skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like iCloud, despite some of the irritating shortcomings that many others have also mentioned, for a hands-off syncing of not just files/contents but settings of apps. I like to treat the ecosystem (currently Apple's) as the primary holding place of our content (in open formats wherever possible, while regular backup copies of the Apple format where not) for all family members and their devices.

Looking back a few years, the struggles of syncing are not that prominent and have improved quite a lot.

I want to be able to pick up a device and get the content I want when I need it. That means, my wife taking a picture of something and if I need to access that, it pops up now or in a while. If I've to buy items and have to look up my daughters request too I like the fact that I can look up the common Family Notes folder with the note "Buy These".

However, iCloud is definitely not (still) a good one for files and content storage. The family subscribes to the highest 2TB but the 4-member team is gobbling it up pretty fast. We use just the family-shared folders for common files such as scanned files (receipts, and other physical records, etc) so I can look at a common location on my weekly, monthly, and quarterly digital chores.

Finally, we subscribed to the 2TB Dropbox plan for the file backups and such. They are selectively synced (that cloud only feature) for individual devices but I have a separate (MacMini 2012-edition for now) running as a backup that syncs everything offline as a final backup of Dropbox.

Of course, there are the other media files backups, archives, and the stuffs on other media/cloud. So, my pattern is -- an easy offline access where possible with a sync copy/backup somewhere in the "cloud" or vice versa.

One can replace Dropbox with the others you are comfortable with.

Use iCloud for the convenience but have a backup system that you can rely on. I have absolutely no idea about the detailed intricacies of iCloud. Right now, I'm reading "IntroducingCirrus1.13.pdf" that came with "cirrus113.zip" that I just downloaded from this article.

Edit/Update: I have setup iCloud sync for quite a few relatives (and their family members) and they are very happy, especially that Photo thing that just shows up when their family members take photos elsewhere. They think I made the magic happen for them, when they replace their new iPhones and the Music/Photos are just there. I try to make sure to have a printable PDF with the basic setups of what I did -- just in case, they ask someone else or I happen to be not available for help anymore.
Now do the inverse analysis. Hold liable anyone in an official position who directly incited virtually an entire election-year of violent riots that mostly targeted and victimized innocents. There's precedent in the making for that type of liability.
I guess you are right and my actual annoyance is that people are using this function and I don’t think they should in many cases. I would’ve liked the function to mostly fade from use and not be standardized as a result…
This situation/attitude is exactly the thing that great people end up in. As I've mentioned previously I have known a lot of people that developed enough wealth over time to "retire."[1] And by retire I mean choose to work on what they wanted to work on, and not work if they didn't want to. I once explained as "being a consultant with infinite days of paid vacation." Some folks like Jacques and the GP author are "old" (as in > 50 yrs old, (me too)), some I know are "young" in that they are under 40.

In very general terms I see three "types" as most common, the first type are what I think of as "score keepers" who equate bank balances with their "score" in life and a bigger score than their peers mean they "win" life. This is not a point of view that I really understand, but I generally think that is because in my younger years I lived in Las Vegas and knew other kids whose parents were professional gamblers. Their life was really random in terms of how much money was available that year/month/week/day. Money came and went based most on luck, and less on skill. As a result these folks understood money wasn't the definition of how "good" they were, just how lucky. That is how I translated equity earnings from stock options / grants. If you happened to get lucky then you got some wealth, if not well it didn't change the quality of your work or your abilities.

I see this a lot in the second type of person which is they are happy to not have to worry about money, but they don't "need" to generate any more. So they follow their passions which can be very different. One friend of mine became a patent attorney because they really liked the law and how that system worked.

The third type is the person that "fails" at retirement (I put it in quotes because I don't think of it as failing, just a different path) and they miss the technical/intellectual challenge and the camaraderie of being in a group working on tough problems. If you get to be senior enough you come to realize that you can get more done as a group of blended skills than you can as individuals. Recreating that in a non-company way is hard.[2] As a result people often "go back to work". My favorite example of this is Guido Van-Rossum, who "retired", got bored, and then went to work for Microsoft.

Tenured professorships are excellent for this third type as well. There isn't an industrial equivalent (there used to be, tech companies would have the title of "Fellow" but the grind of MBAs on margin over innovation has pretty much killed those in most places).

[1] Not a flex, I just happened to be part of a number of companies that were generous with stock options and grew into larger companies. These are not founders, they are regular employees whose stock options ended up being worth enough that they could diversify them into something they could live off of.

[2] I proposed a member-benefit type company arrangement that would address this need but have so far not pushed the idea into existence.
That didn't used to be the only job of the CEO, though. CEO pay used to be roughly 4 times the pay of the average worker, not 30 to 40 times the pay. It also used to be the CEO's job to ensure the health of his company in the form of the health of his workforce including their ability to stay in the middle class.

