skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nvidia failed mobile computing, failed embedded computing,

Really? What do you think high-end drones and self-driving cars are using. They invested in generic robotics software and hardware probably more than all others put together. When you go beyond Raspberry Pi it's only NVidia. Their day is coming. Another similar ecosystem will be hard to create.
Here’s another one — What’s expected of us — I posted last month after it was mentioned in an article. It’s one page long. The literary equivalent of a startup chime.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36175933
> The sky is blue (except when it's not).

The unfortunate truth is that Reddit owns the platform and has an irrevocable license to the content that's already been produced.

Any protest that someone can think up will end up just getting Reverted as Reddit can just kick out the mods.

They'll get backlash, but that doesn't seem to be stopping anyone.

You know, they could just, you know, lower the cost of the API, create strict guidelines on how to get an exemption, and understand where the actual value of their platform is.

Too much to ask for an VC funded company though.
> There are people like me who think that Ladybird will never complete with existing browser engines

Assuming you mean "compete": AFAIK this is not a goal of Ladybird.

> The reason I don’t think Ladybird will ever really get to the point where it can render an arbitrary site perfectly [...]

I similarly don't think 100.0% bug-compatibility with Chrome is a goal.
Going on a tangent here: I live in Europe where unions have been present for decades and it’s scary how much I give them for granted.

They are not perfect - far from it - but to think of everyone who fought to establish them and keeps them running to this day… it’s inspiring.

Good for Stanford.
https://sidsite.com/ <- so hn recognises as link
Anyone have a link to the source paper?
Spent the last few days trying to find a hosted (paid) service that does PDF indexing. Check out https://notejoy.com/
Summary from ChatGPT:

"The main reasons for Nvidia's success, are its creation of a GPU ecosystem, lack of significant competitors, and the benefits derived from its compute and software ecosystem."
> Threads is just an empty website in the EU right now. And it should stay that way.

Not launching in the EU is a massive red flag on the data hoovering ambitions facebook have for threads.
Unable to create a new IG account for my business. Keeps telling me my IP is suspicious. There is no way to reach a human and complain. It's absolutely useless!
What exactly is this controversy about? There's a claim that a map in the trailer shows the 9-dash line, but I read the article, and looked at the screenshot shown in the article, and all I see behind the girl is a bunch of colorful blobs that don't resemble any world map I've ever seen.
> And most importantly they require streets that are designed for cars, not people or transit

I think this is one of the most interesting point the protestors make.

This kind of solution doesn't seem to integrate very well with new practice of urbanisms where pedestrian, bike and traffic intermingled in the same space and travel distance are shorter.

But I am European so I am probably bias because our city are already partially car free.
The only stable life-long identity system I know of are state-assigned identities (with the court system as a last line for complex cases).

Apart from that, I think per-service identities are the best that can be hoped for. If I choose to engage with Facebook, I have to trust them to some extent anyway, so trusting them with my identity on Facebook is probably good enough. If I want to establish that some Twitter identity is the same as some Instagram identity, I can do so by directly referencing them from one another. I don't think we can do much better than that without involving the state.
"ChatGPT isn't even able to solve simple Python problems anymore, even if you try to help it. And some time ago it did these same problems with ease."

This is my experience also. I have not formally benchmarked the different releases, but specifically for Python coding ChatGPT 4 got considerably worse with the latest updates.
Wow, this has to be one of the most bizarre executive powers I’ve heard of. The earlier Vanna White and Frankenstein vetos are insane.

What legitimate reason would a constituency want their governor to be able to single handedly change the meaning of a law?
We always have those regulations and people still violate them. I’m really not getting what your point is.
Keep in mind it doesn't relate to GPT4, the 4 in the name is for, not four. But I should try it. TBH openAI shady practices and MS behind them is just an anti trust waiting to happen and I don't want a part in this dystopia
Your phone will occasionally do this overnight if it thinks there's a memory leak it can recover from.
> That's not a "conservative" viewpoint.

