skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also working on a linear octree (like quadtree but 3d) right now.

An array sorted by Morton code is a quadtree/octree and an equally spaced kd-tree.

Radix sorting can be used for sorting in linear time (and GPUs).

When looking at the Morton code, if the most significant bit is 0 then it is on the left side of the x=0 plane, and right side if the bit is 1. You can find the split position where the bit flips with binary search.

Then recurse to both halves using the next most significant bit which corresponds to the y=0 plane. Each level of recursion splits the space in two.

You could also get the splits "for free" from the histograms produced during radix sorting to reduce the number of binary searches.

This idea can be extended to AABBs instead of points by XORing the end point Morton codes and counting the leading zeros.

A lot of literature was written on this topic in the past 10-20 years for the purpose of building acceleration structures for Ray tracing on the GPU.
It's like trying to build an "Open Source Gas Station chain".

Yes, you can hack up a storage container and a pump with "open source" bits, but that's not what makes it useful.

What makes it useful is the fact that there is a $chain Gas Station in every nook and cranny. And that's not something openness can change.
We have a very different view of how media ends up affecting outcomes. I haven't seen many positive outcomes from media involvement, the cycle is too quick and the viewpoints heavily biased.
Thought it might be about tsipouro, Greek unaged pomace brandy. It has a lovely bright freshness that to me is much more like tequila than an aged brandy. Doesn't have the broad range of weird tastes that mezcal has, though.
Somewhat of a shameless plug but I run a website that reports on the holdings & changes of these kind of portfolios[1] and read that the SEC now supports position values from 12 to 16 digits[2]. In other words, managers can now report in the trillions instead of the billions.

[1] https://last10k.com/sec-filings/brka/0000950123-23-002585.ht...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/oit/announcement/edgar-release-2241
families to support, bills to pay, uncertain job market, h1b visas - there are all sorts of reasons people might not have the ability or confidence to leave a crappy job.
Why everything you buy is worse now
Some random notes:

Ordering on Amazon without looking at the item. Consumer engineering (planned obsolescence).

Cost cutting to satisfy customer. Swap for cheaper materials like synthetic fabric. Plastic+glue instead of metal+screws.

Stuff that is intentionally impossible to repair.
If you just want to run a cache locally, varnish or nginx w/ cache module. But Cloudflare’s value add isn’t their cache by itself, it’s their network of caches in 200+ locations around the world to keep content closest to users. That’s the part where you have to have huge scale before it makes sense to try and run your own CDN - it’s a full time job. Giving Cloudflare $20 a month or $200 a month is worth it. If you want A cache but not necessarily Cloudflare’s cache, AWS Cloudfront has a free tier w/ 1 TB of egress a month last I checked - that’s very aggressive pricing. Cloudflare doesn’t have any egress cost at all until you get to enterprise but they heavily restrict features at the lower tiers - might be an issue if you need cache TTLs lower then 24 hours. I’m a big proponent of micro-caching so that part of Cloudflare runs against my designs sometimes. Cloudfront has no such limitations.
This is a very cool idea, I hope it scales
The emotional investment may have made him miss out on more interesting, better compensated, or otherwise more desirable jobs. And the pain at its end does not correspond to more enjoyment. I don't think a mercenary attitude diminishes the enjoyment of working at all. Like I said earlier, the Blackwater and Executive Outcomes guys probably enjoy their jobs just as much as typical soldiers - possibly even more. I don't this this is a trade off between more enjoyment and greater emotional damage at the end. It's just as much enjoyment, better impact on his life situation, and less pain when his job ends. A strictly better set of outcomes.
Google to expand misinformation ‘prebunking’ in Europe
Ok that looks interesting, thanks for taking the time to share.

I actually think that interface would be contrary to my use case which is a chat system for mostly non-technical staff. The closer to what they're already familiar with the better and Rocketchat works great for that. I think Zulip would be confusing.

