skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We went with armed with Google Maps, Google Translate, and a cellular router you rent at the airport (or just use Google Fi's free international data). Never had an issue. That was several trips from 2014 ish onwards.

Every train route is on Google Maps, restaurant menus are easy to scan with Translate, there are English signs everywhere, many touristy places speak English anyway, the locals are super friendly and helpful, etc.

It's a major international destination, not some backwater island...
Reminds me of this old Soviet joke, as told by Reagan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLW7r4o2_Ow
Well...I mean it's a logical conundrum because if you take the timeframe you can justify and double it, by definition you can't justify half of the time it will take.

On the other hand, a minimum amount of time required for a project seems to be well accepted by project managers and others.
If you're not using a tiling window manager, maximizing windows that do their own tiling (e.g., tmux, Emacs, vim, iTerm, Konsole... whatever) is the only thing that makes sense.

If you're visually impaired, you'll also likely find yourself needing to maximize because all of the blank space used in modern design trends means that if you scale up the app or the font sizes, all that empty space the app is burning up forces you to maximize the window just to fit the important elements on the screen.
Right. And, not only that, because those people aren't your coworkers, you know they're not (generally) going to come up and interrupt you for any reason.
Some have more money than they can spend in a lifetime while others are homeless.

This is the society we live in, created by capitalism that demands unsustainable growth.
They are building an activitypub compatible twitter clone.

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/meta-mull...

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/19/everything-we-know-about-i...
Come to Flint, the water is.... a liquid?
"There's no way humans are that smart" is the worst form of anti-intellectualism.
Yes, and according to multiple sources its going to be activitypub compatible.

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/meta-mull...

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/19/everything-we-know-about-i...
For me even at the lowest brightness on macbook it is still way brighter than the normal one. Looks about like "normal" white.
Streaming Dreams (2012)
> ...am meticulous at making sure the structure and filenames are correct before dumping anything new to the library to the point where I have a complex script to...

I am the exact opposite, partly because I feel like it SHOULD BE the responsibility of the media library to maintain associations between the media files and their metadata, regardless of the filename.

It seems crazy to me that Plex and other media libraries effectively require you to follow persnickety file-naming conventions. I am very much in the minority of folks who think that you should just be able to point these media servers to a file, tell it what that file is, and then have it maintain associations so you can query your media in arbitrary ways to make a playlist or whatever-- no filenames changes needed.
Which non-English subs do you look for? I try to look for Chinese subs and it’s been a struggle to find good tracker.
I think Free Software suffers from the misaligned incentives. Take documentation for example. Why would I write it? I already know how the system works. I designed it! If I forget in a few years, a quick glance at the code will refresh my memory. One would argue that you should write documentation so that people will use your thing. That's true! But there is almost no incentive to have users; you pay a cost, but they pay nothing in return. (Someone will send a bugfix now and again, of course, but it's very very rare.)

Some other incentives are balanced, though. Persistent low performance or bugginess affects the author and end users equally; the more the author uses their own software, the more this will hurt. Sometimes the low performance is a design trade off; Python isn't Rust, and the users seem to be okay with that. It was done on purpose. Sometimes low performance is a factor of the author's needs; you're trying to run the thing on 1 billion machines, they only have 1; something has got to give. But that's not misaligned incentives so much as it is lack of suitability for a particular purpose. A screwdriver is terrible for hammering in nails. That's not the screwdriver's fault.
As someone who works for a large company, 100%, and not just that, the restrictions on allowed interview questions can be so limiting that even if we could do better, we aren’t allowed to. It’s frustrating on the hiring side just as it is for candidates. I’m sure this isn’t true everywhere, but just my experience.
Who cares about population growth? We know human population will stabilize pretty soon. Malthusian arguments are meaningless when the very premise of unlimited population growth is false.
I've rarely see this phenomenon when interests align, people hustle almost without coordination when everyone sees the benefit
as an events organizer i empathize. the venue and food costs stack up surprisingly quickly and many events are run at breakeven or loss, and attendees dont often have empathy for the stress of putting together even an average event.

if i might suggest one way to build up to a conference is to run meetups beforehand. not many are needed, say 3-6 of them before you probably have the community trust and events experience to go big.

https://www.swyx.io/manifest-meetups
Not having to screw with your system's dependecies and spend time making sure everything is aligned with the expected environment.

