skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon is such an anti-human company. From their warehouses to their tech workers they are terrible against people. That said, if people like these stores then good for them.

I am honestly shocked and confused when people enjoy this. Or targeted ads or *GPT generated content. I am not anti-tech by any means. Maybe I am just not impressed and awed enough by these technologies to overlook the downsides?

I don't support "all progress is good progress" mentality with tech. I find these cashierless stores lazy and needlessly compromising on privacy. Just have a man-trap (locking revolving door for the unaware) that lets you in after you scan a card or speak/type your amazon id and give shoppers a smart cart thay detects what you put in and use cameras only to enforce all items you take are put in the cart. That and facial recognition privacy protection will get me to go there (but hey, i order everything for delivery anyways).

They can do better while protecting consumers but choose not to because of the precedent set allowing them to track movements on a store as a feature. So why can't this be used to keep you safe in apartment complexes, parking lots (car theives),etc... soon facial recognition will be id'ing me everywhere I go! The laws to protect people are nowhere near where they should be. So what are my choices? Move to the arctic and build an igloo?
GP could be mentioning quantization aware training, during which the weight and gradient are still computed in fp16/fp32.
Iran have helped the US in Afghanistan, do you consider them a NATO ally?

Just like surrounding, the meaning of ally needs changing to accommodate one's world view.
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/chernoby...
I don't know about C#, but you can get the java jit to dump lots of information about compilation.
-XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+LogCompilation
Will produce a log file that, among other things, gives the method sizes.
The argument has nothing to do with the definitions, but whether the term should be used. The N-word had a definition, too, but that doesn't mean it should have continued in common usage.

I understand the reluctance to make these changes---if you have the habit of using a word for a something all your life, it's going to seem irritating to change it if you have no idea why, or if you see the benefit for others but don't care since it doesn't benefit you personally.

So why is "felon" a label for life, and not "child"? Simply giving the definitions doesn't answer that question.
>infamous Nokia suicide

Nokia would had killed itself either way, with Elop it still tried to flop.

Every Nokia fanboy cries about EEE, but blissfully forgets what a turd was 5800 Xpress Music, which came half a year later than iPhone 3G.
Same here! Retail investors got screwed on this deal.
There are no bottom-barrel legacy admissions.

The "club", which includes the assurance of giving legacies a hard look, is largely why these Universities are desirable for non-legacy candidates.

In general, but also University depending, the education itself is nothing that can't be attained at many liberal arts colleges.
Mostly, SGI also did their own part of the overall failure.
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> 3D gaming at 1024x768 in 1998 would be like 8K gaming today.

Whatever. In late 1996, I got a PowerMac 8500/180DP (PowerPC 604e) and a 1024x768 monitor. The 8500 didn't even have a graphics card, but had integrated/dedicated graphics on the motherboard with 4MB VRAM (also S-video and composite video in and out). It came bundled with Bungie's Marathon[1] (1994) which filled the screen in 16-bit color.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_(video_game)
The future of consumer food should be colorless, bland packaging that unambiguously describes the product.

Cattle, not pets. We don't need to name our food in 2023.
> render the GDPR useless

I was under the impression GDPR has been useless since day 1.

> The privacy of individuals is more important than profit.

depends on what you mean by "privacy".
As an addendum, even Satan himself (Nestlé) manages to produce a non-cheap Milk chocolate with a whopping 8.8% of protein and 31% of cocoa solid:
https://cailler.ch/en/webshop/cailler-milk-100g
Yeah I think these "swiss" rules are more applicable to higher end things like Watches, the term "swiss made" would carry zero weight if those rules were not applied because every watch maker would find a way to stick that in there. But with this, I personally never saw the swiss connection and always found the branding to stand on it's own, and the mountain was never a big part of their branding anyways, it was always the shape of the box.
> Then why is it called Canada Dry?

Well:

> In 1890, Canadian pharmacist and chemist John J. McLaughlin of Enniskillen, Ontario (Hamlet), after working in a soda factory in Brooklyn, New York,[5] opened a carbonated water plant in Toronto.[1]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Dry
Seems like a very weird way of blaming a well defined system for your unwillingness to meet its prerequisites. It would take approximately a few minutes to discover that you need the app to get into the store and get that sorted. You are capable of this, just apparently too lazy or unwilling for some unclear reason. The return experience seems entirely orthogonal to the rest of the story here, and I'm not sure why you included it.

For those of us who managed to download the app and login to it, walking into the store, grabbing something off a shelf and walking out was extremely convenient in a way unmatched by any other store. Calling it an unmitigated disaster in your situation is like calling a movie a failure because you couldn't be bothered to go to a theater and see it. Just bizarre.
They seem to be doing pretty well, looks like they are closing their least popular stores. E.g. they are only closing 2 out of their 9 NY stores.