I don’t really care about the ideology; my point is that it was wrongfully suppressed.

> That was a politicaly insensitive take to have that lead to asian hate and violence at the time.

Is there literally any evidence of this at all? The virus originated from China either way, and if anything, it’s less offensive to blame a mistake at a virology lab rather than the general sanitation level of Chinese wet markets.

The lab leak theory was politically insensitive to the people who backed research at that specific lab. That’s it.

Another example is the leaked contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, which have since been confirmed to be authentic. Censored as “disinformation/misinformation” at the time, turned out to be completely true, and again, censored because it was embarrassing to specific powerful individuals.
What to me stands out about Chiang is that at the core of his stories he is always deeply humanistic. I think that actually shows in Arrival, which unlike a lot of Villeneuve's adaptions is not emotionally cold and I think that's largely due to the source material.
Yes, it's totally reasonable. I agree it should be more easily accessible.

I think I clicked on the Android weather app from the widget by accident once, but it was so bad/barebones I never used it again.
Keeping track who is behind MIPS is an adventure.. from wikipedia:

February 8, 2013 MIPS Technologies is sold to Imagination Technologies for $100 million

September 22, 2017 MIPS business is sold by Imagination Technologies to Tallwood Venture Capital as Tallwood MIPS Inc. for $65 million

June 2018 MIPS Tech Inc. is acquired by Wave Computing

April 2020 Wave Computing files for bankruptcy

March 2021 Wave Computing emerges from bankruptcy, renames itself as "MIPS" and joins RISC-V International. Development of the MIPS architecture ceases
The reasons to a convergence to electricity are the same that the one of the convergence to IP.

CO₂ is just an excuse to market, the reason is that we need to do more, cheaply and en mass. Electricity is not the cheapest solution, but we need it anyway, so being able to run anything on it means being able to drop other form of energy, along their sourcing, logistics and storage.

An EV is a far cheaper vehicle than an ICE or hybrid. It demand far less parts, far less precision to produce and assemble them. That's the point. EVs are cheap for the industry, in raw material terms, like electronic watches are far cheaper on scale than classic mechanical ones.

Similarly a heat-pump is cheaper industrially speaking than a gas based heating system along with gas storage, logistic and so on.

At scale run on electricity means far less raw materials needs, far cheaper large scale process.
You also get demonitized if you say it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/U5NvNXuMuww?t=67
By 2007/2008 there was a trend in HPC research called GPGPU. This involved havky techniques to get the shaders to do the computations you wanted.
CUDA started appearing in 2008 with a framework (compiler, debugger) to do GPGPU in a proper way. It got the monopoly. They’ve been benefiting from first movers advantage ever since.
This is one of my favorite sci-fi short stories, period. Up there would be the one that inspired Arrival (I don't recall the name), and The Last Question.

This one was great, because it's not clear until the very end whether the character is going through increasing levels of paranoia, or dealing with an adversary. The way the dénouement is stitched together (literally) was such a shock. I love it.
Looking at producthunt there's tons of new SEO AI tools, things like surfer for example. They try to auto-generate the target keywords, blog sections etc while still trying to adhere to quality checklists https://developers.google.com/search/docs/specialty/ecommerc... . Funny how posts that speak from experience and show authority may have higher quality, but chatGPT will flat out protest if it's asked to give it's personal experience, giving away who is using the bots.

Looks like it's going to be a long battle between the bots and the search engines.
Advertising works extremely well precisely because most people are aware that many brands with something of value are also willing to pay for ads. Look at Apple.
https://blog.maxg.io

Mostly cameras and photos
The map is obviously ridiculous to begin with so I’m curious why it couldn’t just be a bunch of Foreign Ministry staff having a laugh while flexing their diplomatic muscle a little bit. It’s not like they have many other avenues to counteract growing Chinese geopolitical influence.

