skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't really a fan of the Earpods, but they were cheap and sounded fine for $20. The Airpods do this wirelessly while sounding worse for $180. The fact that they reserve comfort-fit ear tips for their premium headphones is an insult to every user at that price point, and it sabotages any chance they had at sounding balanced or natural.

Airpods Pro are much nicer, but should be the standard. The Airpods 1 (and frankly the Airpods 2 as well) sound thin and are borderline unacceptable for what they cost. Just my $0.02 though, audio and comfort are ultimately subjective.
Open source is always going to be a major selling point for Observability. Once you get to any scale the lock-in with a closed source SaaS product is going to make your budget HURT.
> Integer numbers are typically represented by the type Int, which represents a machine-size integer (usually 64 bits on modern computers).

I'm not a systems programmer, but I thought there was a consensus these days that this was a Bad Idea™? Are the benefits of marginally better performance on certain platforms really worth having your program break due to an overflow when you run it on a different platform?
How much revenue do they need to generate for $250M investment? Paid version with extra features, $40M per year, and they will do fine.
Which model minisforum computer did you have? Mine also died suddenly. It was the fanless Kodlix GD41. I've read of other people with similar experience. What is it about these machines that causes them to fail so quickly? I would not buy from them again.
Interestingly Open Source initiative have a project prominently on their home page to get input for definiing AI open source: https://opensource.org/
Google is using Go to implement Kubernetes.

Kubernetes is cool, I want to play with Kubernetes.

Maybe I should lean Go to play.
Some people are also idiots.
Jira Is Not the Problem, It's Your Process
I don't think they're doing this to save money on Comcast bills
I hold no resentment!

I think there’s an assumption that there’s an unavoidable brunt of work for others that this policy creates.

The reality is that there is a small amount of extra work created, but it’s not significant.

I’m curious how you’d suggest structuring this to avoid cultural deficiencies?
Book an AirBNB when you want to be recorded by hidden cameras and posted online.
https://androidtvbox.eu/ecs-liva-x-bay-trail-mini-pcs-suppor...

I've been using this with Debian for years. My only complain is I needed one of the HDMI fake (or real) devices for the device to boot.

I really like it's an amd64 and not an ARM. Allows to run software released as binary for Linux desktop.

I have a USB-3 hard disk convected (Toshiba) and that's the slowest thing on the device.
There is Oracle RAC Sharding, but AFAIK it works only at a partition level.
> There is also a cost to expanding the language. The costs might outweigh the benefits, but it doesn't mean that the benefits don't exist.

Agreed. I think this is where the discussion will focus. I'm glad that historically the Go team have weighted the costs heavily, and hope they continue to do so.

I guess I'm in the minority but boilerplate really doesn't bother me. Going the other way gets too much "magic" and we lose the ability to fine-tune behaviour.
Yes, ASUS makes one-liter small PCs with two M.2 PCIe 4.0 sockets, e.g. PN53 (AMD) or PN64-E1 (Intel Raptor Lake; the -E1 is essential, PN64 is a very different worse computer). Beelink, Minisforum and others also make similar small computers with two M.2 2280 sockets.

If the bottom cover is removed, one can add two of these adapters from M.2 key M to five SATA ports:

Delock Converter M.2 2280 Key B+M male to 5 x SATA with heat sink

https://www.delock.com/produkt/64051/merkmale.html?g=1818

In this way one can connect up to eleven SSDs/HDDs to such a small computer (it already has one SATA port). Making an improvised support for them is easy, e.g. one can reuse the removable cage from an old computer case. One can make a cut through the bottom cover for passing the SATA cables and the internal SSD/HDD cage can be removed if it gets in the way.
Thanks be to open-source

https://huggingface.co/models?sort=trending&search=thebloke%...

