skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I ask how that would work?

Like, are you saying that you'd rather use Google to search for content (including videos) and then find the videos on whichever web site hosts that individual video?

I do enjoy listening to music on YouTube and I actually like that it'll auto-enqueue music to play next that's similar to what I'm listening to now.

You idea (I think) is really interesting - it's been a while since the web has worked that way and it's interesting to think about how combined hosting+discovery has changed it from the 'early days'
Cheap android phones with decent cameras and expandable storage (microSD).

Edit: I'm obviously oversimplifying, but most of the world doesn't have always-on data connections (e.g. rural areas) and manufacturers outside of silicon valley do optimise for people that may want to download media so the can view/listen when they're not connected. Nothing beats a cheap phone replaceable battery and storage.
I read somewhere that the financial threshold for an accredited investor has stayed the same for a very long time, without adjustment for inflation.

That means that when it was originally instituted, there were much fewer and they were much richer compared to the rest of society.

So if someone is quoting an unreasonably low number, they might be using a figure from long ago.
And you can still plug a sketchy USB-C charger into one of the 3 ports.
Android and KDE use this method as well, which is very awesome as it provides the best performance and the best quality.
> People with stocks have undergone a massive boom in the last 20 years, that boom is not sustainable.

Bubble goes pop!
Multi-audio tracks and descriptive audio feeds on YouTube
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90 million iPhones in Q1 this year, 55M in Q2. Closer to 200M/year.
Stopped in for Tomcat Connectors. Slowly walked back out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lPJ9J-6vDw
Playing Solo Games
Compared to a thinkpad where I can replace the parts with a screwdriver myself, this is still an incredibly wasteful effort.
I'm not sure the exact details of your hardware problems but you may want to try out Qubes R4.1 when it's released (or the RC1 version now). It will ship with a fully updated base hypervisor and kernel feature set thus granting support for newer hardware.

Otherwise, feel free to open an issue on the Qubes issue tracker and the Core Team will look into it.
We'll have to wait for the AnandTech review but memory latency should be similar to Intel and AMD.
Optical out was a real blessing back when electrical connections (iMacs to amps) were noticeably noisy.

To go from optical back to electrical just seemed wrong from a tech evolution standpoint. Not hearing a lot of call to rip out multimode fiber in backbone networks and replace it with a shinier coax. But HDMI seems to be meeting the need, and there is always the aftermarket for fully annealed 99.999% oxygen-free HDMI cables to consider.
Is Tantacrul still blessing the exploitation of Audacity's previous good name?
Or we'll see Windows laptops with ARM Cpus and an RTX 4090.
People get used to the messy UI after a while and don't want it re-shuffled yet again. MS should give up on getting new consumers, they lost that game already. People have to learn Windows for work and use PC's at home after becoming familiar with them.

In short, people use Windows for familiarity, NOT user friendliness. MS may shoot their foot if they monkey with the first. Their UI overhauls are rarely significantly better anyhow. They have all the hallmarks of design-by-committee. MS, you can't do UI's anymore, givittup.
> It’s a tool, not a fashion statement.

Pffft, as if Apple didn't market every. single. one. of their products as a fashion statement.

Apple clearly has always chosen form over function and being different over function. That's the only reason why the ridiculously useless Dock exists at all - marketing loved it since it embodies both of those traits.
People have a human right to not die of massive blunt trauma but skydiving is still legal.
Firecracker relies on KVM in the Linux kernel which relies on VT-x or similar. Offering VT-x inside a VM that's already using VT-x is called nested virtualization. EC2 VMs do not support nested virtualization, while others do.

That said, it works fine on EC2 Bare Metal instances.

(n.b., I work on the virtualization stack on Google Compute Engine)
Here's a question I was always curious to hear a good intuitive explanation for --

Why does a neutron star not decay, as it is composed of neutrons, and free neutrons should decay in 15 minutes?

