skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people don't realize that Arch is basically just providing the latest stable release from upstreams, nothing more and nothing less.

Most projects do testing before making a release of course, and for lots of software releases are very reliable. The kernel is an example of this, where Arch packages the most recent "stable" kernel rather than sticking to an LTS version. There is nothing "unstable" about this, in the sense of "unstable" meaning unreliable or buggy.

The key thing is that "stable" and "unstable" have practically nothing to do with the quality or reliability of the distro. Unstable only means that the packages may update in non-backwards compatible ways, so you need to be prepared to make changes to accommodate that. Normally it's something like updating a configuration file, or passing different flags to a command line program, or something along those lines. Maybe you run some sort of service that links to shared libraries on the system, you need to be prepared to relink to updated versions or not depend on system-wide versions at all.

So long as you make sure to keep up with changes, rolling release distros are exactly as reliable as upstream releases.

The other thing to note is that tracking releases may actually end up being more reliable, because you are constantly getting bug fixes and improvements!
K: Default Dicts?
No, it is virtualized kernel
Hmm not that I know of, but that would be neat! A lot of the frameworks and model code treat this sort of thing as ‘implementation details’. Which is disappointing because I think it adds perspective and intuition.

One other example would be how multi-head attention is implemented with a single matrix. You don’t actually create matrices for each of the N ‘heads’ separately. It’s a logical distinction
Newer NV cards are better value at msrp. On sale, previous gens are better value (everywhere. Sick 6800xt deals).

Intel is killing it in providing value. The launch was basically generally competitive but with caveats, and Intel's kick ass amazing software folks - something strongly in Intel's long long suite albeit not evenly across absolutely every product - rapidly iterated & fixed bad spots & found tons of huge wins on their brand new gpu. It's a hero story, but amazing.

What really sucks is that the (rest of the) market degrading like we have is only making the market worse. Some good wins are needed. AMD's rx7600 looks like a solid rx580 value-price replacement, finally. Good stuff.
pkgconf, CVE-2023-24056 and disinformation
Perhaps another example of us not really having a clue what's going on with biology, and how it's especially bad when this intersects with anything related with diet.
Biology of aging is already extremely difficult, and that's just when we can try for separation of variables in studies of organisms such as yeast. Moving to mammals causes incredible challenges in determining molecular biology drivers, and trying for small molecules interventions beyond that typically causes far too much to be lost in translation. Diet just takes it a bit further by mixing a huge concoction of small molecules together and calls by a simple name, like 'egg'.
So all in all, if you want to learn what's really going on, try learning the planarian or yeast cell biology literature first before moving on to these more complex systems in order to get a decent idea for how much weight they hold.
Apple filed 5000 patents. Meta can’t even figure out where the field is now.
Tangent to sibling comments, you are free to make overlays akin to compile derivations with Gentoo-style machine architecture optimizations.
Desperately waiting for goodreads alternative
Why is Goodreads so bad and the only product out there for book reviews (which is sort of popular). It feels like something developed in ye' old times and barely maintained to this date. Any Goodreads developer in the audience, do you have any insight on this?
Other points aside, Azure is doing perfectly well, and is much bigger than Google Cloud.

Almost every large company is already a Microsoft customer, and MS does a great job upselling Azure to many of them.

(recent estimates are AWS ~33%, Azure 23%, GC 10%)
This is really bending the meaning of algorithm
Depending on the speaker and content, I find YouTube videos are better for me at about 1.15x to 1.25x. Although 1.3x to possibly 1.5x is usually understandable, it's not comfortable to listen to for long and my comprehension seems to go down at those speeds.

Often just as important, I find starting about 20% into a video usually skips mostly unimportant filler and saves a lot of time. I love content creators who value their viewers time and understand we wouldn't have clicked on the video unless we already knew the topic from the description so it's redundant to "tell us what they're going to tell us." We also really don't need to see the same stock 10-15 second animated show intro repeated every time. A 3 to 5 second logo stinger is more memorable and engaging.

