skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I periodically hit pages where I can't tell what a vendor's product does. Or I already know what it does, but it's so full of buzzwords, trademarked terminology, and bafflegab I'm lost. VMWare's web site was a good example of that, last I bothered to look at it.

If a product is promoted as a "solution", that normally indicates it's over-priced, under-featured and not worth looking at further.

There are still a few companies out there so proud of their products they not only don't want to post the price of their products, they want us to pay a consultation fee so they can "craft" a "solution" for us. Uh, no. We're not a Fortune 100 company or a state agency; if you won't tell us at least a ballpark price up front, you're simply wasting our time.

Final fail: companies that only give you a bare outline of what their product does, but fail to tell you important details. You're supposed to leave voicemail for one of their salesmen, who will call you at his convenience to give you the hard sell. No. I'm the guy with the purchase authorization; you dance to my tune.
How and Why to Upgrade the Ruby Version in Your Project
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Cory Doctorow called this with the formal notion well-described in this essay: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
https://archive.ph/tQeR9
Out of curiosity, do you have a script which does this, or do you do it manually?
This is called a latch or countdown latch in the languages I use most often.
Not really. Depends entirely on how general-purpose (abstract) the learned concept is.

For example, detecting the possible presence of a cavity inside an object X, and whether that cavity is large enough to hide another object Y. Learning generic geospatial properties like that can greatly improve a whole swath of downstream prediction tasks (i.e., in a transfer learning sense).
So I totally understand that. But does that rise to the level of “I’m a better person than you”?

I guess I haven’t heard it put that way.
Why not?

Zendesk alone is over 1k. You can use a fake help desk software for half, but is it worth screwing with the bugs?

My CPU load is something like 200 CPUs 24/7, and needs to be fault tolerant on top of that. Also needs to run without a sysadmin on my side.
Ask HN: Which product are you developing?
Dear all Indie Dev. Together, we can make a difference. If you can, please share the product you are working on right now. It will help both of us grow together.
also engineers doing an interview will tend to fixate on a number to an annoying degree
Not true -- I currently access the API to obtain an aggregated feed in exchange for my feeding ADSB-X with my receivers (1090 and 978 MHz). You have to ask for access and it's poorly documented but it works and feeds my own local tracking site running 24.7.
> But if the goal is some sort of performance improvement (specially in endurance sports - cycling, running, etc.)

It probably isn't, for most non-athletes and people who don't have a sport hobby.

> yes, intervals are definitely useful to push the body further, but only after a buttload of cardio

I definitely won't be doing "a buttload of cardio", so we're back to square one - what is a good 80:20 heuristics that balances time investment, discomfort and results.
A bit, I'll admit I haven't audited it as much as I should -- are you aware of anything in particular?

I install it through the Fedora repositories and only use the bundled extensions, so I don't worry too much about it
I saw someone claim it’s about $0.01 per query.
Meh, I obviously can't say anything definitively without hard proofs, but to me it feels similar to how P != NP is assumed to be true.

As in, one can dream, but don't get your hopes up that we will even ever find out if the boring answer turns out to be true.

From a distance, this type of "biological" computing just looks "very massively parallel" to me.
presumably the data scientists at OpenAI would also not be able to directly lead to higher availability of ChatGPT; it's just an order of magnitude comparison.
The article does not really explain what it means for it to be "cheaper" to rent than to buy here. Do they mean mortgage payment + taxes is higher than rent? Or do they mean that mortgage payment + taxes - equity is higher than rent?

It seems like accurately assessing the true cost of owning a home is complicated, to say the least, and it might not be terribly easy to compare it to rental costs across the whole country like this...
If you properly sanction China it would be very difficult for them to make anything 28nm+. A lot of stuffs have to be imported from foreign countries so if US can convince JP/SK/EU to join the sanction it would be tough time for China.

Making hypersonic missiles or any military equipment is a different story as:

- You don't have to care about quality. You can make 100 chips, fail 90 and still have 10 to use, which is OK for military but would be a disaster for civilian;

- Worst case you can use espionage or diplomatic channels to find a small number of chips. You can't do that with mass market products.
A lot of companies seem deeply invested in corporate offices and office complexes. It helps them with expense write-offs, depreciation etc. If you suddenly stop using those facilities, it's a dead asset.

