skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't condone or endorse breaking any laws.

Really? Because there are a lot of very stupid laws out there that should absolutely be broken, regularly, flagrantly, by as many people as possible for the sake of making enforcement completely null and pointless. Why write in neutered corporate-speak while commenting on a casual comment thread while also (correctly) pointing out the absurdity of certain laws.
It's a laptop GPU - there's the integrated Intel UHD Graphics 620 card and the dedicated NVIDIA GeForce MX150. Both are pretty old (6-7 years?) but are capable of running most 3D games so I was a bit surprised.

EDIT: P.S. What might help debug is that I have hardware acceleration enabled in the browser, but the GPU is not doing any work on the animejs homepage. For e.g. YouTube, the GPU does a lot of work so I've verified hardware accel works.
Even if it came to war, it would be highly unlikely with a border as long and as undefendable as California has.
KUBI the Conversational Robot Barista
There is no spiral rule, that is a misconception. Look up how "declaration follows usage" in C. E.g. https://eigenstate.org/notes/c-decl

While this rule has become somewhat diluted when C developed and gradually took on features from C++ (like types in function parameters), it's still very helpful to understand the guiding principle. (But those inconsistencies that crept in over time are also the reason why newer languages don't do that anymore).
Gold was the reserve asset for most part of human history and was less spendable than bitcoins (harder to divide some gold than to send a fraction of a bitcoin).

Who keep it stable ? Well, who keeps gold stable ? Once an asset becomes the reserve asset, it becomes the standard and other things are priced in that unit, or in units derived from it (here's a kilogram of beef, I'll sell it to you for 2 British pounds which are worth x units of reserve asset)

But maybe you're talking about the stability of its inner properties (its supply, for instance). That for sure is not as stable as gold's. But is its distributed consensus stable enough ? That's a good question. So far, so good.
This is both chilling and hopefully incorrect.
Pretty much every single Aliexpress purchase I've made has been shipped from the Netherlands for years now.

They use it to get around EU customs and tariffs, dunno how but it works.
> You can not really write a formal spec without having prose first.

The WebAssembly folks might have done that? From the Wasm SpecTec blog post I linked in a sister comment (emphasis in original):

> In fact, the formal version [of the Wasm spec] was written long before the prose, which was then created by manually transliterating the formal rules into natural language (for some definition of “natural”).

To be fair, I'm sure there was a lot of non-formal discussion in the process of creating the formal spec but I'm not sure whether that counts as "prose" in this context.
Minecraft's "vibrant" update has me thinking about video games as time capsules
Downvote for low quality "nice try".
Russia is gasping for air. Trying to hold 1/3 of Ukraine. Do you really think they would stand a chance if all of Europe United against them? It would be ugly for sure, but Russia would be no more.
Because it's depressing how much money was burned for this sort of result? That makes me pretty lazy.
A game such as Turing Complete will give the same sort of understanding of the fundamentals of computing, although not a physical learning experience.
I worked in a digital technology company in Wellington in the 90s and one of our key technologies that we sold was a hosted form on a secure (remember, this is the era that https was not common) website to collect credit card payments. We were a proto Stripe in the year 1999 but totally in the wrong place in the world to take advantage of it.
Cool project by a friend in Taiwan:

KUBI employs a sophisticated multi-sensory architecture to simulate human-like interaction. The system hinges on a microservices architecture, where specialized services operate concurrently and communicate via a real-time event stream. These services manage various tasks, including facial and object recognition using real-time AI inference, cup detection and sanity checks via cameras, receipt printing, secure facial recognition for access control, and precise control of milk and bean dispensers.
GRUB is too big? Maybe because it's 30 years old and can boot at least 11 architectures.

...and what systemd-boot is? A UEFI only boot menu which gets its data from UEFI only.

I mean comparing two different things and claiming the more featured one too big is mental gymnastics to put it politely.

GRUB having vulnerabilities is not surprising, esp. when the thing is written at an age where computers were completely different things, programming and requirements wise, but insinuating that systemd-boot is the ultimate replacement is, eh, a bit underhanded. Esp. when it comes from Lennart, whose systemd is too big and encompassing for an init system.

It's the pot calling the kettle black, heh.
Their core mission is to provide society with a endless surplus of food and energy from air
By that measure iOS and Android are copies of Windows Mobile, no?
Compared to Bytewax, Slipstream puts the emphasis on freedom, at the cost of having to implement certain features yourself.

