skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Few people appreciate it" because it's no longer relevant with modern operating systems and programs for the vast majority of users and applications, which is why in almost every market imaginable, CPUs and SoCs have migrated toward higher core counts.

It takes a special sort of arrogance to look at literally the entire industry and go "psssst, savages don't know what they're doing. Single core performance is where it's at."
So true, I just wonder how will they package it for the voters.
That undersells the innovation of Excel, which started out as a Macintosh exclusive before being ported to Windows.

It was the first major spreadsheet to be GUI-based from the ground up. It didn’t need Office bundling (which came much later) to dominate, it was by far the superior spreadsheet in the Windows 3.0/3.1 era.
You are mixing up reinforcement learning and supervised learning here...
"More than 37 million Americans have diabetes (about 1 in 10), and approximately 90-95% of them have type 2 diabetes."

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/type2.html
If you charge at a Gridserve fast charger, as you might find at a motorway service station, you can look forward to paying 66p/kWh [1] for electricity.

On the other hand, an industrial user of electricity might pay 22p/kWh [2] so these fast chargers have a big profit margin.

[1] https://www.gridserve.com/our-pricing/
[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Such a tired, lazy retort. Why is there always this false dichotomy?
Is your local station already have other transformers and such? Because you might just be seeing the final step down but the entire building/complex has something elsewhere.
Ted Chiang: If you're reading, well done, mate.
Ad Tech, Mail, Finance, Sports (especially fantasy football is big), TechCrunch, Engadget.

Mail is a lot of legacy users, Finance and Sports are actually decently liked in their circles, TechCrunch and Engadget you might not know are owned by Yahoo.

Ad Tech had three major units, two of which are being shut down by this move. They were once third place after Google and Facebook, but I think Amazon and the trade desk have overtaken them since.
Karpathy has a bunch of great resources on this front! His minGPT writeup is excellent https://github.com/karpathy/minGPT His more recent project nanoGPT which references this video is a much more capable, but still learning friendly, implementation.
That is part of western culture. From the east, we see it as valuing independence.

In the East, parents sacrifice pretty much everything for their kids. They watch over them and will do anything i.e selling their homes/draining retirement accounts or working extra hard so the kids can go to really good schools, have downpayment for their first homes etc. Here what is valued is community.

But as the society keeps evolving things are changing in the East as well. We are slowly becoming westernized as well.

There is nothing wrong with either approach. It depends on which culture you are born and brought up in.
I think the great failure of the electric car industry is how little effort was put into replaceable batteries.

Imagine if all the cars used a set of standard sized battery packs, engineer an interface where they can be easily replaced, size them so they can be easily manhandled(about 10 kilograms 20 pounds). Then you could stop at the service station, pay the fee, pull your empty packs, and replace them with charged packs. you would be on your way and the service station would charge the packs for a future customer. Something like the batteries for power tools.

The main point is that battery packs would become a commodity, easily acquired interchangeable and everywhere.
My house is set up this way. Many south facing triple pane windows, very few north. The overhang gives us direct sun into the house in the winter and very little in the summer. We have 11 inch concrete walls with 4 inch styrofoam insulation on each side of our walls (ICF construction). Costs about 40-80 dollars a month natural gas to heat in Alberta Canada.
I also had a similar experience.

I created an account on Twitter about a year ago but did not use it for anything. No posts, did not follow anybody, etc. I logged in recently and received the "Your account is permanently suspended" message.
Alternative title: regulatory capture has gotten so bad that we'd rather just start our own big pharma with blackjack and hookers.
Yahoo is somehow the ninth most visited website. I guess people still use their (well Microsoft's) search.
I have an S21 FE, which despite its name is only a year old.

Updates are not timely. We often get updates a month behind, sometimes even two. I remember in early Jan we were still on the Nov security patch. Google is faster, and often Oneplus is faster. They are probably 2nd or 3rd for update timeliness. Better than Moto, at least.