In some countries, running employee services like the cafeteria, transport, taxis, facilities management, security etc are usually hived off to family members of the promoter, allowing for invoicing at inflated rates to reduce tax outflow of the main business. If the offices didn't run many found it difficult to hide actual incomes.
I think that setting out to build something using “first principles of interaction design” on top of existing open source software that was not created using those principles is only ever going to be an exercise in futility.
Reddit is letting go of employees in community management and other teams
There are a couple of sample zooms at the very end of the page comparing an X1 (6300dpi) to the best the author could get on a consumer scanner (unspecified dpi, but fuzzy). The range given is 6300dpi-8000dpi for the scanners the author's talking about.
I was looking for someone to mention VueScan. Wasn't it built for exactly this issue with scanners?
Your are sensitive to plants from the nightshade family and you take ashwagandha? Either your ashwagandha doesn't contains active substances or you are not really sensitive to plants from the nightshade family.
Having a dualopoly in the smartphone space is not helpful or healthy
Archived: https://archive.is/9cqDm
You're looking at it backwards
I'll pay exactly what the market will bear, or I'll risk going out of business. My sales is irrelevant to the question of how much I need to pay workers. It's the same reason why iPhone costs $200 to build and sold for $1000. Because the market is willing to bear that price, everything considered.
Kind of off topic, but you should always have line mangers on their teams on-call rotation.
Obviously, your intuition differs, but my view (as a New Zealander) is that Trump absolutely broke the terms of use of the platforms he was on and deserved being banned. Free speech means that you can't be imprisoned for your political views, not that everyone owes you a platform.
People compare renting an apartment to buying a house. That’s apples to oranges. Renting an apt can definitely help to build wealth as compared to sinking expenses into a house. Buying an apartment would be a fair comparison.
Philips Hue is primarily farmed out to Signify, a company in the Netherlands. I'm unsure of the specific nature of the arrangement, though.

"The lamps are currently created and manufactured by Signify N.V., formerly the Philips Lighting division of Royal Philips N.V"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_Hue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signify_N.V.
Actually, Japan has changed a lot
Is there anything as good on Android? With ANSI color support etc?
Glad you got some relief. It is truly puzzling. My doc stopped at Linzess, of course. Ultimately I don't want to take a pill every day for the rest of my life.
Have a pointer to the folks that helped you?
> It isn't "critically evaluate" but rather "in this stack of 100 resumes, find four that stand out sufficiently to bring in for interviews." The "stand out significantly" check doesn't take 10 minutes per resume.

So it sounds like you're saying that you can do a really fast check with ~no false negatives. That is, you won't skip over the best candidates and fail to interview them.

But are you sure that's really true? Often if you can find any code a candidate wrote, it quickly stands out as "exceptionally bad" (like, you can see bugs at a glance, the formatting is a mess, stuff is copied and pasted everywhere, the project isn't what was advertised) or "exceptionally good" (like, they are making PRs fixing tricky issues with really thoughtful writing and immaculate appearing code.)

There's almost literally nothing on a resume that can stand out that much other than, like, "ICPC winner" or "lead engineer on Chrome" or "famous celebrity I know by name". At first glance, the resume of the guy with the exceptional code will just look like "went to some school, worked at a few companies where they did a few bullet points." How are you so sure you will decide to interview him if you just skim the resumes very fast? What if you have four candidates who went to better schools and companies, and you interview them instead?

I get the "soul crushing" complaint. If I were king I would try to split the labor among engineers as much as possible to mitigate that. Or hire more slowly.
It's not at all "script kiddie tier software". It's very actively maintained, has a large following and a surprising amount of instances.
Not being able to afford a phone is not a protected class in the US. It’s legal to discriminate there.

For old people you would need a plan though, like printed menus.
Really ? How do you know? Have they shared any credible data around it?

Based on experience of BERT , yes maybe to get the best experience or to serve millions of users you need to run any model on compute intensive infrastructure , BUT if you just want to run for yourself and do some small testing you can very well download it from huggingface and elsewhere and run it on your laptop.
I've heard of cities - I did my STEM degrees in "the most remote city in the world" (according to some early US astronauts astounded to see light in the darkness) and went on to write a few million SLOC in earth mapping and signal processing while doing geophysical field work (and WGS84 "ground truthing") across ~ two thirds of the 190+ countries across the globe - but rarely ever in cities.

It's odd to realise we've transitioned (as a species) from < %50 living in urban environments to > %50 within the past 40 or so years.
You go from "raises question" to a conclusion "not good bedfellows".

You can just say you don't like communism/marxism. But no, being communist or marxist or whatever does not justify censorship.
Never, ever buy housing that is not intended to be one's retirement or vacation residence if you can't easily switch jobs without switching houses. It can be very hard having to find both a new job and deal with property that's in the wrong place... Especially if it's a down market.
At least 50% if not higher here in the Midwest US.
I understand (I work in the industry), but the point still stands that these companies could have added greatly to the appeal of their scanners by offering a motion-picture attachment, no matter how slow.