Typical YouTube info-content is a completely different format than a TV show and should be much more concise and tightly edited to get immediately to the central value for viewers. I've challenged some content creators I know to actually try to cut too much from their intros and get to the meat too fast. Their views and subs invariably increase when they jump into things faster than feels normal to them.
Million: Make React 70% Faster
>> AMD's rx7600 looks like a solid rx580 value-price replacement, finally.

That’s not what the reviews said.
To be fair, the Apple stylus is considered an art and creative _accessory_, not the predominant way of interacting with the system.
I'm surprised to see this from Instructables (Autodesk). If you right-click the back button you'll see that it did four redirects and you can click the 5th to get back.

I highly doubt this is effective at anything.
Again the studies you linked pointed in the opposite direction. Sure it’s possible that using a mask to death could probably shed particles, but hey the instructions for how to use them correctly are pretty clear.

I’m referring to the nonsense vaccine and cia related conspiracy nonsense you’re slinging in other threads. Just take it elsewhere.
https://archive.is/3b4Cd
Yet here they are doing the saintly work of adding real trustless privacy.
Would love too, I work for tech a company selling to gov now have a focus on tech and gtm

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> We've seen this story before and it hasn't ended well for the folks in Mark's position.

I dont know man. Historically who has been in Mark's position with 10 Billion+ $$ to spend on any one thing?
Why not just use base Arch? It seems kind of silly to try anything else when the options are laid out very easily in front of you in the base installer.
> But D.C. was originally not supposed to have any citizens.

Times change. That ship has sailed. It's the 21st century now, not the 18th.
Apple did manage to patent the pythagorean theorem (“pinch zoom” uses the hypotenuse of a right triangle as the zoom factor), but, from what I can tell, the bad windows touchpad thing is self-inflicted.
Search on LinkedIn, tons of jobs in PHP. I just hired a PHP Developer.

As stefanos82 said, if you don't know Laravel and/or Symfony then consider learning them.
I disagree, and agree with jallen. If nothing else, this is fraud! A voting ring like this has to be dismantled immediately, or else there will be significant ramifications, which im sure GP and expand on.
And that’s fine. We need less low effort rage bait, viral influencer influence on the economy.

The reach of contrived political philosophy, fiat economic hustle, and pop culture gabber can be constrained; the obsolescence of /. , MySpace, and the like did not destroy reality. Now we know the outcome of the social media experiment. Utter dumpster fire.

It occurs to me people made a whole lot of small business work before handing sacks of cash to cloud SaaS

We need less adminisphere in all contexts so we can screw up again, let the wrong people helicopter us with banal AI bots, make lizard brain m sedate until it gets bored with AI bots. Then we’ll trot out a new copium for the masses and they can lean back again, super proud of their commitment to whatever hallucinated ideology they believe they’re serving.

All while waving off the ecological impact, because reality is just a big graph, mmmk
Azure has over twice the market share of Google’s Cloud platform and the second largest cloud provider? How is that a failure?
A pox on the house of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Even if you're a climate skeptic, what they've done to the country is absolutely criminal.
Depends who they’re competing against. It’s the exact same price as a HoloLens 2
It's part of Amazon, they're number one, why try harder?
> “By contrast, every demo that they showed was a person sitting on a couch by themself,” he said of Apple’s WWDC keynote earlier this week.

Odd thing for him to say since he is describing the strange solitariness of all VR.
With a larger population combined with more of a chance of living past the age of 5, you need fewer births to get the same population growth rate globally. As the world population rapidly urbanizes we will settle into a new normal that will still approach Earth's carrying capacity faster than we can adequately react.
I suspect you have adopted the speech patterns of people you respect criticizing LLMs of lacking “reasoning” and “understanding” capabilities without thinking about it carefully yourself.

1. How would you define these concepts so that incontrovertible evidence is even possible. Is “reasoning” or “understanding” even possible to measure? Or are we just inferring by proxy of certain signals that an underlying understanding exists?

