skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could they just be moving to a more aggressive quantization so they can save money?

PS: Which is obviously ripping off paying users.

Competition is the answer.
I don't think OP means "profit equally" as literally as you think they do, as simple as that. Honestly, I think even a compromise on limiting wealth would be a giant step forward.
This is not a coincidence, because nothing is ever a coincidence.
I meant that watching this video made me realize that one could write a program that generates the graphics, like in a video game, and then captures that in a video file, without any intention to run the program separately. A programmatically created video.
>In reality it is probably almost 100% due to fundamentals

Can you explain what inherent "fundamentals" are associated with these companies that destined them to be successful despite themselves? I mean, Microsoft was founded almost 50 years ago. Their success was a given? Management practices have had no effect there? We can argue about the ratio, but it sounds like silly post-hoc reasoning to claim that these companies didn't work to get to where they are, one way or another.
I was not aware of this, I will probably check this out on my Windows machine, since I've had a nasty bug where Firefox will decide to just use ALL of my GPU resources, crashing whatever game I am playing. Very annoying bug and I should probably take the time to report it, but every time I encounter it I'm usually focused on my game.

Thanks.
> Misusing someone else's site, in a way the creators and existing users don't want it used, in a way you agreed not to use it when you signed up, is not "improving the neighborhood".

No one cares about "the creators", and MOST ESPECIALLY NOT what Jeff Atwood thinks about their questions, answers and comments on stackexchange sites. Atwood is gone anyway, he cashed-out and moved on.

The existing users are many and varied (I am one) but for whatever reason the gamification attracts a high level of zeal from certain personalities that tend towards petty authoritarianism and persnickety behaviors. As useful as these sites are (at least up to now), this is a serious problem.
World's Oldest human DNA found in 800k-year-old tooth of a cannibal (2020)
That explains the Java part.
Chrome's throne is reinforced by the combined factors of websites increasingly becoming only compatible with Chrome, and JavaShit increasingly assuming Chrome-levels of execution speed.
One thing to remember about Chernobyl is, it isn't only the exclusion zone which has been contaminated, but places all over Europe got radioactive contamination too. In Bavaria this affects mostly the forests (the agricultural areas have been decontaminated by stripping the top soil). There the mushrooms and as a consequence to a larger amount wild boar is affected. As a consequence one shouldn't overeat wild mushrooms from that region and a lot of wild boars have to be destroyed as unfit for consumption.
You make it sound like the current guy in charge who “stopped” the war a) didn’t screw up the withdrawal, and b) wasn’t a part of the power structure that started and perpetuated the war.

Dude was vice president for 8 years and a senator since before the dinosaurs.
Of tools that mash interactive GUIs (lazygit) with scriptable shells (git fuzzy), I only know of AutoCAD. Scripts would routinely ask you to interactively select a set of points or an item in a list.

Are there other apps that offer scriptable GUIs ?
The main advantage is that it can also set up an ‘alias’ which is a pseudo email address which forwards to your real email address.

Really, I think the alias feature should be added into protonmail and removed from proton pass.

Bitwarden UI has the edge though, imo.
And institutions often have multiple goals for which they are more or less capable/flawed. And not all goals are equal: some things are intrinsically hard and we should expect failures that don’t undermine either the goal or the institution.

Institutions are in many cases just names for necessary functions: if you got rid of the institution then you would need to recreate something like it with a different name (i.e., if you abolish the police/irs you still need people to enforce laws, collect taxes).

Abolish is a stronger claim than reform therefore it requires much more evidence, however, reform is apparently less sexy in our current cultural context. It seems the default view for any problem (and there will be problems) is abolish.
I’m not entirely sure I get it. You can literally prompt the LLM with “therefore” or “but,” and it’ll continue. You simply take the text generated prior and append “therefore,” and it’ll keep generating. If you want to lend more intentionality you can frame it with “therefore <insert intention>” and it’ll continue generating with that intention.

I’ve been up all night flying internationally but I might have misunderstood.
The hunger is more important than the fasting.
"Get everyone access to my solution" != "force everyone to use my solution."

Even if your solution is objectively the best one, we don't give people monopolies based on that, for a variety of very good reasons.
> Lack of standardization around how to do objects, inheritance, encapsulation led to a total bizarre mixture of approaches and misunderstandings.

That void never really existed. There was the right way to do it, basically the same way that ES6's class syntax actually works today, and then there were a bunch of people fooling themselves into believing that the impedance mismatch that resulted from writing code against their own derpy metaprogramming system they'd devised themselves was acceptable. The attitudes associated with that mindset never really went away—it's what drives the demand for stuff like Webpack, along with NodeJS's CommonJS-inspired approach to modularization infecting everything and the README for create-react-app providing list of steps to get someone up and running requiring them to download half a gigabyte of packages to their disk before they can successfully complete the Hello, World exercise, not to mention the abstraction (and resulting boondoggle) that is React itself.
Translation: the Pacific Ocean
The problem is that there simply wasn't a better option at the time.