I was considering trying to build one out of an inspection microscope, but gave it up and just had my most-important reels scanned to TIFFs.
Tried it, it's far from alpha. Too bad, I hoped it would at least recognize my hardware. (wifi card and gpu not recognized)
A new Brother laser lists at $120 and toner is about $40-60. I went the LaserJet 4xxx route and am into it for about $400 after repairs and toner. The DRM is very minimal, however aftermarket cartridges have never given me particularly good results.

While the HP is just that much better at dithering, at your price point it's hard to ignore a new Brother (except for the issue of creating additional waste, etc).
It's fairly easy to analyze the effect of layering ECCs mathematically.

The end result will always be more robust to errors than it would be otherwise, but the code rate will be smaller (i.e., the same data takes a constant multiple more space to store.)
The issue is with telling the public the wrong thing. It's the reporter's or the editor's fault for publishing exaggerations - not the public's fault for being misled.

If you told people that a crashed UFO was found beneath the lake, people would probably support funding more investigations - but that would be a lie. Likewise, describing the structures as what they are not like is a lie.
Now compare that >1 million deaths per year to the total number of people driving per year around the world... it looks like we're doing a pretty solid job.
magnet is on breachforums and 4chan, so if anyone wants to take a look check those places, not to hard to find
I interviewed with Claypot last summer for an infrastructure role. They responded about 5 weeks after I applied. My first conversation was with Chip herself, where she appeared to be checking Slack for our entire conversation.

I did a technical interview where the interviewer asked me to do calculate some statistics over streams in a Jupyter notebook. I completely bombed the interview, let that be clear. But it was very odd to me that for an infra engineer role, at no point was I asked about any experience with ML infra, scaling, operationalizing models, storage, networking, etc.
In the end, what difference does it make? There isn't a pill you can take to treat autism.

What will you change once you "know" one way or the other? You still need to find strategies that work for you, regardless.
It didn't "survive" in that manner: it wasn't LP64 clean, and had memory corruption vulnerabilities.
This is a promotion. Violates guidelines.
Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/wwvLlEtxX3o
Every engineer needs to be a little bit product designer. Narrowing scope to something specific and measurable is critical or projects just go on forever…

I feel like we think “I’m not at work so I can skip all that stuff.” And then we suffer for it.
Yes, down-mod instead of answer.

Go back to Reddit.
> Going by the semantics of the opcodes themselves, there's no reason why RET should be treated differently from a simple indirect jump here.

RET is documented as a subroutine return hint in the official ARM architecture reference manual. That's the only reason it has a distinct opcode from BR.

BL is also documented as a subroutine call hint.
Once all the GPTChat hn karma farming bots come back online.
It's not impossible or even infeasible really, but it is unlikely and it is a lot of effort. How many open source software projects even have 100 people working on them full time?

I hope something fills the shoes left by ADS-B Exchange, but I won't hold my breath. I already had the Pi so I probably spent around $40 getting the SDR + cheapo antenna. I got bored with it quickly though as there's already decent coverage of the Bay Area – and the SDR has since been repurposed to monitor my fridge.
So Apple is offering a podcast hosting service, but it uses some proprietary thing instead of RSS and DRM's the audio so other podcast clients can't play them, and the podcast owner can't easily switch to a different podcast host (including one that this post's author runs). It doesn't tell the podcast owner that. I have never used a podcast, so is this all correct?

If so, I agree this is a deliberately snaky move on Apple's part.
Why does using the term "open source" as a verb always sound like fingernails scratching on a chalkboard to me?
Something like 1,5Tb memory to run this model in inference mode.
I've heard this sort of meme description style proselytized over and over, and have tried it, but I can't think of a single time I've ever genuinely been in a position in which I had literally any control over either the decision that was made to do it, or insight into the outcome if it existed, and probably wouldn't believe anyone who told me differently. These stories seem to me like just being in a unique fantasy position in some startup where you happen to be given more autonomy and individually refactor some core thing end-to-end with analysis that ties your lucky results directly to sales.

A much more real and honest description would simply be "Upgraded 20 year old wordpress and ensured no data loss or breaking changes took place, which helped improve the editorial experience for our writers"
Thanks for posting this. I’m sorry to hear about what all this “progress” might cost you personally in addition to the habitats around you. I don’t believe we have the right to cut down trees older than we are. It appears I’m in the minority in this country.

Something similar happened to my partner’s grandmother’s place in rural France in a matter of years.