Is it because the neutrons are in an energetic "well" and to decay out would actually require energy? In collapsing under gravity to neutron degeneracy, did the neutrons say, radiate away their ability to decay any more?
That's interesting. Are you talking about microSD in smartphones, or standard SD?

MicroSD support would have actually made more sense to me than standard SD. But from what it looks like micro cards will still require a dongle of sorts.
I was very fortunate to not have to pay tuition or board, but if I had to, I wouldn't have spent my money to pay for that (I would have taken out loans) and still spent my money on RAM.
To be honest, I'm a Cloudflare fan.

But I think the niche between them is totally different.
It does work on AWS on the instances that support nested virtualization, same as every other provider.
If we're talking steady state cardio, when comparing the two running objectively burns more calories than rowing. Of course, there's different intensities that you can do of both that would increase or decrease how many calories you ultimately end up burning.
This caught me by surprise as well because I am pretty sure they have stated before that they were profitable.
USB-a dongle's make money and I'm sure the removal of magsafe cost them on applecare
How can you save a bunch of money when Backblaze is dirt cheap?
Pretty bold to IPO with those kind of revenue #s these days... I guess the iron is hot though.
We have a bunch of different Kyoceras at the office. The software is buggy as hell, yet they hide their security updates behind a super-expensive support contract with an “authorized” reseller.

Thats criminal in my opinion. Never buy again. Sharp does the same thing for their larger “enterprise” MFPs.
I agree, it is. Rowing is definitely more sustaining over the long term than running.
This book analogy doesn't make sense to me
The HDMI is for plugging into displays that are available to you when you are out of your office. Since they all have HDMI inputs this is a very sensible port.
I have thought about this problem a lot.

I have a theoretical solution that would work without being dependent on phone number block lists (which change all the time or can be spoofed) and doesn't let spammers/scammers leave a voicemail. It would also still allow good robocallers (like school closures, etc.) to leave a message.

The problem is, based on some quick back-of-the-envelope math, I'd probably have to charge $20/mo. to make it worth it. In my experience, consumers just won't pay that much. They want things to be free.
Like anything else, doesn't that depend on the concentration?
Video playback is accelerated by essentially custom ASIC processing built into the CPU, so it's one of the most efficient things you can do now. Most development workloads are far more compute intensive.
After many years reading about Leary, I realize now that he set the field back by decades.
You might want to see this pre alpha experiment for typing in keyboardless XR. For me these days when I hear 'Spatial' I think 3D systems with ray tracing controllers and hand tracking. You can also follow its dev on Twitter for more details.

[1] http://www.lexting.com/
All headphones and earphones I’ve tried will cut off everything else while they are being charged. Including Bose and Apple.

Yes, this is a PITA. If you know of a maker of headphones and earphones that doesn’t do this, please let me know.
I tried to get onto their business backup product without success. Something about how they do their accounts, sales, software stuff just was not smooth?

I had to buy a separate product MSP360, and then even then configuring that to work with Backblaze wasn't easy (at all). I got stuck and gave up.

Hope they smooth out the kinks.
absolutely, the worst part of the airpods is the degrading non-replaceable battery... it really left a bad impression.
“Are reposts ok?”

“If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Consider a distro that uses Plasma Desktop instead of GNOME.
They’ve actually fully removed the skip option at this point AFAIK. It got hidden away deeper and deeper and is either removed or it’s hidden so deep I can no longer find it.
East workaround, however, is just to install with internet disconnected. If it has no internet connection it won’t block the install but will instead prompt you to create a local account.

It sounds like they’ve removed _that_ loophole in Win11.
I suspect that’s because they:

1- want to convince people still on Intel Macs to update
2- lengthen the news cycle when the first units are shipped to the tech press and _they_ run these benchmarks
Tahoe supplies the Truckee river which is part of the water supply for agriculture near Reno and Carson city. So even Tahoe's got demands placed on it.
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My understanding is that not only was there no connection with anonymity, but the suspect was not anonymous even before the murder, having booked an appointment for the surgery.

