skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't read very deeply, but I was surprised to see something like a Jupyter notebook mentioned as a use-case. The marketing pitch seems to suggest that these hosted sessions are relatively stateless, so I'd hesitate to trust an interactive Jupyter session with one.

Accidentally closing a browser tab seems like it would end the session and wipe out my whole Jupyter session, variables and all.
What are the limits of color discrimination, I wonder? Can we discriminate between close colors of light better than we can between close frequencies of sound?

For pitch Googling suggests we can hear a difference of about 5 cents. A cent is 1/100th of a semitone, or 1/1200th of an octave, so N cents is a frequency ratio of 2^(N/1200).

At 440 Hz (A above middle C) 5 cents would be a difference of 1.27 Hz.

For light, a 5 cents difference would be about 2 nm wavelength at the red end of our visible range and about 1.1 nm at other end. (That's about 1 gHz frequency difference at the red and and 2 gHz at the other end). Can a human tell if two light sources differ in wavelength by 1-2 nm?
What is "test candidates" and how are they detected from a diff between two commits?
“Sony has created or acquihired many of its first party studios” so you admit Sony is acquiring studios too—why is it only bad when Xbox does it?
And as a business that has publicly stated that they don't think they can compete on quality of their products - https://www.eurogamer.net/phil-spencer-there-is-no-world-whe....
One aspect of absolute pitch that I didn't know about until recently is that it almost always drifts when you get past a certain age. An acquiantance described how in middle age his perception of pitches had shifted by a semitone so the sensation he got for say an A5 was the sensation he used to get for an Aflat5. It got progressively worse from there.

The thing is this doesn't mean you no longer have absolute pitch. You can still identify the pitches but they feel different, which can affect the enjoyment of music. All the sensations you get from familiar music are now permanently altered, which can take a lot of getting used to.

I added this to a short list of reasons I tend to be rather glad I don't have absolute pitch.
I'm very doubtful that there'd be no flat-earthers if they'd all gone to schools that did experiments to demonstrate the earth was round instead of simply describing those experiments in their science and history books.
There is no reason for this equivalence.

My main reasoning is reducing cleaning effort on my end. If the office were to have a no shoes rule I'd be walking around in socks or barefoot as long as others do.

Sharing foot bacteria with my coworkers is also a different ballgame than sharing it with my wife and kid. The family is already sharing quite a bit of bacteria so what's a bit of foot stuff.
There's a difference between a "waste of energy" and a failsafe emergency system that happens to use a lot of energy.
I know there move to CentOS Stream cost them my business, Since that announcement 2 years ago I have replaced all Licensed RHEL servers with Ubuntu Servers...
I could see a well-motivated hobbyist or group of hobbyists doing the design for fun, or to make a point. People do similarly ambitious things all the time.

Behringer has impressive scale, but honestly I think for PCB manufacture and assembly, JLCPCB probably has them beat -- and any random hobbyist has access to JLCPCB.

The cost of Maths and Rampage has more to do with having to earn enough to pay all their employees and make a decent profit that the actual marginal cost of manufacturing one more module. Maths is very popular, but it's still a fairly low-volume market.

I think one thing it would be hard to compete with Behringer on is enclosures. But maybe that doesn't matter; a Neutron/Proton clone wouldn't necessarily need one if it's a Eurorack module.
Me attacked, not all.

HN loves to hate Oracle, IBM, SAP, Adobe and friends, without getting the point that many startups that go through HN programs never achieve half of what they produce.
If the info in this thread is accurate, it is for 3 (three) workstations, I would call it a tiny deal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36417968

Shouldn't be of relevance.
When a Microsoft employee receives a call from Matt Booty (head of XBox Game Studios), do you think they say to those around them - “I’m sorry, please excuse me. I have to take this Booty call.”?
I've been hearing lately that "buy what you can, build what you must" is the approach to procurement for orgs like NASA and SDA. If it is the case, one would hope this means more folks like ROCKY can get over that initial hump and grow within those orgs. Would be interesting to hear if that mirrored your experience or not.