This freedom let's you do things that other libraries may not offer within the bounds of their API. For instance, I do see that joins and windows are supported in Bytewax, but is it possible to do more complex stateful joins based timestamps (temporal joins) or other arbitrary conditions?

If it does, then that's great. But I've had experiences where limitations became apparent during an end-phase of a project. When the API starts to reach its limits, but you're already invested in it quite deeply.
For your friends app, I had to go into the app store and then expand the description to view the key features, where it is mentioned that it uses AI similarly as Cal AI. Just based off the initial images of Eat compared to Cal AI, then it's much more clear what Cal AI does compared to yours (besides plastering AI everywhere).

Another thing I noticed is that I saw a random guy on instagram with a rather big following being sponsored by Cal AI. Maybe your friend was unsuccessful in getting his app out there? Although I agree that luck will always play a role, but if the public don't understand what your app immediately does and they believe AI to be pure magic, then sprinkling that everywhere will get something like Cal AI flying.

I still think it is shit from a technical perspective in terms of the validity of amount of calories from a single image and nothing else. But it seems like that's not what people want, inherently because they are lazy. Actually counting calories is much harder long term. If regular people now think that this is magically replacing this process by just snapping a picture of their processed meal, then I can see why it's successful. Although quite depressing...
I think Pipewire has completely replaced Pulseaudio where it matters.
TSMC has a lot if joint ventures like this. They are quite good at cross contaminating with their own fabs.
It's not bizarre, it's pretty much in line with the stance that the West has had with Russia since the 90s, even with Bush junior in the early 2000s, before the rise of the neocons.
If you bake the model onto the chip itself, which is what should be happening for local LLMs once a good enough one is trained eventually, you’ll be looking at orders of magnitude reduction in power consumption at constant inference speed.
There are uninhabited islands on the list.
Yeah, like if the current US situation would tend towards food industry safety ...
I don't know, I don't want to become an expert. I just enjoy my books and paintings and sculptures and architecture...

The problems appear when you start assigning a monetary value to everything you do.
> but I don't know how to implement it so it can't be used to lock you out of your own computer.

You probably need Heads with Librem Key, like Purism offers for their laptops.
The worst for me was also my first one, T570. Two motherboard changes because of a flex-y body that put too much pressure on the hard drive connector. I had to use it for a few months because my main computer had to be fixed. I thought I can get more time out of it - nope. That flex-y body probably put too much pressure on something else and after many attempts (for some reason) of resetting the CMOS battery and using it a little, the thing would go right into a boot loop. I bought a new T480 (can use the battery from the T570! :D ) and this is soo much sturdier. Also have a T470p -- besides my screen issue, that thing is a really sturdy.

I have a P14s Gen 3 (so basically a T14s with the power-hungry GPU :D ) from work. I don't think the fit and finish is great, but it properly feels sturdy at least.
Thank you so much for volunteering!
I thought we were talking about metrics of intelligence. Regardless, the terminology overlaps.

As far as metrics of intelligence go, the algorithm is a black box. We don't care how it works or how it was constructed. The only thing we care about is (something like) how well it performs across an array of varied tasks that it hasn't encountered before. That is to say, how general the black box is.

Notice that in the case of typical ML algorithms the two usages are equivalent. If the approach generalizes (from training) then the resulting black box would necessarily be assessed as similarly general.

So going back up the thread a ways. Someone quotes Chollet as saying that LLMs can't generalize. You object that he sets the bar too high - that, for example, they generalize just fine at Go. You can interpret that using either definition. The result is the same.

As far as measuring intelligence is concerned, how is "generalizes on the task of Go" meaningfully better than a procedural chess engine? If you reject the procedural chess engine as "not intelligent" then it seems to me that you must also reject an ML model that does nothing but play Go.

> An explicitly programmed chess engine does not generalize, by definition. It doesn't learn from data. It is an explicitly programmed algorithm.

Following from above, I don't see the purpose of drawing this distinction in context since the end result is the same. Sure, without a training task you can't compare performance between the training run and something else. You could use that as a basis to exclude entire classes of algorithms, but to what end?
> First the new _animated_ boot splash with the ms-logo, then the elegant start up piano sound, the amazing new start button with a menu with so perfectly organized applications, settings and a run input. It was like stepping into the future.

Sadly that future is now behind us. Nowadays I struggle to figure out what is a button, excuse me, clickable.
> If your tech stack manages to bring that hardware to its knees for basic UI rendering, and requires a lot of optimization effort to run barely reasonably, then there is something fundamentally wrong with your tech stack

Yea, I think this is the problem, but the hard part is that it's largely outside of your control on the web. Alcatel 1 is technically a super computer, but it can't even run its own UI properly. I optimize my websites on it and while laggy, they sometimes run faster than Chrome's UI that displays them, it's crazy.