Possibly the argument here is with regards to being able to track a particular person's discussions to see whether they are radicalizing? Yet the suspect had already been referred to a deradicalization program. Possibly it is to track people making radicalization efforts online? But are those people actually trying to be anonymous?
AKA the "Apple/Android/CSS was right" mode.

Personally I think they should abandon/maintenance-mode the "manually scale the pixels to fit the screen" mode and make the "virtual pixels" mode capable of supporting DPI-aware apps.
I'm surprised how small Backblaze is.

Am I reading this right that they only had 53 million USD in Revenue in 2020?

That's a tiny fraction of, say, Dropbox's revenue. I would have expected them to be in the 30-50% range of Dropbox on size.

And with 164 employees to boot, that's only $323,000 revenue per employee. I wonder what the compensation is like there.
You either vet the security and anyone can invest, or you don’t vet the security and then sell only to people who are more able to be defrauded without becoming a burden to society.
> The question is: what kind of problems are people needing that want 400GB/s bandwidth on a CPU? Well, probably none frankly.

It is needed for analytic databases, e.g. ClickHouse: https://presentations.clickhouse.com/meetup53/optimizations/
Yeah I forgot to mention that, its a given for me.

Like there’s the potential tax deductibility, along with being a store of value (it will probably be $2300 in a few years but thats okay), making it easier to rationalize future laptops in the future by trading this one in. But I’m not betting on any of that.

I’ve just been waiting for this specific feature set, I’m upgrading from a maxed out dual GPU 2015 MBP that I purchased in 2017.

I skipped the whole divergence and folly.

No butterfly keyboards, no tolerating usbc while the rest of the world caught up, no usbc charging, no touch bar, I held out. And now I get Apple Silicon which already had rave reviews and blew everything else out of the water in the laptop space, and now I get the version with the RAM I want.

Surprisingly little fanfare, on my end. Which is kind of funny because I remember fondly configuring expensive maxed out Apple computers on their website that I could never afford. Its definitely more monumental if you save money for one specific thing and achieve that. But now I just knew I was already going to do it if Apple released a specific kind of M1 upgrade in a specific chassis, which they did and more. So it fit within my available credit, and which I’ll pay off likely by the end of the week, and I’m also satisfied that I get the points and a spending promotion my credit card had told me about.

But I was going to buy this irregardless.
They don't have a cohesive long term strategy. They do have the capability to disrupt with internal innovation.
A lot of people talk about serverless hosting like a new paradigm. But I will say the success of php was the huge amount of hosting providers where you send the files trough FTP, linked a domain and that's it, it's working.

No Linux terminal knowledge need it or worry about Nginx, SQL, or iptables configuration.

Yeah most of those cpanels hostings are bad for scale, but for a lot of new devs allowed them to deploy without having to be a sysadmin
The active dose to LD50 ratio for alcohol is somewhere about 1:13 depending on tolerance. For Magic Mushrooms or LSD, it is above 1:1000.

In other words, it is nearly impossible to accidentally kill yourself via overdose on psychedelics - but somewhat easy with alcohol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose
C++ is an extremely mainstream language that can write a fully general version of compose with variable arguments.

https://godbolt.org/z/h7n8Y7qf1

Like sure, you can't write out a type for the entire overload set. Overload sets don't have types, but functions do. However, I don't think you'd ever actually want to write out the type of the compose function. Instead, I think it would be more reasonable to request that every intermediate function call is type-checked with fully specified types. In C++ this is the case.
There are critiques of anthropogenic climate change and the addictive nature of nicotine
Not to mention in casual conversation when talking about the M1 Max and people think you’re talking about the more general “M1 Macs”.
It's close enough though that it's a pretty easy case to make for contributory infringement.
It looks like Facebook is the partner used and there might be motivation to move away from using them as a partner for identity proofing as part of the identity operation (where as Github could use someone like Stripe Identity instead, with the cost being ~$2 per proofing request [1]).

