skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t share the docs with my wife. I mean, I would if she wanted to, but she’d rather I play house librarian. I currently use DT’s iCloud sync and it works well across devices. Really, I have nothing but good to say about the experience. It just works.

But I’m still experimenting with just plain files in iCloud. 99% of my mobile file access is to pull up scans of vaccination cards and things like that. It’s basically read-only from my iPhone (and iPad while I was using it). My phone’s Files app is full capable of handling that use case for me.
It does costs more to build in highly urban areas, but American problems are well...American.
Exactly. Race to the bottom
Not all of them per se, take a look at something like Mistral. It's a 7B model displaying incredible performance. IMO, we still haven't even scratched the surface of what is possible with small LLMs. Especially not with pre-filtered/classified pre-training data. (Interesting LLMs based on their data approach and relatively small size: Qwen, InternLM, Mistral, Phi)
Hmm mine can jump off after three or four steps, so maybe that's the limit
I actually don't buy this.

Lurking in the background is analogy to e.g. car manufacture. There was an era of fomentation, followed by an era of consolidation. Eventually, we wound up with a handful of automakers.

But the market for software is fundamentally different. For one thing, there is not the same reliance on mass labour, nor is there significant material cost; nor is there the need to maintain a sales network.

Sure, there are always network effects which replicate some of the momentum/inertia of a physical-goods market, and yes, ZIRP was one heck of an accelerant, and it's not coming back soon.

But software has not finished eating the world. It might not even be halfway through, as AI has opened up new regions of the (if you will) 'carcass' for software to ingest (much as fire and the cooking of food opened up new nutritional pathways for humans.) And even when software is finished eating the world, opportunities for disruption will remain plentiful, as incumbents will have a hard time maintaining moats.

Now, that said, I expect three things to happen in tandem: (1) the average software engineer salary will stagnate or decline; (2) credentialism, long foreign to the industry, will begin to creep back in; you'll see CS and Eng degrees rise in importance, along with more situation-specific certifications; (3) the average market cap of startups (specifically: SaaS startups) will decline, along with growth cadence.

This isn't death. It's just middle age. A touch of grey, as Jerry Garcia put it.
Yes, when I was buying this PC beginning of the year I was consdering 7900X, 7950X and 7950X3D.

At the end chose the 7950X, super happy about it.

Absolute beast.
How does the base image make them not universal?
Yes, I've seen feral cats that actively self domesticated themselves by sneaking inside our house and sitting on furniture as if they belonged there... they ultimately became house cats.

And from the same set of kittens I've seen some that I've still never been able to get near.
Running Linux on an ESP32-S3
I bought a (non-portable) minidisc player around the time 1995. I found it was the most advanced CE device for its time, certainly for its price, 300 euros or so.

It had a very user friendly and capable UI, for example, with a couple of rotations and clicks of the dial you could stitch together recorded songs. The matrix display was bright and well legible.

You could fit around 20 songs on a very small optical disc. It was quite advanced, it encoded and recorded audio in decent quality real time. It had an optical SP/DIF output.

After some years the recording feature did not work anymore, it now makes sense why, after reading the article.

It was a truely amazing and handy audio recorder/player. If it was still functional, I would still have used it for another 20 years or so.

Edit: found a 1998 review (1) about an MD very similar to mine.

(1)https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/sony-mds-je520?amp
Oh, they're definitely culpable. But in some ways that jackass is the least of it. They know perfectly well that he'll tweak his pattern to evade any filter.

But they sure as hell could manually scan their emails. That's the really demoralizing part. They might lose a war of escalation but they don't even try in the most conspicuous places.
Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users
Blog post from Applevis
Subtitle: Why I Can No Longer Recommend a Mac to Fellow Blind Computer Users

I don't mean to editorialize, the title was just too long for the title box.
For context outside of tech. I have a super flexible job with amazing benefits. I haven't missed a single thing my kids have done, unless I chose to.

