skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair warning: all those connections you've made are very easy to lose within first few years after entering the workforce, and it's very hard to make new ones once you're a working adult.
This had a big impact on the Zoroastarian community in Mumbai. They do "sky burials" where they leave remains exposed for the vultures to eat, but with so few vultures left in Maharashtra they had to import hawks.
A few days ago I discovered https://github.com/ealang/pixel-reader which lets you read EPUB-s on the Miyoo Mini Plus retro gaming device with a 3.5" screen. I really enjoy reading on it.
Adjusting for inflation, $2.98 in 1977 is equivalent to $15 nowadays, which means that we've knocked this out of the park. On Ebay you can get a cheapo Android phone for under that amount with more storage than detailed on the article. And hey, gfortran is free!
great but wth is wrong with it https://i.imgur.com/gWIilWU.png
It actually makes sense for Amazon integrating this with the whole browser based shell thing (which is a sensible secure default for a lot of people).

Having something with autocomplete that works seamlessly with their services seems like a better idea than a plain prompt if you're going to use their shell. Hopefully they do something sensible and customer-centric with the telemetry stuff, that seemed to be the big drawback for many.
Does anyone keep a phone for close to 8 years?

Don't get me wrong this is a good thing but in my experience at about 3 years you are looking at roughly 1000 charging cycles and so the battery will barely last 12 hours. Add into that knocks and bumps and scratches and they're basically junk by then. Even if you could replace the battery, the physical wear and tear is quite substantial I find (they're tools after all)

I suppose if you have been ultra cautious and basically leave your phone at home on the charger 90% of the time and keep it wrapped up in some huge case then it is conceivable that you might approach 8 years... But then if you are like this barely even use the phone, why not just get a feature phone?
Information wants to be free but might be losing the battle regardless. The siren call of centralization lures in too many people who only realize the implications when it's too late.

On most projects and topics i work on i keep personal notes. Sometimes i copy entire pieces of information from websites into my notes so that i don't lose it when the website dies. Any interesting webpage i at least archive through both archive.today and archive.org. Eventually i might look into taking that locally as well.
It strikes me that an argument against that is that it is too expensive to setup a business
How can emissions be indirectly correlated with the population size on earth?
My iPad 5 which at this point is older than the hills got an OS update last week or so.

It’s actually amazing. I switched from android to iOS basically for this reason and am not disappointed. Yet.
LocalAI: Self-hosted, Open-Source replacement compatible with OpenAI API specs
The new OS I am creating https://www.exaequos.com is WebAssembly in a POSIX environment. So it is running in every web browser
Thanks. I'm currently using the API models (even GPT 3.5 16K) for things that require a larger context. So much for "Priority access to new features and improvements" as advertised with Plus.
You put it like it's not normal to not wanting kids.

I'm pretty sure a lot like and love their kids but I'm quite fine with not having to shift my life around kids.

We area much fuller planet than before. Everything is full.

We also have plenty of other things to occupy our time than kids and we can have sex without kids and stigma.
• Code: Bloated react mess that's bigger than the entire internal storage of early e-reader hardware

• Design: You get a full UI that's no more minimal than the Kindle desktop builds

• Features: Again, fully featured, better than some e-reader hardware

Compared to what is it minimalistic by what metric?
Indian Coffee House is a prime example of worker owned restaurant chain, which is successful.
A lot of the Toyota methodologies ended up in various agile software practices. Not so much operations of a live system, but development practices. For example, all your teams push their changes to an integration branch which is automatically deployed to staging systems for testing and automatically deployed to production. And when a failure is found, that pipeline gets shut down until the problem is solved. And all eyes are looking at that problem, rather than tapping away in their own world ignoring the 'somebody else's problem'. Nobody is pushing new code unrelated to fixing the problem, making the testing and deployment of an update slower. And in theory, improves your uptime because the quality of code ending up on production is better, and when that fails, fixes will end up on production faster.
This is supposedly not true. Walking the same distance expends more calories (on account of using your energy-inefficient machinery for longer to achieve the same external work).

Equally, walking the same amount of time as a run expends less calories because of the greater effort involved in running to generate more external work.
yes. at first glance it looks like a windows app but it's actually very portable. it has some parameters for gpu offloading and extended context size that just work. it exposes an api endpoint. i use it on a workstation to serve larger llms locally and like the performance and ease of use.
No it’s not. Many of the people complaining about people pooping on the street happens in the area between the Caltrain station and the convention center, not market. It’s not like we didn’t walk to market often enough for lunch.

I’ve seen burned out neighborhoods in Detroit, places that look like war zones. SF just has a large number of homeless in comparison, most of whom get there via the greyhound bus station.
Oh how I do hate the word "glitch". It tells you nothing and makes the whole thing sound like a happy little accident. A glitch to me is "Hey every time we order 200 of these fuses, we also get five lug nuts". That's a glitch. It's weird, but production moves forward. This is an incident.

