skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, a technology itself isn't a red flag. Not being able to explain the reason for choosing one approach over another is a big red flag.

Or if the reason is "I want to try this new thing" and not "Our standard production stack won't work for this because (valid technical reasons)" that's a huge red flag.
I am personally not interested in AR or VR whatsoever. None of the use cases have ever been interesting to me. Some AR applications for professional use are about the only ones that seem valid.

Sidenote: is he writing equations comically large on the blackboard for a reason?
There's a lot of complexity in the stack that makes a web server run. Nobody would suggest designing their own chips to do so. People insist that cloud computing is adding complexity when it often is a useful abstraction that allows companies to concentrate on the stuff that provides business value vs having to deal with lower levels of the stack.
You made a really heavy claim with "The entire field of gynecology is founded upon intentional sadistic torture of women by male physicians".

The other person is saying that there are many male and female doctors. If there would be a better option, it for sure would have been made possible. It's not male gyns wanting women to suffer - this doesn't make any sense, it's only there to create hate.
"It's for backpay over you making millions off us"
On Mac App Store you can find the free app Juu Background: it's very easy. https://apps.apple.com/it/app/juu-background/id1073241838
And plenty of people buying those processors feel it's their right to 'overclock' to get the performance of a more expensive product - In the early 2000s people would even bridge connections on the chips with pencil to reverse multiplier locking.
RARxD – RARBG with a Fast Interface
RARBG was a website that provided torrent files and magnet links to facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol. From 2014 to 2023, RARBG repeatedly appeared in TorrentFreak's yearly list of most visited torrent websites. It was ranked 4th as of January 2023.

On 31 May 2023, the site announced its shutdown, citing multiple reasons, including inflation, side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The full shutdown statement released by the site reads as follows:

Hello guys,
We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down our site.
The past 2 years have been very difficult for us - some of the people in our team died due to covid complications,
others still suffer the side effects of it - not being able to work at all.
Some are also fighting the war in Europe - ON BOTH SIDES.
Also, the power price increase in data centers in Europe hit us pretty hard.
Inflation makes our daily expenses impossible to bare [sic].
Therefore we can no longer run this site without massive expenses that we can no longer cover out of pocket.
After an [sic] unanimous vote we've decided that we can no longer do it.
We are sorry :(
Bye

I decided to make an ad-free site to allow browsing its database. The site is written in Python Flask and was took about 4 hours to make, so please excuse any rough edges! As always, i'd appreciate any feedback/thoughts.
Anyone reading this, I recommend learning two things if you use git:

Learn to use `git rebase` and learn to use `git commit -p`.
It's amazing how long Nvidia's plan to turn the GPU into a multi-purpose CPU that can crunch more than just frames in video games, has been going on for. Especially considering that the big payoffs started coming nearly a decade later.

A great example of long term strategic thinking, execution and commitment, that's quite rare in tech today.
Some people just do not do Haskell (Lisp, Perl, C....). They tried, they failed. Sometimes they failed several times over couple of decades.

Contributions can have several forms, not just Pull Request on github!
On the road to KDE Plasma 6
Not sure exactly what else the MosaicML team did to release their MPT-7B-StoryTeller-65k+ with ALiBi but I did hear interviews where they say it can be extended to an unknown extent by adding compute and I don't think they were talking 100:1

This seems like part of the conversation where advances in software are expected to deliver bigger gains than hardware for a while.

>At inference time, thanks to ALiBi, MPT-7B-StoryWriter-65k+ can extrapolate even beyond 65k tokens. We demonstrate generations as long as 84k tokens on a single node of 8 A100-80GB

https://huggingface.co/mosaicml/mpt-7b-storywriter

Edit: here is a snip of the interview -
https://share.snipd.com/snip/93d96e73-9841-4361-bd82-ae086e1...
That's incredibly reductionist.
1. Please add a 2020 tag to the title. The article is currently two microarchitectures behind the present state of affairs (Ampere, Hopper have already been released).

