skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
foolish or cheap ?

I’d use foolish if it affected consumers purchasing decision

I don’t think people buying iPhones meaningfully care about USB data transfer rates
I also imagine they can work with cheaper antennas now that they have many more satellites on orbit.
Reference Capabilities for Flexible Memory Management
The Beatles seemed to be the hardest music for JukeBox to emulate.
I literally ran a Linux VPS for years on 256MB of RAM.

128MB is plenty. Throw down Busybox and cut some corners, run uClib rather than glibc, etc. etc. You'll be surprised what fits in there.

My 256MB Linux VPS was Apache + Bash, full scale Linux. There's plenty of room there. 128MB is small for a "mainstream" Linux / Ubuntu install, but 128MB isn't even "Linux from Scratch" levels of size.

Linux from Scratch is probably like 32MB or so RAM needed. And that's still "kit" Linux (IE: a prebaked "kit" where the OSS community already made a bunch of optimizations for you, but no application-specific optimization decisions yet), not even going into difficult levels of optimization yet.

> The hardware could be the best in the world - but this poor ecosystem support is the bane of most Chinese SBC and the reason why almost everyone uses Raspberry Pi, despite it certainly not being neither the cheapest, most powerful or having lowest power consumption.

EDIT: I think you have a fine point on this front. I know that MIPS chips are still available from some manufacturers (like Microchip's PIC-line), and I think they're Linux compatible. That might be a better way to go. But this ~128MB "sized" Linux instance seems perfectly usable to me. Good softare/Linux support would be preferred of course.
I was very surprised when our starlink showed up and I had to buy an Ethernet adapter! Extremely weird that they don’t just have the port on the router.
[edit my scanning the article missed that they answered this :D]

The obvious answer question is whether they reported this to apple already and are using this post to draw attention to it, or if they’ve found the bug in the betas (which is why betas exist) but then not reported it directly (defeating the purpose of betas)
I'm one of those weirdos who still uses local-only, wired backups.

And you know what? I still don't care about the transfer speed at all. Every couple of weeks I hook my phone up to my laptop and let it do its thing while I'm working. At some point it is finished. End of story.
I don't quite get the outrage. I feel like most of the people commenting here haven't actually read the post.

"We are introducing a Unity Runtime Fee that is based upon each time a qualifying game is downloaded by an end user."

"Only games that meet the following thresholds qualify for the Unity Runtime Fee:

Unity Personal and Unity Plus: Those that have made $200,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 200,000 lifetime game installs.
Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise: Those that have made $1,000,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 1,000,000 lifetime game installs."
AngelScript
Sequel Pro have been abandoned and lacks support for some newer version of databases, and there is a maintained fork here: https://github.com/Sequel-Ace/Sequel-Ace
Bah. If you have no intention on purchasing a home then you're free to not care.

- Buy a used car in cash and wait a couple years for the bankruptcy mark to fall off.
- Your credit has to be absolutely thrashed to not get an apartment, even then there are plenty of private landlords that won't do a credit check.

Its almost as though the presupposition is that you need financing for anything in life. You can save and pay cash, its possible. People have been doing this for generations and have been just fine. Businesses need to run off credit, individuals don't. Pay your way and live reasonably.
Hmm, must have been a really small startup. Doesn't seem like it had any impact on OSes and the software industry at all! xD
Is it really "long covid" at that point, or can it be considered a different disease?

A lot can happen months after infection, and I think most of the population had covid at some point, sometimes without symptoms. On the other hand, many diseases manifest after the body is weakened, covid weakens the body, so the disease we call long covid manifests itself. But here covid would just be the trigger, it could have been the flu, food poisoning, or even nothing appearant. With so many people getting sick with covid, it would make sense for covid to be the most common trigger during the pandemic.
To be fair, Squirrel came from GitHub and early Electron before Microsoft bought GitHub, so it wasn't Microsoft's NIH that built Squirrel originally.
I have read this critique, and I think it is a good idea to review it before you adopt TOML. That said, I went with TOML for a group of projects recently. My list projects on GitHub had become difficult to manage as plain Markdown. (They had too many items. The sections were easy to forget to sort. Items in multiple sections had to be kept in sync manually.) I decided to generate the Markdown from a template and serialized data. I evaluated YAML and TOML for storing the data and ended up choosing TOML.

What I prefer about TOML for the data I have (dictionaries of dictionaries, no deep nesting) is that the textual representation is flat. I find it easier to read and edit.