Publicly traded companies end up being driven by perverse short-term incentives.
This is a general principal in the Rust standard library, but it is confusing at first. Similarly you can construct a HashMap without restriction but calling `.get` on it requires the key to implement Hash.

I'll let someone else clarify the reasoning because I'm not confident I remember it correctly. I though this was in the Rust API guidelines but I can't find it after a quick skin.
It's probably not availability issues. From what I've seen in Fossil discussions, sqlite.org is just a couple of Fossil instances (code and documentation) and a pack of HTML pages behind a simple web server. They had to invent an ad-hoc scrape protection for computationally expensive requests, and probably have something like that for DoS protection. It is possible that it is not fair because of simplicity, and temporarily blocks certain amount of less lucky visitors. Intermittent inaccessibility of project websites seems regular to me.
They depend on the stock which is totally unpredictable

For example, literally the day before I started at my last company, their stock went from $120 to $40

So yes it’s a lotto ticket
It can be appropriate to bound the runtime of certain components of a system while allowing looser constraints elsewhere. For example I would perhaps not want to do an O(n) string operation on a collection of strings even though the user would be pretty upset if they can’t paste infinite input into my app.
Right, it’s more like O(m) when you probably wanted O(n).
They call it "A study into toxicity". I call it gonzo research.
It's good for intergenerational vacations. 7 y/o and 70 y/o can both enjoy various aspects of the giant boat and wandering around some tourist town and everyone has their own space to return to.
Wow I didn't even think of this. Truly a brilliant move that intends to kill the open web on two fronts at once.
All that readme and not a single pair of comparison images?
https://archive.is/DcqT5
For what it's worth, I've been looking at HN front-page activity since 2007. I've recently classified the most frequently-appearing sites to give a breakdown of what type of content appears on the front page (as typified by site). Taking two arbitrary years, 2009 (after HN got reasonably established) and 2022 (most recent full year data), what's notable is that general news sites are less prevalent, and that programming content (mostly links to specific languages and/or source repos) more prevalent in the more recent period.

2009

Posts: 10950 Sites: 1129 Submitters: 1440

Class Stories Votes (mean) Comments (mean)
UNCLASSIFIED: 3741 3741 1.00 3741 1.00
blog: 1930 1930 1.00 1930 1.00
n/a: 1734 43045 24.82 45495 26.24
tech news: 1118 1118 1.00 1118 1.00
general news: 878 878 1.00 878 1.00
corporate comm.: 450 450 1.00 450 1.00
business news: 407 407 1.00 407 1.00
academic / science: 337 337 1.00 337 1.00
programming: 316 316 1.00 316 1.00
general interest: 124 124 1.00 124 1.00
software: 90 90 1.00 90 1.00

2022

Posts: 10950 Sites: 1158 Submitters: 1398

Class Stories Votes (mean) Comments (mean)
UNCLASSIFIED: 4844 4844 1.00 4844 1.00
programming: 1146 1146 1.00 1146 1.00
blog: 1123 1123 1.00 1123 1.00
n/a: 864 167707 194.11 125736 145.53
academic / science: 567 567 1.00 567 1.00
general news: 444 444 1.00 444 1.00
corporate comm.: 406 406 1.00 406 1.00
tech news: 400 400 1.00 400 1.00
social media: 252 252 1.00 252 1.00
general interest: 222 222 1.00 222 1.00

Notes:

- The "(mean)" columns have bad data, I need to fix my code. The others should be reasonable.

- "UNCLASSIFIED" are sites I've not manually classified. They tend to follow roughly the same overall distribution, though more blogs and fewer news sources.

- "n/a" are posts without a site, typically an "Ask", "Tell", "Who's Hiring", or similar post.

Keep in mind that even "general news" is often about science, technology, or tech-adjacent business, legislation, court decisions, etc.
Because Americans have more options and opportunities. The job market is better, simple as that. This is a big reason why people emigrate.
You can squint and see the letters, so I’m assuming this isn’t it.
I think it's more that the human eye is much more contrast sensitive when looking at low detail images, as highlighted in the einstein/monroe illusion
https://psychologicalscience.blog.gustavus.edu/2022/05/10/ei...
This is called phoenixing. It's a grubby practice:

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

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/phoenix-companies...

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/sep/25/phoen...
Username = hex(sha1(topic_id + ip))[10-14]

Notably, no salt used
I strongly disagree, I don't care how terrible their english is or whatever - having a live person is almost always infinitely better compared to the bot.
I open files that are larger than 4 GB from time to time, it’s not really reasonable to say that 32-bit is large enough for these kinds of things anymore. Well, let me rephrase: sometimes it’s ok to be “ok I don’t handle more than 4 billion (say this is a field to enter your name)” but there should also be a way to do it if I care enough, like when I’m writing a text editor.

