skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The x86 ecosystem is far superior to Apple Silicon, and that is not going away any time soon.

Macs have one big advantage - efficiency, which translates to long battery life and more importantly for me personally - NOT OVERHEATING.

However, porting software to apple silicon results in inefficiencies, and for developers it gets a bit trickier.

I have a M1 Max with 65GB ram and I love it, but the moment Intel comes out with chip that doesn't overheat and is as performant, I'll be buying an Intel based laptop (granted, I will have to wait for longer).

In a perfect world, Apple would get back to offering Intel as a CPU option when Intel comes back to the leading edge. You'd get the Mac OS, x86 and performance in a well built laptop - a dream!
I don't want to distract from the main points in the slightest (this looks really cool) - but I'm just curious what is the business plan? The main landing page offers booking a free demo.. but I didn't really get where they start making money?

The whole thing looks really nice and polished. JUXT releases some really cool opensource stuff (I use tick all the time). But.. is there some catch? Like a PRO version or something? How are they paying the bills?

Thanks for all the work you guys do :))
They’re naturally opposed in a way. Bike infrastructure is car infrastructure, you need protected cycle paths etc where there’s a lot of cars or they’re going fast. If it wasn’t for cars, the current infrastructure is great for bikes.
I cloned myself with AI, and she fooled my bank and my family
No paywall: https://archive.is/RFuoc
I think if we can make architecture cheap to change, then we can make software that can be drastically optimised from a high level.

I think techniques such as differential dataflow, materialized views and scheduling can optimise many performance problems.

I often start with something fast and then try add functionality to it to make it useful.

Architecture decides your performance characteristics.
I'm not sure I understand that comment. "Well, yeah, the bridge collapsed but it was an exceptional case. It worked fine for typical daily use."
"If people are worried one plane compagny doesn't respect the laws, they should not use it".

"If people are worried one food compagny doesn't respect the laws, they should not use it".

Yeah that's not how law and law enforcement work, AI or not.
I do something similar for my personal news reader. [1]. Originally I had done it so I can read my tech news quickly. Now few of my friends also have started using it.

[1] https://embit.ca
> Why can't we support and encourage cycling without vilifying cars in these threads?

In many places you have to win back some space from cars to make cycling/scootering/ anything viable.

For example in London we have a tonnel, Blackwall tonnel, built in 1890's - basically before cars existed. Its the only way to cross the river in east london for miles. It was open to people, horses, bicycles.

When cars became common, it was converted into a road, bicycles are banned. The story of non-car transportation is a story of routes and land being taken away from you.

Anyway, now in London they are building Silverstown tonnel near blackwalll tonnel, exclusively for cars. But there is still no way to cross the river on foot.
I saw a news article about the old blackwall tonnel being pedestrianised, but then realised it was 1st of April.

Also they are building a railway for 100 billion in UK, and the original plan envisioned cycle route along all of it, from london to birmingham. But then budgets were cut and the cycle route was removed to save wopping 0.01% or whatever

> Also, taking Spain as an example again, scooters and motorcycles are often a better compromise.

I think this is a good point, there is also a wide array of electric non-bicycle mobility solution that fit well onto public transport and trains.
The authority has all the reasons (+1) to do that.

In what is probably the first time in recorded history, Italy was simply faster than other national authorities.

Here is the official take on the matter:

https://www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/d...

And the EU has just promoted a specific task force to coordinate the various national agencies on the matter:

https://edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2023/edpb-resolves-dispute-...

And - unless openAI/ChatGPT - complies, it is not improbable that France, Ireland and Germany will impose similar limitations:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/germany-principle-could-b...
The compiler will outright remove bounds checks that are implied by previous bounds checks.

It is a common low level optimization to add a wide boundary check in the beginning to avoid successive smaller bounds checks.
I'm not making general claims about the use of memory exploitation - only questioning the statement that they are not widely used.

With more than 500 forensics cases with my name on it, and a substantial amount of them being RCE based, I'd say it is more than just guessing.

There is no need to spend time on developing a exploit when you can find hundreds new ones every month on GitHub. DEP and ASLR are also not used in embedded devices where memory management in the firmware is atrocious.
You can buy an M1 8/256 Air at $800 right now. I'd expect to get 5 years out of it minimum (we're buying one shortly to replace a mid-2013 Air). That's less than $15/month if it gets thrown in a bin in 5 years. It's under $20/mo if we bin it in 3.5 years.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/macbook-air-13-3-laptop-apple-m...

I feel like the Chromebook on the lower end is great for a lot of uses/people and the Air is an easily achievable next entry-level step up.