I'll file Zulip away in case I'm doing a more tech focused project in future.
I would like a standardized unit testing facility, a standardized code documentation facility to be added to that list. Also add a proper interpreter for dev-efficiency!

C++ the language is not at all a problem as much as C++ the tooling and developer ergonomics. For a language that has been in existence for 4 decades, you would think the ergonomics would be better but it seems all the graybeards want us all to suffer the way they did.
While I can't speak for the employees, some ideas: If the pay is good, they can start doing "just enough" and hope for redundancy. They may be bound by visa/insurance situation. They may be interviewing / looking for good offers. They may be waiting for the current wave of redundancies to pass, waiting for good offers to a appear again. They may not care and just like the money.
Interesting. I wasn't aware of that. I had a colleague who constantly "corrected" us (with some humour) and even long after he left the team we all wince when we see/hear "less" when it should be (or so we believed), "fewer". I preferred it before when I blindly said "less" but didn't always hear a voice in my head commenting on everyone else's use
> Elon fired a principal engineer last week because the engineer had the temerity to tell him that fewer people wanted to read tweets by the increasingly unhinged Musk.

I have never heard this before. It seems very unlikely and given you seem to have some personal issue with Musk I’m unlikely to believe it unless you provide a source.
They could have done both.

From a dev perspective, it seems close to trivial to "enable podcasts" in the current app. I think most of the work there was just on organization UIs.

A separate app could be a great marketing tool for people looking for a good podcast app alternative (assuming Spotify was serious about investing in a solid app from what die-hard podcast listeners like to see in it), and monetize with ads unless they become a paying Spotify user (then the music gets enabled too).
I use the thing almost every day and the disappointment doesn't get better. After all, it behaves like a machine. It doesn't respond without your input and when you ask it something and then are unhappy with the result and change the prompt to add some extra words, it gives you something completely different even though all I wanted is the existing response plus one thing. If I ask it in more than one prompt, then it will forget or repeat things. It behaves like a random word predictor because that is how it was built. They didn't give it a memory or the initiative to respond automatically.
Mosfilm's YouTube Channel
I suppose so. The article does focus on Serbia pretty heavily though, and states that rakija originated there.
It's funny to see Akamai called a soulless corp. I still remember when they IPO'd in late 1999. It was viewed very positively in academic circles too.

Incidentally, I just looked at the stock price from back then and it was higher than it is now. Post dotcom bubble the stock never reached those highs again.
Once (if?) the chatGPT servers are up I'm going to ask for a rap battle between 42 Dugg and Daniel Dennett to test exactly this hypothesis.

I'm confident that the output will be stylistically different but maybe only superficially. After all some of the first generative NNs that made waves were image style transfer models, and they're fairly small. Who's to say chatGPT can't do a natural language equivalent of the same?
Earl Grey tea on command would be nice, but Quark's holosuites would be much better.
I have a strong suspicion that the sponsorships will be going away now.

Akamai killed the enthusiast-run Linode to instead create executive-run cloud computing services. That is what the difference is, and why these news are so worrisome for enthusiasts.
Our marketing team is crap, there’s no consistency e.g. we acquired prolexic and still use that brand.

Internally a number of the engineers are scratching our heads at this one.
I've heard before that it's meant to be re-TRIE-val and therefore is pronounced "tree"
Yeah Bram Bos is one of the best iOS music app developers out there :)
It is within the realm of possibility that the report you’re referring to is inaccurate.
I also buy the most expensive Apple phone and not put it in a case. My experience is quite different from your, perhaps unintentional straw man. Let’s take this assertion by assertion.

> I put my (slippery) iPhones in cases because if I don’t they stop working. Your phone might not care that its screen is cracked

I would be hugely bothered by a cracked screen or an otherwise non-operative screen. But Apple’s Pro level phones feature steel cases. This makes the phone very robust. I have yet to crack or otherwise damage my phone.

> have to pay several hundreds to put it back the way it was vs spending 20$ or less on a case and screen protector

Always get AppleCare Plus. It serves as my screen protector. If I ever did crack my screen service fee to fix a broken screen is $29.

