skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't handwave it away. I alluded to there being existing solutions CRaC, AoT, GraalVM, etc. There are ways to entirely eliminate cold-start as a concern if it's important to you

My point was you don't ever -need- serverless. You might like it for whatever reason but it's completely unnecessary when long-lived processes can get the job done and have so many benefits. JIT of course but also connection pools, memory-local caches etc that all much much more important than "being on serverless" which is mostly a net-negative once you look at the picture more wholistically.

I also think it's wrong to go "hey I want to use serverless, what works well with serverless?" insted of going "what is the best tool to solve my problem? Ok now what is the best environment for that to run?".
We've found the same. A lot of usage through our LLM Categorization endpoint. The toughest problem was actually constraining the model to only output valid categories and not hallucinate new ones. And to only return one for single-classification (or multiple if that's the mode).

[0] https://matt-rickard.com/categorization-and-classification-w...
+1 happy customer, for my laptop documents
I think a crucial thing in tabletop is not that it's objectively better/easier. Tabletop is also primarily a social activity. So network effects really matter. Getting a friend into tabletop is often D&D; you can write stuff for them and let them pick up on their own pace while they try out wacky fun stuff like be 2 feet tall and roll intimidate vs a dragon.

I don't doubt there are other, easier, more fun tabletop systems. But a system your friends are playing vs a system you'll have to make new friends in is a comparatively massive bar to entry.
very generalized answer here but it comes down to:

1. you want to make sure product A is profitable

2. at some point Product A will reach a steady state (in some utopic future, but let's pretend). i.e. Product A will hit a point where its excitement will taper off.

3. How do you get that explosive growth back? New product. But you want to maintain old product.

4. hire more people to work on Product B. Have it launch, big growth!

5. then recession hits and it turns out you need stability. Product A is fine, everyone on Product B is fired

profits are important, but it's not the end all be all for how the stock market works. It may not even be the most important factor. You want to build excitement and become the thing big thing, even if it turns out to be a check you can't cash. So in that lens, Unity hires (or hired) more engineers or acquires companies to increase excitement, not necessarily to increase profits. "Product A" is ads, and right now even that isn't very stable for them, so I guess they are trying to find a new Product A.

Back in the old days, Game studios used to simply make games to build this excitement. It has a set track, a big time to announce and release for spikes, and your existing teams works on the next game. But more studios want to get that "Product A", so even games are investing more in GaaS for that steady income. It's what ended up happening to Epic with Fortnite, where their "Product B" is actually announcing exciting engine features.
Yes! That’s exactly right!

So then the question is, are all facts the same? The answer I’ve come to is that some facts are more useful than others.

The fact that America is a great power is a very important fact.

The fact the great powers act alike is a useful fact.

The fact that can derived from these, that America does great power stuff, is of no value. It’s just the obvious result of other facts which are more important if your goal is prediction or parsimonious explanations for historical events.
I self-host Jellyfin on an old HP ProDesk PC that came from an office selling unneeded equipment. It's connected to my consumer wifi router/switch switch via Ethernet, and I stream videos on my TV via the Jellyfin client on a Roku Stick (which itself is connected to my network via wifi). Jellyfin streams great on my setup.

I know that's not very helpful in improving performance in your specific situation, but I just wanted to add my anecdata that Jellyfin doesn't require beefy hardware or above-average networking to run well. Sorry that I don't have much insight as to what was causing the performance issues in your setup.
They are exactly the right size to hold a Brompton folding bike. Some people add padding and check their bikes in these as luggage!
Kodi -> jellyfin -> a4k subtitles addon. Never transcodes

Works on Android devices like the shield or libreelec on something like a pi.

Those native Android apps, be it jellyfin or plex dont handle subtitles wel, be it .srt or .ass
The only reason I have Amazon Video is because of Prime.

I got a Prime membership years ago to get low-cost fast shipping and at that time, Netflix was far superior to Prime Video. As it's gone up in price, I can justify that because I also get streaming movies & music (although I keep forgetting about the music). All in all it's a good enough deal to the point where I honestly don't even know how much I'm paying for it anymore.
Love the asciinema demo. More projects should use it. Sometimes I have the urge to make a pull request on Github projects without any screenshot or video.
We use a similar trick and expose it via an API. Much easier to parse when you can guarantee the shape of the output

[0] https://thiggle.com/
I want a bill which would let me just ban all data brokers forever. I don't mind first parties to save some relevant data necessary for them to do their job, I can even understand 3rd parties like Google Analytics involved, but data brokers - I really don't want any of them to have any data about me ever.
In net worth or cash?

In any case, I think its ridiculous.

