is capable of full self driving. That has been proven numerous times. It is however not capable to do this all time. I ask again, give a better name that describes the function FSD currently offers. It is most certainly not a lane assist.
Please leave that Frankenstein of a language alone. Stop bolting features on it, it's already a monster.
That version is called the quantum eraser experiment. It really is brain bending.
MacPorts has far more packages than Homebrew and was implemented by the creator of the original FreeBSD ports system, who was also an employee on Apple’s UNIX team. MacPorts is the standard macOS package manager.
I specifically said that kneading dough was bad friction.

Anyway, as someone with a blog, people actually have conplimented me for not using images unless they support the point in the post. I see plenty of negative comments about blog posts with header images.
https://archive.is/OrOyv
Here is the website:
https://rlama.dev/

Many new integrations, features, and optimizations have been made since the launch last week. I'm very happy with the feedback so far and would love to gather even more! Feedback has helped me understand the direction to take, and I want to continue providing the open-source community with tools for their personal projects or even their work!
> the old windows 95 start me up commercials

Yes, so do I. I worked as editor for a computer magazine and as such was invited to the launch event and was flabbergasted by them selecting a song which' next line was "you make a grown men cry". It sure did, in many ways but not as they intended.

Maybe I should add that I was and am more of a Linux person? Windows 95 was a house of cards built on quicksand, it out-guru-meditationed the Amiga, it was OS/1.13 to OS/2 2.x but boy did it sell well.

I also remember a sales droid showing me the "security" offered by the policy manager, "look you can restrict which programs your users can run". Sure, I thought, let's see how deep that goes and opened a document in Windows Write, added an embedded (OLE) document for the program he just removed from the user's start menu through the policy manager and double-clicked the resulting icon in the Write document. The "forbidden" program started, the sales droid looked surprised, the hypothesis was proven.
Banks love to extend and pretend big loans because loans going belly up is also bad for them. Small fry like homeowners rarely get such grace.
For anyone interested, the wifi QR code format is described here: https://www.wi-fi.org/system/files/WPA3%20Specification%20v3...

These QR codes usually work with your device's default camera app -- point at QR code and get prompted to join the network.
> Part of the rationale for a total ban is to avoid escalating to more dangerous chemical agents

Chemical weapons are tactically useless for modern militaries [1]. You’re pretty much always better off pounding with high explosives.

And there isn’t a known path to escalation potential. If there were, everyone would be developing it.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
ECS barely added anything for the average user. Almost nobody used the productivity or weird super-hires modes.

They could’ve skipped the A600 entirely and just left the A500 Plus on the market.
only works with hobby project with barebones feature
Some weapons are intrinsically forbidden because of their effects on individuals: soft-point bullets for instance. These are as discriminate as you want them to be, but are nonetheless prohibited in conflicts. Thus it's not just indiscriminate weapons that are banned by international agreement!
For all we know, certain types of deafness may be immune.
I remember using MS Paint and a USB flash drive to bypass the Best Buy system deployed on PCs back in the early 2000s. Paint still has some great functionality as a complement to PowerPoint and Word in an office workflow.
I don’t know any investor who puts 100% of their money into a single stock, nor any who lack recurring cash flow to buy more of what they already own. While their 2000 purchase may not have realized any gains, they’re likely ahead thanks to dollar cost averaging and dividend payouts.
No there is a very clear difference of responsibility between creating an instrument that can be turned towards harm and one that is designed to cause it. Someone designed, engineered, and built these tools knowing this is what they were to be used for.
Discussion at the time (491 points, 339 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39248649
We used to have to assume that anyone we were talking to on the internet could actually be a 12-year-old. Now we have to assume they could be bots
Microsoft's LLM obsession is getting out of hand. I use Firefox for 95% of my browsing but load up Edge for anything finance related. When I opened it today, I was greeted with a full page of information about all the new AI features they had crammed in to watch everything I do in the browser. I found the settings that say they turn this off but some of it was rather ambiguous. Given how often the screw up OS updates these days, I don't trust them to keep private whatever data they're scaping from Edge. The company seems to be converging from many directions on a massive data breach that will put to shame any other past data breaches.
It's not unreasonable for people to think that "autopilot" means something that automatically pilots a vehicle. According to a dictionary automatic means "having the capability of starting, operating, moving, etc., independently". Whether or not that's how actual autopilots in airplanes and ships works is irrelevant, most people aren't pilots or captains. Tesla knew what they were doing when they chose "autopilot" instead of "lane assist" or similar, like their competitors did. It sounds more advanced that way, in line with how their CEO have been promising full autonomous driving "next year" for a decade now.

It's also worth noting that the recent ship collision in the north sea is thought to be because the autopilot was left on without proper human oversight, so even trained professionals in high stakes environments make that mistake.
> A violin is the most expressive because it has the least "friction" of valves and hammers and buttons getting in the way.