And I'll work until I'm 75.

I say this not out of being bitter, but for the context that many (probably most) people who do what they love to do don't get the massive paychecks even mid-tier tech jobs get. Context is everything.
_I_ think you skimmed over the part where _I_ emphasized _I_. As in, this budget applies to me. Not anyone else. Not what does it. Not whether this nuance qualifies. Merely, can I do it for $N? I think what many people seem to do is taken a quite subjective statement such as _I_ made about an arbitrary budget and apply it universally to other people, and then try to argue the merit of meaning. Meanwhile, the creators are getting on creating. I do think manifesto of small games is good for one thing: it separates the makers from the bikeshedders.
Great that it's fast - but I'm not sure it would make all that much difference in Python code.
i wish they'd kept the $35 price point instead of competing on performance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37813899
That would be fine--basically any way of achieving it would be fine. As of now, in PostgreSQL's FTS, I don't think there's any way to do this fast enough to give it back to the user.
That’s 0.1%, actually.
The actual point was, opinions that lean towards the absolute extremes are often low-quality.
Reddit begins with the letter R, not the letter H.
Same for me. I take care of delivery drivers. And for the non-altruistic payoff, I get my pizza fast.

When I delivered pizza, we all knew who the good tippers were and would scramble to grab those tickets. I’ve paid my way to be on that list now.
If you are willing to mod it a little you can start the mac mini with a tiny solid state relay on an esp32.
Information density will increase in models just as spatial density increased for hardware.
The current market conditions in the US seem more like a Capital strike than “Capital inefficiency”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_strike

The pandemic created both labor shortages (and thus higher wages) and improved conditions for many workers. Capital owners are now doing everything in their power to claw back those gains, though not without newly-emboldened resistance from organized labor.
The water is brown, the slime is a very desaturated green but it is definitely a green hue.
>There's hypersonic missiles and in terms of submarines -- we can detect a wobble of some planet a zillion miles away -- maybe there exists a mechanism to detect subs with increasing precision of instrumentation

So, does it exist or not?
You're under-emphasizing the "and so many others" part. The causes of ocean circulation change are well known. This paper didn't even address the causality part and only focused on confirming the change. But the causality has been studied elsewhere: we know temperature and salinity are two of the drivers, and those are directly influenced by anthropogenic climate change.

So it's more accurate to say that the synthesis of all recent research indicates fossil fuel emissions are a causal factor. The statement could have been worded more clearly, but it's supported by the scientific evidence.
I save at least 10 hours a week using ChatGPT. Likely more.
We have all these problems right now and the US has the lowest tax rates in history. Stop falling for lies and start looking at numbers.

Edit: FYI socialism doesn’t mean the government controls or owns anything. It means that the workers own the means of production.
Some related past threads:

How to write Python extensions in Rust with PyO3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34968186 - Feb 2023 (9 comments)

PyO3 – Python Extensions in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32247452 - July 2022 (1 comment)

Calling Rust from Python using PyO3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29368530 - Nov 2021 (49 comments)

PyO3: Rust Bindings for the Python Interpreter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25956502 - Jan 2021 (77 comments)

Writing Python Extensions in Rust Using PyO3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17423013 - June 2018 (1 comment)

PyO3: Python Rust binding - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14859844 - July 2017 (15 comments)

(First Release) PyO3: a Python-Rust Binding Library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14846606 - July 2017 (1 comment)
Someone could form a nonprofit org that funds packaging work in Debian. Or maybe even a for-profit one. I'm pretty sure a lot of big consumers would rather pay for expertise instead of having an in-house Debian "upstream" team.
> What is the obligation for America, or Americans, to host intra-South Asian arguments and their arguers?

Its almost as if American citizens of South Asian origins don't exist. How can people of South Asian origin even be Americans? Am I right?
I've got a metal case for the pi 4 (which touches the cpu, like a heat sink) and I hope I can do the same for the pi 5 sooner or later.
The cost of trains are externalized on the taxpayer. If air travel received the same level of subsidies as rail, it would be essentially free of charge.
Yeah, I don't care about power consumption.