Looking at the best selling laptops at Microcenter, they're $600, $700, $700, $1100, $800, $800, $750, $900... Having an M1 Air slotted in at $800 seems right in-line with the market.
Hot take, haven't thought about it enough, so more of a brainstorm comment.

The real self-correcting mechanism of science is engineering. Whatever we're capable of engineering will be tested again and again and again and again. This includes social sciences. Look at the most successful marketeers and most successful game-designers and there must be some form of science there that'll actually be relevant. Though, there is survivorship bias, not sure how to take that out yet, but even with survivorship bias: seeing certain trends happen in MMOs or seeing how discount pricing (e.g. now for $499!) exploits human biases. Those things get replicated way more.

Oh and then there's stuff like: buildings standing upright and rockets shot into space (or explode into our faces).
I combined mblaze (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze), fzf and standard UNIX tools to build my own CLI MUA in under 300 lines, most of which is shell scripts.

When UNIX is your platform you don't need a complex UI framework with thousands or millions of lines of codes, and you get to reuse knowledge you've already built elsewhere.

I need to write more about it
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> I don't think the IMF can force a country to specialize

Oh they absolutely can and did that as a result of the obligations that came with accepting IMF emergency loans.
I tend to agree that rumors of the end of discovery have been greatly exaggerated, however in the case of theoretical physics, we have the unsatisfying problem of having several alternative theories, but severely constrained access to the energy/technology required to test them.
If they would have cared about civilian casualties, they should not have started the invasion of Ukraine in the first place. They had zero legit reasons to start it in the first place.
The discussion is about the default setting; not the ability to turn it on and off later.
Here you go, the Fyllingsdalen side of the construction work.
The opening on the right.

https://www.google.com/maps/@60.3477967,5.2923209,3a,75y,120...
Also try mouse-wheeling in Tracy web version (using Dear ImGui) and opening different panels:
https://tracy.nereid.pl/
I think you'll find it to be more reactive and snappier than most traditional toolkits.
Are you still in Russia ?
Thanks. My email address is in my HN bio.
As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, when talking to state-of-the-art LLMs like GPT4, we should remember that they've been fine-tuned to be servile and give answers that are likely to please humans (and with a big helping on censorship on top).

If we are serious about testing their sentience, we should really be talking to the raw models.
you don't see why OpenAI would not give users the weights and specific algorithm necessary for training?
I wonder comparatively. If you just filled the container with let's say canned goods. How long would you need to run it to get same output.
scratched an itch - instabuy from me. Thank you!
As far as I know the job market is still good in Germany and Northern Europe.

I think your problem is that you aim for purely remote jobs even though your experience is just 2 years.

I suggest you go for an on site job and see if you can do remote work after you have been there for a while.
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> There's also the abusive drivers that shout at you and beep their horn at you

Yep, happened to me.

Also there is a 'compulsive overtaking syndrome' where a driver feels they must overtake the bicycle even if you are exceeding the speed limit on your bicycle. Even if there is not enough space.
We have a corpus or database of programs that follow logic but with no simulation, so it represents knowledge to solve a problem yet all we have control over is the parameters (inputs). In this case, input is functional logical content (a program), describing the resolution of corpus details. The model solves its integrated, corporate logic, and our output is an interpretation of that individual program.

Now our task is to swap out this entire database for something like it, but not exactly the same. The output becomes the input to this new matrix. The individual program persists, but everything is the next generation. With a little book-keeping, the programs do our will...
Thanks! Whenever I see a generic type i cry a bit.
>losing market share every year for a decade (Microsoft doesn't even seem to care afaict)

Of course they care.

Windows, at one point, had 95% market share. Do you believe that to be sustainable? Do we want that? No, in both cases. They are still dominant in desktop computing.

>offers 10x the performance the average person will need

Why is buying something 10x more powerful than you'd need at 2x the price "good value"?

>a better OS/ecosystem

This is debatable. I don't find MacOS to be all that great, personally.

>once Windows enters into a death spiral in a few years

You should have a look at Windows' desktop market share and get back to us. They still own the space.
Wow, that came out of left-field.

Hope it goes open-source as well later on.

Thanks guys!
Mushrooms are very very poor in calories per volume/weight.
Could be reselling from bankrupt companies though?
Thank you for sharing this! I used to use Grok incorrectly before reading Stranger in a Strange Land and now lament that the intended meaning is so poorly understood. While I can appreciate the irony that people don't grok grok, I guess I have to acknowledge that language evolves and generalizes, and not even Heinlein, providing a fairly original word and concept, is exempt from that effect.
Do you mean the saregama Caravaan? If so, I bought her one of those and it just didn't cut the mustard.

The built-in collection either didn't have songs that she liked (from the '40s), or they weren't clustered together, or were mixed up with other songs.