I'm not so convinced based on my experience. Seems like that could be the ideal, but in practice for such a large institution it seems difficult to implement. Sharing the word that this team over here is using XYZ and seeing good results to that team over there is challenging.
Ask HN: Just how good are captcha solvers these days?
I just fired up a new browser installation and logged in from a VPN while I had another browser logged in Gmail so I guess it would throw some alerts but google made me solve straight 17!!!! captchas with images which I did correctly. If you have to solve 17 I think the tech is dead?
My dogs go out and roll around in whatever the heck on the ground. And then come inside. Someone wearing their shoes isn't going to make much difference unless they've stepped in something particularly gross.
https://sam.gov/opp/2e0365ce1e3c4c179b50fb15573d68e4/view

links to "SATPC0031698 Tab 04 SOW.pdf"

which has 2 line items,

- CIQ Rocky Enterprise Linux Per Person Advanced - Annual Subscription Service Period: June 1, 2023-May 31, 2024

- CIQ Rocky Enterprise Linux Per Person Advanced - Annual Subscription Service Period: June 1, 2024-May 31, 2025

Quantity of 3 for each of them.
Could have been phrased better, but I think both points emphasize that it's the mastery of tonal language, not student's race, that seems to be making the difference.
Doesn't change our perspective, I'll wait and see how this gets ruled on before trying to make up my mind. I can easily believe that Microsoft would do such a thing, I mean it has repeatedly done so, but I don't like taking one party to a lawsuit's word about evidence I cannot see as fact.

I'll see what the judge says, or if they decide to unseal this one.
I think OP is wearing socks that are not properly fit. Literally never have had any of these problems with traditional wool black socks.
Sure, 3rd place console, is going to eliminate the champion of exclusive deals.
In NodeJS land this library is pretty close to this: https://github.com/porsager/postgres
The CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) /is/ the cable modem, as well as a WiFi router. Another thing it does is provide an authenticated SSID for WiFi that is available to other Comcast customers and utilized to boost coverage for Comcast's mobile offerings, via built-in WiFi profiles. The basic understanding I have is that you get free "unlimited" with the Comcast CPE, because they got sued and lost due to the provided authenticated WiFi being used by other customers to utilized what would otherwise be part of your data cap, so they had to lift the cap when they provided the equipment. Since your own equipment doesn't provide the Xfinity WiFi SSID, you must pay to lift the cap.

I did a quick search and couldn't find what I was looking for, but it looks like in 12 states they were prevented until 2022 for enforcing the data cap, and there's a pending class action suit in California related to the WiFi impact on data caps: https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news...

Anyway, that's my understanding. The net-net is I coughed up the $30/mo because I have no alternatives to Comcast (even at lower speeds) because my landlord has an exclusivity contract with them, and I don't want their shit-tier CPE anyway, especially throttling my traffic and broadcasting a WiFi SSID I don't control. My entire network is proper SME enterprise-grade rackmount gear and I have WiFi 6E throughout my house that is secured to only allow devices I control/allow to connect.
Debating Is a Waste of Time
> Romanian vocabulary likewise includes words of an unclear pre-Roman substrate language

That would be the Dacian language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacian_language?useskin=vector
> Amazon is now requiring customers to file police reports in order to have any chance at refunds now.

This was the case 4 years ago. I don't think it's new.
r/skeptic on reddit fits this perfectly. No one there is actually a skeptic just dogmatic and no evidence or counter points will sway them. If it was the time of Copernicus the sub would 100% side with the Church that the sun revolves around the earth and how Copernicus is "dangerous".
Those are all published by Sony, though. Are you saying that console makers simply shouldn’t work on games at all?