There is no 'serious' computers coming out of Apple for quite some time now - just glorified consumption devices :)

Can Apple sillicon run Dota2@200fps or Visual Studio (Not CODE!) 2022+ as good as an x86? Can I put a 7900XTX on a Mac and run Windows natively ?
I think you are right. But as a proof of concept is an interesting read. I've work extensively with Rust and PyO3 and Maturin and even for a medium to large project is great. I wrote a bit about that here:

https://www.nhatcher.com/post/rust-in-anger/
And an Orange Pi 5Plus is even better
On our road trip we visited Bryce Canyon. At Sunset point you get a few lights from Tropic. But when you continue to drive south there is nothing.
Startups that were propped up by “cheap money” are gonna fail faster now that interest rates are high(er). But there’s nothing to indicate a fundamental shift has occurred. The system, policies, and values that have led to the era of “cheap money” are here to stay. It’s really the era of fiscal responsibility (and non-dramatic titles ) that is over.
They've regulated chipping mulching and composting?
You left off that the response to the pandemic in the US revived a marker for capital that hadn't existed for 15 years, and made all other risk taking much more expensive
Lawmakers are elected on the basis not of wisdom or skill, but because they win elections.

Once in office, lawmakers have to worry about getting reelected. They aren't subject to an incentive structure that would encourage them to think long-term, etc.
> ... the idea that Musk hasn’t considered oil panning and should’ve just asked an engineer is ludicrous. The author assumes Musk must be an idiot despite all of the evidence to the contrary.

I don't see anything ludicrous in the author's article, even if it sneers at times. Though unquestionably successful overall, since Elon has a history of bad technical or PR/appearance-driven moves, I'm not sure what's wrong with mocking him for some of those things. He is successful despite doing some idiotic things, it's not that everything he does is brilliant and correct.

The article doesn't provide any internal Tesla evidence as to whether Elon considered it and disregarded oil canning (for whatever reason), or if people on his team told him about this likely issue and he blew them off, thinking he could just keep demanding his team bring him solutions instead of telling him about problems with his vision. Under the circumstances, either could validly be criticized as idiotic, in which case mocking him seems like fair game. This would hardly be the first such issue ("Falcon Wing" doors, display screens on the Model S, the incredibly ill-advised 'Full Self-Driving' labeling, etc.).
Related:

500 Lines or Less - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12170182 - July 2016 (19 comments)

500 Lines or Less - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11796253 - May 2016 (61 comments)
Everything is impossible to prove. However fossil fuels are demonstrably casual factors in mechanics that generate the exact effects we see. Effects which correlate extremely well with the timing of our emissions and we’re largely unchanged on such time scales previously.
Interrail is great - we spent 3 month last year seeing all of Europe. But it doesn’t include your country of residence, so visiting the parents on the other side of the state is not an option. And traveling with the cheap tickets and kids is hard - if you miss the train (which just happens with kids) the ticket is void. The ticket is not refundable if plans change. All of these downsides that a car doesn’t have (I still prefer train, but we can afford it). And for longer distances, train becomes hard - we’ve been to Mallorca by train and ferry, but it takes a few days instead of a few hours. And it’s substantially more expensive on top.
Diabetes is clearly identified by ancient Egyptian writings, and described in detail by Hippocrates in Ancient Greece several thousand years ago. Looks like someone in China even around 1500BC. Among many others. Type 1 and type 2.

[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4707300/]

Let’s not pretend that we’re doing anything particularly new here, except perhaps in scale.
wtf, where do you live so I can avoid it?
I'm saying that based on the text in the submission there are numerous red flags that they are touting as 'open source' features that would makes me skeptical of buying their product based on my general experience purchasing CRM systems.