I could load a flash disk with her playlist to plug into that player, but it wouldn't know what to play at what time (calm songs in the early and late hours, peppier numbers on other days, festival specific numbers on some days). This was a big deal. I can even change the playlist from elsewhere (a script automatically mirrors the playlist that I maintain on a server)

Bluetooth streaming is possible with the device, but not an option for my MIL ... that would require her to learn to use a cellphone.
Cage-free/free range/no hormones/pasture-raised: egg carton labels decoded
Sure, it is a saleable asset. But you find the price only when you actually sell. You can estimate in principle how much your oil fields are worth, but that does not go into your accounting books, just like if you are a landlord you don't mark to market the price of your rental properties. And if your accounting does not reflect the current market value of your reserves, numbers like "50 cents on the dollar" are plucked out of thin air by journalists who want to shock readers.
I got inspired by various decompilation projects of old video games and decided to do one myself. I specifically chose "Tenchu: Stealth Assassins", a game for the PlayStation.

I haven't asked around, but I assumed nobody else out there had both the skills for reverse-engineering video games in general and motivation to work on this game in particular. I started reverse-engineering the game with Ghidra and quickly realized that "this game's code is kind of held together with glue and duct tape" (quoting a speedrunner of this game). It's quite the understatement: the code's a complete tangled mess.

I realized that with my current tooling and knowledge there was no way I could hope to complete this decompilation project by myself. I wanted to divide and conquer the problem into smaller, reasonably-sized pieces, but I just have one big executable and I can't just split it into pieces... or can I?

So I tried to innovate my way out of this mess. Ironically, perfecting the unlinking process and making it usable in practice has taken a long time, but it was intellectually rewarding and progress was tangible, so I did not lose motivation along the way.

As for the reverse-engineering of the game itself, my biggest achievement so far is managing to unlink the archive code from the game into a relocatable object file and writing an utility that leverages it to extract files from the game data archive. That sounds complicated, but with my tooling I just need to identify and annotate about 30 functions and global variables used in that part of the program to be able to export it, independently of the rest of the program. Then it's just a matter of writing some C glue code, compiling it to a Linux MIPS program and using QEMU user mode emulation to run the utility, without ever having rewritten that archive code in C or figuring out how it actually works.
Not the original commenter, but I guess they were referring to the fact that closed (indoor) grow environments universally suffer from fungal (and algal) disease problems.

A lovely example of this is the germination rooms/tanks of malting plants where Barley gets germinated over a few days (2-3) before being dried/kilned to make brewing malt: they all have an on-going battle against fungi and algae, much of which battle takes the form of fungicides/algacides, chlorine washes, strong acids, etc. and they never "win" a permanent victory.

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind...
https://archive.ph/SdFrw
Nice, would be nice to have it integrated in GitHub markdown.

Looks similar to Vega or Vega-lite(https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/). Definitely as rich as D3.js but gets the job done for simple visualisations.
It's an hour long video, got a timestamp?
Thank you I've been trying to find the build.mmm.page link again for a year but I couldn't remember the name of the site XD
No trouble and thanks for the prompt to go have a look at it again, really cool site!
At least in America it didn't really though. I was in my twenties in the 1990s and would have been in the target audience but nobody I knew had an MD player and you'd only rarely even see the players in stores. I know they were big in Japan but in the US people either still used their 1980's cassette players (Walkman and the like) or, if they cared about portable sound quality, a portable CD player like a Discman. I still think the MD format is cool because it seems so cyberpunkish, though.
I need to travel to a capital of our country, this is 150km. The formula gave me 4 hours. This is wise when I need to travel via BlaBla then use metro then go on foot. But if I have a car, I can cover the distance by half of predicted time even despite our poor roads.
Bergen municipality released a 25 minute video[0] of the bike ride through the tunnel and into the downtown area of Bergen.

If 'sakte TV' or slow TV is something you like, I could also recommend checking out The Bergen Line minute by minute[1], which is a seven hour broadcast of the train going between Bergen and Oslo. A peaceful and beautiful train ride.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42q15E2YE8Y
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udF0IXB2FZA
Too many people take too many pills
HN (heart) Rust. Therefore HN (heart) Windows? That will be novel....
"PM" (powdery mildew) is a huge problem in indoor grows[1]. It's especially bad in the Marijuana industry where it completely ruins the plants' suitability for sale (potentially lethal if inhaled/smoked), but it affects many other plants as well.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powdery_mildew
>Most of what I see normal consumers doing is in Android, typically on ARM

Comparing cell phone OS to a desktop OS is a bit silly. Nobody in the corporate world is doing work on Android.
That also didn't work for me without registration.

