skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I do think those things are great but I would say that culture is substantially worse.

Only if you aren't a misfit. If you had some "weird" hobby or interest, like anime, or science fiction, or heck, even computers, you'd have maybe one, two other people in your life who were interested in that. If you openly talked about your "weird" hobby, you'd be as likely as not socially ostracized and made fun of.

Today, thanks to the internet and social media, one can find forums and discussion groups for any hobby, no matter how weird or esoteric, and have fun conversations with people that have nothing to do with weather, politics, or sportsball.
What a superficial collection of things to care about. Those things may tickle you a little when you’re taking advantage of them, but they really don’t make a substantial difference in whether you’re spending your days well and happy.

The 1990’s weren’t some dreary hellscape. You worked, you talked to people, you went out for dinner, you did some chores, you traveled. You had some crises that sent your life reeling, and some magical moments that made you grateful for what you had.

It was quite fine.

And in the ways that it was characteristically different(not better or worse), people were more engaged with what was right in front of them, had more shared experiences of life and media to relate about, and were less flooded with constant stimulation.

All the things you mention as accumulating in the years since are about as meaningful as the aisles and aisles of plastic toys I longed for at Toys-r-us as a kid. I thought they mattered, but they really don’t.
What if instead of trying to evaluate these models privately, which tends to have a lot of overhead, we instead try to mix lots of user queries and send them in batches?

We could use enclaves to do the mixing, and while there’s be added latency, we could achieve model outputs that are (by definition) at the current state of the art for LLMs. We would not hide the contents of queries, but we’d at least hide who is making which queries.
Zuckerberg has second thoughts on remote work
This is absolutely it. We've become desocialized, and the kind of callous assholery that usually goes on online has leaked into the real world.

I routinely witness people brazenly running red lights, and my instinct is to throw bricks at them -- so how am I not part of the problem?

I don't really know how we back away from this.
The K-2S0 droid character in Rogue One (voiced by Alan Tudyk) was, in fact, rendered in real-time using Unreal, then composited into shots afterwards.

John Knoll from ILM gave a talk at GDC 2017 about it.

The catch, though, is that ILM took the Unreal Engine source code and modified it extensively in order to be able to render K-2S0 as he appeared in the film. It's not like they just downloaded it from the Epic Store and ran with it.
I mentioned it in another comment, but Star Wars Rogue One also used it for a few shots.
I had to chuckle at how well the markdown python parser did, despite the sometimes foreign typescript-y syntax :D
I think it would change, but Rent is also not the right word.

I'm familiar with Rent and I intuit what it means. I have access to an asset for a limited time, and then I can choose to continue renting it, or not. The decision is in my hands.

License might be a better word. Because what they're selling is a "one time payment for use of this asset for an undetermined amount of time" - that's not "buy" but it's also not "rent".

When my license ends it's likely I can't get another. Certainly its not my decision to make.

The period of the license us unknown - till you block my account, till you go under, till you decide this service is no longer available, till _your_ license-to-license expires, and so on.

So yeah, I don't think it's Rent.
https://archive.ph/NuJdD
Do you not have a monopoly on your work?
jort.link – A Shield for Fediverse Links
AWS invested a ton into limiting the blast radius of failures by isolating AZs, regions and using a cellular (service level isolated shards) architecture. I am surprised these ideas have not propagated to newer companies trying to build clouds: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=swQbA4zub20

AWS isn’t perfect but these lessons were learned by fire because these sorts of global outages can seriously harm reputations.
> most types of engineering such as civil, eletrical, chemical, etc. have real net positive benefits in the way I and everyone around me experiences life

They do _now_. During their exponential-growth phase I think there were lots of negative externalities? (Pollution, etc). And we still have to regulate them heavily to avoid societal problems.