FWIW I believe most implementations will do something safe on overflow like terminate the program or return some error (can printf signal via errno?)
I liked the other poster quote, that is the key explanation in article, hence I commented there. We literally commented at the same second. But I just liked the summarization of it as being "disproportionately valuable".
While looting and vandalism took place in several neighborhoods during the protests, the demonstrations were largely peaceful.

The article doesn't address police violence against violent looters.

The article addresses

* delibrately kettling peaceful demonstrators excersing constitutional rights in order to charge them with breaking curfew.

* excessive force (beating with batons) person not breaking any laws.

* etc.

> What about ...

Your statement seems to be stating that if other people break the law then it is okay if I (as a police officer) beat you and cause you concussion and a trip to the hopital.
I love shopping at HF but I've had to learn through experience which of their products are decent and which are utter dogshit. And sometimes I still buy the dogshit if I know I only need the item once and plan to toss it.
"found" aka ran 3 quadrillion hashes on an A100 to crack the IPs
The claim is parallelism for training which is not fixed speed up, different complexity for inference (constant time), and different complexity for large context inference (linear) - so nothing that can be summarised as 8x - or am I getting this summary wrong?
> we must try

Start with the existing system then. If you think we can do better, prove it. Bring that same level of optimism into improving existing standards of medical care -- then come back and we'll talk about expanding those systems.

> we never actually get started doing anything meaingful.

I think this regularly gets pulled out as a justification for expanding systems that have significant problems, and critics are supposed to take it at face value that we're all going to earnestly try to do better this time. But without something more concrete behind it, it's just talk, and talk is cheap. What often ends up happening is the same negative outcomes are expanded, and then the process repeats with the exact same line -- again and again and again.

So let's all get together and fix at least a few of the things that are already broken, and then maybe I'll believe you that we can all band together and build something new. But this kind of optimism divorced from practical action doesn't actually address concerns and doesn't actually improve existing or future standards.

I'm not saying everything needs to be perfect before we do anything new, of course that's never going to be the case. But I am saying that if all of our existing systems are garbage, the words "we must try" need to be backed up with something much more tangible than anyone is providing in this comments section.
The user is using the ControlNet model: https://huggingface.co/monster-labs/control_v1p_sd15_qrcode_...

I'm so happy someone has actually trained a QRcode ControlNet model so we can generate cool QRcodes, the previous methods were pretty bad and didn't reach the quality of the images produced by that random guy who made them originally (without sharing details about how the ControlNet model was trained).
You can teach 20 years of experience but it takes 20 years.
Does XMPP do calls?
also every SIM card. which is potentially quite a bit less benign - the baseband chip is this completely separate processor which the SOC can't see into, and the SIM card can snoop messages, send commands, and generally act like a secure enclave. It is/was? used for a couple banking systems for feature-phones like MPESA, where the app can run as a featurephone app with the menu item toolkits the phone provides.

I think the e-sim idea is probably a net security benefit imo, apple has leveraged the carriers out of a fairly dangerous tool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31D94QOo2gY

Recently I was thinking about what a program written to take advantage of Optane's persistent-memory model would have looked like, if you use it like RAM it's forever gonna be slow shitty RAM. Javacard seems to be the closest hit for that, in some ways. Maybe some of the higher-tier javacards have GC.

I guess at that point it's basically a JVM application state snapshot, which is the same thing, so maybe not any better.
I wanted to make sure that was the case, instead of inefficiency.
The initial proposition that nobody cares was deeply opiniated and clearly flawed.

Highlighting the blinkered vision of fishbowl positions hopefully reduces frequency.
I think coming up with a comprehensive mental health policy is a little beyond the scope of a HN comment, and certainly far beyond my expertise. I merely posit that such a policy could exist, and could be developed. I don't see why not.

I mean, the comments here are like "b-b-but homosexuality used to be considered a mental illness!". Right, it was, but now it's not. So it seems pretty clear that to prevent people from being institutionalized for being gay, we could simply continue to not consider it a mental illness. You know, like we're already doing. That doesn't seem very difficult.

Maybe there are other things that are considered mental illnesses that shouldn't be. If there are, we already have an example in homosexuality of how we can stop considering them mental illnesses. It's clearly a thing that's possible to do, so if necessary, let's do that.
No I don't, I am not you.
It does. See: jingle.
>The silent majority

I only wish this is true. Because so far "The silent majority" are no where to be seen in many other subjects.
This just shows how much China is saving American consumers!

Back when we were forced to buy Made in America tools, manufactures were able to get away with charging us as much as they wanted, and they were very greedy!

Thanks to China, inflation adjusted tool prices have dropped by at least 75%.

And Chinese quality is good enough for the Snap-On name!