No, it either a software bug, misconfiguration, network issue, hardware failure in Toyotas part ordering system or something to that nature.
I thought about creating such a website for years, because most software I use is broken (sometimes intentionally) and it breaks easily. For example most applications will crumble when you will try to interact with them during animations.
I worked in car sales for a decade, being as good as #5 in the US for a large brand.

One year I made $260k, more than anyone that actually worked above me at the automall including the CPA comptroller and GM (the other brands at the 'automall' had a bad year while mine had a breakout year due to new models).

I started a year before cash for clunkers came out. I basically was making $200k a year after learning the ropes for 6 months. The owner that year lost over a million dollars.

Not all compensation is based on hierarchy. Commission sales and performance based pay has its advantages.
Drop a few hundred dollars on storage (blu rays?)

Move it all over

Never think about it again
Sure, but what's the point if it's not supported by Safari. Adobe Air was at best a porting aid to get your old Flash code wrapped in an iOS app, but the writing was on the wall and nobody in their right mind would start new Flash projects.
Stringzilla: Fastest string sort, search, split, and shuffle using SIMD
It will surprise you to hear that we even a big bank which is: A co-op.

There are lots of those types of co-op banks in the US, as well as other large businesses run as the type of co-op you're talking about. That is however a competently different thing than what is being discussed here.
Ironically, this supports the message of the article :D
Low bandwidth is fine. One way that smart TVs track you is fingerprinting the audio that you're listing to, even turning on the microphone to do so. They do this to sell analytics on the content you watch. Audio finger prints are pretty tiny, and you could easily send periodic fingerprints over LoRa.
agree, nothing wrong with something like an `llm` prefix
The article missed the point that the type of noise we are currently exposed to (traffic, airplanes, construction) is actually harmful to our health. Noise cancelling is a welcome respite from the sensory overstimulation of a modern city and if they prove to be harmful too the alternative would be to work towards a quieter world. Electric vehicles are a welcome step in that direction
> at about 3 years you are looking at roughly 1000 charging cycles and so the battery will barely last 12 hours

Then replace the battery and enjoy your phone.
I still have 5+yo phones I use to listen to music at the gym or as a GPS with offline maps when cycling, and having a secure and up to date OS is nice.
I use Foliate (https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate), which is mentioned as one of the inspirations for this project.
I was a filthy pirate as a teenager, and in my early 20s, when I would balk at paying £20 in 1990s money to buy a DVD, or later in the early 2000s £60 for a blu-ray.

Then streaming arrived. I stopped pirating as finally I could pay for legal access to a couple (prime, netflix) of decent media libraries.

Over the past few years, as the market has fragmented into a dozen £30 a month services, I started pirating again. I’m not spending £300 a month on streaming services, nor should anybody.

Then, they started pulling content from their libraries, or editing it to suit today’s sensitive sensibilities - and this cemented my conviction that what I was doing was justified.

Now that I have a vault stuffed full of UHD rips of a century of cinema, the other argument which has become self-apparent is quality. The UHD content streaming services serve looks like vegetable soup in comparison to a 70gb+ encode of a film, and is worsening as streaming services seek to be profitable.

I see another cycle of the same type of anti-MPAA/RIAA movement brewing as was seen around deCSS etc. last time - as they are once again going down the same route of making the only offering a crappy and overpriced offering, and the alternative is easier than it ever was before.
Are you aware that this study doesn't really support any of what you said?
> But shoplifting is different from organized smash-and-grab gangs

Correct and irrelevant: they are both forms of theft.

> different causes, different solutions.

Different motivations is more accurate. There also isn’t a “solution” per se, but suppression tactics do exist if you have both a PD and a DA worth a damn.

> Conflating all retail theft is simply misleading.

I didn’t. I pointed out the obvious: theft is theft. This is a commonality between “shoplifting” and “smash and grab”. The first term downplays the violence against the storeowners by people taking their stuff (cuz it could be worse, armed robbery is also a form of theft so as much as I detest softening euphemisms, the distinction isn’t useless) and the other paints a more violent and organized picture of people taking their stuff, but ultimately the act that both describe is theft.