Ogg Vorbis was a novelty at best, and it was the only decently widely adopted open source competitor for any of the items listed that was available at the time.

HTML5 was only just published when Chrome launched. So Flash was at that point the only option available to show a video in the browser (sure, downloading a RealPlayer file was always an option, but it was clunky, creators didn't like people being able to save stuff locally, and was also not open source). Chrome in fact arguably accelerated the process of getting web video open sourced: Google bought On2 in 2010 to get the rights to VP8 (the only decent H.264 competitor available at that point) so they could immediately open source it. The plan was in fact to remove H.264 from Chrome entirely once VP8/VP9 adoption ramped up[1], but that didn’t end up happening.

Flash was integrated into Chrome because people were going to use it anyway, and having Google distribute it at least let them both sandbox it and roll out automatic updates (a massive vector for malware at the time was ads pretending to be Flash updates, which worked because people were just that used to constant Flash security patches, most of which required a full reboot to apply; Chrome fixed both of those issues). Apple are the ones who ultimately dealt the death blow to Flash, and it was really just because Adobe could not optimize it for phone CPUs no matter what they tried (even the few Android releases of Flash that we got were practically unusable). That also further accelerated the adoption of open source HTML5 technologies.

PDF is an open source format, and has been since 2008. While I don't know if pressure from Google is what did it, that wouldn’t surprise me. Regardless, the Chrome PDF reader, PDFium, is open source[2] and Mozilla's equivalent project from 2011, PDF.js, is also open source.[3] Both of these projects replaced the distinctly closed source Adobe Reader plugin that was formerly mandatory for viewing PDFs in the browser.

Chrome is directly responsible for eliminating a lot of proprietary software from mainstream use and replacing it with high-quality open source tools. While they've caused problems in other areas of browser development that are worthy of criticism, Chrome's track record when it comes to open sourcing their tech has been very good.

[1]: https://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-i...

[2]: https://github.com/chromium/pdfium

[3]: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js
Asus is one of the best in class, especially bang for your buck.

I suggest paying less attention to PR and more attention to specs. There is one company that is best in class for their PR/marketing, but their specs can't hold a candle if you are willing to spend equivalent money.

We should applaud companies that don't overspend on mind control/psychology tricks and spend that money instead on great products.
> It's absolutely a resource-management game, but I love it.

:-)

That's good! I absolutely loved these responses, BTW. I grinned all the way through reading them.

> I think because there's a little pressure, but not much, and there's a goal (build up enough industry to support building a spaceship to escape the planet you crash-landed on)

Fair enough! To quote an old song, "This is not my idea of a good time", but if it's yours, I am 100% all for it.

About 25Y ago, I got a magazine preview of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and I gave it to my then-partner as part of her birthday present.

She played it right through to completion, first time.

It took her entire birthday weekend, and she was cursing me at several points throughout, but she enjoyed herself a lot -- and hey, cheap weekend. :-D

It took her from Friday night, installing the game, to Sunday night, landing a manned spacecraft on a planet of another star... then she slept about 10 hours and went to work.

So very much not my idea of fun, although around then, we sometimes deathmatched until dawn, too. But I am definitely not here to tell anyone else what they should or shouldn't do!
This is possible if you use e.g. train 1000 models on different subsets of data and verify that each and every one of them is performing well. In that case, you can reasonably infer that another model trained on all data would work well, too.

But this is, of course, 1000 times more expensive to do. And if you only train 100, or 10, or 1 model, then the deduction becomes increasingly unstable.

So from a practical point of view, it's probably not feasible, because you would put those resources into something else instead that has more ROI.
I’ve noodled around with generating review-ready Go from CL (because macros), but it’s hard to flatten subexpressions (like multiple-value-bind around a call that returns a value and an error) into blocks of statements that assign to new temp vars, and I couldn’t expect arbitrary CL to just work, it’d be more of a CL-flavored DSL for generating loops and error handling.
The problem is that educating people to do critical thinking doesn't scale. This should be taught in elementary school when children are learning to learn, but adults are mostly a lost cause. Psyops and information warfare work to a frightening degree, and today the internet is the primary weapon of delivery. It takes decades to destabilize a nation, but it also takes decades to bring it back on track. The latter to my knowledge has never been done. The affected nation is in a state of confusion and desbelief about its actual situation, and it takes time to even realize they're under attack. We've already seen the effects of this: unfit political leaders elected, breakdown of democratic processes, rejection of nationalism, increase in internal sociopolitical conflict and belief in conspiracy theories, etc. Modern warfare is waged online, not on the battlefield.
Or the robot or autonomous driving. Both are possible and all the more so with the vast amounts of cash they have available.
Networking and having a really niche skill would be your best bet. Would also be good to think about the other side’s perspective - why should a US company hire a UK contractor over a US contractor?

