skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This other discussion on the front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32982513) remembered me of this video introducing Solomonoff Induction as an answer to the the philosophical question of "what is an explanation?" and and a precise break down of Occam's razor from a point of information/complexity theory and data compression.
> Yeah but it’s not node, wasm, sass, typescript, react bootstrap, rails, flask, ecma, flash enabled, spa web 3.0 with social media and crypto integration so it’s pretty much outdated and useless….

Ah yes, the oh-look-a-shiny-thing development paradigm.
This is what's great about being a CEO!

Things go bad? Ship is too big to steer, the failure is on the whole company, the CEO didn't even know, they swear!

Things go right? Obviously it was all the hard work of the CEO they definitely deserve millions in bonuses!

It was Steve Jobs, so was the wage-fixing. They were all so stupid about it they literally got busted doing it.

Doesn't matter what the company makes, only the C-Suite will reap the rewards.

But hey, maybe some $ will trickle down to the people who make the money for the company...
Implying that Lem was a Soviet writer feels just wrong.
> in the USA

While it might be something you are now realizing, the US is not a single entity in many ways. Rather, it's some 50 states that form a country. Each state has it's own laws and ways of doing things. While there are many similar ways of doing things, none are exactly the same. On top of that, even within the state you'll have different school systems with different policies.

And we aren't even going to discuss going to American schools in Europe.
Why did you post this question? It will certainly have a short lifetime.

If a person knew their comment would definitely never be seen, it's probable most people wouldn't write them. But on most sites, people are notified about new comments, and even here, it's possible to look at your own comment history and see replies long after the fact.

People post comments because they have questions and hope for answers--as you did with this post--or because they have comments and hope someone reads them and finds value in them. Same as any other form of communication.
I did read that the silicon that can take higher voltages is worse in lower power (i.e. lower voltage) situations.
There's no "opposition" because your entire argument is predicated on a straw man that you have invented in your own mind.
Cool. Sorry but what is TT? (TikTok?)

I'm sure I will have way too many questions, sorry but ...

What's the speed like? Is it always reliable? Do you share among other ships in your vicinity? Can you use a regular browser like chrome, and is there any noticeable slowness or other effects compared to browsing "on shore" (if that's the right word)? Do you find yourself having to make "bandwidth choices" (whatever that is)? What do you think could be improved? Do you connect over like a wifi hub on the ship? Does anyone use any "offline" content, like saving a bunch of pages locally to read later? Do you mostly stay in apps rather than browser? Do apps generally seem to perform better? Do some pages or things just totally fail (you mentioned YT for one)?

Sorry, it's totally ok if you couldn't be bothered to answer, I'm just super curious.
Iron Carnival's Bots
BOTS: Mischievous Pixel Avatars. Unique. Collectible. Iron Carnival is an avatar project, an ever-growing collection of pixel Bots, each one of them up to no good.
A funny (to me) parody of Utilitarian thinking is in this comic strip:

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/420
Even if we take what you say at face value, you've already done too many things that err much more on the side of money than on the side of doing the right thing.

But honestly, any casual consideration of Occam's razor with relation to your company's actions would be much more simply understood if we consider that Cloudflare wants to be a monopoly.

Is Cloudflare ever going to stop trying to centralize more and more of the Internet? Please - go ahead and tell me about how, at some point, because you care so much about being trusted, you'll say, "You know what? We're getting too big. Let's pump the brakes on that and help out some other companies so the Internet's resilience won't be harmed."

Could that ever happen? Would that ever happen? Or will you just keep finding excuses and telling lies about how what you're doing for the world is for "everyone's own good"?
>In an effort to determine how a lack of gravity effects eye movements, NASA conducted a series of experiments on the International Space Station in the mid 2000s. The results of aren’t useful to earthbound people (Spoiler: gravity affects eye-movements), but the eye-tracking technology developed for the experiments makes LASIK vision correction surgery possible.

In the mid 2000's LASIK was already widely used since years, AFAICR.
"So you agree" did indeed enrage me. I'll give him credit for that.
Offtopic: Stratechery has a podcast at [1] including the translated interview with Nvidia CEO [2]. The weird thing from the marketing/conversion perspective is that the interview translation says "To listen to this interview as a podcast, click the link at the top of this email to add Stratechery to your podcast player." instead of having a direct link in the web page.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/show/1jRACH7L8EQCYKc5uW7aPk

[2] https://stratechery.com/2022/an-interview-with-nvidia-ceo-je...
> unlike with Intel processors, there should be no worry of slowing down the clock for the whole processor when using these instructions with larger vectors

because they don't implement "true" 512bit registers for AVX-512. This is basically to support instruction set rather than SIMD performance boost.
> For all practical purposes, under a suitable all-core load, the 7950X will be running at 95C Tj.Max all the time. If you throw a bigger cooler on it, it will boost to higher clock speeds to get right back to Tj.Max. Because of this, the performance of the chip is dependent on the cooling. And it is basically impossible to hit the 230W power limit at stock without direct die or sub-ambient.