Think about the easter eggs found in all manner of serious software put in by engineers for a joke. I think anyone in Vietnam can easily pirate it if they actually want to see the movie so there’s little actual damage, as long as they don’t care about the economic impact at the box office.
On Employability and Experiences of Older Developers [video] [slides]
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And tooling that also allowed them to run their existing Fortran, C++ and whatever else they thought out, instead of plain C.
Getting file/line in await traces
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D Review: New Mid-Range Gaming Champ a Micro Center Exclusive
It's not about winning, it's about fun!
> Most of peoples' problem is watching the AI type, it's not instant, but then not all (or even most) applications need to be instant. You can also avoid that by having it return everything at once instead of streaming style.

Funny, for me it is the complete opposite. I created an interface in Matrix that does just that: return everything at once. But the lag annoys me more than the slow typing in the regular chat interface. The slow typing helps me keep me focused on the conversation. Without it, my mind starts wandering while it waits.
Guess what? GPUs have received continuous development too, since the days of SGI. And OpenGL hasn't kept up. Its "higher" abstraction is the wrong abstraction.
Unlike Maverick, where the scenes of the authentic jacket were ultimately worth sacrificing the entire Chinese market. That was a proper Taiwan patch though, rather than these vague dots. Respect.
They get the cesspool. Whether they wince or cringe or not is a matter of character
My favourite Ted Chiangs are those where he takes a piece of assumed knowledge or mythology from an earlier era and builds a compelling world where it is scientific reality - homunculus theory, the golem, the sky as a physical firmament, creation 6,000 years ago.
https://www.arjenwiersma.nl

I write about my thesis, hacking and AI at the moment.
No, this is a case of China’s regional rivals being unhappy with a map because it implicitly acknowledges China’s claims to their territorial waters.
> Have you ever loaded up a bag with stuff that you didn't want anymore, just to see if they would give you cash for them?

I usually make Montréal Convention of ‘99 claims [1]. What’s in the bag is irrelevant. So instead I’m caught arguing over whether a polo is a necessary expense for a work lunch with some guy in Toulouse.

[1] https://www.iata.org/contentassets/fb1137ff561a4819a2d38f3db...
That's the same for other alternative distributed name systems like DHT based naming. For example, how should the DHT be bootstrapped, should there be any universal root zones, etc etc. GNS and IPNS are both DHT based naming systems which make different choices, much like there are various blockchain based naming systems out there.

Anyway my understanding is that Bluesky uses DIDs for exactly that reason, to punt the actual naming implementation and avoid silly internet fights like this.
What don't you like about the article? A lot of people don't understand the limitations of ChatGPT and I think it's worth talking about. I like "blurry jpeg" a lot better than "hallucination".
It will be interesting to see how the union goes.

The quality of the union and happiness of it's members directly reflects the quality of Stanford's liberal arts personnel and especially the quality of their political science and history departments.

If the product of our highest quality institutions can't fight for a better quality of life, what hope do the rest of us have?
This is nitpicking, but part of what makes the Key & Peele sketch funny is that the two recipes the cafe owner describes appear to be the exact same. I read it as poking fun at extreme nationalism creating artificial differences when there really are none.

That being said, it is a comedy sketch, so ultimately it’s up to interpretation.
If you think that's bad... it's so much worse than even you are describing.

Let's say that you are a college or university in the US. You want more students, right? You sort of need them, if enrollment drops off you lose money any number of ways, and the perception that you're a bad school makes enrollment drop off even more in some vicious circle.

So you make the college prettier. The campus gets bigger gardens and fountains. New shiny buildings. Dorms get bigger, you're no longer stuffing 4 freshmen into broom closets with bookshelves masquerading as bunks. They start to resemble every year more and more some sort of resort or spa.

How do you pay for this? You raise tuition. You add more fees. The students like it, and they're not really paying for it (not yet, in that way that young people always seem to think debt is like free money instead of an obscene trap into debt bondage). And you're hiring massive numbers now of people whose job it is just to manage this stuff (and to manage the people who manage this stuff).

