skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Utterly pointless because he didn't interview failed startups about how they felt.

It's like doing an experiment and only counting the "successful" results - this is worse than "bad science", it's intentionally misleading science that actually sets us back.

We really don't need any more survivor bias. Please go interview some failed startup founders. There might have been a crucial difference in step 2 of these 5 steps that successful founders did and failed founders didn't, but we won't know about it because there's no data from failed founders.
Hmm, I understand the perspective of keeping expenses down, but it's essential to consider the long-term implications. Without a clear career path, employees may lose motivation and job satisfaction, ultimately affecting their performance. High turnover rates can lead to a negative reputation for the company and constant onboarding & offboarding, which is both costly and disruptive. Am I missing something here?
I fail to see how this is the solution. China now produces more CO2 than US and europe combined. And it's growing. So is India.

Germany committing economic suicide will not save the planet. It's also not going to persuade china and india to change course.
Agree with the author. I have used TOML when configuring Netlify and it's super awkward.
Let's not say in WedDev only, because the cycle predates web.

Thin client - dumb terminals connected to a powerful central computer; 1960s, 1970s onwards

Thick client - multi-tier architecture, 1990s onwards, with client typically running on Windows, communicating with an application server (three tier) or database (two tier); for two tier, almost all the application logic is in the client.

Thin client - web browser communicating with web server; ~2000 onwards. The early versions are OCX controls hosted inside IE, basically hosting a Thick client as a downloadable control inside a web page, but it gradually migrates to web native as the browser gets more capable (AJAX revolution). Web native is a step change back to thin client compared to a client app or OCX control.

Thick client - this article here, a continuation of a trend over the past couple of decades, as browsers increasingly resemble operating systems in the breadth of APIs, permitting building something closer to a classic two-tier architecture, with not much more than basic validation and data backup / sync support on the back end.
Unrelated. What matters for that is prompt processing time (which is in the high hundreds of tokens per second).
AIUI the engine size thing is a relic of the oil crisis; there was a desire to disincentivise high-consumption cars. At the time they wouldn't have been thinking primarily about pollution.
Unity took a look at that greentext:

>pirate game

>delete it and download it again 9 more times

>company loses $600

and thought this is a valid business strategy.
What's interesting about it? It's just CC-BY SA.
Chipotle and Panda Express are almost the same business.
Yes, every time I can remember was a dentist.
I think they're using this to mean "doesn't have a visible ethnically different underclass". Such a thing would never be allowed to be visible in Singapore.
Interesting bit at the end of the text:

2023-09-13: Preliminary ROCm support added

Makes me curious how will the RTX4090/3090 compare with something 7900-ish
That would happen to any other user trying linux for the first time because not every user knows they should first update their packages before trying to install something because why doesn't the OS do it automatically like any other OS?

It's 100% an OS UX error you're trying to spin into an user error.
You can agree to telemetry under GDPR as a consumer.
But don't you see the wisdom in joining China's suicide, rather than just waiting it out?
Bader-Meinhof phenomenon [1][2]

"Any installer that is distinguishable from malware is insufficiently advanced."

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37479407
I compile the tarball using Dockerfile, as the target OS must be the same as source OS to compile it (I deploy Debians on remote, and use Fedora locally). Then there's bunch of mix tasks to bundle the js/css assets - it's all really there ready to be used. The other day I spent half a day implementing same behaviour for Django app.
We’d be interested in helping! aronchick (at) expanso (dot) io
>slow charge whenever the car is parked

How does that work for people who live in cities? I like electric cars - less moving parts, less noise, less cost maintaining and driving - but they are utterly useless to me because there is no way I can charge one. Hybrids are ok, though, I can charge in the rare case I'm actually parked near a charger.
I see dozens of them actually. Check on chargeprice (https://www.chargeprice.app). They usually have the most up-to-date status for chargers around
You actually don’t if you throw in a clause in the redemption contracts that grants you up to X days of delay.
That's absolutely false, unless you mean running llamacpp with half the layers on the CPU and half the layers on the GPU. And that was like 2t/s.
I think if Ubisoft will see good adoption from the mobile gamers, it may very well be the push for them to consider porting their game library over to iOS. After all, the mobile market is pretty damn huge.
The usage patterns are entirely different.

We only charge our EV at home unless going on a long range trip.

For the few occasions we do charge on the road, I have no problems waiting a bit longer to charge than it would take to pump gas into a tank.
I did that in my first years of creating uninstallers. But I was unhappy with the solution. Too much convolution, extra stuff to take care, etc. So then I was like "why can't I just delete myself at the end of the entire process?". I mean you can definitely unlink yourself (see Unlocker utility) using same API's. Except I started to run into faults. For some reason, on some systems, this was a bust. How I am writing my self-deleting uninstallers nowadays? Very simple. Create a temporary removable drive in memory (see RAMDisk), write the 2nd part of the uninstaller there, then at the end of the process corrupt that disk intentionally. It will "nuke from orbit" and leave no trace.
Apple has denied those findings.