Bloatware...depends on your definition. I consider their stupid Google app copies of everything bloatware, but maybe not everyone does. Most cannot be uninstalled.

Other bloatware...I seem to remember it had FB, LinkedIn, and some Microsoft apps. Last time they also wanted to install TikTok.

That said, I was able to disable everything via adb and got it to a state I like, so it is possible. But it would be nice to be able to do so without resorting to adb.

I like the phone fine, but my next phone will not be a Samsung.
The difference is the first round aren't the finals. Once you get to the finals, you need to be able to rally your team to win. LeBron couldn't do that 3x against Curry. MJ did it all 6x.
It is true, they have trillions of subscribers.
If he actually got this V8 certified and Cessna switched to then it might be dirt cheap to run but the 172 with it preinstalled might be $1M because they will sell so few and have so much engineering & certification cost to amortize.

That's how silly it all is, and why it will stay stuck in Experimental.
It’s not the company so much as it’s the corporate conformists that swarmed the valley. What happens when the carpetbaggers are left holding the bag? Will they actually build things that matter?
> An athlete born in 2020 has a huge advantage over one born in 1920.

A big disadvantage, though, too: he has to play against players with the same advantages.
you've got to be very disconnected to not know that 3.5mm jacks have been removed from most modern phones by now (a terrible choice, I agree)
This is the impression that I'm getting from a lot of these posts and what I've heard and experienced on my job hunt. I'm seeing plenty of "I was laid off from Meta/Google..." etc posts and can't help but wonder what the comp was. Maybe the big names on resumes look like high price tags these days?
I bought a brand new car two years ago. I expect it to last twenty more, and 200k miles or more. Nobody is going to put a gun to my head and make me replace it with an electric anything, ever.

Meanwhile the used car market will be full of ICE vehicles forever.

Nobody is forcing anyone to do anything.
Webmail is not great when you’re juggling several addresses and I don’t see that changing soon.
Interestingly enough, that video shows a level that is similar but not identical to the one I could not (and thus far cannot) win:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_rZNJDQX_mx45iyaXdmS2gWi2Dw...

Apart from it being a mirror image (and I guess rotated), the starting positions differ.

I suspect it is, in fact, not solvable.
>You're aware that this has affected Turkey and Syria, in Turkey affected 10 cities, basically erased half of them from the map, right?

Yup! And they squandered it.

See comment here:

Imagine if the money had been spent on seismic retrofitting so that fewer buildings would collapse during an earthquake? Los Angeles spent $1.3 billion to retrofit more than 8,000 of their most vulnerable buildings. With much lower cost of labour and a $30 billion pot, Turkey should have been able to retrofit far more buildings.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/10xyybj/eu_p...
As far as literally illegal content like for example abuse material goes, Facebook like any other business has an obligation to make sure it doesn't facilitate it. That's no different than any old fashioned offline business having to make sure activity is within the law.
Hindi has similar chat transliteration though we don't go as far as using numbers. The algorithm is to drop all schwa A's and some vowels where it is not ambiguous. Which ironically is similar to how Arabic script itself works

If something is a single letter in devanagari there is a desire to have it be a single letter in Latin. So ka, ki, ke all get shortened to k
I'm sorry, son, but you must have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock. I'm the co-pilot.
A lot of companies are on a hiring freeze but have not taken down their job listings because of the image connotations.
The inventor of insulin sold the patent in 1923 to the University of Toronto for one dollar so that nobody could take advantage of people in the way that's currently being done.

This is 100 year old technology. It has nothing to do with development cost.

https://www.vox.com/2019/4/3/18293950/why-is-insulin-so-expe...
Shade profile – like an elevation profile but for sun exposure
As software developers, everything we build will be obsolete, discarded or dead in 5-10 years. We are craftsmen of the ephemeral.
Like the hot swappable server power supplies?
Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count
Mary Queen of Scots: Secret letters written during imprisonment decoded
>When they talk about "sun rays", do they mean the UV portion of sunlight?