Has the quantized weights, available to download now. I tried out the Llama-2-7B-GPTQ on an A100 hosted at runpod.io. Llama-2 is anecdotally much better at instruction following for langchain compared to Falcon-7b-GPTQ - but worse than GPT-3.5 and much worse than GPT-4. Specifically, the Llama-2 model is actually capable of using langchain without hitting parse errors. Something that Falcon wasn't capable of.

Would love to hear folks inference setups, the A100 was... not fast - but I didn't spend any time trying to make it fast.
the question is not if the grant was legal, but if the board issuing options to themselves in this quantity is in the fiducary interest of the shareholders.
Irritatingly, OpenAI reps deny any change in model capabilities over time. It's more likely that as the models are optimized for cost and performance, their in-house evaluation metrics don't cover everything customers are interested in. Meanwhile, the probabilistic nature of LLM output means there is plausible deniability.
This was a good move on their part, I've got at least 6 different generations of NUC machines around, but I also have the ASUS PN50 which is a pretty solid "tiny desktop" / "mac mini" type of setup. Completely agree with the whole "why are you competing with us" question really creating channel conflict at Intel.
For me it's been great. When I finally found RAM and an SSD that was supported(!!), the experience got rock steady. On a headless Ubuntu server I'm hosting Home Assistant, Plex (the hardware transcoding and tone mapping is fantastic on a 12th gen Intel CPU), have tested out some "arrs" and I can tell there's plenty of headroom for more applications. The only thing is the fan noise when it really gets going. But I gather the 13th gen NUCs are much quieter. Considering a chassis swap in future.

But the tradeoff for a small NUC is a big power brick.
The El Nino pattern is not an oscillation... it is a fluctuation. Nobody has ever been able to predict the next El Nino based on the historical record. That's typical of fluctuations driven by non-linear phenomena. These are systems that display sensitive depenence to initial condition. Even a trivial research effort should have revealed this. Go read Edward Lorenz 1995 Essence of Chaos.

https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295975146/the-essence-of-ch...

This is really embarrassingly ignorant and incorrect. Classic case of experts in one field having no idea of what's been going on in another field for decades and so making fools of themselves.
I see that you have a month ago. Anyways I think it’s great, wondering what it costs you to run it for free
> I wouldn't know, who owns a TV these days anyway?

I must be odd because I have 6 of them: family room, office, master bedroom, both kids’ bedrooms, and back patio.
I see, thanks I guess you're right. I'd been thinking of languages with matrices that support matrix operations but yes I think perhaps I'd been missing the point you make that it would be confusing for those to be list-of-column if list-of-row is used elsewhere in the language. It's a bit of a shame for working with matrices.
This wasn't so much overtraining, as the models learning something different than what we expected. If you look at a pixel by pixel representation of an image, textures tend to be more significant/unique patterns than shapes. There are some funny studies from the mid 2010s exploring this.
There it is. Decades of turning up the heat and boiling the frog has culminated in this proposal. From secure boot and TPMs to SafetyNet and Pluton.

Even in this very thread there are people saying this is not so bad because “it will help prevent fraud”

lmao.
I have an HP EliteDesk Mini PC as a mini home server. It's doing a great job, but the fans get quite loud when under load. It's an older model though.

If I had to replace it, I'd probably opt for some kind of similar devices, but using a modern low-powered AMD chip instead of Intel.
Rust can prevent races, but generally speaking it cannot catch deadlocks.
Kill Op*nAI, for starter. If they see it as a threat, commoditizing the tech is a great way to get rid of them at a reasonable cost.
Now for something different: Prototheca, pathogenic algae (2021)
Nvidia does have their gaming cloud. They also have excellent researchers, and engineers improving the performance of published research, including consulting work.

I suppose for the self-serve cloud market, that's set to blow up. For all those people who want to train their own models, LoRA adapt, or explore possibilities.

Jensen has talked about creating a cloud including their customers selling back compute time on DGX nodes.
Extreme taxes compared to Dubai, a government (or the EU on that matter) wanting to permanently dismantle end-to-end encryption, slow local authorities (however I don’t know the situation in Dubai concerning that - I assume though nearly every state on the earth is more efficient than Germany regarding bureaucracy), local authorities that often can’t communicate in English...