Either way, they are criminal activities that ought to be suppressed. We shouldn’t be tolerant to thieves.
I take my 2019 iPhone XS to the Apple Store where they replace the battery for like $60something bucks. Never really gotten much wear and tear from these phones outside of cracked screens from hard drops (which I wouldn't classify as wear and tear). I completely lack any desire for new phone hardware so the new battery makes financial sense.
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One of the screenshot shows settings for text and background color.
One thing I like about the site itself is the pagination is numbered in descending order so any links to a specific page should always have the same content and one can pick up where one left off at a later point (assuming the same number of posts per page remains consistent). Quite rare for a blog.
I used to dislike white-on-black too, but it eventually grew on me. Not least because the floaters are getting more distracting with age it seems, and black screen makes them disappear.
Somehow most of the functionality of the sphere map is blocked by uBlock.
like they said, space is not the issue. it's only surfacing the things that matter.

what good is a pile of mediocrity where you can't find the gems inside?
Article is a little wrong about the current state-of-the-art in writing Rust bindings for .NET.

One can use Uniffi with the C# generator to get fairly automatic bindings. You still need to package it up, which is a bit of a pain.

Uniffi really is an awesome idea. I expect more and more Rust code for foundational shared libraries as a result.
The opposite is true. I would claim that even 100 drones would use less energy than one airship.
I used to love cheeseboard. After covid, it's like they hate being there. They cut the days open down to 4 a week, short hours, and basically act like they're doing you a favor serving you. But not in a smug way, more like they're an unhappy slave. Ruined some of the charm of the place.
Cool. Nice example of Atwood's Law. [0] (however not really JS of course)

If somebody hasn't tried running LLMs yet, here are some lines that do the job in Google Colab or locally.

! git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp.git

! wget "https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/CodeLlama-7B-GGUF/resolve/main/codellama-7b.Q8_0.gguf" -P llama.cpp/models

! cd llama.cpp && make

! ./llama.cpp/main -m ./llama.cpp/models/codellama-7b.Q8_0.gguf --color --ctx_size 2048 -n -1 -ins -b 256 --top_k 10000 --temp 0.2 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -t 8

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atwood's_Law
> at about 3 years you are looking at roughly 1000 charging cycles and so the battery will barely last 12 hours.

Yes, this is why user-replaceable batteries (which mobile phones had for many years) are important. So much so that the EU has passed legislation to force the industry to do the right thing. [1]

> and keep it wrapped up in some huge case

Depends on your phone, but I believe there's plenty of reasonable options to protect your pocket computing device that aren't "some huge case". Further, you should always invest in a decent screen protector. Scratches and damage to the screen impacts the usability of a slate form factor smartphone (since other than one or two hardware buttons, the entirety of your interaction with the device takes place through the screen).

> Add into that knocks and bumps and scratches and they're basically junk by then.

Why does some scuffing on the edges of the bezels turn a device into "junk", for you?

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/24/23771064/european-union-b...
That startup doesn't have to care. If you're b2b and have a public entity as a client, you should care.
We hand down pixel phones within the family and I'm the last one. Yeah battery is not the best any more but it's enough for a day and I leave it in on the charger over night. I'm also one of those people with those ugly black cases because I tend to drop my phone when I'm on my bike etc.

Most of the people I know don't change their phones because of battery issues but because there is a new phone on the market and they don't want to look cheap before their friends and colleges. The actual reason they tell if you ask them why they changed it is: "because it was slow". I can believe that too though since it already came bloated and the kept on downloading crap apps so...I guess the market is more happy with them than with my family.
An early and an always work-in-progress but I have started documenting my way of doing this. Not everything but I want to be able to own the contents and leverage everything else as tools/utilities (as far as and however as possible). I will continue to detail this out to include the options, how-tos, etc.

https://notes.oinam.com/digital/
Housing in the Bay Area has been a problem for decades, and the tech industry did well.
I downloaded everything and am glad I did. Every so often I dig through it and re-discover things I'd forgotten about.

It's like physical hoarding: If everything's organised, it's a delight in years to come, but if it's in a big box-o-crap, then it's the same as not having it at all (worse, I guess, since it takes up space).
and then in the future, never be able to find anything from that stash of storage disks.

What's needed is a wayback-machine-esque archiving method, where you can just find old stuff, but locally and self-hosted! Unfortunately, it does take a bit of effort to setup and not at all easy/painfree to keep running.

So i guess my box of burnable dvds will forever be relegated to be just a display item.
> If you extend source code with line numbers, make sure those aren’t selectable

[shakes fist at so many blogs]
You don't fully understand something you didn't write.

Now this is certainly not a new quip: people were mistrusting even basic compilers back in the early days too. In their defense compilers tended to have a ton of bugs early on that sometimes did bite the user.