> Apple said it had provided ANFR with multiple Apple and independent third-party lab results proving its compliance with all applicable SAR regulations and standards in the world.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-disputes-french-fin...
Did you just make that up or...?

Where do you 'slow charge' your car when you're the average German renter (i.e. more than half the population).

But irrespective of that, what does that have to do with charging times at fuel pumps?

https://www.destatis.de/Europa/EN/Topic/Population-Labour-So...
The other comments are right in saying mobile gaming is huge.

But, if you are referring specifically to the new GPU with accelerated raytracing, I want to add something more.. Remember that for many years now, every innovation that Apple has produced has been secretly developing towards AR!

For this reason it makes perfect sense.. Raytracing is SUPER important for the kind of rendering needed to make AR/VR look realistic
So I did my first part in trying to support everyone who dislikes this as much as I do. I cancelled my Prime and I will try to not purchase anything from Amazon for a year. It's not much, but it's something.

I invite everyone to do the same.
I can bet my money on this being yet another case of things going well until MBA imbeciles took over.
If everyone in the street knows you are under pressure, watch what happens - even getting $0.9999 back on the $ of your "deposit" would probably have people being upset. And 7 days to get your money is probably longer that what people expect.
I disagree. It is easy.

The only thing that stops is that Google has resources to splash on engineers to build such a product. Thats all it is, money.

Everything that google can do, exists in the opensource space.
It was fun once to see my B-segment newish car next to original Fiat 500... The size difference was massive and that is just one step above from regular small cars.
A large part as in the part of the presentation where Silicon was being talked about. GPU is the main focus of A17 Pro, with the performance cores being upto 10% faster and no significant numbers to show for the efficiency cores.
It sounds like Unity needs to learn some personal responsibility. Why should they get a hand out at our expense? /s

Seriously though, that is an insane number of employees. It sounds like another case of poor leadership that thought there'd be free money forever.
I guess "special installers/uninstallers"
Almost everything related to computer interaction is named with a metaphor, and crypto assets with "coin" in their names are as just as guilty. "Kohl's cash" isn't actual cash, etc.
Haha, thats nice of you. Most people wouldn't think twice, and tech no higher bar than advertising... what are our tech giants anyways? but advertising tech platforms.
It’s not even credit, you’ll get hit with fees for just having a bank account when poor.

Wells Fargo, one of the largest national banks, charges $15 / month for a checking account (last I checked) unless you keep a balance of over $1500.

And overdraft fees are hard to avoid because the American banking system is fundamentally flawed. Companies can make charges from your account if they know the number. (This is mentioned in the debt collection article too.) If you don’t have money, your account can suddenly go negative because some company somewhere decided to pull some money from you, and then the bank charges you $50 for the overdraft.

The system is so broken, it’s hard to believe from a European point of view. The USA only got European-style bank transfers this year! Until now, almost all money transfers were being bolted onto a system meant for handling paper checks.
A year or so ago I would say this is way too petty to the point of incompetence for them to do this.

Knowing how the country actually functions since the invasion, I wouldn't rule this out at all.
Better...it's also an "early warning sign". Oof.
A good architecture for fully parallel, deterministic, thread-safe, serializable and extensible games is the Entity-Component-System pattern. I'm sure that Godot has one or a way to integrate a library that implements it.
I think Unity doesn't come with ECS anyways.
That only helps if the treasuries get redeemed by then (and it also isn't quite what people would expect in terms of liquidity, I suppose. Kind of similar to other options then, e.g., looking at some recent situations, FDIC stepping in also doesn't seem to take forever for retail).
Similarly with the British system, especially the disability system. You have to fill in a 160-page form and turn up to an appointment. They interpret everything you have written on the form as evidence of ability, including turning up to the appointment itself. Ability to fill in a form and turn up to an appointment is used as evidence that you should be capable of having a job, and are therefore ineligible for help. You are denied.

You then take the case to tribunal, where it is put in front of a normal non-rigged judge who interprets the law in a reasonable manner, and are awarded your disability benefits.

This process takes about a year and is basically impossible unless you get help from someone who is "professional managerial class" enough to work the system for you.

