skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s clear that coherent shared RAM has no chance of working in such a setting

It's not clear to me actually. You can run cache coherence protocols over a network, they'll just be slow. (But not any slower than message passing would be anyway.)
These aren't evenly distributed. I doubt any warehouse or fulfillment people are affected by this. These are people in corporate and technology roles, so it's a bigger number than 1%
No he doesn’t.
What are you asking for exactly? Projects that see use but don't have a cryptocurrency/token behind them? Metamask, Opensea, Ledger, Oncyber..
I mean... only if you're somehow including a mouth along with the butt... and modeling a digestive system as a tube.
> I don't think I will ever need 8K.

I won't need it until I can't buy anything else. 95% of the content I view on my 4K TV is 1080p. At living room distances, it's fine.
> I suspect this ends up being impractical, due to helping the bad actors too much.

Somehow states get by, despite letting criminals know what they did wrong.

Sure, people probing you to see what they can get away with is annoying, but in the long run, it's far more "impractical" to have opaque justice.
What made internet culture change so much after 2014?
Barnes and Noble to expand, marking a new chapter
Are the dots for days and it’s half a moon? That would be ovulation time for a human. I can’t make out what the drawing is.
> things that cannot be observed do not exist.

I cannot observe propositions or truth claims or numbers or...

Besides, what is "natural" and what is "supernatural" according to naturalists? [0]

[0] https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/search?q=naturalism
Ah... I got confused lol
It's runined by professional victims. The bigots would have no voice without their victims' amplification.
What share whiteboard app are you using? Or do your literally mean a shared whiteboard?
Or getting annoyed at people who are constantly trying to think of new woke dogwhistles, trying to find "hate speech" in anything (remember Pepe, the OK sign or donglegate?)
With natural attrition you don't get to pick which teams/people leave.
Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
Given all the streaming services,
cable and sling alternatives being roughly the same price, and just general prices of games/dlcs, Spotify/YouTube premium (the full page ads and frequency of them on YouTube is at a new level without premium).

I just feel like if we’re at peak monetization, I might as well go back to my old teenage ways.
That's an apt way of describing the voter base :). Or the market at scale.

That's the major problem humanity faces. Individuals wielding concentrated power are dangerous, but they're also at least capable of thinking about something other than their immediate short-term interest. The masses, as aggregated through votes or purchasing decisions? They're structurally incapable of it.
The media hates tech because tech ate their lunch first. Any bad news gets immediate coverage, and when they’re out of that they start to make up problems.
Where is this fantasy world where the US has more appropriate medical care than the EU?
It's higher fraction of corporate workforce, though.
I've played both piano and guitar for many years now, and the distinction I'd make is that piano is easier to start out on than guitar, but harder to get good at--in the long run the difficulty of mastery is probably about the same on both, but they have different learning curves.
I view peer review as respecting the time of the journal subscriber. Someone filters out the things that are obviously flawed before wasting everyone else's time.

Journal aren't just a magic upload into scientific consciousness; it takes time and energy to read and process them.
Quantum computer supremacy is useless, not faster at all
There is a point where a derivative work is so transformative that the original copyright no longer matters. In the US you would argue via fair use, where the precedent is "The more transformative the new work, the less will be the significance of other factors, like commercialism, that may weigh against a finding of fair use" [1], and other jurisdictions have equivalent ways to excempt works that are different or transformative enough. So the big question is how transformativ a given model is. And at least for language models I'm not sure we even understand Transformer models enough to give a qualified answer.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_use
We all know the 80/20 rule. You’re looking for those 20%. You need to hire more and more people to find them.
> One of the things I like is when the narrator has to suppress a laugh during a funny passage, or can express a character's anger or frustration.

I doubt there are big issues for an AI to verbally mimic emotion. Placing emotion correctly in a long narration might be tricky if there are no indicators in the text, but I'm sure there will be a convenient self-service authoring tool where the Author/Publisher can adjust the emotion with a slider if he wants to finetune the result...

