skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a filter, but what makes it good? I'd expect average applicant quality to go down.
Right, but i think the scenario being imagined is more like some valley startup tried to capitalize on the tracking that already exists, and through the insane amount of investment money can profit share with restaurants that use their technology. It'll start about "selection satisfaction" and be used to create a profile to present the dishes you're most likely to enjoy based on your previous data. This will help people. Then it'll creep and creep and creep. After a certain time, the company pays restaurants to remove paper menus. And then everything goes to shit. Sure, certain restaurants will capitalize on the disdain by having paper menus and raising prices to match their novelness. But the general everyday experience of the average person will be worse, with more tracking, and less money.

Go ahead and say tinfoil hat, if i told you about the current state of streaming services or social media back in the early days of those existing we'd all say the same thing. The only barrier to entry to making the world worse is money. Every app i love, every service i use, my experience with the general internet, it's all gotten worse. And it's always in service of tracking and/or profit. So it's not hard to imagine a scenario where this is possible.

It's extremely difficult to not be cynical about the world. I really mean it when i say the social apps i have to use to keep up with friends have only gotten worse. There hasn't been a single improvement in over 5 years. Every update is more ads, more tracking, less human.
(I'm a dev on the project.) We have no plans to jack up prices. We see the whole market moving to low-margin cost+ pricing and we want to lead rather than follow. If we raised prices later, we'd only expose ourselves to being disrupted in the way that we are hoping to disrupt right now. Low margin plays are all about operational efficiencies, so that we can turn a profit at price points that other providers cannot. That is our laser focus, which is why our processing time is so quick.

Clipping Magic is a totally different product. It is editor-based with a bunch of post-clip effects and features. The editor allows you to fix errors in a way that a single-shot DL-based solution simply does not. We don't actually see the services as competing with each other, since DL-based solutions have taken over the portion of the market where 80-95% success rate and some errors are ok, so long as it is fast and cheap.
Vmware workstation, released 1999
As an employee, I can confirm I have seen my webcam light up when logging onto Citrix from my desktop, and every time I access it via the web, Chrome asks for permission to use the webcam.
That last part is interesting, it imitated how connections used to work over phone lines, can you talk more about that or provide a link please? Thank you
Maybe because the creator of 12ft.io isn't anonymous
> Though it's not ideal either because those who think it's their job to evolve HTML don't bother to maintain SGML DTDs or use other long established formal methods to keep HTML readable, but believe a hard-coded and (hence necessarily) erroneous and incomplete parsing description the size of a phone book is the right tool for the job.

> a task which W3C et al seemingly weren't up to (busy with XML, XHTML

You realise XML/XHTML is actually delightfully simple to parse compared to WHATWG HTML?
Unfortunate that the bird looks angry now.
I don't know about the drives themselves, but a company I worked for once used large, robotic arrays with 16 drives each. Typically they ran 15 drives writing (backups) and left one idle for reads (restores) as needed. The tapes were on the order of a kilometer long, so considering the time for a robot to pick the tape and seek to the proper spot, latency is pretty high in the best of circumstances (no one else is using the one reader drive when you request it).
For a moment, I thought this was a 'watermark removal'. Still very cool though
There's columnar tables in SQL Server, though. Have you tried it? Would be interesting to compare to Snowflake.
15 years ago I worked for a tape backup company that got bought out by a company making disk backups. Before they bought us out the CEO was constantly saying "tape is dead" in interviews, but once there was money for him to make in tape he stopped saying that. I remember when someone asking him about this and he responded something "amazing how money can make you change your tune"
Interesting! I was really hoping to see the copies at the end, but realized you'd be violating the very copyright policy you had to obey to get them.
I don't think they're trying to make an argument, just broadly observing that the article has some similarities to some Biblical themes.

I didn't see it as unhinged or wild, just a very tame observation. I'm curious what part of their comment bothered you so much?
The day they make native web components as useful as using Vue or React without needing a single third party library, that is when this might happen. Until then, I dont think its happening any time soon.
Anyone who dishes out criticism should be able to take yours seriously and change his own code. That means you're partners in helping each other get better. Anyone of your peers who thinks his $%^& smells like roses and everyone else's stinks should be avoided, passive-aggressively if needed (not talking managers who should tell you what to do).
QuickBooks is 40 years old. It was released in 1983. TurboTax is 39 years old. Microsoft Word was released in 1989. I suspect there's a lot of old Windows software.
Most companies that I've called, already have.
scriptybox: The simple client-side JavaScript sandbox
This comment got a little off track but my main point is that restaurants will adopt it when it becomes "free money", which a sufficiently capitalized start up will be able to do for a period of time. They'll handle everything for you, and it will start helpful. But as investment money dries they'll implement more and more shady practices to make up that difference.
Hmm… is a restaurant allowed to offer a kids menu?