2. Is it an existence proof? I.e we have shown one domain where it can reason, therefore reasoning is possible. Or do we have to show that it can reason on all domains that humans can reason in?

3. If you posit that it’s a qualitative evaluation akin to the Turing test, specify something concrete here and we can talk once that’s solved too.
The Quest 2 is $299 now. You can buy a dozen of them for one Apple device.

It is indeed a different category. The control paradigm is different and the Quest’s popular apps are games and fitness. It’s a bit like comparing a Mac Studio to a Nintendo Switch.
I would strongly recommend looking at the results people are achieving with Apple’s game porting toolkit just days after it was released. With the hardware that the vision pro is supposed to have, I seriously think it will be the best gaming headset on the market if the final product ends up living up to what was announced.
Did they switch recently? As of 2020, it seems there was BPA in aluminium can linings of Coca-Cola? https://www.coca-cola.co.uk/our-business/faqs/does-coca-cola...
Maybe fewer jobs per square feet, but it's the natural evolution of manufacturing. What matters is we need engineers and workers on the floor so we can innovate and develop more senior talent.
> That said, I'd absolutely recommend sugar over many other available sweeteners.

I sure wouldn't. Many of the classic, non-nutritive sweeteners like sucralose have been tested more thoroughly than almost any substance we ingest. Even at heroic doses tens of thousands of times higher than what would be used normally, no significant health effects have been noted.

In contrast, we have sucrose: a caloric carbohydrate that rapidly and reliably raises blood sugar, and due to its fructose content, has been linked to NAFLD. If nothing else, it's 'empty' caloric value, high palatability, popularity in beverages, and low cost (especially as the almost functionally identical HFCS) has without a doubt been a major contributor to the obesity epidemic.

So sure, removing all added sweeteners ('natural' or otherwise) would be better, but a NNS is way, way better than sugar.
I hardly believe that with all headstart that oculus/mega had they don’t have enough patents to ensure mutually assured destruction
> If you want rolling debian isn't an option

I've been on Debian unstable for years on multiple devices, without major issues.
Nobody is forcing you to form a company. You can operate a business under your own name. Here in NZ it is called a 'sole proprietorship'. I'm sure it has its own name in the United States, but the fact remains. You can form a partnership with your other founders and operate as a partnership without forming a company. That's still how most law firms are structured, I believe. Doesn't require you to file anything or form anything or pay any fees, at least here and I expect also in the US. You want to go a step further, and take advantage of special legal rules. Those rules have a cost: you have to register a company.

Companies are creatures of statute. They do not come from the common law, or from custom. They didn't evolve naturally over time. They were invented. You can choose to form a company if you want the benefits that entails. But forming a company isn't free or completely painless. Still, it's a choice you get to make. Nobody can force you to form a company.

That being said, it does sound like it is a lot more complicated in the United States than it is here in New Zealand. Here the government tells you clearly how to do it, and it's pretty cheap and easy.

https://www.business.govt.nz/getting-started/choosing-the-ri...
The Secret World of Magnets by Howard Johnson

Magnetic Current by Edward Leedskalnin
The area surrounding the Rhine Valley is the most densely populated part of Europe. I recently drove up the west coast from SF and at least from I5 it seemed like Eugene-Vancouver Canada was pretty built up most of the way.

It’s a bit more sparse on the 100 mile stretch between Vancouver WA and Olympia but it’s not really that far, two thirds of Hamburg-Berlin which is less densely populated than western parts of Germany. But just look at France or Spain to see high speed rail working well in more sparsely populated countries.

I think the bigger problem is how much you need a car within American cities which tend to be much more spread out than their European equivalents, though Seattle, Portland and Vancouver Canada aren’t terrible in that respect.