> If 95C sounds scary, wait to you see the voltages involved. AMD advertises 5.7 GHz. In reality, a slightly higher value of 5.75 GHz seems to be the norm - often across half the cores simultaneously. So it's not just a single core load. The Fmax is 5.85 GHz, but I have never personally seen it go above 5.75.

5.75 GHz is reached with 1.5 V Vcore.

The +50 MHz bump over advertised boost clocks was also present in Zen 3, likely in response to the poor reception of Zen 2 behavior, which would usually fail to achieve the advertised clocks.
Why do people speak to each other at dinner? Not a rhetorical question...

I like to read comments just to see another perspective. I write comments to give my thoughts. Sometimes writing them down makes you recheck your own opinions and you think more about a topic.

Of course sometimes I also write comments because I am angry at the internet and the internet has to know.
Nice!

I created something similar, feel free to steal my UI ;)

https://github.com/whyboris/JSON-i18n-Editor
Hi. Could you add a section that explains what this is about? The linked repo does not explain what the objective of the game is supposed to be.

I understand that the game is related to "the dining cryptographers", but I haven't memorized that piece. I read it once? I can probably find it on Wikipedia?

I recommend making your game a self-contained work that does not rely on at least one of the players remembering some details about a very specific thought experiment.
This is only if you discount his early works such as The Magellanic Cloud, where he is a world communism adept wearing rose-coloured glasses, through which many of his readers, including ones in core Soviet Union, would perceive reality and future prospects.

Eastern European writers did contribute a sizeable bookshelf of writings about bright space communist future, until it began to turn sour. One lesser-known one who I remember from my childhood is Pavel Vezhinov's Death of Ajax.

UPD: Maybe we should use Eastern Bloc Science Fiction as a term?
> What would be the purpose? If you want to purposefully limit power you're forcing the chip to underperform

The rationale is that each architecture has a sweet spot consumption/performance, and increasing performance over a certain threshold has increasing costs (AFAIK, one significant factor is the increase of voltage in order to push frequencies higher).

I don't know the numbers, but AMD has been offering the 65W threshold for a while, so it can be reasonably assumed that 65W is the sweet spot performance/consumption.

The reason for not buying directly a cheaper model is the number of cores - one may choose, say, a 65W-throttled CPU with 16 cores over an unthrottled 8-cores (in some scenarios, this can make sense).
For the purposes of attracting capital, that consistent history hurts them, no? Investors want higher rates, not lower, in this case.
Guy is using AI to make a movie – and you can help decide what happens next
> This can also be described as "living in a civilization with abundant energy", and it's an admirable state of affairs

I think this is the American mindset that I've noticed the most - a historical abundance of energy means future energy supply should be guaranteed. Big cars, A/C, central heating - all are inefficient uses of energy.

Your body naturally produces heat, all day. Wearing insulating material, like wool, makes use of that heat. Burning fuel to replace its loss does not.
Have you seen any SaaS or consumer products that focus on "how to learn?" and "digesting information" aspect?. I'm legit asking because my team is working on that exact idea with mental models and AI.

If you are curious, we'd appreciate candid feedback from you. Just launched pre-beta on Product Hunt today.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/neble

Thanks
So, maybe only take prepay for orders outside your 'backyard'?

But yeah for areas that are "old fashioned", what B2B has of experience they lack in getting on with the times.
> I don't know enough history

Clearly.
You will find this again and again in the business world, and you can use it to your advantage.

If you're arguing for a course of action, answer the objections well and then drop it. Often the person arguing against you (especially if they're "the boss") will come back a few days later and present it as basically their idea.

People get emotionally tied to what they came up with, and it can take a few nights to disconnect enough to move on (even if they never admit they were "wrong").
Ukraine warns allies of Russian plans to escalate cyberattacks
If your phone can scan qr codes you can use esim its pretty easy at least in my experience. I unlocked my phone when i was traveling to Kenya grabbed an esim for a couple cents when i landed and was set up in seconds.
What are you talking about? E.g Anandtech and GamersNexus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRaJXZMOMPU) are hardly examples of being "overwhelmingly positive" towards anyone.
Hate to say it, but I used to use their tools, but since moving to little snitch (and micro snitch), I don't really have a need for them.