Germany is not an attractive place for smaller companies, especially for those formed outside of the country and not perfectly familiar with the German language.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” is a fallacy that does seem to be driving increasing numbers of Americans to positions that are indistinguishable from Russian talking points. Saves money for Putin’s troll factory at least.
On average, I don't know, but I certainly think in some instances, the answer is yes, e.g. if I was Apple's board, I would have been happy to overpay Steve Jobs and Tim Cook relative to an average CEO.
You have to be comfortable with the unpredictability of the work. It isn't for everyone.

Also it helps if you are a saver rather than spender. You should be able to put away half your income in good periods.
There's a difference between VCs funding a moonshot idea and VCs funding some stupid idea. For instance, Amgen and Genentech were founded by VCs, with VC funding, as were Google, Amazon, etc. The difference back then was that VCs actually did their due diligence as part of their duty. Back then, it was much harder to get VC funding in the first place - the science had to be at least 90% sound, the metrics had to be solid, the numbers out with an open book. For example, Google only raised a $25m Series A by the time they were already widely well known, almost a household name.

My critique is not about the VC funding model. It's about VCs not doing any due diligence these days but just chasing the next hype cycle.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/safe-unsafe-meaning.html
> Then Germans get to experience exactly how expats feel in their country.

Not my feeling/experience at all. I’ve moved to Germany 1.5 years ago and the locals are the most welcoming people I’ve ever met. Especially comparing to Singaporeans, where I spent 6 years before.

I live in the North though, if I lived in Bayern my experience would probably be different.
> If u have a ton money, it's cheaper to just live in US.

Not if you have a chronic illness and have doctor appointments most weeks.
And there is no dependency that does this already? I'm assuming there likely is, because otherwise ChatGPT cant "know".
No, I meant what Gymbeaux said.

Since Fentanyl is so potent, it's mixed in such low volume. The dosage is still high enough to kill you due to the potency.

Let's assume the desired drug to fentanyl ratio is 1000:1 by volume. When you take a small random sample of this, there's a good chance that 0 parts of Fentanyl have been selected in this random sample. You'll get a clean test result, even though the drug contains lethal amounts of Fentanyl.
it's pretty hard to get access to the us, specially remote, when you don't have authorization there. Do you have a GC or US citizenship?
When you say "manager" I am hearing the job description of a tech lead. And yet I look around and see many non-jobs outside of direct hierarchies but still part of this "co-ordination" blob.

I wonder if it's time to ask just how many people are needed for co-ordination. My understanding is that a 1:1 ratio of "commits code" to "something co-ordination" is common (that is in ostensibly technical areas only 50% of workers code).

But great quote thank you
Zig has both fixed size types and a native-pointer-sized type. I think it's the right approach, in general you need both.
To be clear: these are Dbrand device skins that look like the back of a Nothing phone right?

I almost wasn't sure from the pages of crafty wording and product shots
I don’t know but Dubai based means not something you can trust anymore.
That's some spin of the UK side of things. When the USSR was looking in vain for an alliance with France or the UK, France and the UK instead made a pact with Germany, handing Czechoslovakia to Germany.

Insofar as the UK and imperialist powers seeking to conquer others by force - Scotland, Ireland, India, Hong Kong and the Opium Wars, Australia, Iraq, Africa from Egypt down to South Africa, I can go on...
https://archive.is/QS57n
Which of those reasons was quoted by Telegram and where?
> Ask any random Windows user if they experience problems. It's such a huge problem that it's a huge selling point for alternative OSes, for Macs.

I'm a Windows user and I experience issues from bugs much less frequently using Windows than using desktop Linux distributions. I was also a Mac user for almost 10 years and have not been impacted any greater by bugs in Windows than macOS. Both are greatly better in this regard than desktop Linux.