Can they refuse to allow an adult to order from it?

https://youtu.be/Q7FxpK_yC0U
Evaluating existing work is often MUCH harder than creation. It often 'feels' easier because most people do a terrible job and offer little more than their opinions. Some intuition: have you ever eaten something you really disliked but you were able to tell that its actually very good because you understood that not all tastes match yours and you can evaluate the various techniques and elements that went into creating the dish? Perhaps more relatable intuition: finding bugs and flaws in a large code base is much hard than writing the code to start with.
Or offer a €1 euro option that lets you try 10 images.
Given that some things that don't use words—for instance, art, money—have been ruled as being considered equivalent to speech for the purposes of First Amendment protections, I don't think the rationale you give there is likely to be the one used to justify the listed exceptions to the First Amendment.

In all the cases listed, the speech in question is being used to directly and (at least usually) intentionally harm or interfere with another person. I believe this is a case where looking to the Framers' intent rather than the strict wording of the amendment is worthwhile in determining how best to apply it. It seems obvious that they did not intend to make all forms of fraud and threats legal with no recourse (and I imagine there is some jurisprudence that cites specifics to this effect).
I had a lto4 (max capacity 800gb) last year that took over 5tb of data. The data was ASCII log files from a server that had been running for years. Lots of repetition (time stamps, everything ok messages, you have mail messages) and the drive compression ate it for breakfast.
Do you know how to disable the remote access to other people in your organization (by default)?

I don't usually do admin stuff nor I unfortunately know much about network setups nor I know about the specifics of tailscale setup.
Export requires interconnects to reach the demand. There might not be enough surplus capacity on the existing power lines.

Transmission lines lose power over distance, making the effective rate for distant consumption higher than for local consumption. I don't know what the prices are. Wikipedia says at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission :

> Long-distance transmission (hundreds of kilometers) is cheap and efficient, with costs of US$0.005–0.02 per kWh

but it cites an article from 1984. Note that this article says "the price was only 0.3 cents per kWh at its highest", so if $0.02 is valid for now, transmission would be about 5% of the cost, assuming transmission of only a few hundred kms.

Finland exports to Sweden and Estonia. I can't help but wonder if the flood conditions in northern Finland, which lead to increased hydroelectric-generated electricity, are also true in Sweden. A quick news check found https://www.thelocal.se/20230522/relief-in-northern-sweden-a... from three days ago saying "Relief in northern Sweden as flooding shows signs of peaking", so I assume northern Sweden's hydro plants are also in full operation.

This sounds like there isn't much demand within a few hundred kms, so not much opportunity to export.
>Something I don’t understand is if the client is open source, why is it not in the fedora repos? Why do I need to add a new repo to dnf?

Just because one group of people haven't done something doesn't mean it doesn't qualify. To show the exact opposite, look at OpenBSD. They have included Wireguard into their kernel.

Fedora not including Wireguard may be political, personal, or none-of-the-above. Maybe somebody hasn't offered to take on that task/responsibility.
It still has no support for OS-X.

I can understand the reason.

This library is made by Brazilian researchers working for an institute (very poorly) funded by the government. However, Apple machines are very, very expensive in Brazil and many other 3rd World countries, almost a luxury. Probably they're not affordable enough to many of those researchers.

However, not having a OS-X version is really a big obstacle for this library to be accepted.
I struggled with this quite a bit throughout my career until about a year ago. For context, I've worked in the insurance industry for 17 years.

So, what changed/helps:

1. I do a weekly therapy session. It doesn't have to be about or related to work, but I noticed that my propensity to take things personally tied to many other broader issues in how I was raised, grew up, etc. It's probably not happening just by chance. Sorting through my broader mental/emotional balance really helped.

2. A lot of folks have the impulse to react and interrupt when receiving feedback. I think, instead, it's easier to simply let that person exhaust their comment to you, and then take a moment collect your thoughts if you actually need or want to respond, which takes me to my next point...

3. Have a framework for deciding whether that feedback is worth it. You don't need to respond in the moment with any particular comment other than to say "thanks." Never write something out and send/post/etc. immediately without taking a step back, re-reading, and calmly evaluating how appropriate that writing really is.

You can then dissect your feedback with a series of questions to understand if the feedback is worth ingesting or not, like:
- what can I learn from that feedback?
- was that person stressed about something when delivering feedback?
- was I stressed when delivering feedback?
- how important was the topic relative to the broader goal or priority list of the company?
- Etc.