> Until AI is so good that it can mimic emotion, I think there will be a market for human narrators. Of course it will be smaller than what it is now, but I think people will specialize.

A smaller market means higher cost per-unit, so higher prices per Audiobook.
If the publisher needs to meet a specific price (i.e. to be listed on flat-fee audiobook-portals) he might be forced to produce digital narration as a default, which means the market for an additional "premium human narration" will have to prove itself first.

I doubt that such a bar will be reached in most cases. It's more likely that people complaining about bad narration will put pressure on AI-engines to improve, but not form a market where a critical mass will pay additional 20$ for human narration...
They could, but I guess you get the same response you get from, e.g. the NSA, if you ask for a back-up of your deleted e-mails and text messages...
The only published paper I can find by him is on small animal ventilation, so I don’t think he’s a “foremost expert” on fat metabolism in animals either.
Marketing is a VERY different skill from building, and can take years to master. As someone who has built several side projects that landed in the "didn't make any money" bucket, it's easy to fall for the "build it and they will come" mental trap. I am starting the journey of learning marketing now, but I have a lot of optimism, as I am learning all sorts of things that don't work, and looking forward to trying the things that people say do work.
Slack could open source their code anyway. Slacks competitive advantage is their network of users which is difficult to copy.
It can't possibly work for literally every single one of them, because there are still obese people. "They simply don't do it" is a restatement of the problem rather than a solution, and about as helpful as telling coalminers to learn to code.
This is exactly what helped me get my weight down: Lots of protein (whey / casein powder is pretty cheap nowadays if you search online; the exact formula is irrelevant unless you are doing top-tier bodybuilding; I'd suggest casein since it digests more slowly so it keeps you "full" for a longer time, and for me this seems to work) and lots of dietary fibers (wheat bran; drink a lot of water and eat it piece by piece over time; getting a lump of this stuck in your throat really sucks...)

Other than that your comment seems to contradict itself, I'd fully agree.
That's not the standard SEO way of flagging a canonical URL.
Does it really though? Isn't RISC-V continually adding new complexity as it attempts to scale up from an ISA only useful for microcontrollers to one more competitive beyond that?

The entire extension system seems pretty "CISC-y" does it not?
Above poster is from Slack. That's not the standard SEO way of flagging a canonical URL.
Well the cloud is the new mainframe, hence why "Azure OS" is the new Windows.
This reminds me of a comment from an academic nearing retirement that I heard second-hand. It was something to the effect that applicants for Assistant Professor (or Lecturer) positions have CVs that are as good as or better than what applications for tenure looked like 20-30 years ago.
>everything has a 3-5 year engineering life

This isn’t true for all industries. Some have software systems with engineering life measured in decades
BMW unveils Dee prototype, “the next level of human-machine interaction”
Would you save a week if you just ran it from 2 boxes behind a HAProxy / ELB?

Would it save more if you did not choose microservices, but wrote a monolith (for purposes of deployment) neatly divided into modules (for purposes of architecture and splitting the work)?

I'm not assuming positive answers. But I know that current hardware is absurdly performant, and you can serve a surprising number of real users from a $60/mo instance, plus some database.

(Managing monoliths via k8s is a thing though, and it works reasonably well.)
https://slack.com/blog/news

Not gonna guess why, but if you play with the region in the footer:

English (US): it's listed

English (UK): not listed

English (India): not listed
I find the world of forgeries fascinating because it speaks of the human mind, how our desire to make something real blocks our perception and any kind of critical thinking.

That's most fascinating thing about this whole field. Supposedly smart people who no doubt consider themselves critical thinkers, many of whom have been wildly successful at business, keep getting tricked into spending millions on obvious forgeries.

