skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it support saving jpeg and PNG files yet? I mean open jpeg, change something, press Ctrl+s, done.
No not like USA, China or Russia. Switzerland has very strong ties with the EU and synchronises with the EU on most legal developments.

It is part of Schengen, free movement of people (try moving to the US from Europe), aligned their data protection law with GDPR etc.

It's very different from the countries you mention who don't make any effort to align with EU and are our adversaries in many cases.
At least for games, design everything to be useable for mouse input only, if you want my money. Mind you, do not play FP shooters and the like.
TRIZ says to solve it with ablateable materials- thin foilsheets with a evaporating binding agent - there are uv-resistant plastics https://topas.com/uv-transparency/ even transparent ones, but they are not printable.

Actual recommended technique: grind it
https://hackaday.com/2023/11/16/a-3d-printed-grinder-for-pri...
> 3. ProtonVPN: Good on paper, totally untrusted and blocked by the internet. I can't navigate without filling 10 captchas or just be outright blocked.

Even residential IPs are being blocked nowadays, we have Cloudflare to thank for that.
Maybe one really needs 'the cloud' (whatever that is) or the accompanying services, I don't know, but I do know that good old webhosting is still around. At least here in The Netherlands. Good for email, good for websites and webapps, good for data storage.

There are enough options to choose from the decentralized menu of hosting offerings. Most are cheap enough also, but watch out for the slightly bigger webhosting companies that are taken over one-by-one by some group of investors wanting to play AWS (and upping the prices by 400% or so).
Tapes are still being actively developed for archiving by companies like Fuji, Sony and IBM. They’re not going away any time soon.

And if a magnetic event is strong enough to wipe all your tapes you probably have bigger problems on your hands than a fried backup.
Paraphrasing UX expert Johnny Lee:

UX = P_Success*Benefit - P_Failure*Cost

...and yet with every new generation of tech, it's never surprising how the hype cycle results in a brazen dismissal of the latter half of this fundamental relationship.
That happens all the time. A random person on the internet predicted the iPhone 4 antennagate problem before it got released. Everyone on the planet who plays videogames knew the Xbox One announcement was suicide and we were right.

Plus there's the possibility they're well aware of this problem but are going full steam ahead anyway.
I highly recommend the course you've mentioned (by Yaser Abu-Mostafa). In fact I still recommend it for picking up the basics; very good mix of math and intuition, Abu-Mostafa himself is a terrific teacher, and he is considerate and thoughtful in responding to questions at the end of his presentations. The last part is important if you're a beginner: it builds confidence in you that its probably ok to ask what you might consider a simple question - it still deserves a good answer. The series is a bit dated now in terms of what it covers, but still solid as a foundational course.
I would like to see a movement more along the lines of "Moving away from cloud services", not just US services. Our computers are faster than ever, internet bandwidth is not a problem, public IPs affordable. Why not self host when possible?
There’s nothing in the EU quite like DARPA: oriented to long term, fundamental, high risk, high reward projects.

Furthermore, this European DARPA would be an organization with its own physical structure - its own labs. Say, with each different discipline in a different EU country.
You may want to check Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanisław Lem :)
Read this further, yeah there won't have been a big difference in UI, I think its been such a push to get this out.

We'll see how it goes from here, while it should be easier under Gtk3, there's still a bunch of UI to make sane around d GEGL ops etc.

I wonder if we will see a push to Gt4, that should be less painful than 2 to 3.

We should see improvements gradually accelerate now this is out.
They have moved to Netherlands. They were planning, but Murphy knocked (kicked?) on the door as a massive DDOS, so they expedited the move, a lot.
I think the trend should be away from these cloud providers in general and to smaller companies that offer both a paid service and a self hosted option as a way of providing you with an exit strategy. Ente is a good example of this
Proton is nowhere near M365 capability set unfortunately. M365 really caters for the big enterprise. Data Loss Protection, integrated security, it has a lot of that stuff in the backend. Not to mention all the gaps in user-facing apps like chat, video, office suite.

Perhaps they will get there but they're nowhere near there right now. You could use it together with MS Office standalone but then you're still dependent on Microsoft.
At that scale, wouldn't it make sense to just have raw block i/o copies being done to a disk image, and then mount the image onboard to do the actual data transfers?

Seems to me a majority of the overhead with 1000 SD cards is in the filesystem translation layer, multiplied by the USB contention dealing with so many devices.

