skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The training will always be extremely expensive and beyond the grasp of commodity computing at a low'ish cost.

The reason for that, is that the push will always be one direction in terms of size and improvement. That isn't going to stop. It will continue to push the edge of resources.

It's not Nvidia that's holding back the premise. AMD and Intel also can't do anything for you beyond what Nvidia can.

One might proclaim: yeah but in five years you'll be able to train CodeLlama 34B on a modest commodity desktop. Nobody will want to do that at that point, they'll want access to CodeLlama 204B.

The money will be in hosting these as a service business, and building further ecosystems around that. Not much different than the way a lot of major open source oriented companies have made their money, despite their core product being largely free to use.
Can someone talk me in/out of buying one of these? I've looked at them several times, and I have quite literally no purpose for it (each iPad I buy I end up not using it much, and somehow the next iPad I think will be different. I basically just use it as a painting reference).

But I could imagine sitting this on my desk and using it when designing software to draw out diagrams.

That said, I also use actual paper and pencil and have notebooks full of sketches... so ultimately I don't know if I would want this or not.

Help me decide!

EDIT: I bought it so from here forward only rationalize my decision that it was good!
Same, I just don't get it

My go-to e-reader for years has been an ad-supported kindle that I immediately jailbreak to install KOReader and remove the ads (as well as any communication with amazon). It's cheap, supports epub, and the hardware is surprisingly good and durable.

As a bonus you can basically install any GTK app you care to on there; I have a term emulator with SSH and a chess game with AI on mine, for example
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Amazon, Facebook, etc. don’t want to kill off anyone or their economic presence.

Any more than a Duke or Earl wants to kill off peasants or stop them from playing and singing with their families in the evening.

The lords just want to extract most of the value that they create, most of the value that they spend, and let them see what the lord wants them to see, an increasing percentage of time.
> At least to my layman's eye the new patents don't seem to be particularly revolutionary

It's the same trick that pharmaceutical companies use to extend their patents. Find a slightly new use or way that also covers the old use, and bam, exclusivity for another 20 years.
I love love love eink. I have used eink daily since about 2007 (first gen kindle... who's design I still adore. Talk about punk looking lol).

I then switched to an Entourage eDGe briefly (too big) and then to an Entourage eDGe Pocket in ~2011. I still have it and use it (battery amazingly holds all day charge under use).

Just got a Boox Tab Ultra C and I am in heaven. The CFA layer over the eink goves really nice muted colors that remind me of 1960s news print and it is so easy on the eyes. The screen refresh speeds are amazing (I actually watch videos using PiP floating (smaller windows refresh better) while doing other things. The Android 11 install is heavily optimized and runs beautifully. If I use it for just tectual data in airplane mode I easy get nearly a month per charge.

My dream is a laptop that is 300+ DPI eink @ 13-15" with maybe a clear oled overlay for when you need color. It would be so nice. Or even a laptop with a rotate screen like the old panasonic toughbooks or fujitsu lifebooks that has a 180 hinge.

Oled or IPS hiDPI on one side and highres eink on the other.

Would be phenomenal. As soon as I have the spare cash I am going to get one of the desktop eink monitors! I am so excited they are finally becoming a thing.

I used to run a greyscale NeXT Turbo for years. Was only 68hz but it was a proper monochrome CRT and was easy on my eyes. For whatever reason, color CRTs hurt my eyes unless they are ~85hz or higher.

Anyways, enough ranting. Suffice to say eink is a dream for people like me and I can only hope it contonues getting better <3
I fail to see how one could get excited about Next.js, young or old. It makes so many poor design decisions for the type of tool it presents itself as. It is my understanding that the original intent of the project differed, so I can understand that the design choices may have been sensible in that context, but are a terrible fit for the change in project scope and, indeed, how people are trying to use it today.

I'm old. I still get excited about technology that is worth getting excited about. But Next.js brings nothing to the table.
No, I'm picking an obvious example. I could pick many more less obvious examples, particularly around COVID or politics, but most other conspiracies or systems of disinformation have enough adherents here that it would only cause unnecessary rancor. Simply opposing the common narrative that all censorship is evil, truth doesn't exist and facts are newspeak is controversial enough.

The implication of the above comment is that we cannot trust that any claim is misinformation, much less attempt to censor it, because cases of supposed misinformation in the past have turned out to be true. This is the same category of argument made in defense of conspiracy theories - MKUltra was real so how can you deny the possibility that ${CONSPIRACY} is also true?