I watched this documentary on wine forgery and it was the same thing there. People were paying $100+k for bottles that a simple 2 minutes google search would prove fake. Things like vintages from several years before the vineyard was founded, completely incorrect labels for the wine and vintage they where claiming and wines from years when that particular wine wasn't made.

It's clear that for most people the actual authenticity of the items in their collection means absolutely nothing to them. All that matters is that it's convincing enough that they can fool their peers (and themselves). As long as you never let an expert verify your collection, everything in it is in fact authentic. And once the scam was uncovered their anger wasn't so much directed at the people who scammed them but at the experts butting in a ruining everything.
I was so surprised after learning all this (outside of chruch of course). That there are multiple authors, the compilations came later, and how it was translated multiple times later, and what version I had at home. Talk about the One Book!
That's not it if you discriminate between linear and circular polarization. You can use a phase inversion mirror to do it.
That's the point of the experiment.
Stealthily introducing malware to your repositories (and distributing it on npm) is A-OK, absolutely no action taken when it happened last year with node-ipc, so I'm really curious to see what the rationale was in this case, for it doesn't get much worse than that. Some more fraudulent accusations of code theft? I don't buy it from the Copilot company, and the mods/racism allegations couldn't possibly be it, it'd make GH look irresponsible and definitely not a trustworthy place to host any project on.
But DVD is not 1080p?
For those wondering why - hands and feet are typically the bits that are usually rendered wrong. You can get a lovely face, body, spaceship, etc - but the odds of getting six+ fingers or toes is very high with most models. Common to point that out to the AI, at this stage in the game.
Are you sure your pancreas is going to live long and prosper under constant stress of incretin mimics pushing it to release more insulin?
Over the holiday, no one in my family has even heard of the Twitter Files. While its often said the main stream media has lost its relevance, the talking points at home were all on stories featured by the main stream: J6, George Santos, The Weather, etc. I asked about the Twitter Files. No one knew about it.
You don't have to read every story on HN. Maybe in future you could avoid any obviously unserious ones. The word "buttocks" in the title is a good hint of what to expect.
> Even if my thing never takes off, it's a tool I've wanted for a long time, so I'm motivated to keep going even if it never makes a penny.

This is what motivates me! Humorously, I keep getting pulled back to building the features I want instead of actually getting the thing in front of people :)
I worked in a computer store while attending college during this time. We were the only "Computer store" in town, but the local BigBox "furniture store" also sold computers too. None of the staff there knew anything about computers.
We would often have people come into our shop asking questions and then going to the BigChain to buy the PC's.

Well, one day a couple came into the store carrying the flyer for the other place. The couple then asked several questions about the computers, "What does this mean, What does that do, Is this part important... etc" I tried several times during the discussion to steer them towards the products that we sold. It was obvious that they were only using my time to educate themselves so they could 'smartly shop' at the other location. So we get to the part of the listing where the choice was DX vs DX2 (33Mhz vs 66MHz IIRC).

Them: "What does the 2 mean?"

Me: "That's needed if you want to use two floppy drives, both a 5.25" and a 3.5" or just one."

fun times..... =)

*Edit/Note: the 2 in DX2 means that it was clock-doubled. I lied to the customer because they were wasting my time.
Oh good, maybe someone will finally fix their many annoying bugs
Limitations of Large Language Models
How many other animals will bring you shiny gifts if you bond with them?
What does Mattermost offer which Slack doesn't?
I have befriended a bluejay. Corvids are interesting and very unlike mammals which everyone is already familiar with.
Plus, almost every other use of that field is a word, not a letter. The other poster's innocent abbreviation excuse doesn't pass muster.
The change started well before 2014 but social media mostly.
This is just intellectually lazy, reheated New Age blather. Serious people engage intellectually (which means humbly) with the subject matter, beginning with rigorous training in philosophy. This isn't just something about which a nerd who has watched some schlock on PBS or a read a NYT bestseller can have something legitimate or valuable to say.
For those that have been living outside Windows, MS has been hot on COM since OLE 2.0 days.