I don't think so, because they say they use a standard monocrystalline siicon PV cell -- which are (generally) crappy for UV scavenging.

I would guess the material atop the solar cell is either slightly porous or made of a material that is mostly transparent to the right spectra of light, resulting in acceptable losses.
For about $6 from Apple you can buy one of the best-quality audio DACs available and connect your headphones to your Pixels.

(You bought several new phones without checking their specs? Come on.)
I bet you can say "That was too obvious, be more subtle" a few times too. ChatGPT's ability to dial down its outputs via natural language is pretty magical.
Will there be support for international auxillary languages? What would one need to do to get one of these languages on the system?
The answer for traditional solar panels is about 2 months IIRC.

The answer for these should be significantly less, because you should only count the delta between solar tiles and non-solar tiles rather than the entire footprint.
My mom only had a few days to live. Her digestive system stopped working. He was being quite irrational about it, because the longest people live in that state is 3 weeks. (A lot of people are irrational in similar situations.)

And a brand new Lexus sells for much more than $30k.
When SPJ of Haskell fame was working for Microsoft, he put together a fantastic presentation on this theme:

https://www.lambdadays.org/static/upload/media/1616736415929...
> I feel again like you're not comprehending what I wrote, and I'm going to assume you're not intentionally being dishonest in doing so.

The feeling is quite literally mutual, unless this is some incredibly effective sarcasm and irony that you've written.
Personally I care because, as an example, I'm interested in AR, and I wouldn't want that space to be limited to just just the hardware Apple chooses to make, and the use cases and content they deem acceptable.
Can you uninstall Siri and replace with google assistant?
In an ideal world, I probably would be tying a phase out of ICE cars to charging access.

I'd then also mandate charging access in every apartment with two or more units and put together a government fund to help fund building it out. You also offer a rebate to homeowners (with the rebate covering up to 100% of reasonable costs the lower income they are) so they can do the needed electrical work (which might involve a whole new load center and service to the house - think 10-15k in work).

Once say, better than 90% apartment and condo dwellers have access to electric charging and there is an ongoing program in place to ensure that everyone else has access, then its pretty safe to mandate a ban ICE vehicles.
Once upon a time, there were around a dozen fabs competing to make high-end semiconductors. Now it's just TSMC (who sell cutting-edge capacity exclusively to Apple) with Samsung's fabs playing catch-up. And Intel... are you okay back there, Intel?

There's isn't much hope on the horizon for more competition when it costs hundreds of billions to build a new next-gen fab, there's a significant chance of process shrinks failing economically, and the institutional knowledge required is concentrated in a few isolated groups, with most STEM students in most countries not finding the semiconductor industry attractive. There's a crunch on pretty much every axis.
These are the ones that stood out, but I haven't watched them yet.

Game of Trees Daemon: https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/game_of_trees_daemon/

PostgreSQL: Tour de Data Types: VARCHAR2 or CHAR(255)? https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/postgresql_tour_de_da...

PostgreSQL: When it all GOes right https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/postgresql_when_it_al...

PostgreSQL: Don't Do This https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/postgresql_dont_do_th...

20 years with Gettext Experiences from the PostgreSQL project https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/translations_20_years...
So, probably less than <1% of your miles travelled then. And throughout the rest of your travels you're paying significantly less per mile than you would in an ICE car. Even if you use super chargers on your long distance trips then in the grand scheme of things it's still cheaper.
Sr. Software Dev with some hardware background. Laid off in early December. Started looking about a month ago. One phone interview so far with a startup that seemed a bit sketchy (didn't know where the funding was coming from) and in a very inconvenient timezone (I'd likely have to wake up at 3AM for meetings).

Many recruiter pings/week, but mostly not great fits (they glom onto a keyword that doesn't mean what they think it does) and often it's easy to tell that several emails from different recruiters are for the same exact job. Hardware verification and FPGA seems to be in great demand, but it's been too many years since I worked in that space so I don't feel like my experience would still be relevant for those.