It probably makes sense to prioritise regional rail before HSR, but then if you have to build new railways to get separation from freight traffic, electrify and remove crossings so you can run 100 mph European regional rail speeds and frequencies I guess you may as well build HSR.
WRT travel: I think if you are willing to travel, you can make a lot in any industry (except maybe being a truck driver).
The hard part is dealing with abuse. If you could guarantee that all content posted will be kosher and in good faith, building a basic scalable Reddit backend is not super hard.
It's not really hard anymore at all. The installer gives you a TUI with options to select what you want, and pretty sane defaults.
Setup is pretty easy and I would compare to the ease of Manjaro, although without the "snazzy gui" look, but very functionally equivalent TUI.
This is exactly what Jobs claimed about the iPhone in 2007 and it didn’t stop Android from absorbing every relevant innovation.
Totally true, and I suspect that the same will hold true for Vision OS — controllers will always be optional (even when Apple has "the world's most advanced spatial controller" to sell us for $999/pair).
People continue to act like the internet today is the same as 2011. Mass censorship is now a requested feature by a large portion of the country.

The original Reddit would never be allowed to exist today, nor would those folks want to use it.

So the questions on what gets censored would be endless unless the answer is nothing gets censored (but again, people wouldn’t accept that).

Let’s say a new Reddit spawns. Are the same tech crowds responsible for the moderating of Covid, trump insurrection, Russian misinformation, stuff gonna accept all that again? What about holocaust denial? Remember r/ni**s, how it survived for years and years with nothing positive to show. The examples are endless, so unless people are willing to stomach it all, what’s the point of switching?
Azure ($75.3B in 2022 revenue) is only slightly smaller than AWS ($80B). It’s GCP ($26.28B) that’s way behind. Microsoft has always known how to sell through its channels.
To a first approximation, nobody uses the Apple Pencil as a primary input device on an Apple device.
I can buy a 4090.

But why should I? When my 1080Ti is still working? People who can afford the price Nvidia is asking no longer have the need to chase that graphic fidelity. We have jobs and family and other things to occupy ourselves with. Those who want the cards are priced out already. Not many young adults have the kind of disposable income to throw away a grand or two just for kicks.

But that might be what Nvidia want. Why spend effort selling to consumers when the corporations are paying top dollar for that AI silicon?
I liked the userbase, I did not like the (back then) single overlord/admin.
What a good day for me! What a splendid learning experience! So glad I've clicked this link on HN today.

I am not a coder yet, but always wanna learn it, and indeed self learning elementory level math now. I felt I was so stupid when I tried to read even very basic CS materials, watch Youtube videos, I was very struggle with very basic things, also have no consistent time, then stopped many times, so now I start to learn basic math again, then consider the CS50/Youtube/CS books -->coding/game engine this routine.

I finished the demo, I never experienced such a good interractive learning way before, and thrilled want to tell everyone whom want to learn things a great tool like this exists.

Now I know, there are great tools like this one, learning thing is not necessarily borning and hard, it can be easy and smoothing, and a nice enjoy.

I hope guys/gals can make more tools like this.

PS: "timed out for waiting speech" is a bit annoying in Chrome, maybe I got slow internet? Also, the voice is robotic, maybe use a more lively sound would be better?

I can't wait for next lessons, I want to learn things like this way!!
Without the online advertising business Mozilla cannot survive. As such, they advocate for preserving the online ads business. They partner with an advertising company. And they derive profit in return.

Opinions may differ, but to me being an advocate for it is no better than being "in" the advertising business.

(Not to suggest Mozilla is worthless. Far from it. I use Firefox on mobile, although I use a browser sparingly.)
By all accounts, the Vision Pro eye tracking is extremely good, so for pointing inputs it would probably beat hardware controllers on speed and precision metrics, as well as feeling more direct and natural.
Given how bad Reddit is at PR, this does seem possible.
Very much US focused. Things are different elsewhere.

Here in Germany there are a few things to be aware of:

- not incorporating doesn't mean you are not a company. The second you shake hands with someone you have effectively incorporated and this can get you into a lot of legal trouble if you are not aware. Things like taxes, ownership, etc. all become applicable. Fine as long as there are no conflicts or liabilities but it's a good reason to incorporate sooner rather than later.