So if it were me, I'd have a big fat, fast mounted filesystem whose purpose is only to serve as a dd destination, get the dd done as quickly as possible with system bus buffer sizes, and then do the data transfer 'offline' once the SD has been mirrored...
I agree, but on the other hand: it's just software. We just need to build easy few-clicks transitions for the most popular usages.
Like Azure, didn't catch up with AWS on day one. They first added the most used features.
The US software moat is large, but I bet the most used features of the most used services are easier to replicate.
I'm aware of their use of subsidiaries, but is this true for ownership of the buildings and hardware, or just something done for tax purposes?
> Disagree, some of the EU clouds are already well on their way.

Feel free to drop a few links. Digital EU projects tend to be absolute disasters run by bureaucrats. They always result in some 100 page long document, talking about planning a plan for creating a planning framework. Also throw in the words sovereign and digital transformation, for maximum corpo-political bullshit.
Plus the above example of the culture of finger pointing, hence avoiding accountability for the lack of vision.

Getting into the game too late and wasting a ton of cash on cars that miss actual target-user’s needs and wallets.

Unfortunately, this is a pattern having emerged in Germany since quite a while - it’s either the pandemic, putin, the government, china or whatever is en vogue to put blame on.

German engineering prowess is dying a slow death caused by their own ignorance of their arrogance.

They are still selling cars for the badge but people are slowly realizing that things have changed.
Yup, in the USA you can still have VPN server that is not storing logs, something that is simply illegal in European Union countries.

In the USA you can purchase prepaid SIM card in Wallmart with cash, put it in your phone and you have anonymous phone number, again, this is illegal in Europe in a typical stupid European way, as any criminal who needs an anonymous card would pull in to the retailer some drunk or homeless person and get that SIM anyway. But "normals" can forget about privacy, unless they want to play with something like silent.link.
he mentioned also Quad9 - Cloudflare DNS replacement. I didn't know about and will probably switch to it. My other picks:

SEARCH: qwant (france)

LLM: mistral (france), librechat.ai, openwebui

VPN: mullvad (sweden), protonVPN (swiss)

AUTH: OpenID (sadly seems like not many sevices implement it)

CLOUD: Hetzner (germany), OVHCloud (france)

MAPS: here wego, openstreetmap

EMAIL: protonMail (swiss), fastmail (australia)

DNS: mullvad (sweden), quand9 (swiss), nextDNS

TRANSLATE: DeepL (germany)

BROWSER: zen-browser, vivaldi (norway)

SOCIAL: nostr, mastadon (germany)

IM: elements (uk), matrix (uk)

EDIT: correction that fastmail is australian
I'm not sure how all this is going to play out but sooner than later local solutions will be enforced politically.

>Migrating away from US cloud services was easier than I expected.

So if the AI hype is worth its salt, the transition should at some point become trivial.

"Hi Mistral, can you please build a OneDrive replacement? I will host in on my Linux server at OVH. Here is the documentation for OneDrive, make sure that the software works as described in the documentation. Then install it into my server using these credentials and put the client side apps in my Apps folder"

I can't keep myself but thinking, what will happen when the mighty US tech companies that used to serve the planet get limited to 340M people in the half of the North American continent.

So far it was just convenient to have your tech thingies in the USA even if you are just providing a niche service somewhere in south Italy from Montenegro.

For years this created a positive feedback loop that fed into the centralization of capital and talent in USA, particularly in the Silicon Valley. It wasn't that Americans were writing better for loops than Europeans, it was that the global nature of the tech positioned itself at the place with least resistance and largest resources.

Unfortunately this is coming to an end as a political choice by the USA itself, so what's next then?

The moat of social networks and financial networks can indeed be broken by force if politicians choose to. This brings so much opportunity to non-Americans, it is sad for those who feel like global citizen and integrated with the whole humanity and its pretty much the dream of ant-globalists.
Searx is great (I use SearXNG personally) but be aware that it's something that lifts along on the main search engines. It's not a search engine, just a meta one. It still depends on the big US ones for its results. Just like Kagi for that matter (though they do have a small crawler themselves, their main results are metasourced from various large engines)
Every thing has meaning in precise relation to the frequency of cooccurrence to every other thing.

I, too, have been mulling this. Word to word, paragraph to paragraph. Even letter to letter.

