skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, I've seen up close talks of how to "adjust the dataset" to fit a certain, pre-ordained result for a medical research paper on children. Wouldn't discard it happens in other fields.

But there is freedom in religion in most countries, one can choose what to believe in.
The orb is seen whizzing past just after 8s in the video. It doesn't look much bigger than a basketball but the relative distance is hard to judge.
There are of course many jobs that are much more taxing on the body overall than waving one's hands at a Minority Report style computer interface. (I used to work at a restaurant! I've done actual work, I swear!)

However, waving your hands in the air for 8-10 hours a day feels a bit unnatural relative to "actual" physical work. I don't have a real scientific basis for this statement.

But there are some physics at play IMO. In boxing it's generally accepted that a missed punch consumes about twice as much energy as one that connects -- your body must do the work to accelerate your arm, and then it must do a roughly equal amount of work to decelerate it. I think there are some parallels to waving one's hands in the air for 40-50 hours per week relative to "actual" physical labor.

More to the point: MR-style interfaces (at least as typically implemented/depicted) don't really offer tangible advantages to using a good touch pad. They trade tiny finger movements on a trackpad for huge sweeping arm movements that accomplish the same things.

I think if MR-style interfaces had somehow been invented before mice and trackpads, we'd be celebrating mice and trackpads as absolute miracles of efficiency.
Likely an embeddings vector store, which is not "memory" as traditionally defined in conversational AI apps.
I hope CAMM will allow Apple to make expandable computers again.
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Yes and all that throughout decades of strong long term growth leading to current historically low unemployment rates.

And your point is that this is all going to change abruptly 'because AI'? Or what?
The spacefaring octopuses from Europa aren't going to be impressed with this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64814781
This is a popular narrative - phones are causing anxiety and depression in kids, especially girls. Sounds great, but there's only one problem.

I'm pretty sure it's false.

My daughter had mental health issues that manifested itself in late high school. That's been over a decade ago. Neither her, her friends, or the overwhelming majority of her peer group at the time had smartphones. They were just too new and too expensive for kids.

Her group therapy was comprised of almost all girls (so many that one girl didn't even realize it was a co-ed group therapy, the single guy had already graduated before she started therapy). In talking with the therapists they mentioned they were seeing a sharp rise in the number of girls with mental health issues.

Any guesses as to what the didn't blame? Smartphones. They practically didn't exist at the time. Tablets practically didn't exist at the time. Most households at the time still only had one computer and kids weren't typically allowed to use it for long periods of time. Yet the mental health crises of teenage girls was already in full swing.

I've never heard anyone explain why this crises began before smartphones, tablets, and laptops became as ubiquitous as they are today. Unfortunately, what you hear in group therapy you're not allowed to repeat, but I can tell you the underlying problem is far more sinister than some stupid smartphone.
If you have invested in a company, selling it on the stockmarket is a good way to turn the stake you previously bought into money.

Obviously you want to maximize the selling price, as that is the actual profit you are making. If they are IPOing, they either need funding or believe its current evaluation will give them a good price.
I don't have any experience with RoR but your question piqued my curiosity and it seems like you can configure Rails to dynamically decide which database to connect to. That means that in case of a query routing service, your application backend can ask it which databases to connect to based on the requirement (say, a list of entities) and the routing service can provide the relevant connection details which the backend can use to connect without a predefined list of databases in its .yml file. That means your application doesn't have any knowledge of how many databases are there since that knowledge is centralized at the query routing service and can change as migrations happen.

Atleast that is what I guessed from some brief reading - I may be totally wrong.
on mobile devices its not rendering properly
As a point of comparison - cloudflare workers costs 0.30$ for the same (2 million) requests, plus a 5$ monthly fee. If my math is correct, in their eyes the visual aspect is worth 100,000x as much?

edit: it's actually 200,000x, the cloudflare base fee includes 1 million requests. Is it possible that they added an extra couple zeros?
I had fun writing this. I really didn't like TailwindCSS when I first looked at it, but came to really like it after I worked with it enough to "get it".

I hope you enjoy!
Depends on jurisdiction but in some locations non sales price must be consistent for a significant percentage of the total time or it’s still considered deceptive marketing. Thus countering both short term price bumps and “sales” that last for 3/4th of a year.
If Apple was releasing software as part of the Xcode package, would AGPL code be acceptable to include in that package as libraries for 3rd party developers to use?
In the end, is suspect none of these tools will be able to gatekeep hosting (especially with outrageous rates). The dev process is their key offering, not hosting. The moat on hosting will be nil, totally commoditized. If they were totally charitable, this would be an open source tool letting people export stuff.