- German bureaucracy is a PITA. It's neither free nor fast and absolutely everything is complicated. There are low cost options (like an UG) but what nobody tells you is that there are all these little costs that add up. Plan on spending around 3000 euro in your first six month on just getting set up with a legal entity. There are notaries, accountants, tax offices, registries, and none of that is for free. And you need a bank account with funding to pay for all this and some reserves for future bills. And that bank account is also not free. Plan for the process to take up to four months end to end. Faster is not impossible but you really need to be on top of everything for that. I've done it twice. Four months is what it took between all the gotchas, chicken egg problems, people not being responsive, etc.

- If you are going to do business, you need to have completed this process. Things like invoices, investments, etc. all require this. Also paying for stuff is a lot easier if you have a company bank account. And you don't want to mix business and private financials and liabilities.

- If there are multiple people involved, take care of things like intellectual property, NDAs, share distribution, etc. These are all potential points of conflict if things go south. Make sure you have signed agreements. If you don't, the law simply assumes some defaults. And you probably won't like those. And let's be honest, your startup will likely fail and that usually involves a level of founder drama. Write it down ASAP.

- Limited liability in Germany is very limited. You are personally liable for a lot of things. Like making sure your company is run properly. Germany has lots of lawyers and they'll go after you if they smell money. Things like imprints on websites are important or GDPR or privacy.

- The only thing that's harder than incorporating in Germany is getting rid of your legal entity in case it fails. Nobody talks about this but of course most start ups fail and this is as much as a PITA as starting your company.

- The tax office assumes you are profitable even when you are not. So, you are potentially on the spot for a lot of stuff unless you get very pro-active on this. Things like tax pre-payments, salaries, social security, etc. This really sucks if you have no funding yet.
Why do browsers even allow this behavior? The back button should automatically skip any blind redirects.
I use infinity app, might as well leave reddit from mobile :/
I sometimes use Twitter from mobile browser, the experience is ok but for Reddit, it's absolutely terrible.
I am sure people have said the same argument about Blackberry being the next <insert even older tech company here>
My quieter corners of usenet were still usable/valuable up until 10-15yrs ago. I miss it too, but aren't quite sure how much of that is rose tinted nostalgia.
Well nothing can be done about that, Google's trying to force people back and it's gonna do what it's gonna do. Unless people get together an exert their voice.

Though an interesting question is whether people who took a pay reduction for remote working "somewhere cheaper" will get an IMMEDIATE bump in salary due to now having to move back to SF? Like if Google is gonna uplift the entire lives of its workers, then it's gotta be prepared to pay for that to happen.

But companies are companies, so I think we all know the answer to that unfortunately.
Certainly you can see the difference between VCs and banks deciding where to invest, and the government which allocates tax dollars?
The racism is horrendous
I think a lot of people spend time on LinkedIn these days. And GitHub.
Then his neighbor moved in...
> strange solitariness of all VR

The whole pitch of the Metaverse seemed to be "We'll all live in a virtual world and have great fun meeting and interacting with each other."
genuinely curious, why is that?
It was the "go quiet" part, as in if they don't just buy him out he'll scream and cry to the public so they get really negative publicity on the API updates. To be clear, I don't think that's what he meant, but I think that's what the Reddit person thought was being said.
I haven't seen anything about controllers that work with the Vision Pro. Lacking those is a nonstarter for a lot of VR gaming.
It isn't close minded at all. I would LOVE to have my thinking changed.

After listing to people who research this area like Martin Rees, Sabine Hossenfelder, Matt O'Dowd of PBS Spacetime, it just seems unlikely to me that the logistics of such travel--especially in a small craft that would just carry several beings--seems like it is just too hard to do and will remain so difficult for many, many generations to come.
>Today factories in the US are built automated.

Could I please borrow your time machine?