For comparison, here is one project's TOML data (formatted using https://github.com/tamasfe/taplo with added comments): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dbohdan/structured-text-to.... Here is the same data converted to YAML with unlimited line width and formatted using https://github.com/google/yamlfmt: https://paste.dbohdan.com/projects.1694621084.yaml.txt.
Now you mention Deleuze and Guattari, let me also mention DeLanda – Assemblage Theory in particular
Cities: Skyline, Rust, Hearthstone, Cuphead, Disco Elysium, Kerbal Space Program. Those might not be the ginormous games you're thinking of but Unity is far from exclusively used by very small studios.

Utlimately, I guess it's a question of definition: can you point me to a commonly agreed industry definition of AAA and indie?
I think it’s a case of some dumb fuck MBA not knowing the difference between an API and AGI.
I’d like to think you’ve heard them grousing about specific things like this and misinterpreting that as a general mistrust. Every medicine I’ve ever taken had an objective, quantifiable effect on me.

Except for phenylephrine, of course, which only served to teach me how to ask the pharmacist for the good stuff.
The current Wifi 5 one has an ethernet adapter they sell separately: https://www.starlink.com/specifications

The upcoming Wifi 6 router will likely have ethernet ports built-in given the FCC spec: https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-preps-wi-fi-6-starlink-rou...
This specific test is not about that: it's about radiation absorbed by the user during operation of the device.
Not even unicode. It's 8bit/extended ascii and they don't actyally call it löve anywhere that matters. It's named LOVE and nothing else.

I'd much rather see projects named in leet or aLtCaPs, which are way cooler
It is embarrassing for me, as an AWS employee and affects the moral calculus I am solving every day I decide to go to work.
Certainly, Grenache comes to mind as a red varietal/preparation that could be confused with some whites. There aren't many common (cheap) white wines with much tannin, perhaps some heavy contact SavBlanc, but that nose is so distinctive that it would be hard to confuse?

My point is mostly about the $3-10 wines which have pretty simple notes. They have very particular styles and relatively restricted grape varietals due to cost, availability, and customer expectations. I'm sure for the right money a good winemaker could take the right white grape and make it taste like a cheap red without the color (lots of skin contact, malolactic fermentation, heavy oak, and some age. On the other spectrum, I'm sure you could screw up and make any wine/grape so terrible you couldn't tell what it came from.

There are also people who couldn't tell the difference between a pilsner and an ale, I suppose.
The F-22's APG-77 phased array radar became cheaper when one key component became a commercial off the shelf part for wifi routers.
The fact that phenylepherine is ineffective is quite old and has been common knowledge for many years. What is news is that the FDA is finally acknowledging it. I've maintained my own reserve of pseudoephedrine for years.

https://gizmodo.com/report-many-over-the-counter-decongestan...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2015/10/26/the-pop...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2089555-breaking-bad-sn...
I spent more time that I am willing to admit trying to get the business people to use GIT instead of 20 files each with "copy...copy of copy... copy of copy of copy). It turns out that while everyone needs version control, normies are incapable of understanding even the idea of git or command line tooling.
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I know they have backed out of scanning photos on your phone but that used to be a thing they did if you did use iCloud. Plus I have several dozens of terabytes of photos and videos of my family so the storage iCloud offers (until yesterday) wouldn’t have been enough anyways. I just use backblaze and their unlimited storage feature along with historical roll back which gives me all the storage I need.

On the flip side I can’t use Apple Pay or Find My which is a bummer.
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phenylepherine is the otc version of pseudoephedrine, what Sudafed was originally created with.

If you need Sudafed that works, go to the phamacist and ask for "real sudafed". You might have to scan your ID if you live in certain states and you actually need a Rx if you're in Oregon (lol), but for most free states you're good to just purchase it at the counter.
gamechanging stuff for sample based rap producers. havent been able to log-in yet but i think a good benchmark to start off with is to see if it can replicate the 'al green' sound from the early 70s - very distinct sounding production - drumless and instrumental.

you dont need 45 or 90 straight seconds of a coherent song rendered. just need to dip in the 45 sec clip and cut out 4 seconds here, another 4 there. reroll those cuts through stable audio, keep rolling, keep rolling. cut up and get a pile of clips together. arrange, layer, voila - you saved money on paying royalties for sampling.

the lofi melodic sample on the stability page was passable. thought the bluegrass one sounded great actually. imagine being able to program bluegrass like rap.

edit: oof. fully trained on a licensed commercial dataset from AudioSparx. muzak in, muzak out.
"Danger is for someone else to worry about."

Right. Once that was something one could ignore or overlook but these recent fires have put the spotlight of responsibly fairly and squarely on the planters.
Thank you for the reply and link.

The biggest thing I am up against is that I have effectively been iterating on 1-3 for the past five years and after reaching a pinnacle in my career (last good job, ~5yrs ago) things fell off the cliff and haven't been able to get back on track. It's enough time "out of my field" that its just such a red flag people can't fathom the idea that I've retained valuable skills. Clearly there must be SOMETHING wrong with this person if they are skilled but nobody can tolerate him?