One caveat. There was recently an article on HN proposing that ChromeOS be considered as desktop Linux. If you do so than ChromeOS would be the exception for desktop Linux. I haven't had anymore issues with bugginess from ChromeOS than Windows or macOS.
There's a great book by CS professor Steven Skiena about the automated betting system he built (using early 90s-era technology!) to place bets on jai alai.

The Book: https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena/jaialai/

2008 presentation: https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena/tmp/oreilly.pdf

Odd Lots Podcast: https://news.stonybrook.edu/facultystaff/computer-science-pr...
I share this perspective and frustration.

However, I also realise its always easy to critisize the processes from down to top. Now put yourself in the shoes of the CEO or C suite. How do you organise an entire organisation to be efficient? What is a better alternative to OKRs?

Most of the proposals I see in this thread are catering towards smaller companies but quite frankly not a lot of us managed a 1000 people company. I would be curious to know from practitioners about what worked and what didn't.
That sounds like one of the things they could write about in dailywtf.

First, who has time to read a project from start to beginning. Second, as the time changes the dependencies between parts will change as well.
Telegram is probably the only app that I use that I'm completely fine with it automatically updating. Hard to find software that doesn't fk it up by adding stupid or user-hostile "features"/bloat. Telegram has been solid across the web, android, linux and windows clients I've been using for years. For that reason, I bought telegram premium. Shame to hear they're still not breaking even, must be tough.

E: downvoted for this?
Still better than plain old C, and used as inspiration for IO Kit allowed subset.
Clickhouse is insanely good for OLAP type data. But I've found it flexible enough to even be a suitable substitute to time series data.
I liked Krugman using RFK as a reflecting glass from which we could observe & understand the rich. The Rich are Crazier than You And Me:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/opinion/robert-kennedy-jr...

Krugman's emphasis on reflexive contrarianism in this writeup is a powerful illumination of an incredibly potent, present, & chaotic energy of our times.

Krugman spends more time talking about Tech Bro ideology than RFK, but I think it's pretty great & tells a real story about a sizable chunk of the world (by dollar value at least). For a much long writeup with much more RFK in it & with less laser targeted West Coast ideology focus, Michelle Goldberg's RFK and the Coalition of the Distrustful is another smash hit. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/opinion/robert-f-kennedy-...
https://imdb.com/title/tt0082198/characters/nm0167803
I used GPT-4 to generate a non-cryptographic random 64 character string. It was faster to ask GPT-4 for the string than ask GPT-4 for the instructions to generate the string from my terminal. GPT-4 was faster than google.
"I’ve wondered about a system that augments data with units dynamically"

F#'s units of measure do this! Though the compiler checks it, so it's static, not dynamic.

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/units-of-measure/
What Is the .io Domain Extension, and Why Do Tech Sites Use It?
> What you and most other developers don't realize is that[...]

Generalizations like this are just so bad. My biggest beef with design/"product" folk in the tech world is this thing that many of them do, where they justify their existence as a group of people and a business function by bad-mouthing developers.
This was always one of my favorite parts of f#. It’s not only mandated for structures within a file (no hoisting), but also for files within a project.

Reading and understanding an f# code base has always been vastly more simple to me than the incredible indirection of some other codebases (trying to find where the provider for the factory of the abstract class member that’s an interface implemented by 10 almost exactly similar c# classes? Good luck /s)
https://ziglang.org/ ?
They have never had a domicile in Germany. In Dubai, there is basically an empty office room used as their domicile.
What does Outlook have to do with Windows? Outlook is a web app.

Outlook became popular because it was tied to Windows 20 years ago, but today this just isn't the case.
X++ already exists, better pick another name.

EDIT: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamicsax-2012/developer/...
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36759131
You stick it in? Sometimes it feels faster than tapping!
Durov's worth more than 10 billion and he bought a quarter of the bonds himself, so at the end of the day he can keep the lights on for a long time. That's basically how Telegram has been financed up until now.
I've got about a dozen fanless Celeron based NUCs out there for remote automation and other small scale server use. I'm a huge fan of the platform.
FTIO signals a company doesn't care about the needs of their employees, is passively push people out in-lieu of more rounds of layoffs, and/or treats their employees like children.

