skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On sheer readability I also prefer Google Maps, but I've been using it so long that that might be just familiarity.

Interesting – personally I find Maps absolutely horrible for usage as an actual map for orienting myself (as opposed to just serving as a vague geographical background for displaying POIs or navigation information).

When you zoom out, it often doesn't really distinguish between forests and other open spaces (admittedly OSM's coverage in that regard varies regionally, though at least in Europe it seems quite comprehensive and definitively better than Google's).

Then, when you zoom in everything just turns into a featureless grey-on-grey with no distinction between built-up areas and everything else (only "parks" get shown, but e.g. in France that apparently even covers large scale "natural parks" covering hundreds or even thousands of square kilometres, so in that case everything, including any towns happening to lie in that area, just gets shown with a green background, which is equally useless), and buildings are only shown when you start zooming in really closely.
I've recently switched to Organic Maps as a replacement for gmaps. Navigation is offline, it uses OSM for its basemap and points of interest, and you can easily save points (and export them) without needing to login to an account. I also find it easier to use for planning routes for diving or hiking. The only problem is that it doesn't have that nifty terrain view from gmaps or a way to show an aerial satellite view.
This is often a factor with commercial contracts with a vendor - source code is put in "escrow" [1], to be released if the vendor goes bankrupt.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code_escrow
The rule is because of American monopolies and oligopolies. To have your news seen at all, you need to use major social media platforms or google. These platforms benefit from the news links, and the news has to fight to compete on those platforms, earning less and less revenue every year because the news is less engaging than flamebait. So the news gradually becomes flamebait to try to garner enough engagement to compete, otherwise the news stops existing, and next thing you know, investigative journalism is almost extinct.

This isn’t an ideal solution, it’s basically a subsidy that big tech is supposed to pay for, but there is a massive, massive! power imbalance where the platforms are the only winners, so it’s also not the worst rule ever. I don’t know. The overwhelming power imbalance of oligopoly platforms is a thing, I’m not sure what to do about it. The issue is bigger than just news, and this law only partially addresses one aspect of the situation
I've been QWERTY-free since 2012. I do the layout in firmware so I don't need to change the mapping in the OS. And I use QMK and ZMK and I have a travel board that's bluetooth.

This concern might have been real back on OS/2 and MS-DOS. Not now.
Mordecai Brown
I can't understand why AMD leaves so much on the table. Of course their ROCm efforts have intensified, but there's still a long way to go.
Maybe for many investors it is the more elitist and fashionable variant of common folks buying lottery tickets. But for the well-to-do. More sophisticated than being the hotshot player in the casino. Some expansive hobby / expertise to it, to talk about on parties. Real money on the line, tension, adventure, testoreron, prestige. I don't know, I am not in the group. May be totally off the mark.
In Austria delivery of US keyboard laptops from Apple dropped from weeks to two days on the pro models so I think they are changing something.
Suicide is an expression of one's ultimate freedom to one's body, but these acts can have consequences beyond oneself. That goes from "oh well, it's your choice" to "don't drag other people down with you". What of a child born from a prostitute? What of others' safety when driving drunk? What of friends and family who expend mental energy and money? Cut yourself away absolutely or not at all, or perhaps in a more measured action, but don't just sink the ship and not care of the people scrambling for safety.
Having the name wrong, because the author forgot that Eastern Europe has been part of Europe for around 1000 years now, is acceptable. But the decision to support 5.5 speakers of Danish instead of 40 million speakers of Polish for example, is much worse, it's stupid engineering.
This one rings hard for me. My grandmother had a perfectly good wisdom tooth removed a few months ago, and it got horribly infected. Makes me angry thinking about it. I've also had dentists want to pull my wisdom teeth as well, which seems to just be a form of superstition for them.
More than full-time? Ha, I could manage three households and still have time left over compared to a 40h wage job. I doubt the average person spends more than 2h/day on housekeeping. My mother certainly didn't when I was a child.
In the case of 3 with children 1 and 5 and 5 with children 4 and 6. 3 and 5 have two nodes. If you add 7 as a child of 6, the tree is unbalanced. This is not one of the cases shown.
Maybe people are more willing to donate to a non-profit, but I am not so sure the same goes for companies. Today companies have to pay a license fee if they are using Google maps in their services. A non-profit can of course continue with licensing the service, but if they make that optional, 99% of the companies would stop paying.
I really like my "`" in the convenient corner of the keyboard (and even more so with Markdown getting much use in GitHub and Slack), so for me the ISO layout can go to the trash pile of history :)
This is the case for most programmers in Europe. {, |, and similar are more important than accented characters, but you do need accents a few times a day. And it's easy to get used to.
I remember Thief (1998) as having curtains that moved while hiding behind them.
> I've met more than a few Germans, Finns, and Swedish that map their local keyboards to US English

Which is impossible to do properly, because those keyboards differ from US keyboards in their geometry, not just in the labeling of the keys.
> Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

this quote in the context of this article makes me want to throw up.
"Hybrid piano"? What does that mean?
Transducers aren’t just faster, they offer more functionality, with the ability to reuse the logic no matter where your inputs and outputs are coming from. So it’s no real surprise that there’s more implementation complexity. Client code isn’t much more complex, and arguably lower mental overhead because you can give stacks of transducers names without having to introduce a whole new function with a sequence as an argument.