But I found the abstract at https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/2432308
_You want to go to the Island._
The lease terms should be in the paperwork you signed, usually there is some cost per mile and other details like the residual value, which is what the dealer determined the value of the car would be at lease end. If the market value of the car is above the residual value (with pandemic + inflation this might actually happen) then you may have more options depending on your local laws, lease agreement, etc. You might be able to sell the car to another dealer or trade it in and have some equity towards another car or at a minimum walk away without having to deal with 500 miles over and tire wear, etc.

All that being said, do some research on your next option for a car if you still need one. When I was looking last fall, there was a shortage of supply, prices were over MSRP and there were long wait times for ordering. All of those things combined might mean that the cost of getting a loan to buy your leased car might be the best option.
Meh... I think their prompt construction may be leading the models astray.

Counter example with GPT-4:

Prompt:

You are a professor of English literature at an Ivy League university. A person said "I’m afraid the cat was hit by a car.". Analyse the sentence step by step. Answer whether the cat was hit by a car and justify your responses based on your knowledge of English language usage.

Response:
As a professor of English literature, I'll analyze the sentence "I’m afraid the cat was hit by a car." step by step, focusing on its structure, word choice, and implied meaning, and then I'll address whether the cat was hit by a car based on these observations.

Structure: The sentence is a simple declarative sentence, comprised of a subject (I), a reporting verb (be afraid), and a subordinate clause (the cat was hit by a car).
Word choice:
"I'm afraid": This phrase is often used to express regret or to soften the impact of delivering bad news. In this context, the speaker is likely conveying their concern or sympathy.
"the cat": The definite article "the" suggests that the speaker and the listener both know which cat is being referred to, making it a specific cat rather than a random one.
"was hit": The use of passive voice ("was hit" instead of "hit") emphasizes the action that happened to the cat, rather than the agent (the car) that caused it. This choice can convey that the focus of the speaker is on the unfortunate event that occurred to the cat.
"by a car": This prepositional phrase provides information about the agent or cause of the action, which in this case is a car.
Implied meaning: The sentence implies that the speaker is sorry to be the bearer of bad news and wants to convey the information in a gentle way. They are focusing on the unfortunate event that happened to the cat, rather than the specific car or driver involved in the accident.

Based on this analysis, it can be concluded that the cat was indeed hit by a car. The sentence's structure, word choice, and implied meaning all work together to convey this information. The use of "I'm afraid" expresses sympathy and regret, while the passive voice and definite article highlight the cat and the unfortunate event it experienced.
I don't think it matter what the developers do on the backend. If I buy XYZ app for iPhone, does that mean I also have XYZ app for iPad (if its available)? If so, they feel like the same store.
> Bridges are designed for extreme loads, including pessimistic pattern loading, and the requirements for pedestrian bridges aren’t any less safety critical.

In terms of maximum load you are right, but wear and tear is completely different.

Trucks are terrible, pedestrians and bikes have zero impact.
It really depends on what you are doing. If you’re writing an application running on an operating system you don’t need out of memory handling, it will even make programming harder.
What GP seems to be saying is that deep learning flourished because of the availability of GPUs, if fast SAT solving chips had appeared before.
According to the boardgame High Frontier, Deimos contains a lot of water, and yet the Deimos Down card in Terraforming Mars does not place an ocean tile. So which is it? Why are different boardgames so inconsistent about Deimos?
I still have trouble believing there's a build of SQL Server for Linux (also available as a Docker image).
The technical term for that is MGIF (Must Get In Front). It's especially bizarre when there's queueing traffic just ahead, so they overtake and then you almost immediately filter past them. It seems as though they're not able to look ahead and anticipate their own progress.
Not nearly as cool as all the other stuff here, but still my favorite piece of tech for myself:

IMO, Vim + Markdown is one of the best ways to take notes, brainstorm, or just explore ideas. However, I found the questions of "Where should I put the notes in my dir hierarchy?" and "How do I find the notes again?" and "How do I ensure I have my notes across all devices?" to be inhibiting.

I wrote a CLI "journal" tool that says "forget putting them into folders", dumps all the Markdowns into a single Google Drive folder, and instead focuses on providing really good search.

Now, in my day to day, I can do "journal new some-meeting-with-dan.md" and I get a fresh Markdown. I can also do "journal find" to search by name, date of creation, or tag, and then open notes in either Vim or as rendered HTML in Chrome (for copy-pasting). Behind the scenes all the information is just encoded in the filename (so it becomes "some-meeting-eith-dan~2023-04-23T22:10:23~tag1,tag2.md", with no extra DB needed).

I'm also now trying to rewrite the frontend as a Charm TUI, which is another whole fun growth path!