A violin is most expressive because it is the one that uses friction (rubbing a bow on strings).

Also, moving the bow just right is harder than slamming keys.
You can pick better examples. I would go with JDSU.
The good old argument about the "latest" version on the "latest" hardware... As Tesla influencers have been saying for the past 5 years 'it will blow your mind'.

In the very first phrase he says "I'm in my Tesla on Autopilot"...
This is such good writing, and manages to offer a nuanced and informative new angle on an issue which has already been discussed at great length.
> If you were at a protest that was starting to get a bit rowdy and somebody used one of these on you, what would you do?

Leave. The moment it turns into a riot you’re doing damage to your cause. (If you’re in a protest and see hooligans, restrain them.)
Of course! MongoDB is web scale!
I am building Docmost (Open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion).

We have integrated support for Excalidraw, Draw.io and Mermaid diagrams; Plus real-time collaboration.

Github: https://github.com/docmost/docmost
It is. People think that the "Frangible bullets and teargas banned by the Genevan Conventions" means that they're seen as too cruel to use in war. Unfortunately the "wisdom of crowds" that we've created on social media has decided that it does.

The reality is that we're talking about the views of people in 1925, as informed by a previous group of people in the late 1800's. They were far more concerned with avoiding the use of gas as a weapon than in dealing with the LD50 of the various gasses.

Likewise with frangible/hollow-point ammunition, it isn't even banned by the Geneva Conventions, it was banned under the now-defunct Hague Convention. For better or worse they thought that these "tumbling" or "expanding" bullets were designed to inflict intentionally greater suffering. Who knows maybe the versions that existed in the late 1800's did too, the ones today aren't used because they're worthless against even modest body armor.

But again, people just see text on a picture in a meme and take it to heart.
I got into alternate keyboard layouts and developed my own (roughly an optimized NIRO). When I tried using it on my small Surface Go I found that my fingers would 'jam' typing letters close together, so I leave that in QWERTY so it happens much less.
Depends on the board, I've had many mobos which power on when they receive WoL.

Check your bios settings.

Also, you can probably just strap a wifi-capable relay to power pins on your motherboard.
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Is your claim that Va primarily produces English language learning material and the content is secondary?
I don't follow the connection to Morse. Can someone summarize their argument in a comprehensive way?
I started my career in '95, too, and yeah, as difficult as it is to believe now, Microsoft's monopoly wasn't yet assured. The OS market was pretty much locked up (OS/2 Warp???), but as I recall, Wordperfect was the big obstacle in the office-suite space. It had a massive userbase, especially in markets that were not friendly to change (law offices).

IMHO, the big boost for Microsoft was when they adopted the Lotus 1-2-3 and Wordperfect file formats. Now there was a product that costs less (free, with a new PC), and was compatible with all the existing docs/data. Game over.
My American Citizen score card:

LRAD + Tear gas 2009

Tear gas 2017

Tear gas 2021

Still got the exhausted canister from 2009 as a souvenir. Carry a bottle of water, the tear gas rinses out quickly.
This is an interesting point. Maybe the problem is most people don’t drive boats or planes so are not familiar with the experience in those contexts. I think you’re right from the boat standpoint a “auto pilot” means you set a heading and the sails/rudder is adjusted to get there.
Pro tip: find and copy mspaint and notepad from a previous Win OS version. Also the old calculator ;)

I am not saying that I have done so, but let's say that I keep copies of some older .exe files 'because'. Now that I read this I laughed a bit because those will come in handy.

Also I always suggest that you find WindowsFirewallControl v4.9.x.x and install it, and set it on "Medium Filtering" and "Display Notifications". They block all the garbage MS bloatware apps that want to 'speak to the internet' and trust me when I tell you, 99% of the apps in your PC don't need to have 24/7/365 access. You want to update your VLC? Good! Allow it for 5mins, update, block it again. Same for the myriad other Microsoft .exe files that do not serve OUR purpose.
Okay, but if the tool is a weapon and is designed specifically to inflict harm on humans, then I think that analogy completely breaks down.
Since it could be misleading without this info: radar has been removed from newer model years.
Both nanokvm and jetkvm have modules that emulate the power button press modules!!
To add to the other advice: Organize, curate and archive your info, documents and media. Make backups. Having physical books doesn't hurt either. It's a bit more effort each time but it's gonna pay dividends and is useful on any path you take.

When I was your age, we used to say that the internet doesn't forget and I even used to think it would become a great public library. Well...
I think because instead of two clusters like you'd expect from random BBs being shot, you get multiple bands like you'd see with interfered waves. Even when shot one at a time.
Those specific functions are compiler builtin vector intrinsics. The main reason is that they can easily read past ends of arrays and have type safety and aliasing issues.