> which takes 10 minutes vs having to pay 100x as much and wait a few days to get my phone back to swap displays

As per above the price difference between a case and AppleCare is minimal close to 0x as much.

And it doesn’t take days to have your screen replaced. Apple stores will do it in minutes within the space of a single service appointment.

iPhones are truly works of art and should be enjoyed without cheap plastic cases. Just make sure you have AppleCare Plus.
Right. New company basically advertises their character by making the ultimatim in the first place. You already know you won't be treated like a human, since you're already not.
GPT-3 has the same number of parameters as ChatGPT, it's just the finetuning (or alignment).
> PyTorch offers a way to export to ONNX but you will encounter various errors. [1]

I mean sure, there are limitations, but this is greatly exaggerating their impact in my experience. I'd be curious to hear from anyone where these have been serious blockers, I've been exporting PyTorch models to ONNX (for CV applications) for the last couple of years without any major issues (and any issues that did pop up were resolved in a matter of hours).
I wish Wittgenstein was still around to comment about these developments
Sponge Bob!? :-o
Fair point. I'd still argue that we are debating that it can 'merely' do a rap battle about consciousness is amazing. I think back to the time AlexNet came out. Would not have guessed this was possible in ten years.

Also, with Eminem, I wonder how much of it having to skirt obscenities etc. As a tune and rhyme deaf person, what would you say is a good example of Eminem's rhyme scheme. Thanks!
I used to use Player.fm as my main podcast app, and it had a pretty good episode search feature.

> All the other apps that I've tried, AntennaPod, PocketCasts, Podcast Addict, are in stone age. How do these other apps expect me to discover podcasts? They are just glorified RSS feeds, these other apps.

I didn't know PocketCasts was lacking this too! When I switched to AntennaPod, this was the only feature I really missed. But by now, I've gotten used to just websearching for podcast episodes and then opening them in AntennaPod after the fact.
good in theory but how will the topics used to illustrate the techniques be selected? I'm guess that CIA's Operation Mockingbird isn't going to be used any time soon, or ever
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/9/23593099/elon-musk-twitter...
I would have said it doesn't seem very likely that someone would have gone into a library and doodled on a book in Old English, but this is in Oxford.
Sure but you have to do my dry cleaning first.
Not in PyTorch. A model is Python dictionaries containing states and Python module/class objects. I don't know why the PyTorch team did this but that happened. Maybe it boils down to the point #2 I said.
>In an industry where remote work is the norm and changing jobs doesn't even require changing offices, people are much less likely to give up some pay to stay where they are.

yea and I already feel those effects. had an office for one month and then they closed it in order to transfer elsewhere. Was already configured to WFH so no issue transitioning. Meanwhile I haven't seen a human face in 2 weeks and haven't interacted with someone my age in 3 months. I guess that is great for true hermits, but I liked SOME interaction.

This also seems to have an indirect impact on my career aspects. Some of the best parts of office was the growth as you worked directly with experts in your domain and seeing how they tick and hearing their war stories. You can hear all that passively in a cafeteria as you're on break. That goes away and I now interact with maybe 5-6 people max per week, and I wonder if I am even growing anymore.

Oh well at least the pay is good.
The power saving is not because of Android it is because of the ARM arch being used under the hood. And ARM servers for power saving purposes are very much a thing already.
wow, didn't know mspaint is this old :D
> Any idea how many companies in the Fortune 500 use, say, Akamai Prolexic instead? Or other vendors?

Not to mention the big public cloud vendors like AWS, GCP and Azure that have their own CDNs too.
Hyundai and Kia issue software upgrades to thwart theft hack
Fine-tuning large language models on consumer hardware
If you're penny pinching also have a look at your network equipment. As a test I set all switch ports on my 24 port HP from 1Gbps to 100Mbps and the power usage dropped by 10W. About half the ports on the switch are occupied.
But then again, with the current prices it might make more sense just to replace the hardware with a newer more efficient model and it will pay itself back in a year instead of 5.
A Call to Legislate 'Backdoors' into Stable Diffusion
The new bing get it right. It says 0 here for me.

