skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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If you're arming people that don't support your war, aren't you just provoking mutinies?
You certainly could, but that doesn't entirely account for shading / system degradation / site-specific diffuse light opportunities (consider a huge amount of light reflecting off the side of a mountain at some time of day). Those are both really difficult and time-intensive to model for, so there's a desire to have an AI that can simply learn those things specific to the system it's optimizing without humans having to do it. I see the larger impact of RL as scaling humanity's problem solving capability. If we have to use N human hours per installation to get to 97% optimality per installation but RL can use N/10000000 per installation to get to 95%, we could free up all those N human hours for things that RL still struggles with. Just my 2 cents though, it's a very fair question
Oxygen does not accumulate in the environment in sufficient doses to be toxic. It is plausible that the other chemicals under discussion do, or at least it makes it much more difficult to have dosing discussions when its unclear at what level it accumulates in environment.
So please explain to us how it does work!
It took a while yes. The solder ball BGA issues with GPUs were a typical example. But they're pretty much ironed out now.

The EU is doing the right thing though. Lead is bad for us and cumulative. And RoHS was about a lot more than just solder.
Reading this article feels like I'm stuck at a dinner party repeating, "That's a crazy idea, man" to some techbro and they mistakenly take that as invitation to keep talking.
Vacuum is not a good conductor of heat, unfortunately. Air would be.
Their reader / writer interfaces, basically. It's not exactly equivalent, but for my usecase, it was.
Robinhood Reports 43% Revenue Decline
like their glasses, there's a limited supply and then they're not produced for a while. I think it's taken them around 4 years to do two iterations on their glasses.
But that makes me think, what prevents people from running these calculations on the GPU? Even the memory is shared - the few 100 gflops they get out of the M1 ultra is pocket change in GPU terms.
> By the way, CRTs were glossy. We wiped them with wet towels.

I remember the crackling, if you wiped them, within a few minutes of last being on.

Nowadays, there's lots of folks that think "CRT" is a political hotbutton topic.
> Bitcoin is a pure distillation of what John Maynard Keynes called
finance’s "animal spirits."... the way people feel about it really
matters... they want to talk about the One True Faith.

In the end, a lot of tech is like this. Sure, there are some real
walls to the network-effect gardens, which is why the giants will
fight interoperability tooth and nail, but in the end confidence is
a huge factor. A company as precarious as Meta, or Twitter could die
in matter of months if the cultural wind changes.
Yeah, maybe I'm doing it wrong. Don't try to do everything on it, just use it for when you would want to sketch things out and don't look back. This comment inspired me to plug in my pencil and try it out for that.
This is at the root of a broader problem with the judicial system, which is that it systematically fails to do its job in a timely manner. But that's okay with the actors, because they bill by the hour. That's not exaggeration or hyperbole; I've never seen a class of people do less for more than attorneys and judges, who go out of their way to be pleasant and accommodating to each other, with total disregard for the matters at hand. And so we have even simple matters drag on for months or years.

At the end of the day, "justice" is what we buy with our conformance to society. When nations fight over systems of government, it's really a fight over what justice means. The current system is broken, but it's owned by old, rich, intelligent people who know what power is and how to use it, how to keep it, how to rationalize it. Even the good ones fall, when they see how goodness and self-restraint is rewarded by their peers, lest they lose their power.

I do not think there is a realistic path to reform. The US justice system should be replaced, entirely, with something closer to the German system, which is far less concerned with where evidence comes from, for example, and far more concerned with whether its true. Things happen much faster, and most argumentation is done in writing. Attorneys are forbidden from advertising - which used to be the case in the US, too. But of course they got that changed. It's also remarkable how often a German attorney refers to the law - they treat it as a rulebook as for a board game, whereas in the states the judge, in practice, has absolute power over all participants and is free to ignore the law, or invent new law. (Well, they aren't supposed to be, but the process for holding a judge to account is, if you can imagine it, even worse than the rest of the system. Gee whiz, I wonder how that happened?)
Personally, I don't think that'd be something worthy of calling the cops on the 1st or the 100th time. Nobody's harmed by it.

If you meant you'd call the cops because you were worried about them, not to punish them, that's a bit more reasonable. Then, it's just that it's unfortunate that the cops are the only service that you can feasibly call when you're worried about someone in that way considering how their response would often be inappropriate.
As someone who loves Infinite Jest and does think it's the best novel of our generation, I was pretty much just as enthralled and entertained by the Tim Tebow Chronicles. Honestly, there are also some similarities in the dreamlike alternate-present worldbuilding (the MIT building in IJ would be right at home in TTC). I'd say it's definitely worth a read–it's also much shorter than IJ!
If I were a drone manufacturer of this type of camera drone, I would release free/downloadable audio profiles/captures of my drone operating at different speeds, to allow filtering to remove them based on the flight profile... (Maybe keep a log of propeller speeds, sync'd to the video)
nothing can be said about a "universe" where nothing exists, so why even discuss it?