That would apply to a non-insignificant % of the population of HN. There are tons of authors, programmers and founders with that much money. You really think that if someone writes a book that goes on to sell enough that they make more than $9,999,999 they should fear for their safety if they dare reap the real value of their work?
Apple TV 4K (129 USD) + Infuse (10 USD/yr) is the perfect player for me. The only con is that it does not support anything atmos other than Dolby Digital Plus, but my setup is 5.1 only, so I don't mind.
Tick tock, next block.
Check out https://elicit.org/

I think it might be exactly what you are looking for.
A Garmin watch is probably your best bet outside of one of those life alert type or similar devices. There’s a “kids” one with LTE and texting that might work well too. I think the subscription is $5/m.
They have a more advanced LTE+GPS watch as well but it’s more expensive. You can have them share their heart rate and other data, and the battery life is amazing.

Edit: they have emergency support and location sharing too.
My money is on Meta. Unity powers the vast majority of VR games and is (was) the favored API for Meta's dev tools, and even Apple chose it as their only officially supported 3rd party toolkit for the Vision Pro.

Meta seems to enjoy throwing money into the VR space to subsidize it at the low-cost end, I could easily see them doing a hostile takeover of Unity "for the good of the VR space"
Lots more discussion on the original post over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37500895
Thanks for proving my point. Goodbye.
Notice that you can't even access the repo without them authorizing you to do so. Notice that there aren't any public mirrors for the current version of the code.

They say you can fork but also point out that you can't distribute the code without the people you are sharing with also having a license.
> they were later put in rigorous mathematical footing in the theory of distributions

Yeah some French dude called Laurent Schwarz that got the Fields medal for it.

IIRC he built the set of distributions as the dual vector space of the tiniest vector space he could think of: extremely well behaved functions (C-infinite functions with finite support - weird mathematical beasts that go to zero at the extremities of their support with all derivatives also going to zero there as well).

I never really managed to grok the intuition behind the formalization of Schwarz, whereas the hand-wavy physicist way is pretty straighforward to understand.
You make a habit of wasting your life beating on strawmen?
I’m assuming this is how whisper works.

For some evidence, say a sentence, then say a sentence with the words scrambled. The performance nose dives, relative to audio levels.
Unfortunately, I think this is going to be a cyclical game of whack-a-mole. Pitbulls were already banned, but they just renamed them to Staffies or American bully, and business continued as usual.

Really, this needs to be combined with a more blanket system of holding the dog owner responsible for the damage/'crimes' that their dogs commit. If your dog mauls someone, it should be treated the same as if the owner had done it themselves with their own hands -- including jail time and massive fines. Dogs should all be chipped (with unchipped dogs being subject to immediate seizure and potentially destruction) so owners would be less inclined to maul-and-run.

After all, one of the favourite arguments made by bully-breed supporters is that it's not the breed, it's the owners. I say fine, lets hold the owners appropriately responsible for their dog, for all breeds.
I think it could potentially make the model smarter, but it's up to how you collect the data to train the reward models. Currently, companies & papers that use RLHF focus on "safety" rankings, for example. But you could potentially collect labels "smartness" or "correctness" instead and train the the reward model one these. (And then use that reward model to finetune the LLM you want to improve.)
It wasn’t obvious to me.
The design smells of blog spam, AI generated. I can't read the text so I can't tell from there.
If you have the entire move history, then you probably don't need to store partial board positions.
Verizon, for one. 100 location updates/mo for $1.50.

https://thingspace.verizon.com/marketplace.html
What is Plex, can someone explain what it is and how it works? I tried to figure it out from their website but didn't find much information on those topics. I don't have an account there, didn't have to sign in, just clicked on free movies and was able to stream a great movie in my browser entirely for free. Like, what?
What Apple is doing is clear product segmentation through and through:

Both the non-Pro and Pro iPhone models support native 4k display port via USB C, and the bandwidth required for that certainly exceeds USB 2 speeds.

I went with the Pro model, but port speeds was a non-factor in that decision.
This is true. To the user the cost may stay the same, but the user now receives VASTLY more value for the same spend. They have a seemingly infinite pool of music to listen to. Whereas they would only have 8-10 CDs worth of music for the same amount.

At the same time, the artist are now capturing a significantly smaller fraction (think 1%) from that same pool of money. And that's being generous. It takes thousands of streaming listens of an artist for that artist to receive the equivalent of one CD purchase from back in the day.

The distribution of value and compensation is massively skewed when it comes to music streaming. Subscribers are getting tremendous upside while the creators are getting massively hosed under the existing model.
I never understood why Plex was so popular.

Serviio[0] is much better IMO.

[0]https://serviio.org/
Let me tell you of a little thing called Sonarr.

So instead of me having to go to find the magnet, and paste it in, this application monitors my shows, and when a new episode pops up, it picks up a release based on my criteria (quality, language, etc), sends it to qBittorrent, waits for the download, and puts it in a folder.