Another post in this thread mentioned it's all the closed-platform/walled-garden/attention-grabbing/rent-seeking behavior which is the worst aspect of "tech"... honestly I have the feeling we just haven't gotten around to learning how to regulate these well yet, just like it took a while to figure out how to control (local) pollution (I mean, even this is still a huge problem with global carbon pollution).
Very nice, I also like the other yojijukugo displayed at the bottom, especially jyuunintoiro. I enjoy (what I perceive as) the subtle wordplay of having two different readings of the same character (ten) in the word, hinting at the sort of "more than one way to skin a cat" theme of the word.

Literally, the characters are "ten people ten colors", but the two "tens" are read differently: "jyuu" and "to" respectively, because the same character can have multiple readings.

Yojijukugo are really fun, I've written about them a bit here if anyone wants more context: https://jm.dev/yojijukugo
It's about $3.6 for 2gb in india for a month. (2gb a day)
Germany it's about 15e for 10gb
UK it's usaually 12quid for 10+gb.

etc.

It's been that way for a long time.
This is really nice! I've been hardlining the minimalist/utilitarian approach for https://simple.industries with an intentionally basic system font stack, but this gives a few other options to play with.
Smartphones have been around for long enough now -- I don't know whether I agree with the titular claim. I think the phone/distraction addiction is more of a symptom of something else.

I've seen somewhere on twitter a thread positing that Covid changed people's brains (long covid especially), but let's take that with a grain of sand maybe.

Right neighbourhood anyway, it seems the rise in these behaviours coincides with the rise of the pandemic.
Anaconda automatically handles things like making sure the correct version of cuDNN for your graphics card is installed. When I tried doing this myself with venv it was really painful.
I think the point is... you works think that the person who helped write the dodd Frank act, would probably follow it, even if it wasn't in law.
That is absolutely false. I didn't even own a car in the 2000s because going anywhere meant a bunch of printed maps, bad GPS, and getting lost. Google Maps liberated me to a whole world of restaurants, side trips, urgent plan changes, and last-minute tourism. Plus podcasts, voice memos, and time sensitive texts. It kills me that safetyism is throwing out all those babies with the bathwater.
I'd say the article is missing the real reason.

The "owner" of what shade blue a button is makes 500k while someone doing elderly care or construction is making a fraction of it. (exaggerating ofc)

For anyone outside of the bubble of proud button owners club that looks like something has gone horribly wrong. It's not unlike the dislike towards bankers and lawyers: High comp, low or negative perceived societal value.

Of course there are still plenty areas where there is innovation and value add but as the industry matures it gets closer and closer to the above.
It's also to (at least theoretically, can't comment on Dodd-Frank specifically but other areas of compliance that I've dealt with) ensure that even good actors don't stray too far. "Normalization of deviance" is a real issue, even for well-intended individuals and organizations. Having some manner to hold people to account can reduce (though certainly not eliminate) those incidences as well, or provide a way to get back on track (including, potentially, paths for self-reporting and rectifying to discourage coverups).
I talked to some folks who worked there, years ago, and was surprised they didn't use GPUs. I got the impression that the software was largely based on code that dated back to the 1990s.
If that isnt a nail in the coffin for the Metaverse metaverse I don't know what is.
Your being overly reductive and your take totally ignores the absolute failure of Bircher candidates to elected outside of say Georgia.
The point of legislation is to enact behavior because not everyone is a beneficent actor. If we could rely on beneficence alone, there would be no need for law.

(It should be obvious that banks do not do strictly beneficent things.)
Underlying scientific paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm7735
Both Python and Rust guarantee memory safety. Python does it through automatic reference counting at runtime, Rust does it through compile time checks. If you are writing backend code, you could really do it in either, and you would hypothetically choose Rust because its compiled and going to be fast.

The problem with Rust is that they have the unsafe operator. When using a 3d party library, I have no idea if someone put a bunch of unsafe code in there, so all memory safety guarantees go out the window. Sure, you can grab the raw source and compile it yourself, but then that introduces a whole bunch of friction into the dev process.