Ansible like tools could help you make the setup repeatable, but being containerized also avoids all the processor architecture and system libraries gotchas.
Sam Altman's OpenAI already has Reddit's data. He is more interested in making sure nobody else can get it.
Well, frankly, it’s a real shame he’s hanging up on this one. There’s much to be done with light sheet. I only exist at the fringes as a bystander but have seen some incredible imagery come out of it. Compared to all the “disrupt the phone sanitizing market!” cruft I’m used to reading about, this one actually seemed worthwhile.
Was renewing a domain when I noticed my registrar offered VPN service but I couldn't find any substantial information about how it works other than supporting Wireguard and claim not to keep logs. There wasn't even a TOS for me to study before signing up.
I prompted bare Llama-30B quantized to 4 bits with a few codes from the KMS activation list, and it generated some more from the list. Smaller ones might work too but messed up my files for those and haven't been able to test.
I would say 95-99% of transportation signage have English translations. There's still the remaining few percent where it's entirely in Japanese (source: visited the Kansai region a few months ago). They're usually signs on the ground on whether a line is express or non-express.
https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1361279902889086980
If it makes you feel better I had a similar, but not so exciting, situation happen to me in the past. So it's not entirely outside the realm of shit that happens. What does seem super fake is the doubling down, having it an SOP/SSP, and the tripling down without some crazy amount of escalating.

For example my experience went sort of like this:

Low Rent Auditor: Please supply a list of username and passwords for xyz systems.

Me(ccing boss and internal secops): No. Why are you asking me for that? <Links to internal SOPs, guidelines, basic common sense, etc>.

Low Rent Auditor: We need this for x box on y form. <attached>

Me (ccing their Sr. Auditor): That's not what that is asking for. Here's a copy of the PAM config. <attached>

FIN
Yes, a microcontroller, where code density is the most important thing. It's basically a re-coded M68000 using byte-granularity instruction lengths (1-8 bytes?) that -- unlike VAX or x86 -- actually has been properly designed for high instruction density.

There is also MSP430, a 16 bit microcontroller that is pretty much a PDP-11 with the register set increased from 8 to 16 (4 bit field instead of 3) by reducing the number of addressing modes from 8 (3 bit field for each operand) to 4 for the src operand and 2 for the dst operand. This also gives 1 extra bit for the opcode field.

Incidentally, the M68000 is itself pretty much a 32 bit PDP-11 with the register set increased from 8 to 16 by differentiating D and A registers and reducing most instructions (except MOV) to have 8 addressing modes for only one operand, with the other operand always being a register.
Note that if your company uses 1password you get a _free_ family account for personal use!

https://support.1password.com/link-family/
GPU Programming: When, Why and How?
I think I am, but thank you for your concern.

Did you see the part in the history books where capitalism increased work hours and decreased real wages for workers for hundreds of years? Happy to provide sources if you're going to actually read and engage with them, and not going to just dismiss them.
Rubbish.

Money doesn't magically show up at your doorstep even if your product is focused on developers. How do you think SaaS companies are able to hire developers? Do those $350k bay area salaries magically come from nothing? Yes, they often initially fueled by VC dollars, but eventually customer revenues pay for them.

The "anti sales" drivel from engineers on HN who are largely some of the highest paid positions in the world always puzzles me.

It's OKAY to be okay with Sales & Marketing in companies. It isn't some evil function, and discounting it means future entrepreneurs are doomed to fail.
This is cool, but why? What’s the business use case or problem they’re trying to solve? I would have liked to hear about that. Without that critical piece, it sounds like Netflix engineers spent a lot of time and effort just to migrate to a new framework.

It also bears mentioning that Netflix is, or pretty much should be, complete. They don’t need to make any changes to the service; if so, it’s very few. I’m sure they need talented engineers to scale up their operations, and great SREs, but what are they still writing code for?
I see what you mean now. When we created the "anet" category, the main intent was to prevent redbean from making outbound HTTP connections. Allowing UDP looks like a copy and paste error. You're correct that it is a weakness. Thank you for identifying it! I'm in the process of fixing it now. How would you like to be credited?
If you read my comment carefully all the way through then you would have seen it was clear that I think housing is a human right.

That doesn't mean that we should abandon laws and process.
Isn't it scraping rather than DDoSing?
While the subject matter is quite serious, the decision can't help but raise a jaded techies wry grimace, as an epitome of the whole management making hasty tech decisions from a non-tech standpoint headaches, where the consequences get passed down as Our Industry's Problem.

And don't get me wrong - management can and does sometimes make well informed, guided tech decisions. But in circumstances like this, where the numerous issues are plain to conceptualise, if not entirely specify in advance - well, many of us have been there, I guess.
Unfortunately Google makes it extremely hard to report this sort of Abuse to them, offering no free-form input to tell them what the issue with the application is.
There is very little in the blogosphere of 2023 that isn’t just some rando’s hot takes or a regurgitated idea that consists of a few Wikipedia pages sent through a word spinner.