Anybody could build that, and someone probably will.
Immanentize the Eschaton
Think Lenovo does the same.
With respect, I don't think you understand how it works. They aren't making a collage.
Side Note:

10/10 on the website. Clean simple design and doesn't download 4,124 javascript libraries for the purpose of displaying static content.
This brings back the memory of how we used Microsoft Excel to generate the .csv files to drive the game engine in Diablo 2 and stored the .xls files in version control, by the time we started work of production on the expansion we only needed about 3 of the 10 programmers (at our studio) to support the work because most of changes could be done by adding lines to the spreadsheets. This might sound rote today but the original, Diablo 1, had a bunch of hardcoded tables in the source code. I still used the Diablo 1 source code as a starting point for a lot of stuff, though. :)
Just wait another 3 weeks ...
Carthaginians were neither Roman nor Greek. In fact, for a long time it was assumed that Carthaginian child sacrifice practice was just Roman propaganda about their enemies. I fail to see how acknowledging that Berber ancestors likely practiced child sacrifice says anything about modern Western world.

I mean, there was plenty of objectionable (by modern standards) behaviour practiced in both Rome and Ancient Greece that there’s really no reason to somehow try and pull Carthage into it.
I think cold start times will be excessive for serverless in this use case.
> Also note that the compressed relative branch instructions only use 16 bytes to encode.

Bits
"the engineer's disease" and perception of domain transference & relevance
I'm not going to blame pre BC humans for needing light, especially when nocturnal creatures existed. If anything this is an absolute win, we are still burning something in order to produce light, but what we burn is way less of a pollutant than wood.
RabbitMQ 3.12.0 Released
The finny thing is that , THAT is my backup drive, mostly. It has lots of crap, including GB synced from Google Drive (photos being the mos important). Other than that, it's stuff I could re-download from elsewhere, but 3TB is a lot to re-download. Aah yeah and it also has the TimeHift backups.

I thought of going EXT4 , but as you said, NTFS is more widely supported.
I'm not saying you're wrong — I've got my name on exactly one paper so what would I know — but that being true would suggest that peer review is fundamentally broken.
It’s a literal waste of energy. LLMs draw a tremendous amount of power. They enable problems to be solved in a low effort, careless sort of way, but this neglects the power efficiency of our own brains. We can think through and implement better solutions consuming only a tiny fraction of the power. In a world where we’re running up against climate change and finite resource constraints, that is valuable, it’s just not self-evident yet. We’ll first have to crash headlong into a wall to realize it.
Already on the docket in the EU: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230505IP...
Wow! Amazing tool, love it!
I'm not sure that is the case... I've used Shutterstock and Adobe Stock in the past two weeks and both times, it took about 3-4 minutes to find something I liked, and 10 sec (subscription) to 1 minute (non subscription) go through the license/payment cycle.

> All of the services are subscriptions now and they have dark UX patterns

They do. I have a subscription to one of the services, and it's just super easy and I use it enough it's worth the monthly. I'm not sure there's a huge market for licensing an image occasionally... It would be interesting to see the breakdown there. Also, Adobe has a huge advantage because Adobe Stock is highly integrated into Adobe's design software.
Malicious Actors Manipulating Photos and Videos to Create Sextortion Schemes
Came here to see if anyone else had noticed this too. :)
Airbnb User Banned for Knowing the Wrong People
Does Tor help here? I thought it’s blocked for clearnet sites
They did, although the graph cuts off just before the 3090 takes the lead and goes beyond.

https://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2022/03/M1-vs-3090.jpg

Frustrating they're being this misleading when M1 is outstanding for it's own reasons, but 3090 eats it alive in the workflows it excels in too.

Perfect machine would be both those chips in the same box tbh.
I'm referring to light pollution, not the power source.

It used to be that if you saw light at night, you knew humans were there - now we light millions of uninhabited acres.
If you were using a service to run those builds, reduced build time would translate directly to lower costs.

Even if you are using a wasteful, low-utilization capital plant to run your build, more efficient use of those resources should become lower energy bills, at least.
Gibbs free energy is an equation for maximum work, not free energy as in magic that violates thermodynamics.
Seems easy to game by just pretending you're selling a different product every time you change the price.

I worked at a company that did this with digital goods.
> then your best bet for not being arrested is to give the documents to Congress so they can support your testimony and protect you from retaliation

Congress wouldn't protect him from retaliation anyway. Thomas Drake was raided by the FBI and indicted even though he didn't leak any intelligence. You're making yourself an enemy of the government the moment you open your mouth, regardless of whether or not you bring documentation.
> Real-world work makes you rusty.

Always be working on something greenfield, if only to exercise the facilities of choosing among choices, intent-to-ship, and honing one's wash-rinse-repeat cycle.

Personal development tools need to be kept maintained as much as one's hobbyist workbench, instrument, and so on.