Some of the tools are still useful to have installed though.
perhaps you're being a bit pedantic here? You are well aware that one can iterate on the "take a picture of anything, every time you make a blog post!" theme, you don't need to compel me to spend my time telling you that. There's surely more productive ways to spend one's time.
Ask HN: Name for and list of websites doing one thing (well)
Is there a specific name for website that very efficiently do one thing well (and have a pithy domain name)?

Like listing hard-to-remember code syntax: http://fuckingblocksyntax.com/

Or answering the question how many people are in space right now: https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/

One-shot website‽

Also, is there a list of websites similar to the ones mentioned? Someone probably already started a "awesome-oneshot-sites" GitHub repo, and I just keep not finding it, because I'm missing the right name.
Any particular reason he points to Zig as a template for supporting/monetizing OSS? Was that just an example? There is the Rust Foundation and many others, no? Just curious if Zig was a pioneer in this or if this was just one example of many he could have given.
Because learning quantum mechanics isn't about learning quantum mechanics, it's about learning a bunch of maths to learn quantum mechanics.

It doesn't matter how much of the wiki page you remember, without understanding a few key pieces you're wasting your time.
It's fun to participate in discussions, although I rarely argue opinions, because what's the point? I appreciate all of the commentary on forums because, personally, I read lots of it. Especially when I'm trying to gather information on a product or similar.
People are so strange. They don't see the waste and friction due to these reflexes :)

But about the 'drop' aspect, I think there's a reflex for other to argue someone to infinity if it become a belief confrontation, a kind of domination to impose their view. But if the other party drops the fight, it kills that aspect and the other person can accept the idea for its core value.
> Most comments will not be read by anyone (or read by only a few)

That is a non-trivial distinction. It's the difference between talking to one person (or a few people) and talking to yourself.

> HN doesn't notify you of replies to your comments

No, but hn-replies does (http://hnreplies.com/)

> most social media, forums, HN posts, etc. have a short life time

So does the information exchanged in a face-to-face conversation. But face-to-face conversations have value. Comment exchanges are the 21st-century version of a casual conversation.
It's not bad, but you're limiting yourself "out the gate" so to speak. If you really want to explore memory and learning you must study and practice (self-)hypnosis. Most of what we think we know about how the brain and mind work is wrong. E.g. memory: "our working memory has a maximum capacity of roughly 4" is not an absolute rule. Your brain, right now as you read this, is tracking 100,000's of variables and recording a trace of everything you are seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and doing. Almost all of this is done unconsciously, and for good reason.

Anyhow, you can learn to have better "interfaces" to your automatic unconscious abilities and leverage them to e.g. remember instantly and durably any mathematical equation, etc.

- - - -

As an aside, the strategy you sketched out at the start of your article would be workable if you have great recall, however an even more better strategy would be to recapitulate the discoveries of physics in roughly historical order. Your understanding of quantum mechanics would be much deeper and richer, and you would be following a story (an epic story made up of so many fascinating smaller stories, and one that is still going on! Albeit things have calmed down this last century or so, but no one thinks we have reached the climax yet.)

That would be the way to do it: start with the Greeks and the Alchemists and proceed to follow the trail(s) of how we as a species sussed out the mysteries of the physical Universe.
So the bigger news here imo is what's happening in the bond market. It's now expected that the BoE will increase rates above 6% by the middle of next year.

Most people in the UK are on fixed rate mortgages, most of which are 2-3 year fixes. Those who brought a home during the pandemic or fixed at a low rate typically fixed at around 1-2%. I personally fixed for 2 years at a rate of 1.7% just over a year a go when I moved house. Next year I'm likely going to need to fix at 7%. This will take my monthly payments from around £1300 to around £2600. I budgeted very conservatively when taking out my mortgage (at least I thought I did) stress testing my current finances to a rate of 5% - which was actually above my lenders standard variable rate at the time. Obviously with energy bills and the cost of living crisis my previous assumptions were already wonky, but rates going up this fast was something I would have never of predicted. I believe this is actually the fastest rise in rates ever. I don't have time to save to pay down my mortgage loan so I guess now I'm screwed lol.

I'm reading online that I was stupid for buying a house in a bubble and that rates need to go up and house prices need to fall. I do understand this is my fault, but it sucks because I've also let my family down big time by deciding to buy a house. I'm not sure of the exact numbers, but I believe around 500,000 people are in a similar position to me.
Why do you say shuffle is “SIMD’s killer app”? I’ve only dabbled in vector instructions from a learning perspective, and seen others mention it’s important too, but have yet to understand why.
Last time I came up with a company name (and slogan) they paid me $5000. In no way I'm coming up with a name for your commercial company for free.
Heise Online has released their review (alas, behind a paywall) and it starts very positive. I'm pretty sure they are the most trusted reviewers in the german language.
There's an old saying in Asian cultures about learning.