It sounds like they want you to pay for developers to help develop their unfinished crm system and the benefit you will receive is the crm system will be completely customized for your business.

Personally, my experience is that large software like CRM can be very very expensive and very very risky in the sense that you become dependent on the people you hire for it and those people can start out or become very very expensive. But most developers I know many of whom are on hacker news believe they can churn out a CRM quickly all they need is javascript, a server and a database.
For most of my use cases (3d printer controller), I don't really need any of those. So easily 2x the price for something I won't use isn't worth it.

Not that I don't have an Orange Pi 5 for other uses, but that's gathering dust in a drawer because I'm waiting for good GPU drivers. The Raspberry Pi 5 seems like it'll have Vulkan 1.2 out of the box. I'm still waiting for Panfrost's new PanCSF drivers for the RK3588 Malis.
I think you missed some of the nuance in the statement. It is not advocating for staying in the grind forever.

But for many retirees, they have never developed the mechanisms to continue being a productive member of society without structured work. The net result is a general drop in well being and health in their “golden” years.

Also, i made a comment where I think our relationship to work needs to change. I think that speaks to your point. I don’t think a false dichotomy between “working for the capitalist overlord” and “doing whatever I want” is what I was after.
“Prove” has different meanings for most people compared to scientists. As you say, it is impossible to prove that something like this, which results from a complex set of conditions and most likely a complex set of causes, results from a single thing. So we speak in probabilities, confidence intervals, and significance. That’s just science speak.

This results from human-made global warming in the same way as a smoker’s lung cancer results from smoking. The conclusion is also the same in both cases: “don’t do it”. Nobody can prove that it will kill, but it drastically increases the odds.

Also, note that this is not at all unexpected. I remember articles in scientific vulgarisation magazines in the 1990s discussion this and the fact that, counter-intuitively, global warming could result in local cooling in Western Europe because of a weakened Gulf Stream. We are still far from that.
A lot of the video websites really ought to implement the reverse. Easily drag seek without the constant click-wait, click-wait.
Just FYI three days ago someone from Ferrous said the list of not upstreamed changes is in the tens of lines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37771664
I watched it first on Belgian TV. All restaurants were Pizza Hut.

20 years later I watched the US version. Quite confused when all restaurants were taken over by Taco Bell...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpRzusd9Yi8

You can actually see at 0:50 that it originally was Taco Bell and that they 'just' dubbed it.
Wow. I've only heard of two of those brands of cameras.

And I didn't recognize any that were among the known thousands of re-brands/sub-brands of HikVision and Daihua, both of which have been implicated in the suppression of the Uighur people in China (and which have been banned by the NDAA, see https://ipvm.com/reports/ban-law).
It's not just that her career was a bad choice, it's that she went into $120,000 in the name of that career. If you spend a few years chasing your dreams without going into six figures of debt, it's a lot more sensible than just ignoring all advice we deem to be unpleasant and ending up like the author.

Going to an ivy league school and taking on that debt without any plan to pay it off is just careless. That isn't about systemic poverty, it's the poor choices individuals make and assume "it will all work out later."

Her talent is examining heartbreak she says, and my response is, "Did you think honing that talent is worth $120,000? Could you have honed it by spending half that amount somewhere else?"
If the hashing takes too long (e.g. 5-10 seconds) the website also risks a denial of service attack.
> very random and very small

a major part of JVM, JS Engines and even memory allocators, pools and similar is to make this patters less random, more predictable and more local.

For example a common optimization for lisp like languages it to layout a linked list in a continuous way in memory.

Stuff like that is needed even if you have more memory bandwidth as sometimes even more important then memory bandwidth is cache locality, which is WAY harder to scale then adding more memory channels. And branch prediction a major performance factor for modern CPUs also benefits quite a lot from cache locality.

Furthermore having more bandwidth also only helps if you can bring the bandwidth to each core as needed. But if you ad more memory bandwidth it still has a limit per memory region which can be an issue.