IMO there’s a huge difference between negotiating exclusivity for a handful of popular games you publish, and spending 2/3 of your competitor’s entire market cap to acquire the giant studios making a significant amount of the most successful game franchises on the market.
There is also a difference between buying one singular developer and buying a top 10 (top 5?) publisher and all its developers.
> pointers are handles

Pointers are quite limited handles - they would all to be handles to the same array with base pointer 0, but that removes many of the useful benefits you get from having different arrays with different base pointers.
With what I know from watching this shit-show up close with my own kids, this is no surprise. Kids essentially learned nothing during those years aside from what we as parents provided them. We were fortunate enough to be able to hire an aide to work with our kids during the school hours.

There are many unknowns. Especially with younger kids who missed out on social interaction during key developmental windows (4-6 years old).

The knee-jerk fears around covid were so, so foolish. So little regard for all the externalities, and the true devistation to communities that lock-down created.
You don't wipe your dogs' feet off if they're dirty?
It is the norm in Minnesota. Growing up, we never wore shoes in our own home or in the homes of anyone we visited. Still the case today.
Google maps doesn't do this and that is what the op was stating.
No quite, the generic drug makers can produce the product from scratch without the help of original manufacturer. Also RHEL is contentiously being developed, once a drug has been designed, there's no requirement to keep it updated (ruffly speaking). Rocky Linux is dependent on RedHat staying in business.

The problem will only manifest itself if RedHats business is sufficiently underminded. Losing a few customers isn't an issue, and many of the users of Rocky Linux probably wasn't going to buy a RHEL licens anyway.
The comment is a reference to the 25x4090 comment in another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36413296
> That's comparing apples to oranges, because the two input types have vastly different lengths relative to their value.

It really is not, because complexity is fundamentally a function of _the length of the input_ (specifically: it measures how the runtime (or space usage) grows with growing input). If you have longer input, your Turing machine can spend more time to compute its answer. Also note that this assumes that _the input_ is encoded in unary, if you get binary input and need to spend time and space to convert it to unary representation, sure, that will lead to an exponential blow-up.

Edit:
> Just think about the rough number of steps you would need to add or even multiply two very large numbers, e.g. in a Turing machine. It would be obviously vastly more if the numbers are given in unary rather than in binary.

First, note that those are not actually pseudo-polynomial, as the number of steps needed for addition (or multiplication) depend on the number of digits, not the numeric values involved. Yet, even here unary encoding _does not have worse complexity_, since you still take polynomially many steps in the length of the input (i.e., the length of the unary encodings of the input values). Yes, all the inputs will be exponentially larger, so in practice it's certainly not the better algorithm, but _the complexity_ is not worse, since that's only concerned with the asymptotic behaviour.
I pay for Prime annually, and yet somehow have a monthly "Prime" charge that no one at Amazon can identify or cancel.
Doubtful since those usually use vague analogies to stadiums, pickup trucks and guns.
I mean you still benefit from TOTP if it's in your password manager. That still means that if you're password is stolen, they can't get in without you being on an authorized device.
I would review Khan first, and compare what value you'd like to add compared to it.
Maybe. Or your comment shows the closed world you live in if you don't think it is commonly used.
Related discussion on the NYT piece: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36417375
Relative and absolute pitch are orthogonal. A person with absolute pitch needs to practice relative pitch. So, this is not necessarily the case. However, people with absolute pitch have far easier time reading notation, which may result in less familiarity with relative pitch.
The use case in that example is for ephemeral notebooks used for demos. It's also good for running notebooks for temporary classroom use.

When backends are spawned, there is a period of time that they remain alive without a connection. By default, it's 5 minutes. So if you accidentally close a tab, but open it back within 5 minutes, the kernel is still there.
I don't have perfect pitch, just an average hobby musician, but I can immediately tell when an orchestra is tuned up or down (A 440Hz vs 441 or 442, or baroque, really low).