Obviously this line of reasoning (although it's really a politically motivated argument,) is faulty. Actual disinformation and lies do exist, and it is possible to differentiate between them in most cases - even most controversial cases. That there is so much effort, in the name of "free speech," to muddy the waters and normalize fear of "truth itself" as the only real cognitive hazard is itself telling.
Downvoters: is what this poster says broadly untrue or not?
i can't find anything about history handling in nushell. it's one of the key features of fish
Socialists like Richard Wolff have been advocating for a similar thing for a while ... Some kind of ESOP continuity plan.

Is that a business strategy now? Take some socialist idea and repackage it as a for profit one?

It's probably been a business play for a long time and I just never realized it
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Sorry, edited the link.
That sounds like a cherry on top to me. I mean, considering the cost of the business that they paid for, fintech expenses shiuld be negligible. Otherwise it sounds like a great business - buy successful businesses without successors, shape them up, motivate employees and reap the benefits, long term. Win-win-win for everyone involved and society too.
I prefer, in this order:

1. For the computing device to do the more reasonable thing;

2. For the computing device to adapt to and serve my needs, not the other way around.
Yes, if you have an illness that takes you well beyond available paid sick days (usually around 5 to 10 days a year depending on employer), it is common that you will be fired and lose your job entirely. Some workplaces are more compassionate than others but not many

When this happens you lose your insurance too, usually at the end of the month. You can pay around $800-1200 a month to keep it though, more if there’s a spouse or kids
Alt perspective: my reMarkable 2 is awesome hardware, easy to hack (root is trivial), and hyperpaper.me works great on it.

I recommend pairing it w/ a LAMY stylus.
Re-purposing them is retropunk
I love all the things from Niklaus Wirth I know, but I only casually know about Oberon. From a glance I don't see the connection. Could you elaborate why this would be a good fit.
> I want to build things for people. Not constantly update my tools because other developers are bored.

i find myself getting frustrated really quickly. if i run a node command and it gives error, i have urge to throw laptop out of window or smash it.

web dev use to be about immediacy in the late 90s to mid 00s. now it feels like untangling wires for hours every day. frustrating and tedious.
Yea I’m bad at reading.
AFAIK, Gravitational waves are out first method of "seeing" the universe that isn't just capturing incoming photons from the object under observation. The only exception is neutrino detectors, which have hilariously bad resolution.

It seems reasonable to expect new phenomena to be uncovered this way.

This seems like a good example of that.
it helps with everything when there are lots of safety nets in society…
Just because you don't expect them to do any better, that doesn't mean this is not just plain propaganda. The correct response to propaganda is not accepting it or saying "well it's expected from them" but to challenge it.
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Ever since discovering Sabine's channel I have been a big fan of her videos and have binge-watched a lot of the content.

Sabine provides content on physics as well as a scientific view ongoing social matters.

I hope you'll enjoy the channel, too!
> watt-hours

You mean joules (up to a constant factor)?
I personally don't believe a lot of remarkable art came out of any real healthy routines. I think these people were nutty when they made a lot of the stuff. I don't think they had a good sleep schedule or diet, I don't think they controlled their impulses or anything in the realm of don't obsess, don't overthink, don't neglect, and I don't think there was any eat right, sleep right, think right ... at all.

I think they were fucking nuts when the sky hit them.

The advice they give you is for the life they managed afterwards, which you can get from any reasonable person on earth.

But hey, I never wrote anything worth a shit. So, I have no credibility.
Back in the 80s the trains still had guard's vans. When you've stood in the middle of a crammed, unlit, violently shaking box with nothing for anyone to hang on to, a place in the aisle seems like luxury! On the other hand, the intercity seats were more comfortable in those days, the windows opened and you didn't have to wait for the train to stop before you got off.
Installing other reader apps is exactly the point of having Android, and there isn't really a way to implement "just enough Android" to be able to run other reader apps. You have to have the whole package of an Android OS. I have a Boox device and use other reader apps all the time. There are also browsers optimized for e-ink (EinkBro is the one I'm using now) and it's great for reading books that are only available as webpages.

Also, developing your own OS is not necessarily cheaper than porting Android. Boox has been doing Android-based e-readers for a long time and their devices are usually on the cheaper end for the hardware. I feel it boils down more to UX rather than cost - do you want to let the user install whatever apps they want, or do you want to give them a more curated experience (and probably also limit them to your walled garden).
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They're really completely different. Fish is mostly about having features that help you enter a command (history, error checking, completions, etc). Once you execute something, it really behaves the same as bash/zsh.

Nushell is really more about command output (my understanding, I haven't used it heavily). With Nushell you can do things like parse TOML files right in your shell:

open Cargo.toml | get package.version

Nushell understands the structure of data but fish is like bash/zsh in that it just deals with streams of text. Nushell can even interact directly with sqlite databases which is very cool.