The train metaphor is apt. I am in therapy trying to work on myself but there is ultimately something related to #2 that I am currently unable to overcome.
not surprised. we've filed dozens of bug reports as every new macOS release gets worse and worse. i've given up on filing reports now, since they won't get fixed or even looked at anyway. i see the problem with triaging when around 4k issues are filed per day, but it's not like Apple is hurting for cash.
So sad to see Elon mindlessly repeating Chinese propaganda talking points.. like comparing Taiwan to Hawaii.
I mean, in one way it’s fitting: historically Hawaii is a pretty egregious example of American colonialism. But a better comparison may be a country like New Zealand. Just because UK once ruled over New Zealand doesn’t mean anyone thinks it’s a good idea to let UK take New Zealand back with violence.
And just as New Zealand is symbolically under the English Queen, if it’s so important for PRC that there’s “one China”, they could propose joining Taiwan in some kinds of symbolic union. But that’s not what it’s about. It’s about violent control. So they will never settle for anything less than full subjugation.
We’ve seen the same with Elons rhetoric around Ukraine. He’s just mindlessly repeating exactly what Russia wants. Freeze the war (so Russia can regroup and regain its strength to take the rest of Ukraine in some years). I suppose he thinks it’s OK if dictatorships get to violently take any territory they want as long as it doesn’t belong to USA. We saw how well that kind of appeasement worked with Germany back in the day. If you don’t make a stand, violent imperial states will seek to grow as far as they can, until USA is eventually forced to get involved anyway, in what will then be a much larger and bloody war.
DIY is not just for hobbyists.

Companies face the build-or-buy question every day. This article demonstrates that you can build and validate your build with the knowledge and skills expected of most principal investigators. If I were a lab director, I would want my people to be able to consider building when it makes sense, particularly since we can then integrate systems and tailor validation to our requirements.

That's the stuff of proprietary IP and career advancement.
I agree. /R/educe is obviously best, but /R/ecycle is decent, I guess (if the devices truly are recyclable and it's not mere greenwashing). Maybe eventually we can hope for a certain degree of /R/euse (like the sensors could be collected and mailed in somewhere or dropped off at a collection site.
Yeah nevermind Unity’s support for close to every other platform (PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One/X/S, Switch, android, PC, Linux)

This is a iPhone and Mac engine darn it and that’s what matters!!
yesterday:

Phenylephrine for colds and allergies don’t work, FDA panel says

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37485940
Oh hi! That's very strange indeed. Have you tried emailing Substack support? I'm not doing anything weird here.
Can the M1 do thunderbolt without any other chip? That’s not clear on the spec sheet, you’d need a teardown.

> That... does not in any way affect the point?

Okay…you’re right, the only reason I don’t have a 128 core epyc cpu in my iPad is market segmentation! Darn markets.
from the article:

we have investigated this issue after the 6th beta was released and reported the bug to Apple
> while Russia is responsible for invading, Victoria Nuland was caught red-handed orchestrating the Ukrainian coup/government that precipitated it

Fyi the leaked Nuland call (which I assume is what you're referring to), is of her discussing who they should support after the massive protests started and Yanukovych and his ministers left the country. She did not "orchestrate a coup". At most, it's the US trying to get Ukrainian parliament to pick the interim candidate they want which while is still manipulative, is far from "orchestrating a coup".
Honest hypothesis or questioning is healthy. What the alt right conspiracy theorists do is not that. They make disingenuous arguments with no merit.
If you read the article, they mention that they’ve reported the bug in previous versions of the beta and it has still not been fixed in the latest version. They’re cautioning their users against upgrading in two weeks when the release comes out of beta unless there is confirmation that the bug has been fixed.
Bug fixes are enhancements. You've clearly enabled functionality that was previously not there. Same with any dependency upgrades that address security flaws - you've just enhanced the system security.
Year 1900: Heavier than air flight will never happen, the failure is written before they even started.
A lot of weird things in windows are reflections of the gestalt in the 90's and early 2000. People went all in on all sort of OOP-derived weirdness, like CORBA, COM.

"Plain-Text files for configuration? what do you think we are? savages? no, we need a hierarchical registry! every serious program must use some opaque binary format to store stuff!" seem to be the general animus at that time. Nowadays, even if you really hated the idea of a text files for configuration in your home direction, people would probably do something more straight-forward like using a SQLite db.
Can't Unreal change their pricing model overnight?
And thus gave birth to cljfx, which are quite nice bindings to JavaFX (once you get your head around it all).
Because Apple makes the phones, silly. The iPhone is a 100% proprietary device, we know zilch about what code is running on it. Why should anyone be responsible besides the manufacturer?