I also find out of tune music extremely distressing, and can't stand it. My ears actually have this weird "bleeding" sensation if I listen to out of tune music long enough.
Those books may have illegal arguments
The team is aware and looking into it, thanks for letting us know!
REI has been my goto for toe socks in the past. I buy the Injinji brand of socks.
> Aren't your toes jammed together when you're wearing shoes anyway?

They're not supposed to be, but most shoes are terribly fit if you have any sort of less than ideal feet.

It took me years to realise, but (alongside a whole host of other issues) I turn out to have pretty "wide" feet at the front.

After decades of wearing shoes the toes literally overlap, if I walk middle distances unless I add some sort of separator (e.g. toe socks, which is not comfortable as it forces toes apart when they got misshapen to bunch up) even in open-toed shoes my toes are so deformed they'll stab one another: the nail of the 5th and 4th toes will scrape against the previous toe until they break the skin and fill my socks with blood.
I would probably give Modafinil a try if I could just buy it over the counter at Walgreens.
> because doing that to enough people will result in some percentage of them buying something

Yeah, it might have improved things at first. But now I avoid Amazon because I don't want to have to wade though pages of results to find what I am looking for. So they probably shipped this with a temporary blip in sales but didn't consider the long-term effect.
I just want to be able to download the original, full quality, uncropped version of an image. And to have built-in options for compressing images.

Also I hope dev mode prevents designers from locking/hiding elements and layers, which makes it very difficult to export the elements you actually need.
Bad for both vegans and gluten intolerant people. Also pizza parties are sooo 2006.

Nothing demotivates people like a half assed reward. If you want something never to get done, offer a bad carrot. If you want only one thing to get done and nothing ever again, offer a good reward but then make the recipient fight you to get it. I thought pizza parties were the worst, and then I got an award that was announced but not delivered, and spent almost eight hours over the next month poking people to give me my goddamned prize. It became a second job and at the end I ended up resenting the entire experience.

Later at another job when we in theory had a generous reimbursement process that was actually a ton of red tape, I had flashbacks to that incident.
Kinda! It will auto-detect icons in a design, highlight them at the top level, and allow you to import it into your VS Code workspace :)
True, but I don't want to be worried about that every time I use it. That's why we need an easily accessible, locally running ChatGPT like service. Hopefully we can get there soon.
Parent Poster: "For example, when you’re driving more than 6 hours in a day, which is not uncommon for Americans, especially ones living west of Mississippi, extra 10 mph of average speed means you’re getting to your destination 1+ hour faster, which most definitely is a significant difference."

You: "Averaging 10-20mph faster is very difficult on anything but the least congested roads."

Either you're blatantly ignoring what the parent said ("west of the Mississippi"), which does not exactly amount to polite discourse, or you're commenting authoritatively on a set of roads which you clearly know nothing about.
To be honest, you sound more like recent college graduate with minimal (no) experience working in enterprise.

You probably don't realize this given your lack of experience, but when you are running FOSS powered/adjacent enterprise equipment (think storage systems and compute fabrics) the bugs you encounter are often not things that simply show up on the first page of google.

There often isn't anyone to "wait" for (other than the resources you pay for), which is why if you value uptime and availability, you PAY for a support contract.

I was a staff level systems engineer at a major movie studio in California (owned a 24+PB tape library and a few petabytes of fast storage), and I can confidently say all of our dedicated support assets were valuable members of our broader team (first name basis, ask questions/raise issues with a text message, etc...).

In the rare occasion an engineer wasn't cutting it we would have our TAM get us a new one. Typically you are literally paying these people's salary as part of your contract so these are decisions that you as a customer actually have a lot of input into.

If you'd rather wait for someone to answer you on StackOverflow that's a decision you can make, but if you pull that move in any serious enterprise you will terminated pretty quickly.