2. It's a useful read for people writing GPU code, since even if you're not likely to target the older GPUs, understanding the balance of resources and the rationale for SM structure helps you conceptualize how today's hardware will "really" proceed to do the work you ask it to. Of course, "really" is in quotes since the diagrams are still a partial abstraction and there are a lot of hairy details.
Wait, did you happen to work at Citrix a few years ago? I ran into the exact same problem, also working on audio processing engines :)
> I hope buyers take notice and send their money elsewhere.

I'm currently in the market for both in-ears and over-ears. Was looking into HD 25 model for over-ears. What other brands are worth looking into? KEF? Focal? Meze?
Maybe you just want the ability to run on any platform.
Mission Control is the quickest way to find the window you want amongst many. It has a dedicated keyboard key (F3), but you can also set it to a hot-corner so it's a quick mouse move away. There's also a "show all application windows" command that has a keyboard shortcut and can also be set to a hot corner.

You absolutely do not need to resize and drag windows around manually to find the one you want!
On the Linux side, possibly some network service or IoT device running a OpenWRT like OS that does the bare minimum. Although in my opinion advertising this device as a Linux board isn't the best selling point, they do that also because today due to chips shortage and bumped prices everyone is looking for RPi alternatives, but to me it rather appears a really good board for a RTOS, in which case the available resources would be plenty. H264/5 video encoding makes it very interesting though, but I would put it behind a firewall anyway, if not because it's a unknown CPU and network stack from a unknown manufacturer.
Security Vulnerabilities in Meta's Camera Sunglasses
This blog post demonstrates a security vulnerability discovered in Ray-Ban Stories, a pair of sunglasses with a built-in camera. With the help of a companion app, users can download recorded videos from the galsses to their phones. However, a determined attacker with sufficient computational resources can perform a man-in-the-middle attack and intercept recorded videos during the download process.
I don't think there is enough of a desire in the west to waste time pumping out non-innovative low spec trash. They follow the manta of "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." For everything else, there is China after all.
Spooky action at a distance cannot transmit information.
It's not the idiom, it's poor structure; the object of the clause is ambiguous and could mean "responded to my writing" or "responsed to Mark Zuckerberg". E.g. "While I wrote" or "After I wrote" would remove the implication of causation that "When" has. But really it should just say "The street responded by savaging..." with no authorial preening.

That being said, it's a weird thing to get hung up on.
AI SpongeBob
Had a hard time getting it to work in Firefox, now it seems to be down as I'm trying to load it in Chrome. I'm confused, the little sliders in canvas look fine, why would Chrome change anything about what shows up inside a <canvas> tag other than potentially messing with the scaling?

[edit] ah, I see, there are several canvases that are supposed to horizontally align. Yeh. Just take over the whole damn page and draw it on a single canvas, I'd say. Flash Player 2023.
This is Game theory in action afterall. If you don't "grow", you die.
Nice, thanks for the reply!
Maybe, but if I had ties to a convicted pedophile, child sex trafficker and politician blackmailer for mossad I would hope my response when confronted about it would draw more scrutiny than Noams did when he said "First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone’s."
I mean Microsoft, google, fb, Apple, Netflix, Airbnb, and amazon
The infinite virtual reality escape comes nearer
If the company isn’t a cloud provider and they have their own k8s installation.
Lockless is not the same as lock-free, which is not the same as wait-free which seems to be what you are describing
Previous submission was flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36377954

That seems absurd to me. There's some interesting meat in this article and it's worthy of discussion. Flagging it strikes me as pure fan-boyism.
Are they paid apps? Perhaps that's why. This way Apple can get a cut from the DLC.
BA crew and passengers injured after flight hit by ‘worst turbulence in years’
It's still non-free, period. True FOSS software doesn't impose restrictions on commercial sales.
For $8, Pine64 sells their similar looking Ox64 -- risc-V core, bluetooth, 64 MB SRAM, wifi, usb, 16 MB flash ...

They also have a $6 model with only 16 MB SRAM version, but that one, unline the 64 MB, can't run linux.