Talked to a recruiter today who said things are starting to slow down on his end - not getting as many jobs to recruit for. This is to be expected, I think.

So far it's pretty easy to make my 5 contacts/week as required by the unemployment dept.
I’m not privileged just because I don’t have the same responsibilities as other people. I made choices and those choices allow me to live an extremely cheap lifestyle. The fact other people have mortgages and/or families doesn’t make _me_ privileged; it’s a different situation.

The parent claimed living out of a car is “insane” and “privileged”. Focus on that and let it sink in for a moment.
> You care about single-core performance when you use the web:

Theoretically, I would care. But in practice, I just took out an old budget android phone, gave it a go at browsing the web (news, images, and videos), and it seemed not to be noticeably slower than my much newer and pricier iPhone.

Benchmarks would probably show a great difference between the two, but my eyes can't tell.
Apple Silicon benefits from full vertical integration and not having to worry about third parties and their particular needs for the same silicon.
Ha! Have you read Peter Watts's Blindsight and Echopraxia?
Monocrystalline Si has a 1.2 eV band gap iirc, meaning it absorbs everything smaller (more energetic) than ~ 1100 nm.

Our eyes see, what, 200-600 nm? Removing the 200-600 nm bit leaves you with approx 50% of the energy left between 600 and 1100 nm, glancing at [1]

This is all VERY back of the envelope... but I think these lose around half of the energy you'd get out of conventional panels.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303914764/figure/do...
Doctors don't make those kinds of recommendations.
There's a secondary issue that in a lot of places the sky is a lot more crowded and the airports are very crowded.

I wanted to be a pilot. I took lessons in the 1990s at a small field, relatively uncrowded, relatively low cost. I stopped due to weather/money.

When I tried again after I finished college where I lived things were more expensive and the airspace was so crowded you would run up costs waiting in line to take off, and the whole thing was much more stressful.

It has to be fun, in a busy enough environment it becomes stressful enough fewer people want to fly.
Excel meets Lambda (2021) [pdf]
They also want to crack down on crack, but talking positively about crack is not illegal
´git blame!
Are you talking about threads or channels? It sounds like you are describing what slack calls channels.
There may be Swiss people proud of Swiss banking as an abstract concept, but I'd be surprised if much of that extended to Credit Suisse in particular as a concrete bank. Given that the overall economy is quite good, there might be a certain appetite even in business friendly circles to let a badly run bank fail pour encourager les autres, but its size would make such a failure fairly difficult to handle.
I'm not sure this is the case. Wiktionary says baka is [1]:

> Probably originally a transcription of Sanskrit मोह (moha, “folly”), used as a slang term among monks.

The syllables are different; baka is ば か, bokeh is ぼけ [2]. Could those really be from the same root?

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%A6%AC%E9%B9%BF#Japanese

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9A%88%E3%81%91#Japanese
A space for 100-200 people sounds a LOT like a hotel conference center. They are very flexible spaces.
Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks
All-cash home buyers in the U.S. by Zip Code
Closing all offices, I have to say, makes it way easier to do more layoffs. Having been through layoffs in semiconductor manufacturing in the 90's, when you had to, you know, get the people from work and take them to a place and all that, it involved paying a lot of money for extra security and such. With no offices, it's a lot easier, and you never have to meet the person face to face.

Five years from now, I think we will not see "remote only" for a large company and think "ooh, they value their employees I guess", but rather, "uh oh, they like to think of their employees as being like virtual servers, easy to spin up and easy to shut down the moment you don't need to pay for that capacity".
Meaning title inflation. Senior used to mean 5-8 years of experience. Principal or Staff 10-20.

So now a lot of people that have experience sort into the bucket of Senior.
If you only lease something the owner can at any time take your business and efforts from you.
It's pretty evident. Its training would no longer be anchored to reality, and given its output is non-deterministic, the process would result in random drift. This can be concluded without having to test it.