Running the system + the browser is already way too much and there's almost no perf budget left for the website - and it doesn't help that web tech is inherently sub-optimal in many ways, so you're already pessimized on all fronts. Even a baseline a simple page with almost no content is laggy on this device.
These are the kind of men that founded our country, better men than exist today. This is the type of thinking that led to America, and these are the cultural echo's many young culturally American boys hear from their fathers and grandfathers.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God. Thomas Paine - The Crisis

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson (https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jeffers...)

If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! John Henry -- Give me liberty or give me death.

You say you have no power and so let the world inflict itself on you, these were men that inflicted themselves upon the world. These men chose reason over comfort. These men chose not to be slaves through their action.
Wait, all you have to support the extraordinary claim that "Trump is a KGB agent" is that... Russian bots with 50 followers retweeted some pro-Trump posts ? Seriously ? That's ALL that the anti-Trump administration could find after years of trying to nail him ?
> But if you even need to write that long-ass prompt, might as well just write the story yourself!

Nah, that's just restating the infamous 'how to draw an owl' advice:

https://casnocha.com/2010/11/how-to-draw-an-owl.html#comment...

The thing is, that "long-ass prompt" is step 1, and LLM then draws "the rest of the fucking owl" for you. That's quite a big difference to doing it all yourself.
You seem to talk about fairness. Copyright law isn't supposed to be fair, it's supposed to benefit society. On one side you have the interest of the public to make use of already created work. On the other side is the financial incentive to create such work in the first place.

So the question to ask is whether the artist would have created the work and published it, even knowing that it isn't an insurance to their family in case of their early death.
But but, you used "offline". I always thought that's the opposite of "online". Looks like it means something else in Newspeak :)
> New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria

But will it kill humans too?

There's lots of antibiotics out there. Most of them will kill everything, including us, and we don't want them.
Blake2 and other hashes are most welcome.

As for HashMap you are completely correct: there are many different types of maps that are needed. Concurrent maps, insertion ordered maps etc. And even variations of the small things: are keys copied or not!

I talked about this on a stream recently, how the standard library is in need of a lot of additional Maps, Sets and Lists.

So if you’re interested in contributing then you’re very welcome to do so.
Reliable Sync from a syntactic (e.g. rich text) or data structure level is possible already with CRDTs, there are many excellent solutions (y.js, automerge etc.).

Semantic sync (for example when 2 people have modified a draft of a novel and want to sync): how to auto sync both versions so the resulting text makes sense and has no duplicates, is indeed much harder, and requires manual revisions (like git revisions), possibly with LLM suggestions.
Terrible culture that rewards psychopathy. Every CEO is an insane individual that has no remorse for any terrible action they do. This makes perfect sense that their entire corporation would reward breaking rules. It's what they would do afterall.
Top-tier antibiotics need to be reserved for humans. Absolutely. Obviously, overuse of any antibiotics in huge populations of humans or animals leads to bacteria evolving resistance... for a random event in a trillion, it ends up being a pretty determinstic fact, just like neutron decay.

It doesn't necessarily follow that using 2nd or 3rd tier antibiotics in limited cases in animal populations is always unwarranted, so long as we're aware of the potential for resistance and we're developing new ways to counter it. You have to play the cards you're dealt. Yes, the elimination of mass meat farming would go a long way toward preventing the adaptation of novel resistant bacteria. The situation, though, is that this type of farming will continue to happen for a long time. Regulations should prohibit the overuse of antibiotics, without completely preventing their use.
Those "evangelists" would be wrong, then. Rust prevents data races by default, but doesn't prevent deadlocks by default. It is possible to use Rust's type system to statically ensure the lack of deadlocks [0], but that's not provided by default.

[0]: e.g., https://docs.rs/lock_ordering/latest/lock_ordering
I do. systemd solves a lot of my problems, actually. Of course all of systemd could be cobbled together by combining a dozen or so independent projects, but that mess is exactly why normal people (even normal computer people) shy away from Linux.

And I don't recall a lot of software working well when Pulse isn't available, so I don't know why people still bring it up. Perhaps it's because I wasn't there at the time, but I've only seen ALSA as "that audio system you use when you have nothing else available". I still need the PulseAudio-wrapper for Pipewire to be useful for my systems, so clearly the Linux world has moved to Pulse-first.
Shouldn't it be "valiant" ?
It's a fantastic show, but I am not sure it touches on the commenter's point at all. The show is a take on what might happen if a panacea was actually found to exist. That's a bit different than a mere novel antibiotic. I even think the writers are pulling a lot of punch with how violent and insane Big Pharm, Governments and even independent groups would get about control over it.