Coda: periodically they write to you to check that e.g. the two legs you lost have not grown back. This must also be dealt with.
Go right a head then but I know prolonged no distance (touching skin) exposure to wifi RF antenna will burn you from the inside out. It was painful but it heals fast.
PowerShell has weird restrictions where it'll refuse to run scripts unless they're signed and stuff.
> I’ve slowly come around to thinking that only those who substantially share a moral framework with me deserve to be treated in that framework

Indeed. You can only get burned so many times by people who treat values and virtues like command words, expecting you to fall into place and obey, but never budging themselves when you reverse the challenge.
We are talking about paid games using Unity engine. If you can name a market for those that even remotely comes close to the sales on Steam, PlayStation, XBox, Epic, etc I'd be curious to hear about it.

Either way it doesn't matter because Unity will just require an internet connection during installation and 99% of players won't notice or complain.
Comparing a very dense urban area with a whole country is nonsensical, not least because even in your example road access is still needed and still exists.
What I am confused about is WHY is the CEO taking such a brain-dead executive decision on a stable, profit earning cash-cow. I mean - this is something that all high-level executives should have pointed out to Riccitiello as a very dumb idea. This isn't rocket science or some financial black-magic wizkid deduction.

This is basically committing hara-kiri on the product and looks to be effectively a company killing decision, unless there is something we are missing ?
The issue is that no way companies will give up the old tracking methods, they are just gonna sandwich together the old with the new and get the sum of the two.
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looks like an opensource icon framework to me
INF files were (are?) also available (but quite undocumented) as an install/uninstall framework.

I used to bundle an INF file in a CAB archive (converted to self-extract executable) to distribute software. Using only Microsoft's own tools.
Special installers / uninstallers and also the ability to install and run things outside the official OS store.
File permissions?
> How does that work for people who live in cities?

With curbside charging, and wireless charging will be convenient once that's rolled out. No cables, just park over the charging plate.

It's not like wireless phone charging. It's very efficient:

https://insideevs.com/news/340478/120-kw-wireless-charging-p...

https://witricity.com/newsroom/blog/what-is-efficiency-how-d...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1gaNO9nj0
Paying you more than the absolute minimum is not in the interests of our Customers, Shareholders, Associates, Shareholders and our Shareholders.
> PowerPoint Put to Music

- Moonlight Sonata is ideal, but any other MIDI tune will do
> Germany committing economic suicide will not save the planet.

Actually will make the situation worse, since Germany uses the taxpayers money to support many other countries around the World.. Less tax money, less money to share.

> It's also not going to persuade China and India to change course

Even worse: It will show other Countries that the right way to move forward is to be like China and India, instead of being like Germany.
We're replacing coal, nuclear and fossil gas with solar, wind, and storage (in form of compressed air, batteries, and power2gas).

Once this has been completed, we're free from buying coal, uranium (Russia? Niger?), or gas and stop emitting large amounts of C02 due to the burning of fossil fuels.
The EMTs assess your financial situation before deciding if you can afford their actions?

(Charging people for emergency treatment is one of the most insane aspects of the US system, and we need to fight it as long as possible in the UK before it gets inflicted on us)
Why would you want that?

If you have separate partitions, would you really want user data to go to the system partition? Or a third partition?

Do you find having more places that user programs can write a benefit?
i'm not the person you asked, but i developed a rare blood disorder called TTP (thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura) that very nearly killed me after the vaccine. the hemotology consultant was very interested in my covid vaccination history when they figured out what was killing me. later found out that what i had was the clotting thing that was going around in the news that was supposed to be nothing to worry about.

you know what didn't almost kill me? the 3 times i caught covid.
Which would make more sense if they had not shutdown all their nuclear power stations, whilst still generating roughly 40% of their power with gas/coal power stations.
At my current company we build satellites with imaging spectrometers as payload and wanted to propose building a bunch of this on our upcoming team day. I was hoping for the non-technical team to get a better feeling of what is that we are trying to sell.
The article does discuss one of the main causes - safety.

If you require various crumple/impact zones for safety reasons, which are usually all about controlling the impact deceleration over a longer period of time, i.e. less g-force on the occupants etc, then the relevant car parts get larger. Doors get thicker, front and back get extended etc.

I suspect it would be quite difficult to walk back those changes, so it may be better to roll with them a little, and dictate better minimum sizes for car parking spaces. (Which might dovetail quite nicely with the increased weight of electric cars - which apparently causes issues with multi-storey parking structures which are designed around lighter cars, and may not be structurally safe if filled to capacity with vehicles 50-100% heavier than expected).

(Not counting the truly ludicrous outliers - like the mentioned EV Hummer and Rolls Royce etc).
I'm in a position now where I have been on medical disability for about 5 years. I have had no difficulty keeping it. Half of it is judgment proof I believe (SSDI), and the other half (Unum private insurance) I think is not.

Because I live in Los Angeles where the only medical care I have found in the past 5 years has actually helped me improve, my cost of living and expenses have been high. Too high for my disability. I also had a brief stint of randomly having UHC cobra insurance, which basically denied every claim sent to them, which seems entirely insane.