By the way, the rust compiler does generate such code because under the hood LLVM runs an autovectorizer when you turn on optimizations. However, for the autovectorizer to do a good job you have to write code in a very special way and you have no way of controlling whether or not it kicked in and once it did that it did a good job.

There’s work on creating safe abstractions (that also transparently scale to the appropriate vector instruction), but progress on that has felt slow to me personally and it’s not available outside nightly currently.
I believe the post you are replying to was referring to the fact that you could take actions in that unsafe block that would compromise the guarantees of rust; eg you could do something silly, leave the unsafe block, then hit an “impossible” condition later in the program.

A simple example might be modifying a const value deep down in some class, where it only becomes apparent later in the program’s execution. Hence their analogy of the wet dog in a clean room - whatever beliefs you have about the structure of memory in your entire program, and guaranteed by the compiler, could have been undone by a rogue unsafe.
Ah "but the USA!!". Cant tell if you are a suburb leftie who lives there or a russian troll.
You are mistaken. Automotive radar does not detect stationary walls because it cannot tell the difference between a metal sign near/above the roadway and a wall blocking the roadway. Automotive radars are useful only for moving obstacles.
I like both Perl and TCL. If I need an executable for Windows, I choose TCL, because I can easily make one with freewrap.
What made Pivotal Tracker so popular? It had story points front and center, was that it?
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I think Linux, at least if you have an AMD graphics card, has gotten a lot better as a desktop OS in the last decade or so.

For a long time you'd have issues with graphics drivers and wifi drivers and X crashing and PulseAudio just deciding to not work, but nowadays that really hasn't been an issue for me. AMD drivers are built into the kernel, Wayland is generally stable, Pipewire with Pulse works ok, and most Wifi seems to work out of the box for me. Hell, I have a network card in a desktop computer from the infamous Broadcom, and even that worked out of the box in Linux now.

I'm sure it's more difficult if you're a FOSS purist, but I'm not. I allow the unfree stuff in NixOS, and things have generally been pretty good, at least in my current laptop (ThinkPad P16s Gen 2 AMD).
Maybe - i've been reading that sort of permabear "the economy is about to crash because of obvious reason X" for at least 15 years now. I listened for a time sadly - it cost me a lot of missed investment growth. Eventually they'll be right, but haven't been very predictive.

However, the deliberate economic self-destruction being unleashed by trump and friends feels like a very different flavor of cause.
It most certainly is. Is it reliable? No, not at all. However there are many YouTube channels showing certain routes, where this car is capable from driving itself from a to b without the need of manual intervention. Including parking.
You’re looking for the Reduction in Force Act for federal protections.

For the second part: no, US government regulatory bodies are expressly political, down to their very existence. You likely intended “partisan”, but, one party is against them existing at all, so…
You could outfit the front steps with crewed machine guns, but apparently they only do that if they expect people protesting in favor of liberal values.
No, he's probably just around the corner, having just set up the speakers and put on his hearing protection.
No ieda about that, those are amounts of money I can't even consider because I couldn't tell the different of T vs B or even a hundred millions (as someone who never had more than 100k).

It's something I would cosnider paying for the first months when joining a new company (specially with a good salary), but not more than that, to be honest.
This actually might solve a massive CI problem we've been having...will report back tomorrow
That should be covered by the part about "best practices".

That said, I keep finding more AppData files in my Documents folders than the other way around. Linux software (especially legacy software that doesn't respect the XDG spec) is the worst for that, somehow spreading files and directories across my user profile directory and my documents directory.
Hum, yes, I'm sure. You're right that it is in line with his other articles, you're just missing the fact that a majority of his other articles are also quite obvious satire.
Or reintroduce proximity radar at least.
> It feels so well integrated into the rest of the system!

- Anonymous user
Rust's raw pointers are more-or-less equivalent to C pointers, with many of the same types of potential problems like dangling pointers or out-of-bounds access. Rust's references are the "safe" version of doing pointer operations; raw pointers exist so that you can express patterns that the borrow checker can't prove are sound.

Rust encourages using unsafe to "teach" the language new design patterns and data structures; and uses this heavily in its standard library. For example, the Vec type is a wrapper around a raw pointer, length, and capacity; and exposes a safe interface allowing you to create, manipulate, and access vectors with no risk of pointer math going wrong -- assuming the people who implemented the unsafe code inside of Vec didn't make a mistake, the external, safe interface is guaranteed to be sound no matter what external code does.

Think of unsafe not as "this code is unsafe", but as "I've proven this code to be safe, and the borrow checker can rely on it to prove the safety of the rest of my program."
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This analysis explores extreme wealth inequality through the lens of theoretical physics, proposing that the economic realities experienced by the ultra-wealthy versus everyday Americans are as fundamentally incompatible as quantum mechanics and general relativity.