I’m working with a UK contractor together on a project and we knew each other from previous projects. From past experiences working with him, I’m comfortable with his quality of work.
Are We MLS Yet? [Matrix]
The headline is misleading. DNA wasn't found; proteins were. The amino acid sequences of the proteins were used to infer that this was sister species of the one that led to Neanderthals and humans, but was not a direct ancestor.
Return JSON from OpenAI to Build AI Enhanced APIs
Funny enough, as a man, I find this idea of "play sports with others" as a bonding approach, way too impersonal.

I can also find myself being competitive or taking things too professionally, and spent too much time discuss technical aspects and not fostering a more deeper connection with others.
> The problem is that in the ecosystem we are building the prevailing assumption is that anything async must also be Send, which means we end up using Send primitives even in non-Send contexts, which is always a waste.

Honestly I don't think every user want top notch throughput when writing asynchronous Rust applications. Most users would just want the correctness of the Rust type system, and its "lightweight" runtime characteristics compared to CPython, Node.js etc., which can provide fairly good performance.

The thing is, using Arc in single threaded runtime does not greatly harm performance. If it matters, you should be handling 1M+ rps per core and using multithreaded runtime because it scales better, which benefits from using threadsafe primitives.
I bought it for Price

The Intel NUC Celeron systems could not be met for price if you also needed Windows. To beat the NUC Celeron on price you had to drop to ARM and use Linux but if the software you needed to run only supported Windows that was not an option.

the Celeron NUC's where GREAT for Line of Business use cases where the computer was running a Screen, or Single windows Application
Anhedonia
Yes went during high school hours, they let me out 2 hours early. I didn't get high school credit, but you could fail/skip 2 classes and still graduate. I went to college after this, graduated about 1 year early.
If you need the ability to import articles into Joplin, there's a web clipper addon that will take the page and make its content into a note.
You can see duplication in the one example they provide —- between clients and territories.

Every client has to have duplicate modules for every territory that they operate in and if they begin to operate in another territory, that has to be copied in — or they have to keep a copy of all territory modules for every client. I think it is probably the former, since they talk about pruning and ignored imports.
I really like this idea, it reminds me of my "entrypoints" folder idea. The idea is you put the file where everything is registered or started in one place. Such as int main() {} and your dependency inversion container or controllers.
I got in the habit during the early days of RTO. I did start a second board, but (as is tradition) I upped the difficulty and it's now gathering dust on my bench.
Almost all research on the mind is in English
There very likely is. But I had a very narrow, single use case here. And, as I said "It was even easier than researching and testing an external package."

Why spend time researching and vetting some dependency hell when GPT made 90% of what I needed in a few minutes.

GPT for sure changes the build-vs-buy equation
CMake 3.27 Released, supporting interactive debugging
"Oh, a post about a programming font; let's see if there are any comments not from killjoys who can't help but advertise their hatred of ligatures"

*opens comments*

*shakes head, closes tab*
It's probably cognitive bias bias.
But don't get too much into it because you'll develop cognitive bias bias bias.
How so? I've only briefly used the client.
> lightweight cooperative concurrency

It's not cooperative if multiple things happen _at the same time_ which is always touted of rust async. Cooperative would be iterators, or generators, or coroutines/continuations. They let you do things in a single thread but have the execution order be mixed. That's concurrent, but not parallel. What you are talking about is parallel execution. That changes the classification away from cooperative. Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine.
I’m guessing that some tasks relegated to a single one of those experts are tasks that previously benefited from those experts’ capabilities being integrated in a single model.

Sort of like having a problem and then asking both a biologist & a chemist for their assessment. But if asked a single biochemist they could more readily provide an answer that synthesized both more comprehensively, even if you got both the biologist and the chemist in the same room with each other.
I use it with Kodi and Jellyfin as well use streaming apps such as Netflix as well as geforce now. But its processor is old and it shows its age when going through movie collections. It does not support VP9 and now the new coming AV1 codec. So for someone getting a new device today I would not recommend it as the price premium they are asking for a 7-8 year old processor based device I feel is not worth it. With a Jellyfin or plex server you can play most of your media on your smart tv directly or you can get a $50 google tv or amazon fire stick
Beyond not being similar to Matt and Trey, I've started being able to recognize ChatGPTs writing style. It loves re-iterating a portion of what was said by it or someone else - "yes, AI could be a tool to ..." Which makes for awful entertainment writing.