I think if you're just looking for a simple shell that behaves a lot like bash/zsh, use fish. I think Nushell is more targeted to people that want to use its powerful data pipeline features—or are generally interested in a bigger departure from bash/zsh.

Personally I prefer fish, but I should start using Nushell more since it could definitely help with some tasks. I probably would just run Nushell when I need it though, I don't see myself running chsh to switch over.
I've been using Fish as my login shell for more than a decade now. Unlike many other commenters here, I also use it for scripting. For simple stuff, it's way nicer for writing scripts because the language just has has fewer gotchas than bash.

If you're just reading instructions online, translating between examples given in bash and fish is trivial. I see people talk about that being an issue for them and I don't understand it; it's literally never given me trouble.
Most people have no appreciation for just how much work it takes to actually finish software.

This is because unfinished software and finished software often look/feel identical to non-technicals right up until customers discover the true state of the software and disengage.

If the above is true, then figuring out true customer needs is critically important because creating software that no customer wants is one of the fastest ways to burn money.
"...If, back during the rise of the third reich..."

Before the Third Reich there was the Weimar Republic, which did have vigorous suppression of speech:

'As I explained in my review of Eric Berkowitz’s excellent book, “Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News,” Weimar Germany had laws banning hateful speech (particularly hateful speech directed at Jews), and top Nazis including Joseph Goebbels, Theodor Fritsch and Julius Streicher actually were sentenced to prison time for violating them. The efforts of the Weimar Republic to suppress the speech of the Nazis are so well known in academic circles that one professor has described the idea that speech restrictions would have stopped the Nazis as “the Weimar Fallacy.”'

'A 1922 law passed in response to violent political agitators such as the Nazis permitted Weimar authorities to censor press criticism of the government and advocacy of violence. This was followed by a number of emergency decrees expanding the power to censor newspapers. The Weimar Republic not only shut down hundreds of Nazi newspapers — in a two-year period, they shut down 99 in Prussia alone — but they accelerated that crackdown on speech as the Nazis ascended to power. Hitler himself was banned from speaking in several German states from 1925 until 1927.'

'Far from being an impediment to the spread of National Socialist ideology, Hitler and the Nazis used the attempts to suppress their speech as public relations coups. The party waved the ban like a bloody shirt to claim they were being targeted for exposing the international conspiracy to suppress “true” Germans.' [0]

[0] From: https://www.thefire.org/news/blogs/eternally-radical-idea/wo...
I’m not American and both my mother and my mother in law (both over retirement age) use an iPad as their only large-screen computing device along with an iPhone.

It’s not a “rich parent” thing, it’s a “this device has actual support from the manufacturer for years” thing. Android tablets are still an afterthought with Samsung the only one bravely attempting to bring large screen support to the OS.
Private equity rolling up small businesses is extremely common for decades. There is even a major plot in the 2000s HBO show “Six Feet Under” of the evil PE guys buying up all the mom and pop funeral homes to corporatize it. Nothing new or innovative about this.
Aggressive politics only benefits politicians. Everyone else suffers.
The financial upside is that they also own 85% of the company shares, so get 85% of the profits, reducing to 20% over 20 years by selling shares back to the employees. Selling here implies they'll also make profit from that too.
Yeah does seem like it’ll go that way. Not sure I want to spend the day “goggled in” (as Neal Stephenson would say) - I may already be an old timer and want to use external devices (my first computer had 48kb of memory). But no doubt I’ll be engoggled at some point in the not too distant future. Plus for the time being, there doesn’t seem to be a way of plugging in external peripherals to the Vision, so we’re stuck with the same problem of not being able to reasonably use pro audio interfaces and suchlike, same as the iPad.
China is several steps behind in demographics.
Musk is a charlatan. Tesla will end up in the dustbin of automotive history alongside Saturn.
I do wonder where they are headed with the iPad.

If you have an M-series iPad, you won't need another for years because the user interface and processing power are sufficient.

The only way to change that is introducing more powerful capabilities to the iPad that require faster hardware.

On the flip side, Apple seems to be leaning in hard on subscription services so they can have recurring revenue when you don't get new hardware.
At least in part, I don't have the time or energy to care anymore. In my 20s I loved reading long form articles on AnandTech about the latest chip or motherboard. Nowadays when the kids are in bed at 9:30 or later and I finally have a moment of downtime, I just want to watch a tv show with my wife and go to sleep.

I still think new hardware is neat but I don't have the mental bandwidth to follow it closely and in depth at this stage.
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While there is a tool called `babelfish` that will automatically convert bash to fish, in practice it's rarely needed.

You can run bash scripts from fish.