We have them in London and they are pretty convenient.
>This article is pure conservative BS.

Is conservative the right word for that? For example there's a graph of inflation/deflation in different industries and it blames the inflationary industries on government regulation holding back technological progress. Wouldn't those be considered conservative policies that are meant to preserve the status quo?
Well, if they're going to study real humans, they'll also use computer models for doing that.

And simpler than real humans too, kind of like mechanical and engineering models use particle descriptions simpler than real particles, but still work for their purposes...

You think some eventually "psychohistory" wont involve computing simulations? At least to spare Seldon all this paper math work...
> All our products are developed, designed and manufactured in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

That’s pretty weird for a company naming themselves “Micro Swiss”.

Hopefully at least the person or people that started Micro Swiss have some kind of connection to Switzerland, like for example that there is some great-great-great-grandmother that came from Switzerland or something.
Where’s the line though? Most people won’t be surprised that their McDonald’s hamburger isn’t made in Hamburg or that Swiss Chalet isn’t importing chickens from Switzerland.
It's a lie by default like any other Russian narratives nowadays. You just happen to use the most crocked one which I pointed out
Names are mostly for humans. In functions with limited scopes there should be no need for names beyond single letters.

Even functions don’t need names once they are small and pure enough.

Alas, we still cling to names.
Of course they shouldn't follow a strict schedule. You either value the time or the accuracy. If you're slowing everyone down to the worst case timing, you're wasting everyone's time just to be "on schedule". The schedules were clearly artificially longer than needed, because buses were frequently waiting in stations. I'm not talking about night buses, this happened during the day and frequently.

It was very obvious to me as an outsider that the planning is wrong. When the buses are frequently waiting minutes in stations with 20 people on them, it's watching hours of human hours wasted for an artificial accuracy. Accuracy is useless, the purpose is to have good average case end to end timing. Never have I had Google maps suggesting half an hour walks in European cities with pubic transport over public transport. Just shows how bad is the management of timing. They are waiting so
frequently you might as well just walk.

Maybe it's just a cultural thing. You value how much the ticket costs and whether the timing is accurate. I value my personal time.
Large popcorn and large drink for $15.99? Thanks I’m done.
China has a huge and restless population, and their economy at this point isn’t designed around outsourcing. I see them using AI in an authoritative way, but they wont be rushing to replace people with the zeal that Silicon Valley has.
So you're saying the only thine ChatGPT needs is a reliable pocket calculator and fine tuning with arxiv papers?

You seem to imply that's hard, but to me it doesn't sound like a lot of work, especially compared with humanity collectively training thousands of Math PhDs every year. It's true that we're not quite there yet, but I know I wouldn't bet a 30 year career on this. Are you close to retirement in say 2 years?
outer, middle, inner loop variable, not hard,
Yeah the usual story of a well-know good-quality brand being bought and the new owner cashes out the brand - quality and production costs drop, profits rise until the market realises this is now not a good-quality brand, which takes a few years (or even decades).
Kind of, not only Vulkan keeps trailing behind DirectX, where vendors collaborate with Microsoft on DirectX, and eventually they might come to Vulkan.

There is also the issues of development experience in provided SDKs versus what others provide, and apparently now Khronos rather adopt HLSL than trying to improve GLSL.
I have a friend who works for the state department overseas. He came to visit a few months ago - he’s in his mid 30s and now has to wear a hearing aid.

He also often loses his balance due to vertigo. I witnessed this first hand and had to prevent him from falling.

Whatever the cause, this is not something that’s made up, it has severely complicated his life and his partner’s.
Are you kidding me? Fiji is very special, it is the only water I've ever tasted that has that smooth texture. Worth every penny. If you can replicate it from elsewhere be my guest.

Also, the people of fiji benefiting from this I am sure will not agree with you about it being wasteful.
This reminds me of the idea that the nuclear codes can only be accessed by the president if they personally kill someone to get them. The idea is that it takes the idea of abstract power and translates it to a much more emotional decision.

I think there are certain aspects that appeal to that as a natural bulwark against power. But I’m not so sure we should want such decisions to be emotional. Just like we want justice to be blind, I think it may be a good idea for it to be dispassionate as well. This is why we generally frown on countries that let the victims determine the sentencing of their perpetrators.
The fundamental problem is that NSA, CIA, FBI.. can force American companies to hand over data (even if the data is saved in EU). I think it’s just a matter of time before AWS, Google Cloud, Azure.. is illegal to use, as long as there is not an EU company that have 100% control of the environment and is not incentivized to follow the orders from their software “supplier”.