Obviously in languages that can reliably perform stream fusion transparently, maybe you care less, but the abstraction isn’t just about the speedup.
it’s all about investment, nvidia invested hard and got rewarded. Similar to how the iPhone disrupted the marketed. I don’t see an open source solution winning unless a company can invest in the development
Open external links, internally
What's the polarity of each magnet here, aligned or checkerboard?
My (Painful) Experience with Ubiquiti as a DevOps Engineer
At least the German ToS (updated April 10) do not contain any AI provisions.

https://explore.zoom.us/de/privacy/
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This is a free resource created by an unfunded open source tech collective.
>software companies don’t have the hardware capabilities, and vice versa

Nobody stops a hardware company to hire software developers. The other way around would be harder.
> Fixed point numbers cause an enormous programmer overhead and do not fix the problems.

How so? Is that because of inherent problems with the outcomes of fixed-point arithmetic, or are they just clumsy to use and no-one's written a decent library that makes dealing with fixed-point numbers straightforward?
There's a great scene in Wender's Tokyo Ga about fake food: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ayCKSFU8-mE
I wonder if ROCm is 100% CUDA compatible.
I don't think this is true for a while (5 years). There are view limits and I still find embedded maps that look just like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50977913/google-maps-sho... .
Firefox on mobile has ublock origin available too
Oh gee, opportunity for volunteers to create truth versus resourceful companies and organisation eager to share their own version of truth on a system whose workings barely anyone can comprehend and for-profit company whose actions anyone can predict.

Sorry for the sarcasm, but your comment is essentially "Lets remove motivation for those who had incentive to share valuable information and see how it turns out.".
Sigh. What you describe is an issue that I have experienced too. I work in Business Intelligence and only discovered Apache Hop by accident. I think the issue is lack of SEO pushes some great products down the search results list. I actually now search Reddit or HN for software suggestions for a particular area. Just using Google will give you the list of best marketed solutions.
> Let's say the French government decides that OpenAI must change something about their business practices if they want to continue operating in France. OpenAI says "nope", and blocks access to French users.

That's one possible outcome. (ETA: You DO have a point here, but...)

The other is, you know, something like every website explicitly telling me, via an annoying popup, how much they value my privacy. Also, me not being able to access half of US news sites to this day.

The last time EU raised their finger, every technology company (FAANG included) shat their pants.

And that was simpler times, times when a cookie stored in your temp folder without websites shouting they're about to do so, was somehow the biggest concern of an EU netizen. It almost seems ridiculous, compared to the damage AI could do (the extent of which which nobody really knows).
>Devote Yourself to the Cause of Your Life - Your to-do list can wait

My to-do list sure can wait! Not so sure about my landlord though!
Even something as simple as VisualVM makes this fairly easy for Clojure code.
Honesty research likely faked data
That's probably true for authors as well (not that I am one).
This looks pretty similar to UK extended [0].

I prefer UK extended for the position of back-slash and point keys, and a few other details.

This said, EurKEY seems to provide more, like a way to type ś or ć ...

[0]: http://kbdlayout.info/kbdukx/
This shows how much compute power is in our hands, yet some websites can not even ...
Now that I have a (zmk) programmable keyboard, one of the more frustrating things is getting it to produce characters that are not in the OS keyboard map. I think the best option might be to have a keymap that included more or less all characters so that they could be produced.
Writing VHDL/Verilog is much like writing software, however.
>more deep thinking time will compound enormously over a career

Damn that's kinda nice, never thought about the "compounding effect" of as you call it "deep thinking", I can 100% see how that be !
> What is this article about?

It is not an article, it is an essay. Wikipedia defines an "informal essay" as: characterized by "the personal element (self-revelation, individual tastes and experiences, confidential manner), humor, graceful style, rambling structure, unconventionality or novelty of theme," etc.

> What did the sex part of it actually involve?

The reason that this part is left to the imagination of the reader is that A) it is more powerful that way and B) the details don't really matter anyway to get the message and image across.