Tangentially, I support anyone moving away from Facebook for identity purposes.

[1] https://stripe.com/identity
They apparently build 500+ of their pods at close to $9k each (as of the older version--can't find cost on the latest) every year in 2016. That could represent the cost of growth in free trials through 2020 with people getting their home offices set up. A few hundred thousand people added over 2020 not paying for 15 days, and possibly not paying at all if they cancel, would be expensive.
Seems to be a much wider memory bus combined with a new generation of RAM, LPDDR5.
Fair enough. Though I think these cloud products need to be viewed in the context of their other services. The value you from of using these cloud products isn't necessarily their direct feature set. It is that the network activity stays within Cloudflare and when combined with their other products, can't really be done easily with other services.
Isn't Waymo it's own navigation app? I wonder just how much Google Maps info they use.
Sounds to me like prices will pretty much inevitably go up after they're public, and I'll finally have the motivation to set up my own remote backup by exchanging hard drives with a friend of mine on the other end of the country.
Why do governments always try to weaponize tragedies to pass disgusting, authoritarian laws? It's like they don't even hide that they're enemies of freedom under the color of legitimacy
Yudkowskyist rationalism is a prime example that what you simply banish out of hand may percolate back up through your ideas -- unless you know enough about whatever it is you're trying to banish to recognize it.

The thing they tried to banish is religion: it simply morphed into another form. "Those who do not learn about religion are doomed to repeat it", as it were.
I usually file both of those groups under "people want to believe in something from which they can derive meaning."
Good reason to support Linux port project.
Is Facebook Fixable
Concur is painful to set-up but once it's done, it's not too bad
There's two fans so: not passive.
Of course, but for slovenia (2 mio population, ~1mio had corona, ~1mio vaccinated, with overlap of course), statistics for girls under 25 show zero deaths due to covid and one death due to vaccine. For men under 25, one death. For both sexes under 35, we have 5 deaths, including that one <25 man.

So basically, covid is less dangerous for young people than swimming (more than 5 people drowned this year) and still, most of the anti-covid measures affect them the most (and old people the least).
David's a hardcore coder and a talented technologist, for sure, but... well, he believes whatever he believes at the moment very strongly. He has a very solid reality-distortion field.

As an example, he really believed it was fine to have mechanical turk freelancers see people's receipts. He would say something to the effect of "people throw their receipts in the garbage where any sanitation worker can see them - this no different." I wasn't around when the mechanical turk stuff made the news, but it seems like it caught him totally off guard that people would be upset.

I suspect that the conversation around the price increases went something like:

David: There, I just sent a 3-page-long plaintext email explaining our price updates to everyone.
Other Expensifier: Shouldn't we notify people who have opted out of those emails?
David: If they opted out of announcement emails, they don't want announcment emails. Seems straightforward to me.
Other Expensifier: Yeah, but, like, we don't have multiple opt-out channels. They can either get every multi-page plaintext missive you send, or they can opt out and miss significant price increases.
David: Nope. They made their choice, we should respect it. Multiple opt-out channels are an antipattern. Anyway, the number of users who will be upset about this are vanishingly small - let's worry about the rest.
"This was possible because the code used for checking transactions before including them in a block didn't account for the case of outputs so large that they overflowed when summed"

Provable bugs in the system are not the same as accidentally exposing one's keys. Let's say I bought a used motorcycle from someone with BTC. Then I spam the community claiming the individual I bought from had in fact used malware to access my machine and stole the coin that way. The community to my knowledge has never reversed such a loss, nor should they be responsible for doing so.
In working with existing graphics tools to make drawings, something I've come to realize is that overlap is crucial to the workflow: it's easier to draw the line you want by overshooting and erasing than it is to get it precisely drafted. Likewise it's much easier to paint within a stencil mask than it is to stay within the lines freehand.