The whole point of Rocky is to be bug-for-bug compatible with RHEL; your opinion on who can fix bugs faster is completely orthogonal to this discussion.
I used to wear toe shoes so I have a bunch of toe socks. When I first wore them it took some getting used to but after that I noticed no difference. Regular socks are stretchy and expand to fit the position of your toes.
Exactly.. Considering the model that generated their exercises was also trained on Stack Overflow data, one may say, not all but what you definitely need for LLM training is Stack Overflow data. People keep getting it granted but I dont think it will continue that way for a long time.
What is the "mirage" then that folks are claiming in LLM's as described in the Stanford research?

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ais-ostensible-emergent-abilit...
So basically, the original article is about an AI huckster amping the FUD in order to push through some sort of corporate control of the technology, using fear of the bullshit they're spinning as the justification.

I brought in the analogy of Chicken Little, inflating the scope of a threat to one of apocalyptic proportions, which is exactly what is taking place here.

First responder to me brought in the climate analogy, presumably as a means of getting me to think that maybe I'm the fool here by ignoring the real scientist who, hey, has a Nobel Prize! Or at least, the theoretical meteorologist in his metaphor does, and therefore maybe me, with no Nobel Prize, should just be respectful of the expert here.

I responded by pointing out that the Nobel committee are morons who gave a Peace prize to one of the worst war criminals of the 20th century and pressed the fact that we have thirty years+ of scientific concensus about climate change, along with a lot of corporate funded think tank noise that is running ideological interference, successfully so far. But you can only fool people for so long, it caught up to the tobacco industry and it will catch up to us.

The idiots amping up the FUD to seize control and the assholes pumping money into think tanks that generate endless climate denialist noise are the same people.
President Biden wraps up three day Bay Area visit, talks about AI [video][3 min]
npm i -
In hopes of someone posting a relevant xkcd?
What do startups have to do with IBMs business direction and processes? How does this relate to my point? Not every startup being successful somehow means that I shouldn't comment on IBMs recent business decisions?
It is disheartening (although not that surprising) to see how many companies are "double dipping" here. For example Pray.com seems particularly bad. It has a $7.99 a month subscription, but still track and sell your information just like a "free" app would.

Ordinarily I feel much better about an app which has a clearly defined, above-board, method of funding itself. (The old "if you aren't paying for the product, you are the product" thing). But this is a good reminder that it is "if" not "if and only if".
thank you for this! 1Bp ~ 1Gb VRAM 8bit is a very nice equivalence to hold in my head.
Hmm, this depends on the customer. If the customer is savvy, they know when they're being 'duped' and know about dark patterns and such. Financially savvy people who practice good financial hygiene don't get 'deceived' as much. Most people don't care that much if they're charged monthly for Prime, it's a minor detail in their spending budget.
These types of decisions come to be from only considering the upsides. Anyone who considered a single downside would have reasonably concluded that this is a terribly unwise decision.
I would love to see this as well! The APIs are live so give it a shot and tell us about any API feedback you have
Sackpants seem more interesting, to avoid them rubbing against the thigh.
Yes, it might! But there are lots of employers who value employees who are focused on customer experience.

It's probably limited my opportunities some, but I can't really tell. There are plenty of opportunities out there, and if a company doesn't want me because I'm willing to be honest and argue for what I think is right, then that's a company I don't want to work for anyway. So it all works out for the best for everybody.
for the db schema definition for this tool, where does the source of truth lives?

I'm trying to think what happens when a column gets deleted or added in the prod, ci, or dev db tier. Ideally those db schema changes should happen at the same time but real life doesn't work like that.
This reminds me of the early days of Trump, when he'd be saying things, and mainstream sources were like "Wow, he's just spewing absolute nonsense" and not realising that Trump, and now Musk, is just reflecting back a collective shared insanity to an audience who has been actively building this alternate world for a long time.

"cis is a slur" isn't a spur of the moment bit of stupidity, it's a long running bit of stupidity that is shared by a large audience that ranges from active and knowing evil to unhinged conspiracy believers and all the various shades of Trumpism in between.