Why are there stars in the sky?

Nothing could be said about stars in the sky if there were no stars in the sky, so why even discuss it?

etc ad infinitum
I'd love to see this released as usable software. I've wanted to print my own Eugene Goodman statue for a while.
To the original point: "crutches" are not a feature, they are a device. They are not universally useful - the same way that prescription glasses are not. A low refresh display may help some people: it is not helpful in general; some people find featureless text editors less distracting, normalcy greets happily the availability of features and options and hides the GUI with a keyboard shortcut.

To your statement: I do not see how «modern devices», on literal terms, can be the issue: they are *organizers* (meant to optimize your time). If people use them differently, that is not a fault in the device.

To your statement again: focus and attention are skills that individuals develop. If they are underdeveloped, they should if sough be developed. If your point is elsewhere, please make it explicit. I must presume you do not think that it is the responsibility of your sofa to sculpt your abdominals (nor, for that matter, to make you use your sofa wisely).
Not TA but there is an old Unreal Engine mod that brings is essentially C&C Renegade. Called Renegade X (https://www.moddb.com/games/renegade-x)
The binaries you get from GraalVM are bigger than Go's and if you are doing something like hosting a bunch of little services on a cheap VPS, Go definitely is nicer there.
CSP/actors is from the 70s, like most CS. It is sort of the original OO, but that's because OO is a newer version that's both less powerful and over-complicated.

It doesn't need to be distributed, and it's better not to include that because the approach to error handling gets a lot easier. If you're distributed every call can fail, be randomly slow, has marshaling costs, is untrusted, etc.
why do you care about student "coming to class and doing homework" if they can learn the subject and get 100% of the exams without it ?
They are worth it. Nearly every complaint was addressed in the new MacBooks Pros and I feel like its a return to form for the company. The only downsides I can really see is that Wifi on the laptop should have been 6E and the SD Card should have been SD Express but it seems like it was that way due to the length it took being engineered (which isn't an excuse).
https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-i9-12900...

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/14464705

Intel Core i9-12900K - 1991

Apple M1 Ultra - 1554
Organic/medicinal chemist here. Some toxin, endocrine disruptors and many other things have widely variable toxicity curves. Something we often see is U curves. With high toxicity in both small and high doses. The small doses can induce cascade effects (like hormones).
> I really understand when I want to use the phone or the notebook computer. The iPad is sort of in the middle.

I'd never seen it put that way before, but I think it hits the nail right on the head for me. I do like my 2020 iPad Air when I use it, and the pencil is great; however, I basically end up using it as easy scratch paper or when copy-pastable handwriting is useful. Plus when I need an extra screen to go with my laptop.

It definitely has nice features, but doesn't feel like a compelling use-case overall, yet.
Amazon is going to rot from the inside by the MBAs they hired to run the company instead of engineers.
Good, because the last time I used s3 (years ago) IIRC it seemed like public was the default
Apple Expects It Will Lose $700M in the Second Quarter (1996)
This may be the most user unfriendly site I've seen in a long while. On mobile, on first open, I could see literally 0 words that were the body of this text. The banners took up almost the entire viewport. Plus they appear to have a paywall.
Ukraine Becomes a Wake-Up Call in Faraway Japan
I've ordered a new macbook 14" in early March, my delivery date slipped twice already, now it says it's going to be delivered in July. I wonder how much more money would they make if not for supply issues.
PVC is used for most incoming supply lines and mains, also many houses use CPVC pipes for hot and cold water in the house. (CPVC is Chlorinated PVC pipe, it can withstand hot water, it's a light yellow/orange in color compared to PVC which is white, and it's sized like copper pipe wheras PVC is sized like iron pipe.
Because, for example, I'd prefer to travel with a single device and the MacBook is better than the iPad at certain things and vice versa. It's not that big an imposition to take two devices to be sure--and I'm sure Apple doesn't mind the extra sales. And I can mostly sub my phone and maybe a Kindle if I'm trying to go light. But it feels as if there's the potential for a unified device someday there--if it can be without compromises.
Paradise Lost?
It can be fuzzy and arbitrary at the same time.

It's certainly arbitrary that the Gulf of Mexico isn't considered a sea. (or various other "parts of the ocean" referred to as "gulfs" or "bays")

"The main difference between a sea and a lake is that a sea is a part of the ocean."