The truly interesting blogs are those who are written by known subject matter experts with success in their field and something interesting to say such as original research or personal observation resulting from what they are an expert in.
I love your comment, but whats interesting is the need for CHEAP housing.

AND internet cables, and cafes, and etc...

But it is easier and cheaper to build this in detroit as infra should be cheaper;

grab a quote from a micro-trenching vendor in detroit with their planning dept and tell me how much cheaper it is v california....
The Pixel Xa phones are in no sense budget. A new budget phone is less than $100, and many of these are still sold in affluent countries.

https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_e7-10511.php

https://www.gsmarena.com/oppo_a57s-11835.php

At present that means ~2/4GB RAM, 4G, slow CPU, 50mpix, very laggy camera processing (because pixels are a metric buyers don't understand), slow storage I/O, no fancy comms like SOS beacons, UWB, limited security (no separate security enclave chip), and of course, old android and slow patching that stops quickly.

But you can at least get a headphone jack on the E7.
If I were evil, I don't implement proxy feature on open Linux VPN client that geeks use, but just implement on closed Windows/Android client. Traffic monitoring is better.
Show HN: MS Paint inspired painting on the web. WEBBYPAINT
I wanted to paint outside on my Samsung note 9 and ended up developing a tool to quickly make colors and shapes. I spent four years of working on it as a native mobile / desktop app called HEAVYPAINT. Early this year I discovered the magic of web (yes I am very late to the party) and decided to rebuild it from the ground up with vanilla JS / webgl. WEBBYPAINT is still in beta and very open to feedback! Hope you enjoy it.
If you decide to move to another country you might as well decide to learn the basics of the language - mind you, knowing how to count/read basic signs/ask for food gets you a long way. You can learn this in weeks/months almost anywhere. On the other hand, it would take much longer to get to the level of fluency required to communicate successfully in the workplace. I see this article in this way, English at work and some other language outside, which is not uncommon elsewhere in the world.
So, downtown SF has a lot of vacant commercial and office real estate. They'd like people to convert some of those vacant storefronts into businesses. Ok, now consider it from the perspective of a would-be businessperson considering set up shop in one of those storefronts. What will happen?

I think most would-be store openers will think of the famous ice cream shop: https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/heatherknight/article/s-f-... . The city bureaucracy of San Francisco has a reputation, and the reputation is that they will destroy you, Vogon-style. The same goes for building housing, or converting commercial space to housing, or doing anything else that involves the permitting process.

Legislation to reform the processes is nice, but I don't think SF can even credibly commit to follow the laws it passes, where bureaucratic obstruction is concerned. Solving the problem would require either much more drastic reform, or loudly announcing that staff in the relevant institutions have been 100% replaced.
Factories in the USSR often had a shortage of parts, but they still had to meet production quotas. This usually meant a reduction in quality, but it goes the other way too. I've heard stories that consumer appliance factories would run out of stainless steel, so they would use titanium alloy instead, as it was more plentiful.

In my country, one of the most unique consumer appliances they made was a potato grating machine. Today the same device continues to made, unchanged since Soviet times.
Berkeley RISC I and RISC II had register windows, and led to SPARC. MIPS was Stanford.

And, yes, they learned the hard way that register windows are a bad idea. Patterson says they did it because their compiler didn't have as good register allocation as Stanford's compiler.
1990s is beyond my time horizon.

The oldest nn I was exposed to was a image upscaler (mostly used for deinterlacing) called nnedi, which goes back to ~2007: http://web.archive.org/web/20130127123511/http://forum.doom9...

nnedi3 is actually quite respectable today
What a time to leave lol.

Good luck
Can you explain self-referential? Do you mean the people that were invited are talking about it in public? That’s a first person account.
I doubt it was obvious scaling up would magically work. I suspect the experiments were limited for analytic simplicity rather than computational.
The three kinds of leverage that anchor effective strategies
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Sounds like one of those oft repeated, memorable bullshit stories like the NASA space pen. Does the book site sources?
There is no information about the size of GPT-4; it could very well be smaller than GPT-3.5.

Sam has said multiple times "the age of large models is over" https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ceo-sam-altman-the-age-of...

Either way, the LLaMa models are quite powerful and now that we have an open, commercially usable version in 3, 7, and 13b sizes is huge. The 65b model I'm assuming is coming soon as well.
You can say the same thing about marketing. If there's no marketing, who buys the product.
Pretty sure that wasn't the spirit of what GP was asking
I happily run Jellyfin in a jail using: https://github.com/Thefrank/jellyfin-server-freebsd

It's not an official build, but its been very reliable for me.
> Because I'm searching for new, dangerous ideas that I haven't heard before, and they're not so easy to find.