"The population of Mars is zero, as there are no humans living on the planet yet. Mars is a large planet in the Solar system, and it has plenty of surface area for colonization, but there are many challenges and risks involved in sending humans to Mars and establishing a permanent settlement there." [...]
I don't even know how you find "real friends" these days without being friends since grade school/college. Been trying for years in meetups to make real friends and nothing clicks. I have some good friends but they are as busy as I am and syncing up to meet is hard.
Activist investors are key players in making companies better and more efficient.
I don't think there's any conclusive evidence on rakija's origin, afaik the earliest evidence found so far is from 11th century Bulgaria.

Claiming it originates from Serbia is straight up Serbian nationalist propaganda imo.
I always wonder how they actually date things like this. Carbon dating? Something else? Is it obviously apparent to an expert if a manuscript is 800 or 1000 years old?

(Additionally, I feel rather foolish that my first thought went to the hybrid poodle breed when I read the topic headline. My own doodle was at my feet though so it’s not completely my fault. )
Engineers at FAANG could rebalance to a lifestyle closer to the American norm and still be better off than most people. Even only 1-2 years on FAANG salary if saved, is equivalent to 5-6 or more of more normal income levels. 10+ could exceed lifetime earnings for someone on minimum wage.

So yes, there are lifestyle adjustments: kids move to a state school, downsize car and house: but you own that downsize outright, and you made bank in your IRA equivalent to 10 years at average income.

You could sustain a year of job hunting and not have a problem.

Of course if you spent all that income, you also might not be able to. And the tail cost of tax on vesting could hurt. Mostly this is hurt to self esteem if you frame it that way.

I'm not a FAANG. I have a story about partners at a conference swapping life issues, one was concerned which of the two Tesla (the x or the matching his n hers x) they should keep...
First it was Russia meddling with elections (Trump, Brexit), now it's a team led by an ex Israeli special forces guy — which reminds me a bit of the NSO Group story.

You know what is terrifying? That upon learning about Russia having a major hand in Western election, nothing concrete was done. In Britain we learned the whole Brexit movement was paid for, and manipulated by Russian money (and it was arguably a crucial milestone mentioned in the infamous Foundations of Geopolitics book), yet there was a little noise on printed media that went nowhere. No one investigated, no top politician jailed, just business as usual.

I'm not even sure that what they're selling us in our free Western countries is democracy at all.
As someone who (properly) learned modern C++ only some years ago and is just learning Rust, I agree - one needs a lot of learning in Rust before one can get kick-started. C++ is actually far easier to get out of the ground coding.

Modern C++ is actually quite nice to code in. Its just a real pain to get started - project setup, documentation, cicd setup, ease of dependency/pkg management, cross-compilation, unit-tests, etc. Developer ergonomics are poor and not standardised. (There are also some critical features that are missing - like reflection that make things a pain)

Rust the language is far harder to learn (even if it is safer), but the tooling is mouth-wateringly superb.

In today's world, a language can live and die on developer ergonomics alone. Nobody really has the patience to do all the cruft-work that they could tolerate before - there is a lot of choice in the programming landscape.
Wasm to the rescue - https://go-app.dev/, https://yew.rs/.

I enjoy it as much as Vue 1.0 before we had bundlers, transpilers, builders and what not.
What did the German guy do?
Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
CLJS has been surprisingly good. re-frame really simplified a lot of the development. There are some oddities with trying to work out whether something is a JS problem or a CLJS problem, but for a solo project, it has been pretty good. CLJ/S seems to me a good spot between practicality and idealism (CL being the latter for some things). It's the most practical Lisp atm, and it can't get better than that.
Thanks for sharing. I wrongly assumed that it could not come isolated. The specificity makes even more interesting.