Maybe the government should care about the Obamaphone, but not anything beyond that.
If you'd like to use LOVE with a lisp, fennel can be used.

https://gitlab.com/alexjgriffith/min-love2d-fennel
Saying that's impossible makes me immediately wonder whether it's not. There are already headphone dance parties. What if a musical act's output was being interpreted through genre lenses specific to each listener?
We now know that most published medical research findings are false. That likely includes many of the studies that the FDA relied upon to approve certain drugs.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

My impression is that the situation has been improving in recent years. Between study pre-registration, larger subject groups, and greater statistical rigor I have a lot more confidence that drugs getting approved now actually do what they say on the label. Of course, this is also part of the reason why it now costs >$1B to bring a new drug to market.
The fact you haven't heard that outrage simply suggests that you haven't been a network operator before. We have an RFC, in fact, that addresses this very point.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1925

Note truth number 4:

> (4) Some things in life can never be fully appreciated nor understood unless experienced firsthand. Some things in networking can never be fully understood by someone who neither builds commercial networking equipment nor runs an operational network.

Most people have not ever wrestled with operating a network. To get outraged about the exploitation of user activity/metadata and violation of end user trust perpetrated by today's network operators, you have to have wrestled with having at least tried to operate or build out one yourself.

Only once you have (and it doesn't take many) multiple users completely dependent on you as a single point of failure or as a vector for intrusion into their intimate affairs, will you truly appreciate the burning white anger the more ethical of us feel at the behavior of the largest network operators.

In fact, policymakers and law enforcement have all but weaponized that fact. Usually couching any further abrogation or unraveling of end user expectation of privacy under the guise of "keeping you safe" or "protecting the children" (which a vast majority experience first hand), without at the same time pointing out that "oh, hey, this means we basically get to intrude on all activity you conduct over a network".

Which nowadays is "all activity you conduct with someone else that doesn't involve meeting face to face"

Which is a lot.

Think about that long and hard.
>A car is close but just getting into NYC is so slow that Amtrak will win in almost every case.

I take Amtrak into NY even though it's basically an hour in the wrong direction to drive to Route 128 station (a suburban station south of Boston). But I do it because I find driving into Manhattan so unpleasant in spite of probably being a bit faster.

Trains vs. planes make sense for the two ends of the Northeast Corridor especially if you're going downtown to downtown. They really don't on a price or time basis for the whole route.
Pharmacist here. Most pharmaceuticals do actually work but finding the right one for a patient can sometimes be harder than you would think. I suspect your family members are quiet about their opinions for a very good reason.
Context: On Sept 12th 2023, an FDA panel (the NDAC) definitively voted to find phenylephrine ineffective: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/996369 Next will be re-assessing its GRASE status and potentially removing it from stores.
Emacs and Guix are standout examples.

You could also include anything built on Clojure EDN.

And, in the same way as Elisp for Emacs, Guile is an s-expression based language used not only for configuration but also for extension of GnuCash, GIMP, LilyPond and Pidgin.
Pardon me for asking a bunch of consumer-gpu questions:

1) is there any architectural difference between the 3090 and the 4090? Are there models that will run on 3 series that will not run on 4 series cards due to feature incompatibility? or is it just raw speed/power efficiency?

2) And; on raw speed. My understanding is that the 4090 is roughly 2x faster than the 3090, right? Are there any things in particular where the 4090 is much much faster (such as, big chip architecture changes that really accelerate some operations)?

3) And somewhat relatedly, if you have a 2x 3090 rig, is that about as fast as a single 4090?

4) And; if you have a 2x 3090 rig, are you able to train larger models? My understanding is that training/finetuning requires significantly more VRAM (and that is because inference can be done with quantization, whereas training must be done at full fp16 precision, right?) But can you train e.g. a model that requires 48gb of space with 2 3090s on the same rig, or do you need a large card with 48gb, like an a4000?
Once the chip is inside the smartphone, the price is not for the solid state storage chip. The price is for the phone.

Kind of like the price of a specific avocado does not exist after it has been turned into guacamole.
In the 90s my team used various XP practices: daily standups, TDD, Pair Programming, timeboxing, etc. But we stopped short of calling this collection of practices a "methodology".

Then the Agile guys wrote a manifesto.

For several years it was great, the manifesto was a great place to start a conversation with management or skeptical developers.

I've seen Scrum implemented well and Scrum implemented poorly. And there are other methodologies our there: crystal, lean, Kanban, etc.

I think the authors of this piece are onto some form of organizational anti-pattern: an over-reliance on tools rather than common sense, ignoring planning when you really should be planning, ceremonies when they're of no use for your team, etc.

If you think your team is doing Agile wrong, maybe show some people this article to start a conversation.