These things should have been covered in your creative writing class too.
Ναι (translation:yes)
At Mirage Studio we have successfully finetuned Llama 2 7B on a Dutch dataset to get it to output Dutch in a coherent way: https://huggingface.co/Mirage-Studio/llama-gaan-2-7b-chat-hf...
For my lazy self it would be nice to have a gif of how it looks without having to run it on my machine.
Besides it being a somewhat hollow first world pep talk, what is there especially to throw up about?
Huh someone decided to be a writer I see.

I see a ton of people around me that are writers, music producers, actors and so on. They all claim that they are in their first years of their careers and they need more time to be successful at a scale that makes it worth spending their life doing it.

The way I see it is that those people have the luxury of not having to worry about money too much and enjoy not being responsible for a boss or customer for fruits of their labor. They all can claim they are Franz Kafka waiting to be discovered later
Trading for a Living
The main reasons of "monopoly" are long-term vision and enormous effort spent in software development. AMD is lacking behind because they have not yet seriously invested on their own software stack.
> That's not challenging anything for fantasy

I had certainly not read anything like it. Remember how old those books are - the fantasy of that age was closer to Moorcock, Leiber etc. Where in that sort of literature can you find gentle, hands-off wizards (hell, men of any sort) who live a largely contemplative life? And written well enough that it seems really appealing?

> That doesn't erase the earlier portrayals.

Well it doesn't exactly erase them, but it reinterprets them drastically. Also, even though Le Guin later didn't consider it good enough, the Tombs of Atuan were written from a woman's perspective. A woman who's frankly a bit hard to recognize in the book Tehanu. Isn't a bit odd that the former high priestess of the Nameless Ones, of a visibly different race (who the islanders are understandably afraid of) settles down in a domestic life, and coincidentally develops concerns about domesticity similar to modern women at that time? You'd think she'd have much worse concerns than that her son doesn't help with housework!

I feel like Le Guin devalued her own story in the first three books, failed to recognize that through its basic empathy it did tell good and thoughtful stories with a gender dimension that challenges you to think.
apply application apprehension rapping snapping snooping

double letters stop the rolling action, and P is one of the biggest offenders. Putting P next to a vowel cluster does nothing for rolls. It makes more sense to swap to the other side of the board so while you are dealing with whatever P is doing, your other hand is teeing up the rolling keys that will start after P.

For instance: application. In Canaria your roll would look like this, with the keys being rolled in [brackets]

opp[ortun][ity]

Or, if you're slower:

opp[or][tuni][ty]
Super common in east asia. I've seen some korean stores in the US with this sort of display too.
That link gave me "SORRY we couldn't find that page", but this worked:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062673041
I invented it, as far as I know. There was no publicly available code on doing this and so I wrote it.

I’m not sure what the terminology is these days, but I called it userland exec() because it was an implementation of execve in userland…

I wrote it in, 2003 or 2004? I can’t find an original link anymore, but I posted it to bugtraq the week after I finished it.
Was using this for years until openSUSE Leap somehow dropped this with 15.4 and now I'm flip/flopping US/German QWERTY on all machines again.
The useful definition of effort
No. They want you to target HIP, which is compatible with both CUDA and ROCm.

https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/HIP/en/latest/index.html
It is actually from 2004. :)
For repairing your laptop sure, but there are huge risks with very low margins for error for safety in terms of dealing with high voltage electricity. If you want to do this safely you need to take the relevant electrical classes/certifications to know how, it’s not something a beginner can jump into without assistance. Sure if you fuck up a laptop repair it’s not a huge deal but this will fucking kill you if you’re not careful. Sure you can learn how to ride a motor cycle but you still need a license to do so and pass classes first, and most people deem the risks, efforts, and costs too high to be worth it.
It has the most up to date business data for any map provider, and by far, their location/points of interest search is the best, also by far, they have the best satellite images available for "free" and their StreetView integrated map product is way, way ahead of the competition. Which means that, yes, GMaps is the best out there.
Software developers, especially for certain type of components, e.g. compilers, are NOT easy to find out.
> Which is impossible to do properly, because those keyboards differ from US keyboards in their geometry, not just in the labeling of the keys.

The only difference is that on US keyboards the enter key is smaller and left shift is larger, leading to the "\" key being moved one down and one left on a German keyboard (and also being duplicated to left of z (German label: y)). So even if you move from a physical US keyboard to a physical German one while keeping the US layout, it's literally just one key where you'd have to retrain your hand. And for people that have learned to type on a German keyboard this is not a problem at all since they have never typed on a physical US one and using a different mapping means a training period anyway.

Source: German who mapped his keyboard to US (+ some AltGr modifiers for the German characters I need).

I don't know about the other European layouts, but I assume it's somewhat similar for them too.
Does anyone have more inside knowledge from OpenAI or AMD on AMDGPU support for Triton?