Ok, so you have decided that the Caspian Sea isn't actually a sea? Well I guess all bets are off if you can do that.... :)
> And I've never heard of one of the big name providers blocking emails from another large provider, with the possible exception of spam heavy domains.

I’ve experienced Microsoft routinely blocking email from smaller domains, even when hosted at a large email provider.

I’ve seen this first hand for small hobby communities and small businesses.
The EU launched two Fediverse servers
It's a joke about burying the lede
Is the "Services" category under Net Sales where they're sticking the app store/B2B service revenue (ads, payments)?
I don't see how this would happen with Datadog. Their agent already has logging capabilities but you have to explicitly enable it
> none is as powerful as challenging the nefarious patents directly

Why don't we see this deployed against competitors? I get why the big boys wouldn't want to rock the boat. But hiring a patent lawyer to go through a competitor's patents and challenge the ones they think could be flimsy sounds like a decent way to, at the very least, distract them.
This is so true. I too love to talk to users via smartsupp from time to time but just last time I was discussing meditation in Himalayas with a user after he asked where I was from.

He was super a cool customer and really helped me improve the product too but you need to have a lot of patience and genuinely love talking to them with a mutual interest in them and then you can interview them to your hearts content. Also don't expect to get any dev done while you're doing this :)
But then aren't you at a disadvantage when you display such a warning and your competitor doesn't? Reminds me of https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
So, your position is that it's OK if it's political revenge against Disney, because they make lots of money?

You realize that is a very slippery slope, right? The first amendment confers free speech as a right regardless of your financial status. If you start to erode that right, and say "if you are 'rich' it's OK if your rights are trampled," then the subjective definition of "rich" will just be adjusted to match the person currently in the crosshairs, until one day, the person in the crosshairs is you.
https://spyra.com/
The trajectory is obvious, and includes iPhone. You don't need three different chips, just different interfaces. One unified computing and storage general purpose computer, available via mobile, audio (Airpods), visual (AR), large UI (Macbook / Mac), health (Watch), etc. They're already unifying under M1 / ARM.
$250 seems like a steep price point.
Yeah and the US here is referred to as EEUU (Estados Unidos, in Spanish plural acronyms get their letters doubled).

It would throw me off a bit at first but I got used to it quickly. Same as with driving on the other side when I moved over from Ireland :)
Try this: https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz
It’s the Billionaires’ Internet, and We’re Just Posting on It
Well that particular NASA code is from the 90’s and in Fortran. Maybe with MPI. That’s probably part of the reason why.
One thing that can make it fun, speaking as a former kid who grew up playing fiddle, is to get to play with other kids and connect with other kids through music. Maybe that's tough with piano, but youth orchestra, band, fiddle circles, all sorts of things offer them the chance to find other people with whom they can make their instrument their own thing, and not just yours. Though there is always a helpful role for parental encouragement in practicing – because damn is that part not fun.
Same issue with the Studio Display.

In most countries the backlog is 1-2 months away.
My only gripe is the lack of USB-A to make it truly dongle free.
So just make sure you're using more than one region?

And they do have a reputation system.
What do you mean a nonfeature?
People who pan individuals in a capitalist society for taking high-paying jobs make no sense to me. You assume people that like to have financial security have what culture about them exactly? Pragmatism? Realism?
Or go open-source: https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz
Doesnt this just suggest they are leaving some performance on the table then? The reason the Intel processors scale non-linearly is because they run each core faster when there are less cores under load.
> I just couldn't believe that even glazed pots contain lead?

In the US, even pottery intended for use with food may contain lead, to this day apparently:

"..there are no U.S. regulations (to my knowledge/correct me if I am wrong!) that specifically regulate the overall content of lead in pottery—even for pottery pieces intended for use with food and beverages."

https://tamararubin.com/topics/does-vintage-and-new-function...
I suggest looking into the examples of the PaLM blog post and the paper. PaLM is extremely impressive.
If you won't even look at the article, why are you here to complain about it?
There's a great talk -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyJZzq0v7Z4 -- Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman -- that goes into this.

It's a discussion of "why" programming languages succeed.
Exactly this. The nursing profession has been accumulating empathetic debt for probably decades. By empathetic debt I mean nurses taking on more work and responsibility beyond personal rational choice because if they fall short then patients suffer.

the truly tragic part of all of this is that as much as we would like to imagine these nurses confidently walking away from a bad situation like some sort of power move.. a lot of them are not. A lot are finally leaving because they are broken and feel broken enough that they dont feel capable of being responsible for patients anymore.

To reiterate- many (most?) nurses that quit still want to help people, but no longer feel capable of helping. That is a level of trauma that can be passed down to the next generation. It might take effort to let the gravity of this reality sink in.