The only fix it to remove all legal ground for American officials to get access to data about EU citizens.
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> most of those cameras housings don't contain cameras

Do you have a source for that?

Because at my local grocery store for example, above the customer service area they have a whole wall of TV's showing the live camera feeds. They're all working.

My local convenience store has the live TV's too, by the cashier.
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> someone builds an AI that figures out a path out of international conflict, through global food and water safety issues

None of these are engineering problems, these are entirely political problems or non-profitable problems where specific entrenched/corrupt interest groups have got large benefits from exploiting them

But yeah, let's shoot down more weather balloons, hopefully that will help
> That stops being a possibility when all DNS providers are forced to block anything that could be viewed as copyright infringement.

That already exists today with ISPs. Don't like it? Run your own internal resolver pointed at the root servers.
Searched a bunch of (popular) torrent sites and some of their proxies on https://www.quad9.net/result and they are all unblocked. Which ones got blocked for you?

You could also use Quad9's unsecured DNS to check if it was blocked by their list or if something else was going on.
That would be way less convenient than Amazon stores, having to pick what you want on a screen and then wait for it is much slower than just grabbing it off a shelf.

At that point, a self checkout machine is probably better in every way.
If you need user information to troubleshoot your site, then you'll need their explicit informed consent. Without it, you simply won't get to troubleshoot and will have to find some other way to fix your site.
I mean you get software for free, isn't that value? I know e.g. tons of people / companies using Terraform that get enormous value out of that without ever paying for it. Personally I run Gitlab CE for my company and that also gave me tons of value for free, so I don't think it's a trick.

If you curtail your software so much that no one can use it without paying you won't get much traction, you have to provide something that's useful enough for 90 % of the users without paying.
That's true for the case of simple apps that use a single runtime. Lots and lots of work is done "in Java" or "in Go". Lots more, including most of the largest and most complicated[1] apps, require synthesis of lots of tools from lots of sources. Those apps need to work very hard to get their heaps to play nicely with each other, and the tuning required by modern collected runtimes tends to blow up in strange ways.

[1] And especially including the ones targetted by the Boehm collector in the linked github. Also apps for which Rust (which famously eschews a collected heap) tends to be proposed.
Wow. Thanks for that link. That is eye opening.
“Falling Down” was a reference to the movie by the same name.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect a threat of violence from the enforcement of a contract. There’s a reason why we tend to give the monopoly of (non-self-defense) violence to the government.
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Would it surprise you to learn that there are folks with seniority and experience in all manner of fields that have really really good ideas that are never leaving their skulls? Simply because life is sufficiently complex and difficult for them that pursuing such an idea may never even occur to them?

If you think you understand a vertical so well that you have a killer idea, but you need a foot in the door via internal or external expertise because you don’t know the people or the language, your biggest problem is that you are lying to yourself.
There is also the evo64 project which rebuild the c64 with modern parts.
Does the “Story Continues” button on these Yahoo articles work for everyone except me?
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Ukraine joining NATO has been a hotbutton topic for the last 10 years. It was decided 6 months before the invasion that it would Ukraine would join, and I don't the two facts are entirely unrelated.
Given that IBM owns 9, it would have to have IBM behind it!
This implies that they could not have pushed OpenGL to be less of a mess. Feels bad faith to argue, when you consider how bad all drivers were back then.
I don’t think it makes sense to make broad generalizations across product types, languages, or locale on this topic. Expectations vary with context.

In some places for some things, a regional description might be interpreted by people to mean “in the style of”, and for others it may be presumed to mean “originates from”.

There are ton of examples of things that would be assumed to be one or the other. Neither are a “wrong” use of language. The problem is when the descriptors are used in a way that deceives purchasers.
> How do you know whether your blog is generating sales, or whether it’s the Q&A website, or the Youtube tutorials?

Is there no other way to determine that other than feeding traffic to unrelated third parties who build dossiers on everyone?
This is terrible advice and analysis - but let's just run with it. If life is a game and dying with the most money and/or children is the optional end state, well, here are some considerations:

1) The accident of birth is the greatest uncontrolled variable that affects long-term outcome. If you enter the game as the child of wealthy parents in a wealthy society, your chances of 'winning' are probably about 100X higher than if born to poor parents in a poor society. There are a range of other possibilities, of course - poor parents in a wealthy society (more opportunities), wealthy parents in a poor society (more risks), etc. If it's a game, it's hardly a level playing field. Then there's genetics to consider, which nobody really understands that well, though most seem to claim to.