But all the other schools are doing this too, so it's an arms race. And you have to do this, because if you act cost-conscious, people take it as a sign of low-quality.

Even if we turn around the perverse incentives that caused this, it does not fix the problem. Universities have been gorging themselves gluttonous on all of this, and now their costs are too high to roll it back. They've got too much staff, too many buildings that won't amortize for years. And god help if anyone were to suggest they dip into the endowments for any of this (even if they were game, what would Wall Street think of that sort of withdrawal?).

Not to mention, as bad as "everyone should go to college" is, what's left for those who wouldn't if we trimmed that back? Up until the 1970s or so, you'd go to work at the factory in your little town that would become part of the rust belt a decade or two later. That even (sort of) held in some places up to the early 1990s.

What are these kids supposed to do? On r/antiwork, they're always complaining about how no one can afford to live on a Starbucks or Dollar General job. There's a mismatch between the employment these people need, and the sort of employment that is available. And no reasonable way to shrink that gap.
I'd say its true for the majority of engineering work at least.

I saw and ad for a Waffle-house manager with a salary range of 50-55k year.

That's about what I earn as a engineer in Sweden (pre-tax).
No ?
I don't use Twitter or Facebook or IG so I also won't be using Zuck's new thing. That said, I did a quick straw poll of some non-tech relatives who have not expressed to me any previous opinion either way about Elon Musk and the takeover and got told "Twitter is really weird now and full of ads" and "I can't find anything any more". Anecdotal, but it seems to me twitter would be vulnerable if enough users felt that way. All of the people I spoke with in this very non-scientific and non-representative sample already have instagram accounts so it would be pretty easy for them to move over.

A lot of the prominent accounts seem to be moving. It may be because they want a general public square rather than Elons personal website. It may be because they are worried that the rate limiting etc is going to affect what they do to monitor their reach, understand their audience etc.

Either way I don't think their problems fall into any of the categories you've given exactly, but if the people someone likes to follow on twitter move to threads, the likelihood is that person will move to threads, especially if they are somewhat dissatisfied because the app is becoming weird and stuffed with ads.
So, this is why Edward Snowden takes out the microphones out of his phones manually.

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/features/story/when-edw...
This is very clever, especially from a marketing perspective!
You're right, sorry. I should have said

> It's very telling that Unity will keep getting used because of monetization.

Once upon a time it was a good engine.

Nowadays it's an absolute mess, and it's been that way for a long time now.

I am not a game developer, I develop prototypes in my spare time because I have fun tinkering with engines, and with Unity it doesn't take long before it becomes borderline unusable. I don't even want to imagine the struggle devs need to go through to make a full scale game playable, and those struggles prevent them from focusing on making the game actually fun to play. But, thanks to the deeply integrated monetization system, Unity is THE standard if you just want to make a game quickly to shove ads in people's faces every time they die in your simple, yet extremely buggy mobile game with stock assets. Is that a good thing? It depends, but I'd lean towards no.
Can you elaborate a full argument here? Or link somewhere that does?
"easily" is a matter of opinion. It did take me a little effort to get it nailed down. Here's the markdown shell script I use to create new LXC containers: https://github.com/robsheldon/biphrost-shell/blob/biphrost/l... -- it should be easy enough to modify for other environments.

It's been a while since I looked into it, but IIRC there was a "migration" or "adoption" step. I think you're generally right that LXD worked like an extension of or administrative layer for LXC, but also: http://web.archive.org/web/20230605025133/https://linuxconta... (the documentation is no longer available on linuxcontainers.org now that Canonical has taken over the project).
Proxy war is not a hollow Russian talking point, it is a literal description of what happens. This article on Proxy War fits what is going on and it happened all throughout the cold war the same way, leaving many countries ravaged: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_war

People who don’t want Ukraine to be the next Afghanistan are not “Russian agents”. They likely care about the Ukrainian people more than you do.