Also what if you processed text in signal space? I keep wondering if that’s possible. Then you get it all at once rather than windows. Use a derivative of change for every page, so the phase space is the signal end to end.
I expected it to be much harder to move away from these services I heavily relied on like Microsoft 365. Before I started migrating it figured I was so entangled in their web, that switching to an alternative would be a tremendous task. After actually migrating these services, I managed to migrate 90% within a few hours per service. This is nowhere near the amount of effort I expected it needed. Because of that, I'm also optimistic about migrating Git and NPM. While I don't think NPM will be any different, I suppose my optimism about Git might be misguided because of the amount of customization that goes into setting up CI/CD. Still, since only one out of all of the services might be hard - one that doesn't handle any PII - I stand by saying the overall effort was easier than expected.
Talking about solutions and helping them gain mindshare is the first step to make things happen.
Also the fact that a theory is refutable. That a theory is not _the_ truth, but the best explanation so far and if something proves it completely or partially wrong then we move on to the new, better theory.
I really wish they had kept the old C-like Honu syntax rather that the Python-like Shrubbery. If Rhombus is supposed to be an educational language, copy-pasting and trying out new code is going to be a important part of ecosystem, and indentation based syntax is not ideal for that.
Before anyone bothers reinventing the keyboard I would rather that it were made practical to easily and reliably type accented and other characters on a UK keyboard in all applications. I use English and Norwegian regularly with the occasional French, German, or Swedish word. I have been unable to find a simple method of configuring Linux Mint to support these other than by switching layouts every time I need an ø or and e acute, etc.

I did once get the compose key to work but the settings didn't survive an upgrade and I have been unable to get them to work again in Firefox.
When will these cars have a breakthrough in terms of UI and privacy (let's ignore the cost for a moment).

I don't want to spend a shitload of money on an iPhone with wheels which doesn't even come with all the privacy promises apple makes and which is full of dark patterns, subscription models, and proprietary interfaces (talking about apple carplay, android auto, feature allowing you to use spotify, etc. The mere fact the car has these makes me not want to buy it, even though I would never use them. Paying money to have a hardcoded e.g. spotify client in my car is encouraging exactly the wrong design practices.).
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What's a good alternative to Proton? Still haven't migrated my business away from Google Workspace, and I was thinking Proton would be a good alternative, but apparently not if they don't even support IMAP/SMTP.
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Some comparisons: Singapore is a de-facto single party state with widespread government censorship, heavily limited civil rights, government/ruling party controlled media and heavy ethnic discrimination. Switzerland OTOH is almost a model country for such metrics.

https://freedomhouse.org/country/singapore/freedom-world/202...

https://freedomhouse.org/country/switzerland/freedom-world/2...
> a New York-based minority-run brokerage [...] wants to trade with similarly minded businesses, so it uses a private room provided by the ATS operator OneChronos. “It’s about exercising control, what liquidity a broker wants to interact with” Carlos Cabana, head of equity sales and trading at CastleOak, dubs the room a “diversity pool,” because the participants are all minority-operated brokerage firms. While in this instance CastleOak doesn’t know specifically who is on the other side of every trade, it knows it will be one of about 10 counterparties who meet certain eligibility criteria related to ownership and investment goals.

The fact that, under this mechanism, one can quite literally choose the skin-color of the counterparty trader, under the banner of "diversity" and "similarly minded"-ness, is quite fascinating regardless of politics or morality.
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Now you just need to find a drive that still works in 40 years, and can connect to a computer you have in 40 years.
LTO drives will only read media from 1 generation off the specified version (LTO 9 will read LTO 8 tapes, not LTO-7)

So you will need a 40 year old drive by then... good luck finding one that works.
Would you recommend moving from Google Workspace to Proton? Including emails and so on.
Deforum stuff is cool, but also a bit of a flash in the pan because of the disconnected nature of the generated frames.

Pure video generation is getting better, but like all generative AI it lacks imagination and cannot really create new things, making it less qualified for truly mindblowing psychedelic visuals in its current state.
> Unless people there get off their high horse, they'll succumb to the same level of authoritarianism and surveillance as in the states.

We are very far away from the status quo in the US. Some countries are overtaken by extreme right, which is worrying. But it's nothing like the US where the entire country went to shit overnight.

Also, we don't have this singular president entity which has so much power that everything can be turned upside down in just one election. We have a president but she has very little power and influence compared to the way it is in the US.

Also, our multi-party system prevents the two-party zero-sum setup that is present in the US where parties go to ever extreme methods to make the other side look bad (because a lose for one is a win for the other). For us it doesn't work that way.
K8s is an orchestration tool. You still need someone managing the physical hardware, and do it realiably at scale. That's what a hyperscaler does.
In theory, you could do a "perfect crime" by going to a seedy part of town, picking up a dropped cigarette butt, and leaving it at the crime scene, framing someone else.

In reality, criminals are angry, frightened, in a rush, high or stupid, and they make the most elementary mistakes, so DNA and fingerprints work just fine almost all the time. In like 99% of cases there's not much doubt about who did it, the main thing is to have a watertight case against them when they deny it.
I've been cautiously optimistic about Rhombus since the initial "Racket 2" controversy. I'd have preferred they went with something more like Wisp or Wraith, but it could be a lot worse.