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Ox64
> Freelancing does help to not care

Freelancing is mostly orthogonal to what TFA cares about. Being in this position I'd also like to leave some value behind, and working blindfolded doesn't help.

On one hand you can jump easily, on the other hand you jump into unknown circumstances and with less domain context.
Thank you so much for this head's up. I've just pushed out a new update that covers this and a few other changes.
>I don't think the CEO of reddit genuinely thinks those third party apps add no value in terms of content and user engagement because that would be irrational.

He doesn't mean that, the title is clickbait.

"I want to stop you for a second there," Peters interjected. "So you're saying that Apollo, RIF, Sync, they don't add value to Reddit?"

"Not as much as they take," said Huffman. "No way."
"Flight turbulence increasing as planet heats up - study" - https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65844901
I should add - i removed all XXX listings so this is (relatively) SFW. Might bring up the full collection if people want it.
This is one of the most common arguments for non reference counted GCs
Python is a good example.

You have several teams, each working on their own Python app. Each app is in various maturity levels, some are old in maintenance mode, some are new using the latest libraries.

These teams or other teams also have other languages they deploy outside of Python.

I'm familiar with Python but far from an expert. I think outside of Docker you would need to use Virtual env and maybe publish to a pip repo or package an an RPM/Deb. You'd have to roll your own build/deployment scripts. Alternatively you'd have ansible scripts or similar, maybe packer to build a vm or something. Multi tenant Python install's are bit of a pain which is why I think you'd need virtual env.

If you do use pip that will not work for teams who do not use Python so you'd have a second set of special build scripts and another way to distribute the app.

So in that scenario you have multiple different deployment mechanisms, a bunch of custom scripts etc.

Using a container would give you a common deployment mechanism across all languages. In your scenario though you should absolutely be a fascist greybeard and say "You must use our companies blessed base image before we will deploy your app". Then when a security update comes out you update the base image and send an email out saying "we see your app is using base image v0.0.0, we have released a new image with patched security vulnerability xyz, please update your application to use it by YYYY-MM-DD"

Nix wouldn't be to bad an alternative for a container but it has a few rough edges and getting everyone to build the nix way can be a big ask. Nix would solve the dependency + distribution issue with it's binary cache.
Congrats for such a nice acknowledgement of your work. While looking at their other project I am curious that the author has decided to invent their own memory safe language currently implemented as transpiler to C++ written in Rust. Why not to just use Rust as their system language. I can imagine potential nightmares when debugging such concoction.
True, but I'd argue that the effect only starts to kick in at some point around $400 or so for a pair of headphones. Above that point the curve of performance/price flattens fast and soon you're getting into the esoteric territory of directional cables. But go below that point and the sound quality enters a steady decline noticeable to most experienced listeners- HD 595 were great and inexpensive, but objectively not as good as HD 600. The Momentums sound nice but they're far from perfect. AirPods Pro 2 are amazing, and have solid, respectable sound, but they're far from what really high-end in-ears can get you.
This makes the main point stronger, not weaker. The main point was that no rational person would ever found his business.
Unchecked exceptions are the better version of Result type.

The problem with checked exceptions is that methods throwing them force its callers to react to the even if they are irrelevant to them. In 99% of cases I don't have any JSON specific error handling, yet Jackson forces me to do a try-catch-rethrow ceremony in thpse 99% to declare I don't want to do anything specific.
Is that AMD or Intel?
Intel ivalidates the other CPU's cache line on write.
AMD sends an update to the other CPU's cache line.
AMD is supposed to be significantly faster than Intel on a "real" multiprocessor workload.
Since I haven't played a Star Wars video game since Dark Forces, I don't really have a frame of reference here. How do lightsabers actually work in modern Star Wars games?
https://neurophysics.ucsd.edu/courses/physics_171/Buzsaki%20...

Enjoy.
> But if it’s your own platform, why can’t you rely on it? Who’s maintaining it?