4. Everyone makes mistakes. Even those people you're thinking about in your company that don't. They make mistakes too. There's lot of subjectivity in mistakes as well, which is another way of saying that no one is perfect. The best way to deal with mistakes is transparently own them and then move on rather than dwell - easier said than done - but effective.
so was it no longer live, or did they encounter 20 minutes of technical issues that delayed the start? cuz either way it seems pretty obvious that at least for some amount of time it didn't work
I think there's a certain type of person, particularly common in tech, who thinks this way about _everything_; "oh, that's way easier than what I do, how hard could it be". A kind of reverse impostor syndrome. See the cryptocurrency space; it's more or less been 15 years worth of crypto people accidentally repeating all the failures of conventional finance from the last couple of centuries, because, after all, how hard could it be?
Wow what a discovery. Scary stuff! I hope you're doing better. When I was lifting heavy, I was always fasted. I of course heard all the things about pre-workout nutrition and all of that. But I feel nauseous when working out with food in my stomach, so working out fasted just became normal for me. I loved my post workout peanut butter and banana protein smoothie though.
If the law is that simple, then why did it take 11 chapters and 99 sections to say that?
> Where you work, does it feel safe in general to acknowledge mistakes?

Is it actually in fact safer than hiding them?
AirTag Exposes DHL Fraud (no joke)
How are you going to *proove* in advance that a certain economic or social measure is doing what you expect?
Reminds me of being a student in the uk in the late eighties / early nineties and ordering stuff from the British Library document supply centre. First burrow into the microfiche indexes to find the full citations of the obscure stuff, then fill in the paper form, then wait a few weeks for the fat envelope of photocopies to arrive at the uni library. Definite need to plan ahead back then.
For sure! Though if I'm on a 45min lunch break, I think I'd still prefer the 30s conversation with a server over 30s looking at my phone.
I really hope that there will be some real alternative in terms of hardware soon. This kind of comment makes me laugh and makes me sad:

> any GPU could be used to run the 4bit quantization as long as you have CUDA>=11.2 installed

Any GPU (as long as it's NVIDIA).

Also, it sounds like those models won't get the .cpp variant if they don't do the processing with quantized weights, right? (The list claims they're unpacked and still running on floats)
I think I'll carry on doing somethings that other people can do as well. After all I'm quite fond of breathing, eating, drinking, etc. :D
I didn't say it was the same social social process but still a social process. Software is written by humans. Proof systems are not impervious to mistakes or issues. The point is that it is just another way to help augment normal proofs.

The writers of the proof systems need to convince themselves and others that they have imolemented and tested things properly. Someone writing a proof in such a system needs to convince others that they have translated the proof correctly and used the system appropriately.

For example, the below article describes a very social process to writing down a Lean proof of a theorem:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/lean-computer-program-confirm...

> Unless of course you consider interacting with software to be “social”.

Yes, but not in the way you imply. When you write software, you are writing for other humans and thus communicating to other humans. The fact that a computer can perform a task based upon what's written is basically just the cherry on top and not the whole cake.
I think for Enterprise you should include professional services and consulting in TCO. And usually the Enterprise SaaS tools you mention are a bit cheaper on licenses, but very expensive on the consulting. It makes sense because if a tool is open source and known there is a lot more talent in the job market, if a tool is closed source it takes money just to learn it and people have to recover that investment.

But you are right, I think Dittofeed should sell their benefits to C-Suite execs, not to developers.
(I'm a dev on the project.) It is free while in beta. We've not implemented pricing yet, as we are a small team and just shipped the latest version of the model.
Not necessarily. “Smart” people could be having very similar perceptions around being healthy whereas “dumb” people maybe don’t agree or don’t care or have a less homogeneous mind set. In other words, even if there is a causal relationship it could be reversed or not even have anything to do with being dumb or smart but around a third factor. Not to mention that this article isn’t about organic but about processed carbs. Also it says nothing about whether this is a long-term effect developmentally or just that it suppresses it temporarily and you bounce back to normal otherwise.
For anything work related in your entire life, just focus on what makes money and what doesn’t. Everything else stems from this tenet.
Not just for military:

https://mcdreeamiemusings.com/blog/2019/4/13/gsux1h6bnt8lqjd...