Long story short, I have like maybe $30000 in CC debt and $50000 in medical debt that has gone unpaid at this point. I can't pay these things off and pay for food simultaneously with my standard of living in LA, and because I am severely disabled, it doesn't really seem like an option for me to compromise on my standard of living.

I think my private insurance is not judgment proof, but I am not certain. Am I just going to eventually get entirely screwed over here? Like... what actually can I do?
These models aren't even trained on FP32. The original format is FP16. And quantizing to INT8/FP8 is almost lossless.

But yes, 2.5 bits per weight is pretty insane.
I agree.
The Apple Watch is very useful, but I'm not happy about having to buy an iPhone to go with it. With luck the Pixel watches might become good enough to replace it.
For any problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

On that basis, what would be wrong with the combination of encouraging (electric?) motorbikes while also making changes to road furniture to improve motorbike safety?
Why not both!?

We've needed a single word to mean exactly this for the longest time. It gets my vote.
Once the model finished reading the prompt and starts answering tokens are generated at constant speed, there are no Ummm... gaps. But some tokens are already decided from the first layers and other tokens need the full depth. So there is a notion of "thinking harder" on particular tokens. We could detect token difficulty and fake the output to show the pauses.
Building roads just increases congestion through induced demand.

Population growth means that we need to get more people using active travel (which would also save the NHS a huge amount of money) and have effective public transport. To get more people using active travel, we need some decent cycle/scooter infrastructure, so we should be narrowing roads for the motor traffic. Cycle infrastructure would increase the throughput of the road as cyclists don't usually suffer from congestion.
Recently, I was required to sign an affadavit affirming that I do not use email.

Would hackernews commentary accounts require disclosement?
Unity is so wholly siloed away from the rest of the .NET ecosystem that I doubt Microsoft really cares about Unity regarding its impact on C#.

Like, a lot of Unity developers think they know C#. They really don't. Most of the Unity developers I have met know a very, very small subset of C#, and almost nothing of .NET in general. That's not meant to be any shade-throwing at Unity developers. It's just that they are, for most purposes, completely different things. I can't take someone who has been working in Unity for the last 5 years and easily put them on any other kind of .NET project. The same for going the other way. The underlying language commonality is the least of the concerns.

A small part of this is how most of the .NET framework isn't exactly great to execute in the middle of a hot update loop, but a much larger part is because of how Unity is built, having reinvented their own wheels for many things that could have been contributions to the larger .NET/Mono/CLR/etc ecosystem.
Just think about what will persuade China and India? Maybe Germany just wants to be ahead of the pack
> because there aren't any successful, desktop + mobile peer-to-peer apps yet to provide that reality-tested information, unless you count WebRTC video calls, which only covers a small piece of the picture

Not that it really managed much in mobile, but old-school Skype comes to mind as the most widely used P2P messaging application. That's probably where a lot of the most valuable 'at scale' knowledge is/was.
I have so many ambivalent feelings about the whole IT / Silicon Valley sector.

Although many people are interested and even passionate about technology, I feel we can’t look away from the bigger picture in which it operates.

I support a startup - that wants to ethical - on AWS, owned by a union buster that exploits people and - like many other companies - gets rich through wage theft.

Airbnb has been a negative influence on the housing market, so people can’t buy or rent a home.

Uber, well, do I even need to discuss that one?

The book “Palo Alto” by Malcolm Harris shows the historical context for Silicon Valley and damn it’s beyond the pale. If you are in IT I think you should read it.

But in the end, though, it’s not about big tech, it’s about our centuries old nemesis:

Capitalism.
I'm not sure about the current distinction between iOS and iPadOS (Apple seems to periodically decide that these are the same things or different things depending on mood), but plug a mouse, keyboard and monitor into a modern iPad and you have... a surprisingly okay desktop for many use cases.
As someone who bought a 1k+$ phone from Apple i would be pissed if they dropped upload speed by that much. Surely there has to be an SLA that they have to uphold. No?
> Paxos is a regulated Trust Charter

Developments in the crypto world have made clear that this doesn't necessarily mean much in this space, so that's why people remain skeptical. Two examples: Prime Trust filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy last month and turned out to have mishandled many millions in customer assets. Fortress Trust was hacked and then bought by Ripple, presumably to cover the losses, just days ago.

Now neither of these are Paxos, and it's possible that Paxos is well managed, but if all the other trees keep falling at some point people are going to judge the forest as a whole.
Interested in this. Are you thinking of it being a SaaS type thing? I have some rudimentary experience, i.e. training NanoGPT on both Modal.com and Vast.ai (which is vastly cheaper, but privacy/cost trade off there).

It could be a layer on top of $gpu_cloud (so end user signs up for the cloud) and the service makes use of those resources.