I am somewhat troubled by tricks that are "too magic", like this example from front page:

class Posn(x, y)

fun flip_all([Posn(x, y), ...]):
[Posn(y, x), ...]

flip_all([Posn(1, 2), Posn(3, 4)])
// ⇒ [Posn(2, 1), Posn(4, 3)]

Why should the later Posns be flipped? That's certainly not what I would expect.

(Then again being too magic is working well for Python, e.g. that a<b<c thing)
If he is not winning here, he probably did not win there, just got landed in the right place at the right time and had his free ride.

There is a lot of bullshit jobs in US IT companies, FAANG are not an exception.

This is why Bert talks about local technical competence.
Solid-state batteries, which BYD is also working on, mitigate this problem.

https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-insights/latest-marke...
I remember this was the first HDR program I watched on my new OLED TV back in 2019, and the experience felt like all my life I'd been watching TV with foggy sunglasses that had been suddenly removed.

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Surely i'm not the only one but I've always felt when it comes to the discussions about replacing the computer desktop experience there's some serious historical blinders on.

Work surfaces like the desk as an idea has existed and had been refined for millennias as human interactive spaces before being borrowed and codified to work on computers.

it's not bad to look into but i don't think its surprising to find that human physiology hasn't changed, and so the interface environment ideas are still useful for similar situations
That's just a rough conversion for 1 megawatt. I was curious about the actual voltage and current they were using, since the article didn't say much.
I wasn't referring to battery swapping, but I can see how my post could be interpreted that way so I've edited it.
Touché. This is usually the problem with the "lack of skilled workforce" on the old continent.
the triangle truck supports 500 kw charging
Half the authors on that paper are employed by the Chinese academy of sciences. Doesn't look like brushing it under the rug to me.

More than likely it'll turn out to be something that can be easily and relatively inexpensively mitigated.
dude, EU is home for around 500 million people. (correct me if I'm wrong). EU definitely needs a hyperscaler. Every single one of these people will need a digital identity along with their compute rights.
It’s amazing how much damage two persons (Trump & Musk) can cause to the whole of the US. It’s damage for generations ahead.
Thank you for your thoughtful critique.

To clarify what our numbers actually mean and address your main question of "what does that number actually mean":

1- The 600ns figure represents precisely what you described - an in-memory "write done" where memory structures are updated and the data becomes globally readable to all processes. This is indeed comparable to what Redis without persistence or memcached provides. Even at this comparable measurement basis (which isn't our marketing gimmick, but the same standard used by in-memory stores), we're still 2-6x faster than Redis depending on access patterns.

For full persistence guarantees, our mean latency increases to 2582ns per record (600ns in-memory operation + 1982ns disk commit) for our benchmark scenario with 1M records and 100-byte values. This represents the complete durability cycle. This needs to be compared with for example Redis with AOF enabled.

2- I agree that the meaning of "write done" requires clear context. We've been focusing on the in-memory performance advantages in our communications without adequately distinguishing between in-memory and persistence guarantees.

We weren't trying to hide the disk persistence number, we simply used "write done" because in our comparison we compared with Redis without persistence. but mentioning the persistence made an understandable confusion. that was bad on our part.

Based on your feedback, we'll update our documentation to provide more precise metrics that clearly separate these operational phases and their respective guarantees.

UPDATE:

clarification on mean disk write measurement:

the mean value is calculated from the total time of flushing the whole write buffer (parallel processing depending on the number of available cpu cores) divided by the number of records. so the total time for processing and writing 1M records as described above was 1982ms which makes the mean write time for each record 1982ns.
Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face
OVH is an absolute joke.

People are really quick to forget the fire that destroyed one of their data centers a few years ago and which did not get addressed in any way by OVH for months.

They also learned nothing from it, and are repeating the exact same mistakes.

I stopped hosting even my personal blog on OVH because of how garbage it is.
I think you jumped to the wrong conclusion. Another news source suggests proper groundbreaking 10C charging:for a standard EV

> the BYD’s pile supports the 10C charging. It can charge 400 km in 5 minutes. It is two kilometers in one second! During the live test, this station reached the 1 MW level of power in 10 seconds (while charging Han L EV and Tang L EV). The car’s charging time from 7% to 50% was just 4.5 minutes.
From perspective outside of US it is not that relevant (in this context) if there is change after this. Because as we have seen in 2016 and now - there is no stability.
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The triangle shaped truck was used as a testbed for several innovations: 4 wheel drive (not just for parking gimmicks), size increase of gigapressed parts, first deployment of the 4680 dry process batteries, 48V for the non-traction electrical systems, Ethernet based networking for systems interconnect.

It’s literally a concept car in production…