Not only are many .NET bindings for Win32, largely based on top of COM, WinDev has doubled down on COM since they rebooted Longhorn ideas into Windows Vista, and WinRT is nothing more than COM with another set of additional interfaces (TL;DR version, it is a bit more actually).
Apotris
Thanks! Was honestly curious to hear from someone who probably spends more time in the space.

I've only been exposed to it on ad hoc projects, but I've heard customers say they limit the amount of what they stream into their warehouses for (reasons).

I wouldn't be surprised if their pricing model hits it, even obliquely. They've built a nice "Salesworld" toll-bridged garden. Everything sales needs must be transferred in. Everything sales has that everyone else needs must be transferred out. :/
Music is dopamine and serotonin. Loop through music with kids till they get that hit. Dance, enjoy.

Then see how to create a variant of it.

Fricking scales and theory. Totally the wrong way to grab peoples attention.
Couldn’t you calculate efficiency by measuring the energy usage and visible light output, just like a light bulb? A (hypothetical) 100% efficient TV would use the exact amount of energy as it outputs as visible light (and therefore emit no waste heat).

Yes, a TV that is bigger and/or brighter would still use more energy, but there are reasonable limits on the practical visible light output of home TVs anyway.

And yes, it would also depend on the brightness and other characteristics of the specific video content. A video with less visible light output is obvious not inherently “less entertaining” than a video with more visible light output. But benchmarks could use some reasonable large “corpus” of video content.
The second Eternal September, directly related to the rise of social media, which I think was ultimately fueled by the mass adoption of smartphones.

Before, the Internet was mostly inhabited by people who wanted to do something specific, and were at least minimally invested - they had to actively use a computer to access things on-line. Nowadays, the Internet is inhabited mostly by people ready to judge you while sitting on a bus, because their phone buzzed them a notification that their friend retweeted a story about some stranger being outraged that some other stranger retweeted a link to your SE question.
And for the others to seriously consider the proof. What good is asking for proof if you then remain either oblivious to it or consistently refuse to engage with it?
ActiveState provided Tcl, Perl and Python versions actually.
Agreed. I bought an old Kindle for traveling because I could use its TTS to listen to ebooks. Now that's a common feature of most reader apps, yet at the time it was rare and even newer Kindles had dropped TTS.
The Catholic Church declaring that a collection of fictional stories are the word of god and 1.345 billion people believing that does not make the collection of stories not fictional. You're appealing to authority and the populace.
Ah, Aliexpress has a tendency to randomly select a language, there should be a language dropdown in the top right (or top left if it has decided on arabic)
No, because then you'd either have to teleport the player to a slightly different position in the exit portal, or you'd end up behind the exit portal. If you're behind the exit portal, you'll be able to see stuff you aren't meant to.
I wonder if those "obvious" mistakes aren't intentional, like the spelling errors in spam mails...
Thanks for finding this out
In a way, Android is Google's J++, with the difference that they got away with it.
Influencers outshine traditional media on coverage of FTX implosion
There are a lot of reasons the iPhone succeeded but judging by how much I use mine as a phone, as opposed to everything else I do on it, I don't think it's the phone part of the iPhone that made it successful. Apple was able to convince ordinary consumers they needed a tiny computer with them all the time, creating a new market. Same for AR. Current AR glasses don't have the pull for consumers yet but as soon as that killer app comes out we'll see how the market evolves and changes.
People in other threads are saying it’s because he helped make a mod for a game where you can make all the characters white. Which is apparently enraging.

But like, it’s racist if I want to modify a single player game to make the players white? And even if it is I wish people would just butt out. Seems like a bunch of busybodies policing behavior. It’s just gotten crazy and is really dumb at this point. Are we going to have to have a “free speech GitHub” run by Elon Musk too? How did the internet turn into such a snooze fest where every edgelord has to be sanded down to be safe and snuggly so nobody gets hurt?