My partner grew up in her grandparent’s backyard that was loaded with a garden, fields, and animals. They had no neighbors within sight. Slowly all around them new commercial developments cropped up. The equivalent of a Lowe’s or Super Target, different bricks and mortar, and the like. The nail in the coffin was the McDonald’s adjacent to their property, probably the same field where my spouse used to roll in the dirt. Now the house has been converted to an optician storefront. The area was re-zoned with no appreciation for the inhabitants. I suppose it had to go somewhere, but why does the march of “progress” have the familiar feeling of tragedy?

Her grandparents were immigrants of the Spanish Civil War, and this property epitomized their grit and triumph. To see it today, it is haunted and sad. It is unimaginable that a family ever lived there.

I wish I could offer you hope, but the only solace in this tragedy of so-called progress is the conservation easement. Plant some trees for me, and good luck to you.
Use case dependent. When I am tasked to generate some ad hoc analyses, performance is a non-issue. The query is only going to be run the handful of times while I iterate on the idea, and I would much prefer some convenience views rather giving a hoot about optimal query planning.
I love web scraping, maybe I can update this prior idea. With the high proliferation of botting, a lot of sites are now resistant to this type of scripting, but at this low volume of interaction, it may be doable with some effort like Undetected Chromedriver.

https://drewdevault.com/2017/05/11/Rotating-passwords.html

https://github.com/tsudoko/pass-rotate
For being such a high tech car, its unfortunate that there isn't some sort of API that can be used to directly control things, even if its just things like the climate control, etc.

As a side note, my 2019 Subaru Crosstrek can't seem to show the backup camera, and deal with me turning the physical radio volume dial down at the same time. I think the computer in a car should be up-gradable.
Six Catholics in robes on SCOTUS would like a word with you, your Holiness.
I don’t want to buy the vehicle because of touchscreen buttons. I can afford it.

You’re basically saying “he’s rich, so whatever he’s doing must all be right all the time”
I've tried a few flavors of GPT on my laptop and a single request used orders of magnitude more CPU and RAM than running a "SELECT * FROM WHEREVER" SQL query
It also sucks for privacy.
And perhaps nobody cared enough to log it, especially in the lower classes

You just shrugged off opium dens, or moonshining, or whatever substances could be had. The demon liquor and marijuana and heroin were all well known.

But, people didn't care about the poor. Whether or not they do now, they do collect data about them. We don't necessarily have great understanding about prevalence of who used them how often, so we shouldn't pretend there was a significant difference unless there's a reason to. Nostalgia or rose-colored glasses or pretences of a better time aren't valid reasons to break from expectation.
> There are so many more types of semaphores than most people realize

This.

For me, a semaphore is a general way handle states and dependancies with synchronization.

Whether it's a file named ".lock" (like a simple traffic signal) or some fancy IPC (like a 4 way intersection between a segment with heavy traffic that gets the green light 99% of time, and one with low traffic, with cameras to detect cars on the small road for the 1% it will be useful, and pedestrian crossings with buttons to request a red ligh), it boils down to the same thing: enforcing states, with synchronization.

I'll make you laugh, but recently I used environment variables (!!) to do some basic semaphore without even a .lock file!

It may be ugly, but I needed something simple that would work on Windows and Linux. It did the job!
Trump-endorsed candidates underperformed in the midterms and in previous elections. Trump talking hurts the party. If anything, keeping him off the platforms until after the midterms helped Republicans.
No, I’m saying you don’t have to cater to the whim of every possible customer, as long as there are enough customers who will consume your product supply potential without gripe. There is a difference.

This is no different than having a SaaS product and ignoring small, vocal minorities of customers. You grow fast by accommodating the mass market. You die by entertaining the minority’s demands. Let the people who don’t care for your opinionated product go elsewhere and max your revenue, margin, and volume (whatever that intersection is).

I am not saying consumers demanding physical controls are wrong, just that a) they should shop elsewhere if they want that and b) Tesla is wildly successful without offering it. I genuinely don’t understand why that thesis is contentious.
It would be murder if we weren't required by human progress to embrace fully autonomous vehicles as soon as possible. Take it up with whatever god inspires these sociopaths.
Derek Buitenhuis – Are Video Codecs Done?
Has anyone found the FSB back-door portal?
Which is a shame since Chicago is a great city and Illinois is a blue state that has a much better history with individual rights (outside of guns). I think that's something that younger tech workers really want in a place they plan on being in for a while.
You don't need a HF account to download the checkpoint, can be downloaded straight from the website/browser, direct url: https://huggingface.co/openjourney/openjourney/resolve/main/...
> I should note that I’m in Canada and so I don’t have to worry about healthcare coverage.

This is a BFD. I know that I had colleagues in France when I was also doing contract work (amusingly as a US ex-pat) who a) didn't make as much as me but b) felt more secure in their future

Similar kind of situation if you're in the US but your spouse/partner has medical coverage through FT employment.