What you call “the USSR crumbling” is in fact what I described — a federation whose constitution allowed for its members to get together (originally in a secret meeting in Beloverzhakaya Puscha, much like the creation of the Fed on Jekyll island) and sign an agreement to secede.

Brexit was also possible because the EU allows secession. The US does NOT.

How do you always manage to ignore everything about genociding the native population, ethnic cleansing, conquest of huge swaths of territory from a neighboring country — when your own country does it — but even the very fact of regular folks peacefully moving to a region of the federation which later seceded and proclaimed independence, is described as “Russian colonists”. Are you not a US colonist then? Where are the native nations that used to be on that land? Why is your city part of the US and not Mexico? This EXTREME double standard is defended by a brilliant invention — the word “whataboutism”. It can excuse the biggest double standards but simply saying they are “off-topic”, even while employing them! I wrote a post called “whataboutism considered harmful” years ago.

We may not ever get the absolute truth, but eliminating double standards is how people strive towards getting closer through intellectuall honest discussion. The first thing you have to think when you make a claim X is bad, so we must do Y is consider whether you are advocating an extreme double standard.

As far as the rest — once again, everything you say is doubly true about your own country but you’ve never cared. Will you support at LEAST the same level of sanctions and isolation for the US? Of course, that’s a sheer fantasy but if you feel so strongly about these principles, is your silence just based on the unenforceability or because you believe the US is a shining city on a hill, a democracy that shows the world the best ways to live and that’s why it’s entitled to take over a continent, carve off parts of countries, be the world’s policeman, invade, occupy, regime change regularly around the world in dozens of countries etc.?

Everything you described btw is true of many federations - Tibet complains about China, Catalonia complains about Spain, various US states complain about the US, etc. To say nothing of native american reservations. It is hardly a cause for nuclear war.
I don't know about other people, but this comment comes off as fake and fabricated to me.
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over rival Threads app
I wrote some code once, implemented it, took it on trial to marine survey the Spratly Islands in the early 1990s.

Fun times, got stopped by gun boats from multiple nations, swamped by monsoon, had to listen to a nerous BP observer bang on about pirates.

For background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands_dispute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line
To win, they just needed to show up. Which is more than can be said about the competition.
AMD alternatives to CUDA are/were fumbling in the dark for many years, and more open alternatives like OpenCL are too limited (by design?).

To me the situation looks quite clear: a GPU has vastly more compute than a CPU. As time goes, we will need and use more and more compute. You just need a way (general purpose language or API) to use that GPU.
For some reason, other companies in this space did not see this.
I have given up waiting for an invite.

Its clubhouse all over again.
> Parentheses make it unambiguous for the expander to understand what the arguments to a macro are, because it’s always clear where the arguments begin and end. It knows this without needing to understand anything about what the macro definition is going to do. Imagine trying to define a macro expander for a language with syntax like JavaScript’s.

Are you sure this blog post is making the point you have been trying to make?

Here is blog post that explores writing C in s-expressions.

https://itnext.io/what-makes-lisp-unique-8a0576b42293
Yeah, email is the biggest federation protocol.
Wow just visited in 2022 for work and somehow it’s even worse now.
I write 'Requests for Startups' on Beehiiv.

https://r4s.beehiiv.com/

Trying to break down big opportunities in big markets. Going to be doing some pieces in coming weeks on commercialising research and forgotten ideas from history that could still be viable startups today.

Some prev pieces on:

- Generative New Knowledge Creation (https://r4s.beehiiv.com/p/idea-factories)

- Infrastructure for building a one-person company (https://r4s.beehiiv.com/p/startup-opportunities-building-one...)

- Personal teaching assistants for every child on earth (https://r4s.beehiiv.com/p/cracking-edtechs-holy-grail-tutor-...)
That's essentially the existing model for robotaxi companies.
In practice bluesky is also an empty page
LM386 for $9.95 wtf?!