I don’t know if this is a rhetorical question. You are now responsible for maintaining your custom environment.

Obvious reasons why you can’t rely on maintaining your own platform include a lack of time for maintenance, a lack of understanding of the platform you have built, and a lack of prioritisation compared to other requirements.

A huge amount of the value that senior admins provide is simply stopping junior and mids from building custom platforms usually because they’re excited about a technology rather than aware of the wider picture.
Government of Abu Dhabi footed the bill on this one and they have a uhm unique take on:

>Adult content is not immoral.
Using boost or std in a function is much better than doing it in the header for obvious reasons, but still annoying.
It was made in the UAE, I'm surprised it doesn't censor far more.
I did this years ago to one of my two HD 555s. As with comparing an unmodded 555 to a 595, I've never really been able to hear a difference.
Wow I just got smacked in the face hard by nostalgia. Man where did the time go? Thanks for the share!
Microsoft says early June disruptions to Outlook, cloud, were cyberattacks
I personally like Beyerdynamic.

MX 150/100 if you want to have a mic, DT990 Pro if you want open-back and DT770 Pro for closed-back.

Worth mentioning that they're studio headphones, so if you like headphones with a lot of bass you might have to consider other models.

At home I use Sennheiser Game One, before they were rebranded to EPOS. I really, really love them so if you can find them second-hand, go for them. They're hooked up to a Sennheiser GSX 1000. I use this setup for almost three years now and I'm really happy.

For in-ears I use Marshall Mode EQs, I'm on the third pair now and am also really happy. They've got a lot of bass but when I'm commuting I actually prefer it over "true" sound :)

As always with headphones, YMMV. I care about good sound but I'm not that much of an audiophile to care about exact frequency curves etc.
That was exactly their point, that Canadian car ownership isn't that high when compared to places that likely have less need for cars.
I remember the times these cans were priced way cheaper. This is a fantastic rip off across all brands.
And also the most unfeasibly impossible to run.
Same here, and to hell with my 125k reddit karma, not worth supporting such a rotten CEO and a platform which is not opensource, and centralised.
Why What We Thought About the Global Economy Is No Longer True – The NY Times
^ https://archive.ph/1H0VG
But I never get frustrated with git. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I've encountered people who use features like rebase because they like to keep history "tidy" (I assume?), I think it introduces unnecessary complexity and IMO history should kept as-is, it's history after all.
Ask HN: Vim vs. Neovim
I'm using vim for a long time now, but recently I heard that neovim is noticeably faster.

Is that true? Have most folks switched to neovim by now? Should I care?
XCOM (2012) is super convenient with a gamepad, I finished both new games (with Long War mod on top) with a 360 controller.

Give it a try, its control scheme is designed very well.
This is tone-deaf pop psychology at its worst. Anyone who truly understands "happiness" doesn't strive for happiness as an end unto itself. Happiness is an emotion, a fleeting feeling; good luck defining "happiness" as a concrete thing that ten people can agree on.

Religions and allied philosophies do not attempt to offer unadulterated "happiness" to practitioners. Instead, you can strive toward "joy", and "peace", and "contentment", and things like that. And yes, it is definitely possible for a human being to achieve contentment and peace in this life, the kind which brings an enduring and impreturbable joy. I have known people like this. There really is truth behind the saying "Whoever believes in Me shall never thirst."
A ChatBot with open source LLM to ask questions on your Delta Lake
Thanks for the feedback.

The benchmark was for six transitions. I've now updated a few things and added new benchmarks.

I also got rid of timestamps for the map keys - it's back to a regular slice. In retrospect, that was a tad bit off, I agree.
They think they can get away with it. Why wouldn't you when you see this trend?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...

Time will tell if it's gonna do a facebook or not:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...
I read the article, and while it touches on a common issue, I don't think it goes far enough. When looking at these problematic incentives that are mentioned, notably the author doesn't really address the incentives like for example where does the money come from.

When you talk about venture capitalists, you often are referring to a bank associated with a venture capitalist. Everything in business after all, incentive wise, trickles down from the banking system.