FTIO = NOGO
Besides all other answers, .NET ecosystem, and IBM i TIMI, by having a C++ compiler as well.
This is an excerpt of Romero's new autobiography?

(https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/doom-guy_9781419758119/)
Telegram maintains a shell office in Dubai AFAIK. The Durovs live there as tax residents but the employees were based out of London for the most part iirc.
"It's the right message at the wrong time."

I respect your position but I firmly disagree. This war was never about saving Ukraine. It is and has always been a proxy war between two super-powers - primarily focused on weakening Russia and seeking regime change. [0]

The US and NATO provide arms and funding while the young men of Ukraine are being killed at a rate of 7-1 vs Russia, with nothing to show for it but 300k dead Ukrainian young men.

"I am all for peace and ending the war in Ukraine. But this is not an American political issue, but rather a Russian one."

I am also for peace and ending the war in Ukraine - and I don't excuse the inexcusable actions of Putin.

However, we need to get past the comic book depictions of US/NATO = Good, Russia = evil, and look at the world from the perspective of our opponent if we are ever to end the vicious cycle of endless wars.

Russia repeatedly made it clear that bringing Ukraine into NATO was a red-line. Putting nuclear-capable US stinger missiles on Russia's border, 400 miles from Moscow able to decapitate their leadership in minutes was always a non-starter. It doesn't excuse Putin's invasion, but it does explain it somewhat. Imagine if Russia had nuclear capable missiles on the US border, say in Canada or Mexico. We would invade in a second.

There are no good guys in war, only lies and propaganda from both sides. I want to see an end to the bloodshed and that requires us to seek peace over escalation. The only winners in war are those who make the guns and bombs.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/18/...

https://archive.is/0pGKh
It's become impossible to get sit down food or a drink in a US airport without using (what seems to be the same) company's QR code online order and pay to your seat system. It seems to be the same system for every restaurant or bar.

Besides needing to provide unnecessary amounts of information, it also requires a well working internet connection to load their bloated website. Which is often spotty so... very frustrating.

Luckily QR menus are going out of style.
[dupe]

More discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36774183
So I could be wrong about their point because they used SQL schema as their comparison but the commenter does question typography specifically so I think this is more "why is topography so focused on?" not "why is design so focused on?". At least that's the more interesting question to me.

For example this page. First thing you see is a hero image showing their font in use. It's a pretty important element that takes up the whole screen. It's blurry and pixelated. Not the worst I've seen but definitely gives me more car dealership not car manufacturer vibes. It's a 1.3MB png that looks just as good converted to an 80KB jpeg and imo even better as a 20KB avif. If it was instead a 1.3MB jpeg or avif starting from a high quality source that thing would look crisp and super car manufacturery.

There is also a section in the page where the text goes blurry because they've included a table as an image. Or I should rather say it's both blurry and an image because they could have just included a higher res image of the table. They have plenty of other images where it looks fine. Again something that gives me car dealership vibes. Actually I would say blurry text image table is specifically a dodgy second hand car dealership level of vibe.

Now you could say that the typography page isn't user or customer facing so its not that important but I see plenty of shitty blurry images on otherwise polished looking pages all over the internet, and also if they covered images in their design system like they do typography then it wouldn't matter. They'd just be in the habit of only using high quality images and have some process in place to deliver them in appropriate formats.

So while backend vs frontend or functionality vs polish are imo boring and played out webdev topics, I am super curious as to why they care enough about inspiring positive feelings through web design to make an entire custom font, have a page of guidelines on how to use said font, but dont have the same level of care for images. And why I see this contrast enough to consider it reasonably common in the industry.
May many languages be as successful as Eiffel is.

Eiffel Software is still in business, whereas many others hardly reach any audience.