Anecdotally, my mom is a nurse and she has come home and cried due to sheer helplessness to her work problems on more than one occasion. Shes near retirement age and switched careers into this late in life to help people so this is pretty much it for her. If the system does not show mercy and continues to grind her out then she leaves the workforce feeling helpless and broken.

It goes beyond payment. better pay will go a LONG way, and is absolutely necessary.. but it is not enough. There needs to be more redundancy, because 100% utilization of that kind of resource in that kind of system is something that would get you a failing grade in system design.
WhatsApp & Facebook Outage
https://downdetector.com/status/whatsapp/

https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/

Instagram doesn't seem to be affected.

Edit: TIL this exists https://status.fb.com/
Does being attractive really help you in getting hired in engineering positions? I would understand client-facing/sales jobs, but unsure it would help in engineering roles
I believe it is time for Apple to rethink iPad and MacBook. They both have the same chip now.

iPad should be a Macbook Air.

Apple already allows to run iPad applications on macOS. They should completely destroy iPadOS, and let macOS run on iPad. I would prefer to have powerful OS (macOS) with some glitches on iPad, than to have an iPad with limited OS (and still have glitches to be honest). I even ok to use similar to Windows 8 idea, you aren't plugged in to keyboard - it is going to look like an iPadOS (with different app launcher), and when you connect keyboard you can use macOS.

The only reason I am still own iPad (to be honest two of them), is because I cannot disconnect screen from my laptop, even that is not the biggest issue, but because there is no Netflix app, and I cannot download movies to watch in the plane.
From my experience working as a PM with a medical/educational/hardware/software product, I think everyone finds this process is extremely challenging.

First surprising thing I learned is that users don't usually actually have the will to spend any amount of time giving feedback. But they will avoid admitting it. The second discouraging thing is that when you do get them to sit down and talk, you will find that they're really good at subverting and evading any sort of plan you might have had. And then finally, after you have managed to collect information, it can be extremely difficult to interpret the results and come back with clear insightful ideas for changes and improvements in the product.

To me, interviewing and talking to users is something between the role of an anthropologist and journalist. You sort of have to charm them enough for them to open up, but you also have to maintain scepticism about what they tell you. You have to be inquisitive. And on top of that you have to be able to set aside your own interpretations and thoughts so as not to tip the scales. It can be emotionally draining, especially when you have your own convictions.

I work with engineers and they hate talking to users. The process can be very vague and often feels fruitless to them. Engineers can be stubborn and hold on to their worldview because they strongly believe theirs is objective and there should only be right and wrong answers.

I don't know what it's like at a smaller or larger scale. I can imagine some things are easier, and some are harder. A large company may have real resources to spend on finding the answers which can bring more people to the table. A single-person operation might not have those resources but could be sympathetic enough to bring individuals to the table based on sympathy.

However, when you make discoveries and insights, those are things that can make or break your entire product. It's almost like panning for gold or fishing, you spend a lot of time searching and in doubt, and then you come across that one idea that really makes it all work. Anyways those are my thoughts. It's incredibly satisfying and I love it but I hate it.
> Because they’re the top paying tech company it attracts people who work for money and nothing more. That creates…a certain culture.

Are you suggesting that because the pay is high the culture of Amazon is bad ?

Why is working for money a bad thing ? Everyone is selling their time in exchange for money.

The primary reason for Amazon's bad culture is the management, and their insistance on firing 6% of workers each year[1]. This creates a culture where the people who understand this system well will actively sabotage newbies and naive devs to avoid getting canned.

A lucky few with good VPs and directors may have a good experience overall, but at some point the Amazon culture catches up to everyone, except the executives who don't face the same pressures.

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-performance-review-6-...
This is a sentiment and self indulgent bragpost straight out of the Blind app. To others on the outside looking in: while there are corners of Amazon where it's possible to coast, a huge amount of people are grinded to pieces and operate at such a level of anxiety that they feel it's necessary to commit code and manage tickets during nights and weekends to keep pace.
You can make a system with a 12900K, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSR for 1150$ : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/m3QjZw
2012 - I needed money like crazy due to external circumstances, so I worked 75 hours a week (real number) with complete focus. It worked out extremely well, just had to cut back in 2013 to stave off burn out and get my body back to better physical shape.
Fintech and Python
Way back when the iPad first came out, I didn't get it. But I read a lot, got one, and rather liked it. My conclusion was it (especially pre-pencil) was a somewhat luxury and rather optional device that did some things quite well. But was rather unnecessary compared to a MacBook or iPhone (or substitute some generic equivalent). And even non-Max smartphones are much bigger than they used to be.