Having a blog, owning a server, and writing tools all contribute to keeping things sharp.
Lots of musicians have their songs written by someone else…is this in a similar vein?
If something has been invented, the idea "the exact same thing but cheaper" has definitely already entered peoples' minds. They may not know a good method to do it, but they can imagine a world in which it exists.
In the best American tradition, it's time for a class action suit against CPUC, Waymo, and Cruise.
FDA revokes authorization of J&J’s Covid vaccine (at J&J’s request)
Diablo 2 was a lot of fun. It's cool to hear about how it was made. :)
[x] doubt
I guess the "clean code" crowd would like to refactor this into hundreds of files that all call each other in an incomprehensible maze, plus pulling in 20GB of dependencies from the internet during install. Because that is the way™.
> It's funny, when people denigrate the worst gaming platform in the world as a "toy computer."

Unless you're developing iOS apps or MacOS apps, it's pretty terrible as a work platform too. I guess iWork is OK, but no one uses it, so it's not helpful for collaboration. Maybe people use it for media production? Doesn't the big rendering still happen on Linux though, and hasn't windows caught up?

Having said that, Mac laptops made passable web browser + video phone + dumb terminal in the intel days, and now they're excellent at those things and added "virtualization host" to that list.

I guess I've always thought of them more like glorified vt100s than like computers. They're certainly market leaders for that use case, though WSL is helping windows catch up.
West Coast States Rode Tech Boom. Now Face Higher Unemployment, Falling Wages
That's pretty steep pricing for a product that has a lot of free/open source competition that are more capable and mature (node red, supabase, Directus, strapi, etc...)
This also coincides with 'SKU explosion'. Back in the day before digital inventory manufactures generally minimized the numbers of SKUs they had because it was a nightmare managing thousands of different products. Circuit City, Best Buy, and whoever else was around at the time would pretty likely have the same TV.

But now each one will have a different SKU number even if they are the exact same product so you cannot easily price match. Coming back a few weeks later to the same store and even then products might have new SKUs. It's just hell keeping up with what features do or don't work on these devices when they are constantly in flux.
Any source / citation?
> BTC has been around since 2008. Today in 2023 BTC is like $27k. Does the longevity, ubiquity, price and liquidity of BTC fit the pattern of a useless get rich quick scheme? Has any such scheme existed this long, despite so much scrutiny and hostility, based on hype and confidence alone?

Yes, Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme famously ran for decades, with everyone invested calling doubters idiots and pessimists.

Until it all fell apart.
The MBP with an M1 Ultra isn't a thing that exists.
Apple used to support external GPUs on Intel-based Macs but they killed that when they switched over to ARM. It seems the new Mac Pro won't support internal PCIe GPUs either. You're just stuck with whatever GPU is built into the SOC now.
Yes, I have experienced the same. It takes a long while (several days) after submitting sitemap for the pages to actually get indexed. Even after it starts indexing, it will do few pages per day (few usually is < 10).

It helps if you have a back link to kickstart things. Even then if some of your internal pages are not easily reachable from the home page, those page will not get indexed soon enough.
The New York Times is said to have an article in the works for sunday, providing more background presumably.

If this was some psyop, they certainly go all out.

Funny, how HN is/isn't reacting to "US in possession of non-human technology".
The high-end gaming market is infintessimal when compared to the casual gaming market. Apple knows this and they are perfectly positioned for high-quality casual games.
I’ve been reading into autism lately; and a brief thought about “intelligent people” has popped into my head.

Intelligence is just a tool, that’s used to achieve the underlying organism’s goals. For example, a crow’s intelligence is used to keep out of danger and to find food. Most neurotypical people use intelligence to gain resources like money, status, and power to fulfill biological imperatives like being part of and respected by their “tribe.” Whereas some autistics will not care about this sort of thing, and be biased more towards the truth, rather than what’s socially most advantageous. For example: Stallman. He has little concern for social appearances and such, so he is free to express something close to “truth,” rather than socially-rewarding “truth.”

At that point, it becomes fairly depressing how little research and “knowledge” attainment is actually geared towards “truth,” and not personal enrichment.

—

And a tangent. I think what separates the outcast autist and the socially well-regarded autist is confidence and self-esteem. If you act and present yourself like a low-status person, you will be treated like it, as people regard your “offness” and associate it with low-status. Whereas if you’re self-assured and act like what you’re doing is innately correct, people will pick up the body language and signs, to think that you’re actually “right” and should accept it.

Sort of like those methed-up cult leaders who are utterly insane, but project unwavering self-assuredness, which people naturally gravitate to.
Slickdeals.net also good. Owned, iirc, by some bank though. Comments seem genuine and let you know if it’s a real deal or shill post.
Conditional moves tend to work even better on small in-order designs than later OoOE cores.
Violence and the Sacred is a book that tries to answer, among some other things, why ritual sacrifices used to happen. I haven’t finished it yet, René Girard could perhaps be a bit meandering, but it’s an insightful read so far (and impossible to do justice in a summary).