Today LLMs tackle on a much higher semantic level and we can assume the scope of it will continue to grow. Your understanding of what you do will necessarily diminish, while quality and performance of your products will take statistical nature reflecting that of neural nets.
Hey, at least we saved the planet.
i actually just finished making a epaper reader from a waveshare 4.2 display and a esp32. very primitive but works so good.

it uses grayscale bmps that i create through calibre so fonts are great and i dump in a sd card that goes in the display. the esp just manages the sleep of the display and the displaying the correct image. with the battery switch that i have, it can last months
Somewhere on the internet at one point there was an upbeat song about the inevitable heat death of the universe. Possibly with a ukelele and almost certainly from Australia. Every so often I'll do search for it but I've never found it again after the first few times I heard it. I should have downloaded when that was an option.
But this is where judges come in, who can analyze things like real world intent. And stuff like "At launch, LBRY retained 400 million LBC for its own use" doesn't to me imply that these things are the same. TCGs do not function like securities. If I am a securities issuer, I make money primarily when the security goes up in value. If I am a TCG producer, I make money when people buy more of the product, irrespective of the value of it. The goal of a securities issuer is to, over time, inflate the value of the security. The goal of the TCG issuer is to reduce the value of the cards (on the secondary market) by producing more of them.

Konami stock goes the more blue-eyes white dragons are printed. That isn't true for LBRY, and that's what the "common enterprise" bit is about. Hasbro and Konami and the Pokemon company aren't keeping a stockpile of additional secret super valuable cards to go up in value over time, because they aren't securities and they don't act like securities, and the companies will just print more of them if they want to. But that isn't true for LBRY when they keep a hold of the asset they create and bet on its value increasing over time!

And of course this is why we have judges. They can look at the evidence and see that The vast majority of LBRY investors were investing with a profit expectation, LBRY was treating the token as an investment that people could use to profit from the platform's success, etc. The difference is that with LBRY, people treating it as a security was the norm, but with TCGs, treating it as a security is done only by exceptional investors, and the companies don't condone it, even tacitly[0]. And the actual filings in the case make that abundantly clear. You don't have the CEO of Hasbro or Konami or The Pokemon Company releasing press releases about the market value of cards.

Like in the past I'd seen some of these arguments and been somewhat convinced (especially around the whole secondary-market and tax issues), but this feels really cut and dry.

[0]: (except perhaps with MTG's reserved list, but that still fails due to condition 2 above, Hasbro/Wizards and the "investors" in the Reserved list cards have different interests. They aren't invested in a common enterprise. Wizards would love, I mean absolutely adore reprinting reserved list cards, and they try all the time in sneaky ways (silver or gold border, near-functional reprints, digital versions, etc.) because reprinting those is good for the company. What it is bad for is investors in the cards. Those are distinct incentives, not a common enterprise, not a security.
So many great forum posts from the mid-2000s, ruined by Imageshack crapping out.

Couldn't they just sell their image store to imgUr or something? I wonder if it's gone forever.
That isn't the case. The majority of the states have no law and a good chunk of the others have exceptions for hearing protection. A lot of the websites online have outdated info- e.g. most websites claim CA and OH ban earplugs, when this clearly isn't the case.
The problem isn't the number of people willing to risk someone else's money to start a company but their own.

We could turn the government into a giant VC. I'm not bullish on the results.
I feel like this is a cope against increasing entropy
"Which one is selected?"

This has been a trope since the invention of GUIs. Somehow, people keep designing toggle interfaces where you can't tell which state it's in, including some high-profile apps and toolkits.
I prefer that sometimes. Especially on mobile.
It does support multiple platforms. Even though I love Calibre, I'd love to use a better looking ebook Reader on desktop.
This is a super common occurrence in training loops for ML models because PyTorch uses multiprocessing for its dataloader workers. If you want to read more, see the discussion in this issue: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/13246#issuecomment...

As you’ve pointed out fork() isn’t ideal for a number of reasons and in general it’s preferred to use torch tensors directly instead of numpy arrays so that you are not forced into using fork()

There’s also this write up which I found to be quite useful for details: https://ppwwyyxx.com/blog/2022/Demystify-RAM-Usage-in-Multip...
I find it good to have a two tier system: first tier are things you “like”. You thought it was cool but 90 percent of the time you will never look at it again.

However, if you need to find it again a second or third time, then put some effort into putting those things in a permanent and easy to access storage, maybe even physical.

This way you keep only things you really love, rather than a gigantic horde of mediocre things you thought was cool at the time but is not useful.
In some sense I agree that the sort of life some people lead isn't appealing, and arguably vapid, particularly in Silicon Valley.

But, complaining about someone who didn't give a shit about grades ultimately succeeding is really kind of a caricature of "Straight A Student" mentality. "I deserve it more" they cry about people who never bothered spending more energy than they needed to on something nobody should care about at all, let alone after graduation. It seems like you're needlessly harbouring resentment based on pretty a pretty shallow and superficial view in one person's life, or perhaps unwillingness to adopt that sort of lifestyle and make a big jump.

In some ways I also wish I could bring in the big tech bucks, and I make decent money occasionally, but I'm not casting aspersions on people who do, I just recognize that they are either more clever than me, or chose a specific regimented path that I simply haven't and am unwilling to.