Radarr for movies, Bazarr for subs, Sonarr (mentioned above) for shows, and Prowlarr for search indexing.
A Galaxy S6 Lite will never be even remotely secure enough to be considered by the Graphene OS Team as a viable device and is already so old that Samsung barely provides security updates for it. It's not even close to being acceptable for my purposes
Please don't start flamewars here. You can make your substantive points without it, and we're trying for the opposite.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
North American Airspace Defense Getting Cloud-Based Backbone Next Month
Probably made by the same people who made https://pacer.uscourts.gov/pacer-pricing-how-fees-work ...

(As a side note, I can understand why in years past it would cost multiple cents per page to physically photocopy a federal document - but it is absolutely absurd that already-digitized documents, documents which are fundamentally part of the precedent that decides whether our behavior does or doesn't cause civil or criminal liability, are behind a paywall for a digital download!)
I, for one, am very excited for the studios (and the younger generation) to re-discover that piracy is an option, too.

The near-disappearance of piracy for many relatively-well-off people happened _because_ it was in many ways cheaper (in terms of time too) to just subscribe to all three streaming services there were out there.

Now, with... fifteen? or so? out there, if there's a _single_ show out there I'm interested in on a platform I'm not paying for, let me tell you, I will not be subscribing to another one.
--> <bison from Buffalo that bison from Buffalo bully> bully <bison from Buffalo that bison from Buffalo bully>
So Bard was just a placeholder until they could get Gemini released?
stupid chatgpt...could be the new "stupid autocorrect"

I used to love those posts.
You need to use Comic Sans font for a startup, and Baskerville or Garamond for a FAANG.

When it comes to contents, "startups" come in all shapes and sizes, and they've got different requirements. There is no one-size fits all tbh.
The site apparently serves .csv directly as well (replace .zip with .csv). I used this to convert the expression to powershell (using only built-in powershell cmdlets and commands):

$> (invoke-webrequest "https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-hist.csv").Content
| ConvertFrom-Csv
| sort "usd"
| select "date" -first 1

Date
----
2000-10-26

Doing it with a zip file would be a little more verbose since there is no built in "gunzip" type command which operates on streams, but you can write one which does basically that out of built in .Net functions:

function ConvertFrom-Zip {
param(
[Parameter(Position=0, Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
[byte[]]$Data
)

process {
$memoryStream = [System.IO.MemoryStream]::new($Data)
$zipArchive = [System.IO.Compression.ZipArchive]::new($memoryStream)

$outputStreams = @()

foreach ($entry in $zipArchive.Entries) {
$reader = [System.IO.StreamReader]::new($entry.Open())
$outputStreams += $reader.ReadToEnd()
$reader.Close()
}

$zipArchive.Dispose()
$memoryStream.Dispose()

return $outputStreams
}
}

and call it like:

# unary "," operator required to have powershell
# pipe the byte[] as a single argument rather
# than piping each byte individually to
# ConvertFrom-Zip

$> ,(invoke-webrequest "https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-hist.zip").Content
| ConvertFrom-Zip
| ConvertFrom-Csv
| sort "usd"
| select "date" -first 1

Date
----
2000-10-26

I love powershell
The behavior in question has already changed
I think at this point, the real question is who in their right mind would ever build a game in Unity again?

I'm sure this will make their company a short term gain in profits, but in very short order no more Unity games will be made. Even if you accept the terms they're proposing, you know damn well they are willing to change the rules at any time at your expense.

Unity just became an extinction-level-event liability for any game company. Who would dare touch it with a ten foot pole?

The leadership will be ousted by their shareholders quickly enough, I expect.
Do they? It seems their system architecture between the A-series for phones and the M-series for their pads/laptops/etc is largely the same. It's certainly the same design facility.
Although it will never be as popular as Vim, I will always see Kakoune as the evolution of Vim. It improves on so much and adds very well thought out functionality. Object-verb works very well when you adjust, and structural regular expressions make a lot of operations much less painful.

Built-in multi cursors and autocomplete without fiddling with plugins is wonderful, and the in-editor discoverability and documentation is great.

It retains Vim's spirit of minimalism but cuts out a ton of cruft without constraining itself to any kind of backwards compatibility.

I use Kakoune as my $EDITOR and VS Code with Dance for software development. I think Dance does a great job of leveraging Kakoune and VS Code's strengths. I wish there was an equivalent for Intellij as well.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gregoire...
> working ETag/If-Modified-Since support

I completely agree and csvbase already implements this (so does curl btw), try:

curl --etag-compare stock-exchanges-etag.txt --etag-save stock-exchanges-etag.txt https://csvbase.com/meripaterson/stock-exchanges.parquet -O
I really don't think it's sunk into these executives' heads just how much high-quality free content is readily available.
Is this not a question of how complicated you want to make your game?