If you have resources to share beyond your own experience, they'd be welcome.
And people who "just" want a VPS are probably not Akamai's target market, so I think they're fine with the tradeoff.
Not really. you can't force anyone to be your friend, and if there is some supericial reason someone doesn't like you, you can't really change that (not without a big change I guess. I'm sure if you got ripped you'd suddenly have a lot more "friends). You're at the mercy of luck in where you meet and who clicks with you. And that gets harder as meetups and socialties become more based around how drunk you get or if you like sports. I like neither.
Does anyone have tips for a Synology NAS to hibernate reliably?
My fear of powering the machine on and off completely on intervals, would be damaging the HDDs.
As others have said, there's also a question of practicality.

My iPhone 7 is slippery as hell. Even if money were no object and I had a stack of 100 spare ones, I would still absolutely hate for it to break when I'm randomly out and about just because it slipped from my hand.

Even just taking 30 minutes or however long to move everything to a new one would be a nuisance, let alone having to go to the apple store or wait for a delivery. I just want my phone to get out of my way. I don't use it often, but when I do, I want it to work right then and there.

Taking the 10 seconds to install a non-slippery cover helps tremendously with that.

I think there is a definite difference between babying something and being absolutely reckless with it. It may also depend on the device. My galaxy s5 wouldn't slip from my hands, so I didn't bother with a cover. I would also buy an iphone "rugged" instead of a "slim" if it were an option.
Point is that akamai does not want people as clients. Akamai wants big corporations as clients.
the majority is straight , etherosexual and neurotypical globally

that's what everybody consider normal as in "it's the most typical and probable situation"

queer people are the 0.1% globally
Frisson, not frission. I’d say is literary than academic.
Looking at Walmart pay reports: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/walmart/salaries/software-e...

I see many engineers with 10+ years of experience earning ~$200k in the Bay. No disrespect for your friends, but if you're a talented engineer at this level of experience, you can do a lot better than working for $200k in silicon valley.

There are many other companies that will substantially beat this kind of pay. If you failed to get an offer at all of them, the problem is probably not "inconsistent hiring practices."
Humans weren't fundamentally any different back then. Bathroom wall graffiti has been discovered from ancient Roman ruins.
Claims that "$foodstuff originated in $sountry" when it's more a than a few hundred years old should generally be read as a puff piece to raise tourism and country profile. They're common, e.g.

Hummus: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20171211-who-invented-hum...

halloumi is from Cyprus, but that's ... divided now: https://www.halloumicheese.eu/halloumi-cheese/the-history-of...

Wine plausibly originated in Georgia (the country) but it's so old, who can really tell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine

Arguing continuity of national borders over centuries in the Balkans is a fools game anyway.
When you can't get the former, the latter is still a nice backup. Remote works can end with neither.
A timely reminder there is no "only they do it" here and quite possibly they do it less, and second.
This is not quite correct. A car is very much a requirement for a lot of people. The structure of society is build around cars. This begins if people need to care about family members living 20-30km away. This become an immense logistical challenge without a car. People would need to reduce their working times and still would suffer an immense hit to their free time since any other transport option needs twice the time at least. People say public transport is widely spread in Europe, but that is just not true. The cities are decent, but otherwise using public transportation is a huge time sink.

Some dream to reduce individual traffic down to 10-20%, but I believe this is a naive pipe dream and will be a huge hit to life quality for the majority.

We also have no infrastructure for EV at all. Most people don't have a garage to even be able to get a dedicated charging station. Public infrastructure would cost billions and energy demand is also a problem...

If EVs cannot be produced in a large number for whatever reason, resources or infrastructure problems or whatever, car manufacturers will demand billions upon billions from the Union because it forced them to switch. This is again a bad policy. If EVs are an alternative and affordable, they will remove combustion cars from the streets without any ban.
I am Bang.
It's only self sabotage if you define self narrowly. They chose that case because it so strongly demonstrated the true principle they were defending.

From a practical standpoint, the Nazi group they were defending didn't amount to anything, and they never even held their march after going to all the work of taking the case to the Supreme Court.