You’re so close.
Link to the runpod templates?

These run on your local machine or can I use Colab/Huggingface GPUs?
a quick view on YouTube of a current travel video in 札幌 Sapporo, Hokkaido region, showed the transit machine, and one of the choices was English, also Simplified Chinese. The signage at the entrance to the station had a line of English name on it.
If your plan is through your employer, see if your employer offers an appeals process.
The XOXO festival is a counter example of a "conference" type thing that was kickstarted and has been running for multiple years (aside from recent ones thanks to COVID)
Where does the Steam Deck come in? Can't any old used laptop or rooted Android do this? Maybe even a BeagleBone?

Weird to single out a gaming device for an unrelated use
When he broke in, he did so with British journalist Jon Ronson, and reading their two takes made me think Jones' record here was also spotty.
A proper look at WebGPU for native games
+1 to this. I used basically this same approach to start the biggest JS meetup in my town. We eventually got ~200 people showing up regularly.

I think it’s still running even after I moved out of the country 8 years ago.

edit: Our venue trick was “Hey, if we pack your bar/restaurant on a random weekday night so you make a killing in drinks, can we have the place?”. Venues were happy to say yes.
So many unfounded assertions.
You can sort of get it in the post-unicorns: see AWS, Microsoft. Smaller examples, Digital Ocean, Hashicorp. They are certainly dev focused, and probably dev run to a high enough level (but not the top). They wont always do things you like/agree with as a dev, but that is different to not being dev focused.
> does not materially benefit labor in the long run.

If you ignore the wages (direct and indirect) paid, then sure. Otherwise, I'm not sure how you can argue that in good faith when the largest expense almost any corporation has is labour.
See also: https://kidi.ng/wanna-see-a-whiter-white/
> strip mined the earth

So... If you are complaining about destruction of habits for animals, and global warming, then yeah. If you are complaining about us extracting minerals... Rocks don't have feelings, they don't get a vote. If we could mine them without polluting and destroying ecosystems, not only we probably should, but we should start thinking on how to also mine asteroids and stuff.

> decimated humanity

How did we do that? There are more people now than in any previous point in history. There are a lot of people suffering, but quality of life by numbers is probably a lot better now than it has ever been.

> globally hopeless (look at birth rates)

So is population growth a good thing cause it shows people are happy, or a bad thing cause it means we won't have enough resources? I prefer us to have a stable population for the long run, at least until we can get to space.

> individual alienation has never been wider spread

How informed do you think illiterate peasants used to be?

What is happening, is that the American empire is in a state of decay right now. But the world is bigger than just the Western cultural world. Yeah, it might suck to not get getting all the fruits of imperialism that the US and European countries used to get. It makes the imperialist countries poorer not to have that. But for the formerly colonized people, their life gets better.
And accepting bribes was a common USSR technique.
Is it evident that it's not proxy? Even if it's not work like HTTP Proxy, still it could work as a sort of proxy service for scraping.
The issue is Jira's permission management also seems terrible in the exact way that makes it hard to create that sort of role without making that person also responsible for a myriad of banal options that everyone needs turned on.
This is the case for many materials. The raw material itself is not rare, the bottleneck is the refining/processing capability and thus the refined material is scarce.

- The shortage of lumber in US a few years was due to lack of saw mills, not trees

- Shortage of semi-conductor grade Neon due to lack of plants that can refine the gas to the required purity

- Shortages of oil derived products due to constraints on refining

- "Rare earth" shortages as few countries refine. China is one of the few countries willing to tolerate the pollution generated from the refining processes.
> no sane country

We’re talking about russia/USSR here.
> I don’t think any CEO can be moral if your primary obligation is “shareholder value”.

I am really glad I am starting to see a lot more posts here on HN with regard to this fact. Capitalism is literally destroying everything and has proven itself not to be a viable system for long term sustainability and a healthy society and ecosystem.

Some of the smartest people on the internet aggregate on HN and some have still not figured this out. Either because 1) They haven't taken the time to look into the n-order knock on effects that are produced by capitalism in it's current form, or 2) they are too interested in self-enrichment to make any changes to behavior for their own comfort and convenience.

We should get of publicly traded corporations and Wall Street should disappear in my opinion. It is that publicly traded shareholder value that drives all the crimes against society/environment in this late stage. However, we are up against a severely selfish and entrenched minority with a ton of power who won't let that happen ... at the cost of everything.