To me, that suggests the main distinction between source and output formats comes from how/whether they go about decimating the "erasure" data, since the final result produces much more complex non-overlapped paths. The attractiveness of the Bezier usually isn't in the initial definition of a shape - it just happens to be great at reproduction of multiple curves cut and spliced together. So it has the feel of a premature optimization that probably should be reconsidered in making more ergonomic tooling.
> Following that those receiving the message can decide to continue to support the business or not.

Actually, they could not - this is the crux of the issue. They didn't just send emails to their customers, but to their customer's employees. As an employee, I do not get to pick whether I use Expensify or not. My employer does.

Imagine your company decides to use MS services for email (e.g. Outlook Exchange). Is it OK for you to have to receive Satya's views on politics and not have a choice not to receive them (other than quitting your job)?
OT: You can get real italics on HN by surrounding words in asterisks. No need for Unicode chicanery like the "Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic" characters you're using.
They were unprofitable in 2019 as well…

And the cost of the pods will be capitalized and depreciated so a large surge in buildings won’t necessarily lead to bad financials.
I assumed this as well before I had an issue with the device where the firmware somehow got corrupt and I had to update it. Without the firmware noise cancellation, people complained that they could hear everything, the creaking of my wooden floor every rustle of every piece of paper and so on. But once I fixed the firmware all of that went away. That said I think you're right and putting the mic closer to your mouth is probably a good thing in general
> Something about how they do their accounts, sales, software stuff just was not smooth?

I'm not sure, sorry
I prompted it to „Generate three paragraphs of nonsense text.” It responded dutifully: „Three paragraphs of nonsense text.”
Given that you can effectively identify and reformulate biased content, the most low effort method being the use of multiple updated prompts, I count it a feature that the model contains a sub model of racist perspectives. If I were to ask you to compose a horribly offensive racist sentence, I am all but certain you could construct something that would be utterly shocking. You yourself have a model of biased, sexist, racist perspectives, and part of being a good human is recognizing and using that as proxy for what not to think or do or say.

If you're at all self aware, you can compare your thoughts and say "oh, that sounds like something a racist might say, let's reconsider whatever knowledge that led me to think that way. " We all do - and these models are trained on more literary content than any dozen humans have ever consumed in a lifetime, or even a dozen lifetimes each.

Removing the cruft, the chaos, and noise might be valuable, but if you want a generally capable model that can parse a huge spectrum of the human experience, that means taking the bad with the good. It's far more likely than not that the current state of the pile is not ideally curated, even with the intent of keeping the "bad"stuff, but i hope that becomes a consideration for them as they develop it further. There's a nietszchean abyss aspect to these giant models - you don't want them trained significantly on the horrible and evil, but enough of it to foster a nuanced and deep understanding of human nature can't help but be valuable. A naive, ignorant, childlike model is less valuable than one aware of the darker nature of humans at their worst.

Fine tuning on a 4chan dump might be highly effective for identifying trolling. Scraping neonazi and extremist and cult sites and forums could also allow these models to easily identify the content and contexts of such worldviews.

Prompt engineering is in its infancy, but will allow developers to engineer semantically in a way that's explicable through each prompt down to the level of the model.

You could encounter a Twitter user attempting to post an argument, and they encounter a popup that says sobering like: "you're not allowed to post this. Unfortunately, it makes a straw man argument that leads to the impression that it could be reasonable to be biased against a person based on their race. Here is the exact reasoning: because blah, blah, blah. "

If a user challenges it, kick it to a human, and they can recommend improving the prompts by pointing out where it went wrong, or validate the preemptive moderation.

Nothing like that would be possible without training on biased and racist content. That does mean the tool must be used responsibly, in full awareness that you need to be vigilant against bias, intentional or not. I'd rather it be like that than a naive, faux innocent model, unaware and less capable.