- You do not truly understand until you "forget" what you've learned.

I know, it's weird and opposite of what Feynman Said. But it makes sense.
> Maybe it's just because I'm getting old, but this whole "Don't build it yourself, buy it. Focus on your own business, and whenever you need something extra, use a Saas" seems to me like an anti-pattern. I cannot back it up, it's a gut feeling.

Nope, its legit: Majority of startups don't have the resources building themselves. They can, but every dollar spent on that and not the product ends up being a risk.\

The objective of a startup is to get to a stable and strong position as fast as possible. And this can only happen with its product/business. The 'great infra' that it may have behind is totally transparent and, honestly, irrelevant as far as the end users and customers are concerned. We, as technical people, love to think that if the infra or the software breaks, it will affect the business too. But it will rarely break, with any competent people handling it behind the scenes. Be it in-house, be it SaaS.

Its MUCH better to get to a point where the product/business is actually making money and the company has the funds and deal with everything later. Because without a viable business, it won't matter how great your infra or software stack is.
Interesting but is delaying negative reviews works? It seems that GN posts review with temperature criticism today (see also thumbnail). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRaJXZMOMPU
Ask HN: LaTeX is great. Has anyone tried to build something better?
Basically the title. As a PhD student I am both astounded at the ease of using LaTeX and constantly annoyed at many of its idiosyncrasies. If I mistype something there is a close to 0 percent chance of the complier pointing me into the right direction. Thus the question, has anyone ever made a serious attempt at displacing LaTeX?
Gamers nexus kind of does that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRaJXZMOMPU&t=704s

Basically how many watts required to do some fix unit of work (to render 1 frame using Blender CPU rendering)
Sometimes I write comments just to "get it out of my system". If the topic is something I wanted to work out in my mind anyway, it's a low-effort way to do that.

Sometimes I comment because happen to know a lot about the topic or can add something useful or insightful that isn't common knowledge, but that is not that often.

Some people are chasing "internet points." I see the allure and understand why it works.

Over the years, I've gotten more selective about commenting. I've mostly grown out of commenting just because "someone is wrong on the internet" and I will usually skip commenting if the thread is old and no one will see my comment anyway.

I'll never comment on popular FB/Instagram/etc posts where the comments are read-only trash and there's no chance of being heard.
I tried to work around that by trying different RAM sticks. 2 initial + 2 new, both sides, swapping, using only one, etc.

I guess next step would be Memtest! Thanks for the reminder.
You're lucky to have avoided encounters with the more advanced tribalists then. Most of the more engaged members of these groups will already have a prepared retort that insinuates that anyone not an active member of $THEIR_TRIBE is by necessity part of $OTHER_TRIBE.
I get a warm feeling when the number beside my comment goes up.
> learning how to learn

This is taught, at least at German schools. It‘s just that nobody pays attention.

> learning what matters in the world (and therein how to be happy)

This is way too subjective to be part of a curriculum. Trying would border on indoctrination.
"Commute or leave", eh? Guess we'll see how people's fondness for status and money compares to their fondness for comfort flexibility and reduced environmental and cultural impact. And all these old-style companies should just give up on green initiatives unless they just mean USD.
How many people died in the Portland firebombings? How much property was destroyed? Are we talking Dresden or Kobe levels? Because when you say 'firebombing nightly for months', that's what I think of.
You got a sim and you put it in any phone you wanted. Now every time you switch a phone, you have to contact your carrier and possibly even get charged for the change.

If you travel a lot, you just buy a prepaid sim card in whatever country you're in, and put it in a phone, then leave the country, take the sim out and use another sim in that country. Some new phones (notably the new iphone, us version) don't even have a sim card slot anymore.
You seem to be strangely emotionally invested in this issue. Did you witness these events yourself?
What are "feminist modalities"? I have never heard this term and I can't piece together what it might mean. I googled it, but it seems to only reference some single book.
> Derivative of sin(x) is cos(x). Many people probably think this works for degrees, but it's actually some abomination like pi cos(pi x/180)/180.

That's what it would be if you are using sin in degrees and cos in radians. But if you are using degrees for both then the derivative of sin(x) is pi/180 cos(x).
There's millions of companies out there creating software all the time. Of those, tens of thousands don't need that software to be closed-source, due to their business model. But open sourcing software is a huge hurdle: cleaning up code, finding a brand that doesn't violate a trademark, making sure the software doesn't violate any software patents, choosing the right license, finding a way to interact with a community (if at all), etc. It's expensive and time-consuming and dangerous.

We need to make it dead simple for companies to open source their code. And we need to popularize the hires that happened because of a company's open source, or their outreach in the FOSS community. An organization dedicated to this work could have a huge impact.