And the reason unsafe is in Rust is because you can't write standard library stuff, especially with performance in mind, using traditional Rust constructs.

In the end, Rust doesn't give you anything over a compiled C extension to Python, that can be written as memory safe in the sense that it just receives a buffer of data to process with preallocated memory, runs said processing, and returns the data. This is pretty much the standard way that ML works except the compiled extensions just get put on the GPU rather than CPU, and the overhead of the translation layer is extremely small in comparison.
Many (but not all) Japanese four-character idioms (yojijukugo) are actually Chinese imports, and they're IMHO far more prevalent in that language.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojijukugo
It simply puts a bit more trust on the user than normal. And if your OS has a ridiculous system-UI font that can't handle paragraphs well, you have bigger problems than some website.
Or even a bloom filter?
>The weird thing is that I never needed computer assisted navigation until it existed. In my local area I simply remembered where streets were, and when traveling I used a map book.

You are extremely fortunate. It may not be apparent to you, but the advent of GPS, smartphones and Google Maps has been a game changer for so many people. My sense of direction is all right. I'm not a homing pigeon, but given a map, I can generally find my way around. But for other people such as my mom, every trip, outside of some well-traveled routes (like going to work, or going to the store) had to have detailed written directions, and be rehearsed ahead of time, because otherwise she'd get lost. For her, Google Maps has resulted in a substantial improvement in the quality of her life, simply by enabling her to get around in the world without the constant background terror of not knowing how to get home.
There was a Tweet from Andreessen the other day about how tech is heading toward a $100 full wall TV while college (a tech resister) to $1 million [1] - supposedly because of regulation or some other nonsense. Guess what - a college education is worth a great deal more to society and the individual that gets it than a TV of any size will ever be worth IMHO. It is this Tech fixes everything/software eats the world attitude that is pissing people off. The only people that think it is a great thing are people that never have to waste 20 minutes of their time finding their way through a phone menu at a bank because they have a minion that does everything for them and lets them avoid the very tech they create. Disruptive companies make the most money even if they really don't improve people lives.

Tech is reaching a stage where the garbage/useful ratio is > 1. This is actually what I use to like about Musk when he pretended to run his companies and smoked cigars at the Playboy mansion. He actually tried to get truly innovative and useful technology worked on. Not anymore.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/marc-andreessen-warns-colleg...
Everyone is already fake without AI :/
> Forced to sell at a 50% discount (if they want liquidity)

Obviously no one is literally forced to sell. Is this really that hard to understand? This entire thread is about how by not going IPO, the employees were unable to sell. I'm sure they would have preferred to sell a few years ago instead of paying less taxes now.

It also seems that some employees' options are expiring, so while they aren't literally forced to sell, in reality, they are.
While you have a valid point with cgroups I never stated anything about "sabotage". So let's not play the misinformed card and then go on making things up.

As for Red Hat and their games of not supporting Docker, even after cgroups were addressed Red Hat never officially supported Docker as a runtime. How do I know this? Because at the time I was working with paying clients of RHEL/OpenShift and was on calls regarding said customers being forced to use inferior (their words) RHEL tooling. So while your history may have not seen the games Red Hat was playing, they surely were.
Damn nearly getting cut in half by a meteor while skydiving!
what is the name of this style of visualization?

and for what types of data does it excel?
Crossed with a low frequency white noise like howl. I see "with sound" on the meteorite spotter page, but it still seems like it was made up.

Interesting, https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932PA.....40..289W#:~:text=....

https://www.science.org/content/article/new-theory-may-expla....

So maybe not.
I don't doubt the AKC's numbers, but I think the Economist is missing the -doodle dogs. Maybe because they aren't recognized breeds?

I see them constantly: labradoodles, goldendoodles, bernadoodles

Edit: I think "they don't shed" is the attraction of the -doodle. Well, my Lab doesn't shed, either, and he's never had a haircut.
I had ChatGPT (not gpt4) semi-succesfully play a session of D&D where I played the dungeon master and it had no problems with violence against goblins. It did however constantly try to take over and play as the goblins as well, and I had to keep telling it that I was the DM, not it.