For sourcing, often it makes sense to use direnv to automatically load variables. -- For "just source this one time", in the worst case you can run a bash shell, source that, then run a fish shell.
Not to mention how many non-flat companies fail this diversity check? How many large companies have black women at the helm? I guess hierarchical structures rarely work either! Damn we seem to be in a conundrum! NOTHING WORKS!
Chrome removed support for HTTP/2 Server Push last year.

As I remember, it never saw broad adoption because it was technically challenging to integrate with, and it tended to push a lot of resources clients already had, so it wasn't a big win for efficiency anyway.
I don't understand why it's necessary to chunk every X characters of a document instead of chunking parts that are self-contained and individually meaningful. Luckily, essentially every document is already divided into such units, and they're called sections (or something similar) and are clearly labelled. So surely it would make more sense to summarize every section of the article (and if its sections are too big, you'd summarize sub-sections, going as many levels deep as needed and down to paragraphs if necessary).

The only drawback is that, for every corpus of documents, you would have to write custom chunking code that takes into account how big the documents' sections and sub-sections are, and how they're labelled. But this isn't realistically too demanding, and the difference in quality would probably make it absolutely worth it.
I quit fish because I missed being able to `sudo !!` to rerun the previous command with sudo. There's an alternative way to do it (something like up arrow, ctrl-i, "sudo", enter), but I can never remember it when I need it, which is not often enough to stay in my head, but often enough to be come quite annoying.
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> So you think he took an academic approach?

After a fashion, yes. He took a research-heavy approach, in the same way that many unconventional, outsider thinkers do.

And no, I'm not post-rationalising it.

You can see that work in the films, in the way they reference and invert cinematic tropes, in the choice and timing of lines, and even in the way they rip up stereotypes.

He's an obsessive, but he has definitely studied. For example you can see a deep understanding of B-movies, exploitation movies, and of films like The Taking of Pelham 123.

There's huge evidence of studying, of thinking through the logic and the flow of cinema. He didn't just watch films and luck out. It's much more considered than that. There's clearly an element of an unwritten manifesto in it all (most clearly to me this appears early on in his influence over Four Rooms, which could almost have been the foundation of a Dogme 95 type movement, had they all chosen it)

> Me and you disagreeing is proof enough we have no idea where this stuff comes from.

I think you're assuming magic where in fact there is considerable evidence of effort. Is Tarantino a maverick brat who grew up within the landscape of cinema? Yeah. But it doesn't mean he doesn't work at it, or defend his opinions with study.
Commercialization is the fate of punk - always has been. I read the headline more in the sense of aesthetically Punk. I'm not sure if I agree, but E-Ink certainly has a very special appeal that always makes me want to buy more. Not so much the tablets, but the small displays, especially the brightly colored ones. The yellow background makes them look like sticky notes right out of a magic fairy tale wonder world.
Von Braun and his team chose to surrender to the Americans because they saw America as a Christian nation where they might be forgiven and allowed to live normal lives, in contrast to the Soviet Union, where that would never be allowed. Before the end of the war von Braun was only nominally a Christian, but after coming to America he doubled down on Christianity and received the treatment he had predicted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#Religious_co...

> spying

To whom do you think he was sending his coded messages? A secret nazi base under Antarctica? The fuhrer was dead, Germany was occupied and divided. Get real.
>it is possible to differentiate between them in most cases

How? What do you say of the lab-leak hypothesis for COVID?
They will first stop paying your sick days and depending on what job you are in they may allow some additional time before they eventually fire you. If you are in a lower paying job it's likely you will be terminated earlier than someone in a higher paying white collar job.
Yes, sometimes China reports that is capable to build 5-7nm but those claims are a bit controversial, maybe they are capable to build few of them but not as a large scale like ASML machines can do.
The irony that "reworked trust" is even more of a nonsense word.
I enjoy all the website, banners, and I’m certain that my choices are being respectful fully.
I agree in the case of HN readers, for grandma and grandpa, not so much.

In addition to that, lending ebooks from the public library provides (at least some) income to the e-book authors and editors.
I saw a program once about Dutch people emigrating to Australia in the 1950s. They made a good life for themselves but they weren't welcomed with champagne and caviar when they came off the boat.
Hence my point literally 2 sentences down that including Theranos in an attempt to link org structure to business performance/propensity for scandal is ridiculously stupid.
Tablets have been first class members of the iOS ecosystem for a decade. Even more so after the release of iPadOS.

Android tablets don’t get any specific APIs or special treatment on Android.
It's not veiled at all. It's on the book's publisher's website. Are you trying to imply it's dishonest in some way?
Let's see whether they will be able to create a substantial join declaration with that group ever.