Turns out trying to contain a complex system within a simple system of abstractions is a trendline towards disaster for any enterprise.
From the paper it looks like you would get GPT-4 level quality with the 65B model - but if you just do some random tests you will quickly figure out that is not even remotely the case. There must be something seriously wrong with the benchmarks used.
I guess you'd often need to defrag the tape?
And adds are super imprecise :-)
I think this is a good time to point out the title of the study seems to be "Chronic refined carbohydrate consumption measured by glycemic load and variation in cognitive performance in healthy people", which is quite different than the title in a news article. I recommend always treating news reporting of science with a healthy level of skepticism, not driven from the assumption that the news will lie, but driven from the assumption that the news isn't written by scientists who understand the technicalities of scientific writing nor the existing body knowledge about the specific topic.

Study link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01918...
"You are not your lines of code."

Agreed. And nobody's lines of code are perfect.
Virtually every QR code menu I've encountered in Ukraine used https://choiceqr.com/
You can't copyright a recipe, the thing reason it doesn't make sense for Pepsi to make an exact duplicate of coke is that Coke is better at selling Coke that Pepsi is, and it's better for them to be a niche alternative some people prefer than to be an undifferentiated competititor. Reverse engineering trade secrets is perfectly legal if you haven't agreed otherwise.
I use my own local Wireguard that runs on multiple Pis across the world linked into a single network. Wireguard just works for me on Linux and requires very little effort to set up compared to OpenVPN (not that it's hard if you have some networking knonwledge). There are GUI clients for Android and Gnome which also just work, and I don't use anything else.

I applied to one of the biggest VPN providers recently (the one that's pushed the most by all the YouTubers) and they jokingly implied that they can MITM any connection during an interview. Not sure what to do with that info.
I always wondered why you couldn't get all your subpoenas passed through an intermediary who is instructed to post about them before reading them.
Change what you work on until you don't want to do anything else.
Thanks. I appreciate unexpiring credits and think that’s a super reasonable price.

Again, thanks for your work. I don’t want to criticize and am glad you built this. I just like to voice this opinion in case it helps, in any small way, to increase the odds of more local software.
If you couldn't get good things (like quieter homes) by spending more money, what would be the point of money?
While that isn't impossible, nobody will do that. Disks are divided into sectors, with "a lot" of empty space between each sector - random variance makes different sectors take up different amounts of space on the disk. (minimizing this is important to disks, but the nature of physical media is you can never fully eliminate it). With a tape you don't have sectors, and so no blank space. As such as soon as you decide to delete one record the entire rest of the tape needs to be re-written.

There have been people who put a filesystem on a tape with sectors - they could then do this, but since tapes are always sequential access it isn't practical, just an interesting hack to show off.
Ask HN: Who wants to publish a book with me?
I wrote a lot of notes which could (and perhaps should) be converted to a book.

https://schiptsov.github.io/

However I don't have enough self-discipline to prepare a proper manuscript. I need a professional editor and publisher.

I am good at solving complex problems but bad at almost everything else.

And, of course, nothing is finished on the subject of principle-guided programming as a systematic way of dealing with complexity (in the old (and almost lost) MIT spirit!)

I have a lot to write.
It's might be easier to list what failed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2003_software

CD/DVD writing software is gone, from life, possibly still being developed. Yep still going strong https://www.cyberlink.com/blog/media-player-windows/983/best...
The author is also guilty of the very same crime she accuses others of in claiming that what we should be focusing on necessarily is big oil. That even philosophy professors can make these mistakes shows how tricky it is.
You're spot on though. This is exactly how it goes. I've seen many, many examples of this up close and as soon as a restaurant wants you to download 'their App' to view the menu you just heard the first click of the ratchet.

What strikes me as interesting about this whole discussion is that the tech world should be a lot more knowledgeable about these patterns and far less naive about the typical tech cycle. In a nutshell you can condense it to disrupt, gain marketshare, squeeze the lemon.

Whether it's Uber, AirBNB, Food delivery, Social media, Gaming or restaurants doesn't really matter. What I've seen - under NDA - would make your skin crawl and that's just the very limited sample of all companies out there, and it's mostly just Europe. But over the course of 200+ such in depth looks at how the tech world works it is very clear to me that the new middle-men are at least as bad as the old ones were.
The "low fat" foods which just replace fat with sugar are the worst for me. I hate that they are advertising it as being "more healthy" when it's clearly not. I finally got my wife to switch away from Miracle Whip and just eat real mayo. There is sugar, especially HFCS, in so much stuff that shouldn't have it.
Launch of RISC-V Fundamentals Course
As an admin and not a dev, why would this be beneficial to me, managing a fairly standard app and node/yarn frontend? Sell it to me :)
Your end-of-stream index would remain in place with a backup number / id.

Your entire index would be the logical sum of all such indices. Think of the end of stream index as a write ahead log of the index.