I always thought of DND AC as a combination of accuracy and effect. High AC might just mean you get hit but it doesn't do anything, or it could mean you dodge everything, or the attacker whiffs, or some other intervention happened. I've seen DMs do similar.

You want it more complicated, home brew some rules to make it more complicated, right?

I for one don't mind mathy/complicated games, but, as you say, fun should reign.
I once created a spiked floormat intended for feline area denial.

I wanted to call it Pussy Control but my wife wouldn't let me.
I will die on the hill that all d20 systems are flawed and everything should be 3d6 or better instead. Except shadowrun, that's just crazy.

Though, no computer games use it (unless you squint really hard at ES1 & ES2)
Install Qubes and it will give you an easy option to install Whonix. Out of the box Qubes supports Debian, Fedora, and Whonix very well. If the Qubes installer works on your hardware, the setup is a breeze. Qubes does have a bit of a learning curve, but largely non-technical (separating activities out into different VMs, and installing software onto a template instead of directly in the VM)
The actual quote is valuable, but if the CFO had been caught on a hot mic saying the exact words in the headline, would that have been all that different? The intentions are the same, just without the PR department whitewashing things. ChatGPT can take the phrase

> "Warner Bros. CFO Thinks You Deadbeats Have Been on a Free Ride for Way Too Long"

and rewrite it as

> "It has come to our attention that a significant portion of our consumer base has been leveraging our content without contributing to its monetization. We believe it's time to reevaluate this unsustainable model to ensure long-term value creation for all stakeholders involved."

It can further rewrite that as

> "Enough freeloaders. Time to pay up if you want to keep enjoying our content."
It's not ran by others. They can't throw inflation at you as they can't print more units, differently from the status quo.
One imperfect option is the Mictrack MT710
https://www.mictrack.com/product/cat-m1-nb-iot-pet-gps-track...

A bit too big for a cat. Also doesn't have bluetooth or a speaker so you can't narrow the location once you get close (you could add an airtag for that, more $, more bulk).

Waterproof.

Relatively inexpensive.

Has a documented API or you can use the Petovik app to track 1 item for free.

Can change modes by sending a command through the SIM providers SMS command or through one of the tools linked in the Petovik app (the command is only received when the device is "awake"). The modes with highest resolution allows 10 sec updates. There is also a "LOCK" mode which lets you switch to high frequency updates for a specified period of time.

Battery life is almost a day if you use "sleep when not moving mode" and set updates to every 2 minutes or so.
Plex is a self hosted media center that has trimmings to allow you to stream to mobile devices and the web.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/200288286-what-is-plex/
Honestly I think I am going to cancel my Max subscription.

The main reason that I subscribed to it was for its broad range of exclusive animated content, like Close Enough, Final Space, Infinity Train, and Adventure Time: Distant Lands. All but one of those have been removed from Max now (I guess for tax writeoffs and avoiding royalties?), and with their recent price increase for a bunch of awful reality TV shows, I'm done.

I do not know that there's anything I care about less than "My 600 Pound Life", and no matter how much they try and get me to watch that or "Pawn Stars", I find it unlikely that that's going to change no matter how many times they try and convince me otherwise.

I'm generally all for paying for my media (I have a lot of blu-rays, I own the entire series of Adventure Time and Adventure Time: Distant Lands on blu-ray), but I almost feel like piracy is kind of a civic duty at this point. If these corporations are going to make it impossible to watch their media legitimately, then the community needs to step and preserve the shows themselves.

And maybe we should resist programs that are "exclusive to streaming".
QR code generator for your WiFi, anyone can scan to join
I like Prime Video because it provides a subscription dashboard with a grid of other video streaming services and buttons to cancel or restart subs. So I sub to one at a time and rotate.
I'm not sure. But I would at least like to trust that, if there is one being sold on the pharmacy shelves as helping an ear infection, that it isn't just water.
Bard is a product, not a model, the same way that ChatGPT is a product (ish) where GPT3.5/4 is the model.
I think, I found a good use case for this.

I'm running an gateway that uses a SQLite database to index transaction data. One instance loads all TXs and indexes them to SQLite and LiteFS replicates the database to other instances.

Down-side: there are copies of the database on every machine.

Up-side: Saves work, since only one machine needs to index and reduces latency for reads, as every machine reads from a local SQLite replica.

Bonus: LiteFS Cloud keeps backups of the database.
A lot of the human-generated public domain translations are public domain because they are pre-1920s and are pretty hard to read.

The translation of Les Misérables that is the "official" edition they sell at the gift stores if you see the musical is, to me, almost unreadable compared to modern 21st century translations.

I would think there are an enormous amount of books out there that would be improved by a modern computer translation, even with its caveats.