Now, if training was modified to have some other goal like consistency or something, and with a requirement to continue to perform well against a fixed corpus of non-AI-generated text, you could imagine models bootstrapping themselves up to perform better at that metric, alpha-go style.

But merely training on current output, and repeating that process, given how the models work today, would most certainly result in random drift and an eventual descent into nonsense.
Sounds like a case of assuming ones priors. Of course, should we wish to find human space travelers whose SatNav(tm) has broken, I'm sure it will prove invaluable.
For context: the patent on insulin was sold in 1923 to the university of Toronto for one dollar because the inventor felt it was unethical to use this invention to make egregious profits off people who had no alternative. This is 100 year old technology. It's not a manufacturing, regulatory, or technological issue. It's just monopoly pricing and greed.
https://archive.ph/RENll
My thought exactly. Sounded too similar to that time when Ronaldo rejected a bottle of Coke at a press event, and billions were wiped off Coca Cola's market cap. Turns out they'd released a negative financial report that day, and the fall in value had actually started before the press event.
Indeed. Got a macbook. Then wired headphones because no others fit my ears. Then an iPad. Then finally swapped to an iPhone. And eventually even an Apple TV.
Ask HN: Do you think the Turing Test is still relevant?
I know avid users of ChatGPT who say their clients can't tell the difference between human vs bot generated content/conversations.

It can be argued that a system can be said to "pass the test" only if it was interrogated by an expert, and the expert still failed to distinguish it.

But the systems continue to improve at a fast pace. And at this point it seems like we are in the beginning of a "post-Turing" world.

Do you think we crossed that mark? If not, what specific advancement would convince you? Does it even matter, as we embrace the brave new world?
California is not ignoring federal drug laws. California has no mandate to enforce federal drug laws.

Rather, the executive branch of the federal government is choosing to not enforce federal drug laws (in some situations, for some drugs).

Federal agents can walk in and charge everyone in a cannabis store anytime they want, as I understand it.
at current energy density 10kg probably only good for 10-15km... and that's without any additional overheads in packaging so one day perhaps with higher energy density batteries?
It has been almost a decade since I've been involved at such an org, so I cannot speak to the state of the art. Folks currently doing the schlep are going to be more knowledgable than myself. With that said, you are likely to be alerted in a few ways of trouble with an integration:

1. Exception handling. Whatever code you have polling API endpoints or processing inbound webhooks is likely to throw an exception if the structure of the API it's consuming or inbound webhook message formats have changed materially. I recommend handling via Sentry or a similar application error reporting mechanism for triage by your SRE or platform team.

2. API responses. There is some peril here, as every API is different. Some APIs will behave as you'd expect with respect to error codes, error messages, and request allowances, while some APIs will reply with code 200 with the error message in the body. Again, this is the value incumbents offer; they know what failure looks like for each API, and they also have a good idea of what success and health looks like at steady state. Build relationships with API partners (do you have a partner team? you eventually should) so that you have open comms with them with regards to breaking changes, and code defensively in general. Tangentially, ensure you have robust logic around deduplication of polling data.

3. User reporting. If your unit tests didn't catch something, nor did your application error mechanisms, your users will absolutely let you know if a piece of JSON element landed where it shouldn't have in a target integration.

I'd encourage you to ask around to others in this space, as their recent knowledge will be more relevant for avoiding sharp edges. Also, once you've built whatever you're building, you'll be able to (or, at least, you should if you've approached this from a systems thinking perspective and wrapped the necessary telemetry and observation tools around the machine) observe at scale what optimal and suboptimal looks like.
Comedians Are Finding Lucrative Side Hustles – No Joke – As Babysitters
I miss "cyber".
I mean a number of states made it against the law for cities to create their own internet services and there are lots of different utility laws, so I don't think the same set of rules applies everywhere.