He observes that in older human societies a transgression could easily lead to an infinite loop of vendetta-like bloodshed. He also observes that sacrifices always targeted a victim that is nearly a member of society (if not an actual human outcast or child, then an animal which people like and are reasonably close to on a daily basis) but never quite.

Part of his theory appears to be that ritual sacrifice (a murder that follows a particular procedure) eventually emerged as a viable steam vent that made societies more resilient. It lets out the impulse that causes members of society to be violent to each other, but focuses this impulse on someone who is adjacent to yet outside of that society, carries no social function, and is unable to push back or seek revenge, thus defusing the impulse safely (for society).

(A functioning justice system in modern civilization performs a similar role, taking revenge out of the hands of the victim.)
> So Daft is a distributed Polars ?

We did actually start by using Polars as our underlying execution engine, but eventually transitioned off to our own Rust Table abstraction to better suit our needs (e.g. custom datatypes and kernels). We still share the arrow2 dependency with Polars for in-memory representation of our data.

> what's the "killer feature" of Daft for trying to compete with Polars (and Pandas)

We don't specifically try to compete on a local machine since there is so much good new tooling being made recently available (DuckDB, Polars etc). That being said, we do try our best to make the local experience as seamless as possible because we've all felt the pain of developing locally in PySpark. Aside from the ability to go distributed, I like using Daft for:

* Working on more "complex" datatypes such as URLs, images etc

* Working with "many [Parquet/CSV/JSON] files in cloud storage (S3)" which we've found to be quite common for many workloads. We already have some and are building more intelligent optimizations here such as column pruning, predicate pushdowns etc to reduce and optimize I/O from the cloud.

As you've pointed out, one of our main responsibilities is to handle memory very very well. This is something we're actively working on and I'm thinking this will be a big reason to use us locally as well!

> Are they API-compatible?

We are not API-compatible with Pandas/Polars, but our API is quite inspired by Polars. We found that building out the core set of dataframe functionality was much more tractable than attempting to go API-compatible from the get-go.

> How's the memory consumption benchmark ? (TBH, this is the only interesting metric. Timing and Latency are not really important when your most important competitor is Spark.

We think throughput is still important when comparing against Spark, since this can save a lot of money when running some potentially very expensive queries!

That being said, you're spot-on about memory usage being a key metric here. One of the key advantages of having native types for multimodal data (e.g. tensors and images) is that we can much more tightly account for memory requirements when working with these types, beyond the usual black-box Python UDF which often results in a ton of out-of-memory issues.

Our current mechanism for dealing with this is relying on Ray's excellent object spilling mechanisms for working with out-of-core data. We recognize that there are many situations in which this is insufficient.

The team is working on many advanced features here (e.g. microbatching) that will give Daft a big boost, and will release benchmarks as soon as we have them!

[Edit: typos!]
This Motte & Bailey argument using cryptocurrency and cryptography is so old, so stale, and it was never very convincing to start with. A whole field of mathematics doesn't compare to digital pet rocks.
Just wait, generics weren't going to happen, and then they did.
I’ll never understand how companies with a UI focused product end up with websites that don’t have any screenshots of the UI. I spent over a minute on the site and couldn’t find a screenshot.
I currently wait twenty minutes for CI to package a Go program that can be built on a laptop in ten seconds, because the “CI pipeline”—and every time I have to say that I choke on the words a little —involves twenty dependent steps, each of which installs Ubuntu. And this is a large, valuable company with thousands of engineers. I think having a development environment where the speed of the linker is even remotely relevant is a problem faced by a few special companies.
What does the monitoring actually do for you? I've seen these setups, even setup one for myself a few times (either Grafana or similar such as Netdata, or Linode's Longview) but I've not really seen what it does for me beyond the "your disk is almost full" warnings.
Good/great photographers have an eye for things like composition and color balance, which can help in refining training data to a place where AI can produce indistinguishable products from actual photographs.
Two days ago we could speculate that maybe the $6000+ Mac Pro would bring better graphics performance, but now we know it's a $7000 Mac Studio with PCIe slots. And as far as we know you can't put a GPU in those slots.

Not that it would've been in my price range anyway, but it could've indicated that thunderbolt eGPU support would make a return.

Lack of that is a weird omission if Apple is trying to act like they have a gaming platform.
The New York Times is said to have an article in the works for sunday, providing more background presumably.

Funny, how HN is/isn't reacting to "US in possession of non-human technology".
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No Apple hardware has a "dedicated GPU".
(GP above here) I find Apple software broken all the time too, except I can't fix it like Linux. I have to use OSX for work because my employer requires a MacBook and it's buggy as hell. I use Thinkpad/Linux at home because thanks but no thanks.
Eu directive 2019/2161, which regulates this, was supposed to be in effect since 28.5.2022, but I see nothing on local retailers webpages, nor in physical stores ):