It was fun in the "look at what AI Is doing" novelty way. But it was pretty uncreative and generic.
Are there any French bulldoodles?
Python is slower than other languages, yes.

Python is not "slow" in the sense that it not applicable to use when you wanna run real world applications.

Yours is the equivalent argument for buying a BMW M3 over a Toyota Corolla because it can do a faster lap time around a track and thus is better for your commute, except in the real world with traffic and traffic lights, on a 30 minute commute home, you will probably arrive at your destination 1 minute quicker in the BMW over a Corolla.
I was (am) some sort of misfit and I get that it feels good to find community online, but not everything that feels good is the best for us or for society.

Having a village full of people who don’t engage with each other because they’ve found more interesting people online is troubling.

And I don’t know, but it’s plausible that learning a healthy way to integrate with your local community is an important life skill that gets disrupted by these online connections and makes the big picture of one’s life worse than it would have been otherwise. Connecting online may relieve stress the way alcohol relieves stress — genuinely useful in any moment, but easily problematic if you become too reliant on it.
They were acquired in 2016:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/28/comcast-to-acquire-dreamwo...

Perhaps they've moved on to a new renderer.
TensorFlow with Matlab
The reason Bitcoin and Lightning Network payments are spreading like wildfire within the content of Africa is a direct result of decades of abusive relationships and abject failure of the traditional banking system.
ChatGPT v4:

In pixeled realms where photons race,
A wondrous dance of light's embrace,
Ray tracing weaves its subtle art,
Illuminating shadows' heart.
With every bounce and each reflection,
It births a scene of pure perfection.

A cascade of color, depth, and tone,
In virtual worlds, it carves its throne,
From mirrored glass to shimmering streams,
Ray tracing paints our digital dreams.
A masterstroke in the canvas vast,
Its legacy through ages cast.
> 2. Privacy. Their threat model only addresses malicious peers changing content, not malicious peers trying to track users.

I'm narrowing the scope around 'user tracking' specifically to 3rd parties, because 1st party user tracking is a requirement in order to perform some necessary functions (Providing accounts & user sessions, for example).

In the current centralized CDN model (Cloudflare, AWS, Akamai, etc.), the 3rd party is made clear (those aforementioned companies), and their need to track users is documented on the provider's ToS. Likewise, reputational damage is accrued to the providers in question.

In their proposed CDN model, there is no clear 3rd party, and so it must be defensively assumed that all of the data sent for requests is recorded at all times (The FBI Tor exit node problem). As a consequence, the minimal amount of request data can only be sent to these providers (IP address, content hash). Tor-like routing could be implemented to further disperse the requests from one IP address to multiple addresses, but now the monitoring problem's increased to the routers as well, on top of the additional latency introduced for said privacy. Mandating said routing into the protocol would make such tracks useless, as the IP address collected will roughly appear as random noise in the optimistic case.

Personal opinion below

However, it is likely that no technical solution provided would resolutely satisfy the question being asked.
It's not pointless at all, the fact that all the money comes out of my pocket is really signific ant it comes to determining who the real customer of valve is.

If it's a point of issue between me, Valve, and the game developers, at the end of the day it's my decision that matters because I have the money and if I choose not to spend it the whole thing stops working.

Take away valve and then I go straight to the source and purchase games from the developers directly, it's going to be inconvenient, but it'll be fine.

Take away the developers and valve will fund game development and start making their own stuff like Netflix has with all the media companies.

Take away the customers? Game over.

Of logic works all right when you're talking about Google and the fact that the advertisers are the real customers, because of the end of the day the advertisers have the money and when it is advertisers versus users the advertisers always win.

It's important to be the guy funding the system at the end of the day, otherwise you get screwed.
Controlled digital lending seems to me like a misguided attempt to enforce the limits of dead tree books on bits.