I see this:

https://github.com/openai/triton/issues/1073

But it's not clear to me if we will see AMD GPUs as first class citizens for pytorch in the future?
Not sure about the reason, but I'm not signed in on Twitter and I only see "A few ways to reduce cognitive load for developers using your codebase…"
You can skip it entirely with this launch option in steam: `--skip-launcher`.
It is an one-day workweek when the official duties and draggery of "office/uni" work is compressed into a single day.
Unfortunately they "can't". A lot of the dog shit and the beaver snot that holds it together is licensed from third parties.
This board is full of people who think they are subject matter experts.

Dunning and Kruger have some notes on the matter.
You can make it slightly more tolerable by changing the line 15 to `read -s -n 1 -t 0.16 TMP`
Or have the products clearly labelled to say that the service is not guaranteed to keep working after a certain date.
In short, Gen. AI increases productivity (we knew that), with specific benefits for low-ability workers and less experienced employees (we did not know that).
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monopoly isn't a bad word here and doesn't need quotes. In America and major markets, a monopoly is fine if that's what the market chooses, anticompetitve practices and abusing market position is what gets at least put under scrutiny. They may be limited in purchasing additional companies to expand or maintain the market position, but there is no need to shift perception about what is it because that's not regulated or under threat of regulatory scrutiny simply from providing a better service.
I think Nuitka also does this
Someone is trying to bring back the good old days through the Brutalist Web Design Manifesto
https://brutalist-web.design/
i don't know how to put it eloquently. but the feeling is similar to what i experience when i scroll through my linkedin feed for longer than a minute.
> I hope everyone was paid hansomly in the takeover at least

That might be a mixed blessing; horses are expensive![0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansom_cab
You can add `--skip-launcher` to the steam launch options.
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That already puts the website in the sleazy category. "I mixed my helpful information with mind poison" isn't a strong position to argue fair play from.
> To be fair, this is after about a month of studying 4-5 hours per week. So 20 hours of free time spent to gain a measure of confidence that I can switch jobs when I want to.

My problem with this is that my skills expire and I need to repeat the study and practice time with every interview cycle.
Because most people whose job is research today have to work all the time in busywork BS, lest they get fired. To churn BS papers just to stay afloat of publish-or-perish, to attend all kinds of BS meetings, to do all kinds of BS administrative work that has bureaucratically exploded in the last 30 years, to do dog and pony shows for grants, and so on.

They could only dream of "spending almost all of their time thinking and recording his ideas"
Very impressive. I use the cloth simulation in Daz Studio, and I wish it was as performant as this. It can take 20 mins only to have the cloth ‘explode’ when it intersects something unexpectedly. That said the obstacles are more complex than spheres
I am using it on Linux (GNOME 44 under Fedora 38), where it is natively supported. I don't know about Windows specifically but I was under the impression that it is pretty well-known.
There were multiple attempts over the decades to move the code from files to other organization structure, and in my opinion they all made matters worse.

It's so much easier to just see a directory structure which reflects the module structure of your project and be able to quickly open any file in any tool and not just in the IDE of your chosen programming language.
You writing "in before" doesn't make it less true. We don't call free-clone users "freeloaders".

At the very best, "freeloader" is a term used by someone internally, but I've never ever heard it used in over 10 years in the company.

Full disclosure: Red Hat employee, not writing in the name of the company, views my own and all that. I'm also pretty pissed about CentOS dying, and like many Red Hatters, have voiced my concerns internally. I also happen to think that a lot of the online criticism is unfair, incorrect, and sometimes done in bad faith. So I'm trying to be accurate. As far as I know, nobody in Red Hat calls or even thinks of CentOS/Rocky/Alma/Oracle/... clones as "freeloaders".
Wonderful, I always wondered how that stuff is made. Anyone know what the material is? At times it looks like it's just wax that's being solidified by cool water but at other times it looks more like a polymerisation reaction (remembering very vaguely from doing something similar in GCSE chemistry).
And with HIP now supporting Windows[0] it could be a game changer. I would love to see it working with llama.cpp[1]. I tried HIP via Blender, but it did not work for my 6600XT, it still used my CPU...

[0] https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/666#issueco...

[1] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/915#discu...
SPARC only has a 32bit version that's open. Its really not a option. Even if want to use something 32bit, you would like some upgrade path for the future. And technically its also just worse in pretty much every way. After the standardisation there was very little continued progress and investment.

OpenPOWER only became open many, many years after RISC-V was open. OpenPOWER was basically just a marketing name, it was not actually open. Once RISC-V was opened for real, eventually the pressure was on OpenPOWER to actually be opened.

However by the time they opened it up RISC-V already had all the momentum both commercially and in terms of open development.
Rather poor piece. Not even mentioning the competition (that's trying to catch up, yes).

Sometimes it sounds more like gushing than anything else, always the best, consistently sold out, etc etc.