So in practice nearly all applications benefit from more bandwidth but the degree they do benefit is limited outside of highly paralelizable use-cases (like some graphics and AI use-case).

So for most typical consumer use cases it's not worth the additional (high) cost this would impose to various aspects (especially motherboards).

And for pro-sumer/server CPUs _we do have more channels_!

But always a balance between added cost and expected need for more bandwidth.

> In fact this is why DDR5

AFIK the reason they DDR5 has a split channel is way more complicated then that
Probably diabetics or those at high risk of cardiovascular disease dying.
I have taken the car train from Hamburg to Vienna as a family. Pure luxury and comfort!
We drive from Denmark to Hamburg(with a 2 year old), and load the fully packed car(stroller, luggages gifts for the in-laws etc) into the train at a special entrance, and walk into the coaches. We booked a private cabin/room for more privacy and also because we have a two year old. There were quite comfortable bunk booths as well in the same train.

Sleep comfortably through the night. The train movements are soothing after a while.

In the morning a serviceman in the train wakes us up with coffee and warm breakfast.

Before Noon, we were driving off at Vienna towards our destination- Salzburg.

I wish this facility existed everywhere - any major city to another major city across Europe. Imagine how many cars it would take off the road!

I really wish the European Union does more than what it already does to unify the train systems and invest heavily in passenger focussed train tracks all across Europe. Make us not want to drive!

No hours long security checks and walking in the airport. Comfortable train booths, save on hotel room costs by traveling overnight, bring a lot of luggage with you if you wish… what is not to like?! And by the way pollute less and not doom our planet.
Humans have been aggregating into cities for thousands of years because they are more economical than living sparsely.

With sparsely populated areas you also have logistics problems but no economy of scale. Every stand-alone dwelling adds new infrastructure requirements to the road/power/water/fuel system and increases maintenance costs. Cities tend to be net tax payers while suburban and rural areas tend to be net tax beneficiaries, subsidized by the taxes from cities.

Both types of places are important, but rural and suburban are already heavily tax-advantaged.
Yeah, that's 90+% of what a Linux distro is, packaging software from a wide variety of projects and trying to make a coherent whole. In Windows/MacOS we have one company making the kernel, basic libraries, desktop manager and some applications, and separate independent software developers making and packaging their own applications (although that changed a bit in the last decade or so).
This is really cool. Networking in general is full of quirks and what people think is full of "magic".

Full disclosure, I am founder of Adaptive [1]. We use a similar technique to the one with VPN exposed as SOCK5 proxy but for accessing internal infrastructure resources.

[1] https://adaptive.live/
The government has a fund that is used to pay for SS. The fund is an asset they’ve committed to using to pay the liability of their pensioner promises.

That fund is an asset full of assets. Those assets are government debt. Owning your debt basically nets to 0.
They propose some haptic warning, so presumably those devices lacked any warning at all. I have owned some of similar monocycles and they all at least emitted a sound and had options in settings to prevent you from using full power of the motor for horizontal motion (it basically kicks you back gently once you reach the treshold and that makes you feel like you're about to fall and you lean to the opposite side way before one reaches close to 100% power).
> I am not talking about censorship.

So the following is a snippet from your earlier comment where you are clearly saying that arguers as well as the arguments should not be in the US in the first place.

>> I know. I am going further, and stating that if South Asians are arguing in the US about the existence and extent of caste-based discrimination, and it's gotten to the point that a law was proposed and almost enacted, maybe we Americans should question whether we should have the arguers, as well as the arguments, in the US in the first place.

Since you specifically mention arguments, please tell us how is this not asking for censorship?
So land based internet feeds 1 tree and Starlink feeds 30 trees. Guess the Ents will be using Starlink then.
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I just love that this blog post includes an AI-generated image with the caption of course being the name of the model and the given prompt.
In my understanding, LTS support and the certification documentation.