I remember my wife got banned from the Sims mod community for asking if there was a mod that’d let her simulate Craster’s Keep from Game of Thrones. She likes telling bizarre stories through electronic media. If she wanted to tell that story in Rimworld (which like, I don’t play Rimworld so just guessing) she’d need a mod to make the skin tones match up. Uh oh is that racist now?
Idk if 30 seconds is quick enough. That might be long enough for the bear to decide you make a better tasty snack than potential BFF.
A simple problem that isn't
How do you explain successful companies whose source code is not only on GitHub, but publicly visible? (E.g. Cockroach)
Precisely. Conduits basically do everything on demand.

For parallel processing the backpressure becomes a bit more complicated, in particular if you end with a sequential consumer. If you're just doing your parallel tasks when a sequential consumer demands it, you'll find yourself still doing one task at a time. The straightforward solution is to work ahead a bit, spawning just enough parallel work to fill a small buffer that the consumer can read from. You get backpressure this way, but may have done a little bit too much if the consumer doesn't want the rest of the data. We'll show this in the third blog post of the series.
The style of the first 11 chapters of Genesis is very different than the remainder of the book. For instance, Genesis 3 is not meant to be historical prose like chapter 12 and following. Projecting my 21st century world view on an ancient text describing deep mysteries about creation and the fall of man is pure arrogance. For instance, the author of Genesis 3 doesn't expect the reader to think the serpent was merely a biological snake. This is a condensed poem that conveys truth in a much deeper way.
So happy to hear Apple putting African American voices front and center for this initiative. Along with Google’s push to make camera lenses / computational photography more accurate for darker skin (and Apple following suit) this feels like a real step forward for inclusion.
On the paper front, I have a number of published scientific papers with citations. My 3 most important papers—that will go down as turning points in the history of computer science—have a combined 0 citations, and 2 of them not only were not in a journal, but they were even flagged and removed from arxiv.

On the patent front, well patents are for parasites.
Say I'm building a logging library, is there any sort of generally agreed-upon standard per what a log file should look like?
I know there's several formats that lnav supports, but I'm not familiar with them.

I've always had trouble before figuring out what a good compromise between log format and flexibility looks like. Especially wrt newlines in the log message itself (eg if I want to log a stack trace)

Any thoughts for a format that would generally work ootb in lnav or other log viewers?
Twitter said it fixed ‘verification.’ So I impersonated a senator (again)
It doesn't. B is guaranteed to be !A and A is guaranteed to be !B. Changing either breaks the entaglement.

Also because in order to see what state is particle we need to interact with it, measuring its quantum state also breaks the entaglement.
Amine Mouafik, the maintainer of Ferdi, has passed away
Eh, I would say he puts a lot of effort intro creating image of benevolent nerd philantropist. Point in case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hnZJIRd6Qw There must have been a team of people dedicated to carefully crafting this video, creating props, there's even a dozen or so actors there (each in the background for just a few seconds). It looks like someone put a lot of effort into this and it surely consumed thousands of dollars (my uneducated guess is somewhere in 10-100k$ range). To what end other than working on his personal brand?

Speaking of malaria, after googling for 3 minutes it seems he spent around 2B$ on it. Does it really matter? Yes and no. Maybe it had impact on people's lives, but given Gates' net value is 100B$+, giving away a billion or two does not matter. It will not affect his quality of life in any significant way. He could give away a few dozen billions more and still will spend rest of his life living in luxury that I could only dream off. Sure, better to fight malaria than buy another yacht, but still, it's easy decision to make when you have that much money.
So why can't you and a thousand of your closest friends get together and organise private health insurance for you as a collective? Then you get the size leverage. You would also be able to pay off the risks that one person might face, because although some of you will have high health care demands, chances are some of you won't. Isn't that how it's supposed to work? By competition, arbitrarge, etc?