Current copyright law may be good for (some) authors and publishers, and it may provide some incentive for writing new books, but it seems like a huge loss for humanity as a whole, who miss out on the benefit of being able to read any book via the internet, essentially for free.

It's sad that Google scanned entire university libraries, only to lock them up and only allow access to small snippets. And it's nothing less than absurd that students and faculty don't even get access to scanned books from their own library.

Though there are some real digital libraries that are less observant of copyright law. They may not be as easy to get to as the internet archive, but they're often much better in terms of access policies.
Sad. We need to move away from smoking, not encourage this cancer-causing good-for-nothing behavior. Not to mention it causes streets to smell like a skunk.
Any thoughts on the chemistry here?

Astronomers may have found a signature of life on Venus

Evidence indicates phosphine, a gas associated with living organisms, is present in the habitable region of Venus’ atmosphere.

https://news.mit.edu/2020/life-venus-phosphine-0914

In particular:

MIT scientists have previously shown that if this stinky, poisonous gas were ever detected on a rocky, terrestrial planet, it could only be produced by a living organism there.

( I'm assuming your credentials as an astro biologist are fine... )
>The 1990’s weren’t some dreary hellscape.

You can totally still live a '90s lifestyle today. Cancel your high-speed Internet and tether to your phone for everything. Give up watching YouTube. Give up looking things up on Wikipedia. Film cameras are a dime-a-dozen on eBay, with even high-end SLRs from the '90s selling for less than a hundred dollars. Disable Google Maps and Google Search. Stop posting on Hacker News.

If you think the '90s were better than they were today, by all means, go back.

EDIT: For what it's worth, you can find people in the 1930s saying the same things about electricity and indoor plumbing. Every current generation's necessity is the previous generation's excess frivolity.
Only if Dodd-Frank addressed only individual bank owner risk and not systemic and depositor risk.
Thanks for the kind words Robert! Our experience with Ray has been great so far, we're excited to see how we can use ray to help improve stream processing.
In some sense yojijukugo are the original memes, in that they can be riffed off for humorous purposes. For example, the Japanese idiom for "the strong devour the weak" is 弱肉強食 jakuniku kyuushoku (the meat of the weak is the food of the strong), but you can instead say 焼肉定食 yakuniku teishoku (lit. grilled meat set meal) for laughs, and rakugo comedian Jakusaburo Katsura released an album called 雀肉共食 jakuniku kyuushoku (same reading, but meaning "let's eat sparrow meat together" and referring to his own name).
Like someone else said, real-time renders need to output at a reasonable frame-rate, which is the top priority. Therefore, per-frame image quality can take a fairly severe hit before things start being noticeable.

For the record, most real-time renderers are rasterisation-based, where geometry is assembled, rasterised, and then the fragments shaded. This is what almost all video games have been running on since the 1990s. Many so-called 'RTX' games you see today still do the bulk of their rendering using rasterisation and all the associated hacks to achieve photorealism, and only enable path-tracing for specular reflection, soft shadows, and diffuse-diffuse global illumination.

A high-quality real-time path-traced pipeline was impossible to achieve in playable framerates until very recently (~5 years ago). This is because we simply didn't have the hardware to do it, and denoising algorithms weren't very powerful until we got generative AI algorithms (OptiX, DLSS, etc). Even today, any real-time path-traced pipeline renders much fewer samples than any offline render does—usually 3 or 4 orders of magnitude less—simply because it would be too slow and a waste to render so many samples for a frame that would be displayed for several milliseconds and then promptly discarded.

Offline renderers do jack the quality up, and they use massive render-farms with hundreds of thousands of cores, with memory on the order of 10^14-10^15 bytes. The scales are completely off the charts; a single frame using an off-line renderer can take up to several hours to render on an average home computer.
They’re lovely, smart, healthy, happy, energetic, fun, and cute.