Still, highly recommend people watch it. Great animation and art style, good writing and characterization, music is pretty rad and it's quite the trip at times.
"OSINT" has had a rather quick collapse in that area for quite some time, many participants under that label are basically propaganda outlets for whatever state or other.

Maybe the article addresses that, I'm not permitted to read it, likely because I'm using IPv6.

Forensic Architecture is a decent counterexample, however. They've been using machine learning and computer synthesis techniques for years without dropping in quality.
Something like https://docs.rs/lock_ordering/latest/lock_ordering perhaps?
Last year they couldn’t even do a simple fix (they could add a null coalescing operator or an early return which didn’t make sense, that’s about it). Now I’m getting hundreds of LOC of functionality with multiple kLOC of tests out of the agent mode. No way it gets in without a few iterations, but it’s sooo much better than last April.
I see what you mean, but I don't think this is super accurate. There are similarly large (and larger) patches of blue in many paintings by Vermeer and others from the Dutch Golden Age. Ultramarine was as expensive as you, but it was demonstrably used in many paintings from the Renaissance at large. The historically expensive blue paint is not the primary thing people think about when considering this painting, nor is it the reason this painting is uniquely loved among paintings of the period.

Of course, the expensive paint is a part of the history of the period, and paintings like this one become a symbol of the period as a whole. Appreciation for the period is certainly part of the appreciation for the painting.
It kind of sounds like you're saying "exactly everything we have today, we will have mildly more of."
No, you don't have data races in Rust. Deadlocks are more or less just as possible in Rust as in other languages. In fact, the 2024 edition of Rust changed something[0] to make it more difficult to hit some deadlock situations, but it's well-known that there's not much in the language to protect you from them.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/rust-2024/temporary-...
If copyright law is reduced to say, 20 years from the date of creation (PLENTY of time for the author to make money), then it's irrelevant if he dies young or lives until 100.
"The future talks. And it sounds human."
There are people who asked several AI engines (ChatGPT, Grok etc.) “what should the tariff policy be to bring the trade balance to zero?” (quoting from memory) an the answer was the formula used by the Trump administration. If I find the references I will post them as a follow-up.

Russia, North Korea and handful of other countries were spared, likely because they sided with the US and Russia at the UN General Assembly on Feb 24 of this year, in voting against “Advancing a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine.” https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4076672

EDIT: Found it: https://nitter.net/krishnanrohit/status/1907587352157106292

Also discussed here: https://www.latintimes.com/trump-accused-using-chatgpt-creat...

The theory was first floated by Destiny, a popular political commentator. He accused the administration of using ChatGPT to calculate the tariffs the U.S. is charged by other countries, "which is why the tariffs make absolutely no fucking sense."

"They're simply dividing the trade deficit we have with a country with our imports from that country, or using 10%, whichever is greater," Destiny, who goes by @TheOmniLiberal on X, shared in a post on Wednesday.

> I think they asked ChatGPT to calculate the tariffs from other countries, which is why the tariffs make absolutely no fucking sense.

> They're simply dividing the trade deficit we have with a country with our imports from that country, or using 10%, whichever is greater. https://t.co/Rc45V7qxHl pic.twitter.com/SUu2syKbHS

> — Destiny | Steven Bonnell II (@TheOmniLiberal) April 2, 2025

He attached a screenshot of his exchange with the AI bot. He started by asking ChatGPT, "What would be an easy way to calculate the tariffs that should be imposed on other countries so that the US is on even-playing fields when it comes to trade deficit? Set minimum at 10%."

"To calculate tariffs that help level the playing field in terms of trade deficits (with a minimum tariff of 10%), you can use a proportional tariff formula based on the trade deficit with each country. The idea is to impose higher tariffs on countries with which the U.S. has larger trade deficits, thus incentivizing more balanced trade," the bot responded, along with a formula to use.

John Aravosis, an influencer with a background in law and journalism, shared a TikTok video that then outlined how each tariff was calculated; by essentially taking the U.S. trade deficit with the country divided by the total imports from that country to the U.S.

"Guys, they're setting U.S. trade policy based on a bad ChatGPT question that got it totally wrong. That's how we're doing trade war with the world," Aravosis proclaimed before adding the stock market is "totally crashing."
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