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2019/09/15/harbor-freight-daytona-...
Interestingly, I did see this tweet [0] mentioning a phase shift that occurs in transformers at exactly the scale RetNet stopped at. Probably simply coincidental but I was previously unaware of this phenomenon at such a scale in transformers.

[0] https://twitter.com/gordic_aleksa/status/1682479676910870529
Probably that xmpp server implementations and clients are both often dire heaps of legacy stuff. Plus, you know - more choice.
IME big companies have pretty solid procedures for battling these, and in some cases for punishing people who do this. IIRC, people have lost FB or Google accounts over valid chargebacks.
RWKV has 14B version.
I can relate, fellow Canadian too..

Even making your own yogurt is not cost efficient. It is literally cheaper to buy yogurt than the standard ordinary milk and sour it yourself. Cheese is even worse.

All the weird regulations, price control, quota, duties and import restrictions seem to ultimately benefit mostly the very large industrial transformers, leaving actual farmers with scraps and consumers with ballooning costs.
Proposed amendment 'Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2023':

https://www.congress.gov/amendment/118th-congress/senate-ame...

All actions on the amended bill 'S. 2226: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024':

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/222...
I think to appreciate the TV Typewriter you have to appreciate how freaking expensive printers and typewriters were relative to the cost of the computer[1].
Don't TVT was 16 x 32 because that was exactly 1024 characters which fit in one static RAM chip. The Apple ][ could, and did display 40 columns (also 16 rows) on an unmodified TV. That kind of output was SO MUCH more useful than looking at the blinking lights on the front panel. It was also cheaper than what a 24 line by 80 character terminal would cost you.

[1] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/pacificOfficeSystems/Pacific_Of...
I'm much more socialist than the average HN'er, but let's not mistake - they pursued increased profits AND massively reduced prices.

Now we can say the price reduction wasn't worth it and the bang for buck has actually gotten worse as we've made more things more accessible. That the cost of everything being cheaper is that we have to buy more of it, creating more waste, contributing more to climate change, etc.

But ultimately globalization and the move to manufacturing in China HAS contributed to a huge amount of prosperity world wide as geographies that would've never been able to afford certain devices, tools, or even just entertainment before, have been able to.
A Jq255 Elliptic Curve Specification, and a Retrospective (2022)
nvim-dap and nvim-dap-ui ftw!
What’s the debt level at now? 30+ trillion?
You don't need to. Solution Architect associate and upwards cover what you need to know.
And yet here we are scaling transformer models.
In this case, I concur with the parent post. I probably have a browser window on every virtual desktop, but I also have a browser window that exists on all virtual desktops. In this case I could just access this browser window from the virtual desktop that contains my IDE.
Having worked in the custom manufacturing machinery business a long time I would guess that they ironically cheaped out but purchasing all their equipment overseas.
There are extremely knowledgeable machine builders in the USA and Canada (think rust belt) that have been building equipment like this since the 1950s (think automotive sway bars, coil springs, etc), but over the last decade you see a lot companies trying to purchase their equipment from former eastern block countries or China to save money.
Nothing against Belarus, but I guarantee there are USA machine builders that could have got this up and running (for more money of course).
This has a real "Windows NT is secure if you don't connect it to a network" vibe. If you don't want others to ever know your IP address, don't connect to the Internet. If you actually care about people not learning your IP address and still want to connect to the Internet, take some time to learn how email has worked for the last forty years. Don't get on the Internet, then act shocked that things that're decades old aren't how you want or expect them to be.
It won't happen for two reasons:

* The US would never kill its golden calf except as a last resort.

* The US standard for antitrust is consumer harm. Google implementing a thing that other companies have been asking for, any company can join and send their own attestation signals, and then those other companies in unrelated markets use the thing to maybe not support unapproved stacks which could reasonably include Android/Chrome won't fall on Google.
Oddly reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_spike
It's so weird how people get taken advantage of when they abdicate their responsibility to themselves.
Some locals. Even if the majority of locals want to stop it getting action is very difficult against a business friendly central government.
Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents?
Could've sworn there were 1 or 12 startups in the recent batch doing this...but can't find any off the top of my google search
I just added that sentence to the About page a couple of hours ago, to hopefully clear up the confusion. Maybe I’ve just added to it? I don’t know what to do now, but suffice to say I’m a real person.
Zerogpt works fairly well!
The people you think are very intelligent are usually not outside the standard deviation, and if they are then not by much.

What the top performers in all fields have in common is that they made a decision at some point in their lives to truly go all in on being the best at a particular thing, and that takes sacrifices that you probably don't want to make, and there's nothing wrong with that. There is no shame in not being a high performer and just being generally okay at everything.

This is mostly ignoring the true outliers with very high IQs, but that is such a huge anomaly statistically that there is no use even discussing it. It is not the norm among even the most successful entrepreneurs or fortune 500 CEOs or endowed chairs of Computer Science.