The joke about Trump was pretty good, though.
> multimedia application development

haven't heard that word in a while
> the other party

If we all agree that one party states are bad, why are two party states not almost as bad? (when compared with N party states, for N>>2)

(in particular, an N party state gives more incentive for each of the parties to be for something, rather than degenerating to "against the other")
Ability to see expertise is a milestone worth aiming for (2022)
That's a very odd definition, considering fish don't have limbs.
I for one am very happy for it. The promise of Java “write once, run anywhere” is mostly realized now. Now all we need is the browser to ship with interpreted language runtimes and language native bindings to DOM, GPU etc.
Does Logic Pro phone home to startup? If not you could just have a much longer lifespan provided you don't care about updating Logic and the underlying OS, which is ok if that box is not connected to vulnerable machines and the internet.
| Guy must love that thing.

We're approaching "tattoo this on my body" levels of affection for the keeb.

| I started building a custom KB

I hope you pick it back up! I lost interest for a few months in the middle of building the one in the post, and I'm really glad I got back into it.
I thought I was a weirdo for splitting my usage between VSCode and nvim. I do the same! And I don't even use any fancy vim features. I think it's a mental separation for me: "right now, I am doing sysadmin stuff and need to have my sysadmin brain on" vs "right now, I am developing software and need to have my software brain on", but I'm not even really sure about that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34589338
>I've never used Teams, but I hear so much complaining about it.

People will complain about anything, though.

The nature of my work has me dealing with all of these platforms, depending on the clients. Guess what? I don't find Slack to be some joyous piece of software to use. It's better than the alternatives, I guess, but not to the point that I really care one way or the other. Some people complain about the bundling, but that can be really convenient for your organization.
A company can reassign licenses as required. Just don’t use consumer accounts.
You can always use the original version without ligatures, Fira Mono, available here: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Mono
Not available officially in Europe, for one
> Trying to identify your priors about what you expect as a baseline level of competence from a big org just based on them existing at all and having an authoritative name might help you learn something.

To your latter point, the US became significantly more bellicose after the War
Department became the Defense Department (merged with the Navy Department). This coincided with escalating dishonesty about the wars the US was making. The Korean War was at the time a "police action." The casus belli for full commitment in the Vietnam War was the fraudulent Gulf of Tonkin incident. And then, of course, who could forget the the invisible WMDs in Iraq?
Having multiple threads calling 'accept' itself can be a win and Linux (and epoll) has explicit support for it.
> The difference between Firefox and IE was orders of magnitude larger than the difference between Chrome and Firefox

I don't think so. When Chrome came out it was much better than competition too[1]. I don't know if Firefox was that much better than Internet Explorer.

It is also possible that Chrome rode the wave of Firefox i.e, Firefox got people thinking about improved browsing experience by switching from Internet Explorer. Then Chrome came along and picked up many new users who may have otherwise gotten picked up by Firefox.

[1] https://youtu.be/LRmrMiOWdfc
Very interesting move to do it with Asus seeing as I've been using both NUCs and Asus PN5x mini PCs these last 3 years.
> Vibration of charged particle produces EM-waves. Those EM-waves are not photons.

Yes, they are. In the Standard Model, the photon is the "carrier" particle of the EM field. Any EM interaction between any two charged particles is ultimately the exchange of one or more photons between those two charged particles. When a particle emits an EM wave, in any way, it emits one or more photons. It's impossible to emit 1/2 a photon or 1.3 photons - the EM field / EM waves come in quantities of whole photons.

In the same way, when two quarks interact via the strong interaction, they are emitting and absorbing gluons, the carrier particle of the strong force.

The only fundamental interaction not currently proven to be quantized is gravity. We do know gravity waves exist, but we have not been able to measure them to the required fidelity to verify whether they are also quantized, and thus to know whether they are also equivalent to an exchange of particles (we call these hypothetical particles gravitons, and many do believe that gravitational interactions also occur by the exchange of a whole number of gravitons between bodies with "gravitational charge", i.e. mass).
Well I never said Apple was better, and in fact I think there have been a number of antitrust charges against Apple as well, maybe not directly related to "messaging software" but at least one of them was about opening iMessage to interoperability as far as I remember.
I’ve never struggled to keep a healthy weight (always have been athletic), but your thoughts here are consistent with my general experience. I spend a lot of time hungry. I feel like it’s normal and healthy to be hungry, and less normal to always have to actually do something about it.

I also am not really familiar with most junk food. Growing up, we never had snacks in the house, or sugary drinks. I think there is likely a very real correlation to the habits you learn around unhealthy foods when you’re young and your ability to not be tempted by these later in life.
Baldur's Gate 3: New Standard for the RPG Genre?
I meant the HN title, in fact