We can't change the way we do business when the incentives are fixed, and banking in general is only marginally overseen by government; most of the regulation and praxis is done by the Fed which is not government; but a private institution.
Needs (2013) in the title
If the population is steady (as it will be by 2050) then you don’t need to increase production unless it’s to meet needs not already met. So the growth imperative now is mostly focused on job creation because people keep getting born. Growth in terms of absolute economic activity becomes less important if more people aren’t being added to the population however there may still be some growth necessary in order to increase equity of outcomes (although we may also just need a redistribution of existing economic activity to meet needs of the many over and above the needs of the few).

What I meant by my comment initially is that in an economy where population is increasing rapidly one can just use growth in economic activity as a pretty good proxy for prosperity.

Classic case of correlation!= causation though.
I'd speculate that in audio studios a lot of thoughts/work go into acoustics of the rooms themselves. And it is done by professionals who have to work in that environment every day for several hours.
Unbricking a Kobo Forma Reader
No, it was only a gut feel.
Agree, but having the battery on a long umbilical cord that gets in your way, instead of strapped to the back of the headset to equalize weight distribution and remove the long cord, feels like a huge oversight.

Mounting an external battery pack to the back strap of the Quest headsets has always been a common mod and it feels bizarre for Apple to ship theirs with an external battery on an umbilical cord that you have to manage as a user, as it's an extra hassle that ruins immersion and portability, especially that since I live in a warm climate, my pairs of underwear and shorts I wear in my house have no pockets as I don't need to carry my wallet, phone or keys in my house. What then? Do I hold the battery pack with my teeth or between my ass cheeks while I slice cubs in beat saber?

It feels like they prioritized some superficial design goals for the sake of looks, and didn't really think this through enough in terms of ergonomics by actually dogfooding this in users homes, just like their sleek good looking but uncomfortable and stupid wireless mouse that's the only one I know with the charging port on the bottom instead of at the front so you can't use it while charging like every other rechargeable mouse because of Apple's bizarre design choices.

I wish I were a fly on the wall in the boardrooms when such design decisions are green lit. Is it the product designers that have the final call? Is it the engineers? Is it a vote by committee or is it one person who has the decision power?
I don't believe Sennheiser still make or sell either of the mentioned models. I might be wrong, but I recall them both being superseded some years ago.

In any case, for less than the 595's original MSRP, these days you can get an HD 6XX that very perceptibly outdoes both 5-series models in frequency response. Yours is more of a 2013 complaint than a 2023 one, I think.
Reddit's CEO Is Just Making Everything Worse
Interesting. The servers at places I work with are in the 128-256GB ram range.

The only real exception to that would be for database or reporting servers, which sometimes might have higher ram requirement (eg 384GB).

That's pretty much it though.
Thanks for everyone's feedback. I've pushed out a few changes:

1- Regular slice instead of timestamp-keyed map. That didn't make sense in retrospect.
2- Better benchmarks.
3- Non-exported current state and transitions. Mutexed getters to avoid concurrency issues.
4- Variadic rule parameters.
5- Better example.
I don't mind paying for the research, engineering and maybe design but I won't pay for "brand". Same as I don't buy luxury bags or iPhones or clothes.
Sounds like maybe how Skype got completely wrecked
Wasn’t the creation of mod_ the ability to keep the interpreter open?

Yes, before that, we had stateless scripting in web apps. Like serverless it was far easier to debug. Unlike serverless it was slow.
It's why the Romans were able to put down pretty much every uprising for centuries.

There's a famous one in my country led by a former Roman general. After it was put down his tribe was never mentioned in historical chronicles ever again.
And there is ofcourse the Jews whose brilliant strategy involved God- he never showed up on the battlefield.
still miles ahead of apple
> another browser engine really isn't needed. 2 is enough.

I profoundly disagree with this statement. 2 is too few.
I mean the whole point of nix(and guix probably) is to accept that this is our reality and then built tools that make it tractable.
About Doughnut Economics