2) As you move over the playing board, luck will play a huge role in the outcomes, certainly as much as skill will. The ability to discern between people that you should affiliate with and those you should not is certainly among the most important skills to develop. Another one is self-discipline - even if you happen to have above-average intelligence it won't count for much if you don't steadily apply it (though burnout followed by crash is the other side of that coin). Recommend listening to Carl Orloff's O Fortuna at this point (English & Latin):

https://youtu.be/O5b7tgkdFH0

3. As far as having lots of children, and winning the genetic population dynamics part of the game, those fertility doctors who replaced all their client's sperm with their own come to mind. Donald Cline is the most notorious, but there are several others. Cheat codes? Seems to be some pathology in this 'life is a game' outlook.

Life isn't really a game, a game is an entertaining diversion that can sometimes help develop one's skills. See 'the importance of play in childhood development'. Some people never exit this state, and we we have lots of overgrown children running around these days, starting wars and playing boardroom dominance games and cheating on their partners and so on. The transition from childhood to adult is not very well-managed in modern society.

As far as practical advice, training and developing your mind and body is never a bad idea. Regardless, all roads lead to the grave - what kind of game is that? Life is a mystery, that's a better view IMO.
This is an interesting example, because there are brands like PB Swiss Tools which are Swiss and have a good reputation.

Micro Swiss is named so, because of the type of (micro) lathes they used originally to make the nozzles. I don't have a primary source but it seems reasonable.

https://www.mmsonline.com/articles/understanding-swiss-type-...

See also the Swiss water process for decaffeinated coffee - the process was invented in Switzerland but it can be done anywhere (obviously).

Though what about Swiss Miss cocoa? They've always been based in WI and have no connection.
Toblerone has 62% of sugar, I'd personally consider anything beyond 55% of sugar as cheap chocolate. Also 28% of cocoa is definitely on the lower end, I expect quality chocolate to be at 30% of cocoa.
Most of the upvotes to the original post seem to nostalgic reactions to 3dfx just based on the title.

Because the article is kinda hard to follow for the uninitiated. Heavy name and jargon dropping haha
The most important feature of a tool meant to support creativity is interactivity. Last time I checked, Rust didn't have a REPL, didn't support live-patching, and didn't have fast compile times - all features critical for interactivity. Has something changed since then?
Are the giant cargo cranes that have been following you and spying on you in the room with us right now?
It sure does, and many dislike it ever happened which is why they're also trying to fight this. Surely you understand precedent.
Oh, this brings back so many memory from when I actually bought and updated PC hardware every time I had some money saved! I remember having a Matrox Mystique (the one with a... joker or something like that on the box), the 3Dfx Voodoo and also a TNT2. I remember moving from the Mystique to the Voodoo playing Quake and it was one of the biggest "wow" moment of my childhood.
> How do you know whether your blog is generating sales, or whether it’s the Q&A website, or the Youtube tutorials?

No one is entitled to knowing that information. Certainly not at the cost of our privacy and basic human dignity.
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In over 25 years of doing that I've yet to encounter a problem so idunno, maybe your model of something here is drastically off.
Cold brewed microplastics after a trip across the world, powered by extra virgin bunker fuel.
>The treat’s name is a portmanteau of the surname of the bar’s inventor, Theodor Tobler, and torrone, a toasted-almond nougat confection typical of Christmas traditions in south-western Europe.

I take exception at the word "inventor" here. "Creator" would work better. It's a candy bar. He didn't invent candy bars. He created a candy bar. There's enough distinctiveness for a trademark, but there isn't enough inventiveness for a patent.
Seattle is just behind Austin on the list, and ranks just above it in population (4 million). Seattle is already more than twice as dense as either Austin or Dallas (9000 per sqm vs 3000-4000 per sqm).
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It's 80,000 pounds dropped on a whim, not that they simply had 80k total. That is wealthy.
Even the most expensive prep schools tend to do limited SAT test prep, if any.

Poor kids can technically access the same private test prep as rich kids, and whether they actually can or not, financially speaking, has nothing to do with the tax base and the school itself.

That being said, better schools do provide for better child development.

This can be compensated for, to a degree, by enhanced parental interaction with the child from an early age.
Try blowing into the xm4's microphone on passthrough mode, and you'll discover it can work as a loudspeaker (it will amplify the noise).

This discovery made me a little worried that there's no volume limit that can be transmitted to your ears. Then again, someone blowing directly into your ear is probably worse :D
Converting to int8 halves the size.
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Good to see 200 year old illustrations not only predicting the imminent demise of work, but also that people would spend their free time enjoying practical novel forms of transport like Hyperloops...
Which prompt did you use for translation? I'd be curious to try it for my task too.
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