skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really miss VB and Flash. Wish we had something like that today.
It's not about the volume, but about the economy though. If somebody keeps sending coins back and forth between their own wallets, that's not economical activity.
> The workstation has fast 2TB NVMe and 64gb of ram, 16 cores and a RTX GPU.

> $60/yr vs thousands of $ upfront for a comparable desktop or notebook machine.

I don't think we're talking about the same things here.
Ah. The great recoupling.

Soon someone will find a way to keep it in the same process.
Trust and Safety Tycoon – web game from Techdirt founder and others
This will work great for movies whose cast is made up entirely of college-age girls. If it was that simple you have to ask why they want actors in the first place.
I mean, it can’t be real. Just look at it. It has to be some elaborate prank and the real one will be unveiled and look normal. Like all the panels will pop off and you’ll have a sleek looking thing underneath.

In all seriousness, if it looked anything like a Rivian I may have had one at some point, but I could never see myself in a cybertruck.
Depending on your use case and implementation details, not necessarily.

https://www.troyhunt.com/understanding-have-i-been-pwneds-us...
I remember my father telling me (tongue in cheek) "sure, 3d realtime polygons are nice, but when will it earn money?". And many years later, I'm still coding both for fun and money (and usefulness).
Money laundering, gambling, flight capital from Russia and China, and scams are all very active niches that could be responsible for a lot of that liquidity.
I'm a data hoarder and considered ordering my complete genetic sequence (not from 23, there are others that send you back an HDD with somewhere around several-gigs to 1tb+ of your genome). But I resisted because I would have no idea what to grep for. Without a biotech background it would simply be a waste of my time.
SomethingAwful is a profitable business which is more that can be said for Twitter dot com
Having more grads coming out of university unprepared and expecting even more handholding (this time in the form of devcontainers in the cloud preconfigured and "ready", etc) really does not bode well for the health of our industry long term.
I agree with this. Java8, Java17, and Java21 make Scala/Kotlin far less appealing while being mainstream.
Awesome! I can't wait to see how we can make local models for, say, describing images offline, or even getting a few screenshots of, say, a video game and describing what's going on.
This seems like nonsense. The author claims that we're overwhelmed by the volume of content we consume and that's why we can't be creative. So the suggested solution is to do more work to consume content? That doesn't make any sense to me.
>Why is it that we don’t optimize for brain power?

who is "we"? how many people do you know who are informed on the matter? how can you expect society to revolve around this if it's still mostly overlooked?
Yes! Going to order my copy soon. Great to see these classic tools evolving and hopefully winning new fans from up to date resources like this.
Unfortunately, Tesla exists.
So are you using fps management just for scaling purposes or also as a way of ensuring fairness? The reason I ask is because games like Forza have had to resort to setting all online players' frame rates to be the same regardless of their machine's capabilities due to the way the in-game physics work. PC players on high end hardware would consistently get better lap times than Xbox users because of it.

Maybe this is a bit out of scope of what the goal is for this project but just thought I would bring it up.
New hottest pepper, Pepper X, is 3 times spicier than its predecessor
Same here. When VB4 came out I wrote a COM based plugin system with it which worked perfectly.
DefinitelyTyped Is a Monorepo
To a large extent. Americans have a lot of opinions about what opinions others should have.
This man is a villain hiding in plain sight, I used to find the things he says interesting, I even read his book on game theory and learned a lot from it but the more I watched him talk in his pompous style the more I his malignant narcissism became clear.

He is very good at game theory but also does a lot of projection. Game theory is an incredible source of narcissistic supply, you can always argue in favour of some sub-game that can be exploited at the expense of the collective. So you either find one of those games and exploit it or you turn around and accuse the other of playing it.

Did this man not work for Valve as head of economics, and got rich, like you know a tech bro?

He has said in an interview that after he was kicked out of the government of Greece he never spoke again with the then prime minister, just ghosted the man. Like all the time this little personal conflicts with everyone because they don't agree with his communist worldview.

There are plenty of people with a big ego like Steven Wolfram or Nicolas Nassim Taleb, but I don't detect this kind of nasty hatred in what they do, they are just big nerds with a big brain.

Maybe he was not always like this, but the more I heard him speak the more I thought I was listening to a hate preacher.
I was looking at the data on https://ossinsight.io/explore/?id=6c060cc1-83b4-43f7-be4a-a4....

I highlighted the US in the chart but across the board it seems something happened at the end of 2022, around August.
Same thing was said about Twitter Blue and it's been an abysmal failure.
Commitment! It's one of the most human of values. It's what makes marriages last 50 years no matter what kind of significant problems come up.

> The main thing is, I never want to give up, and I won't give up.

Just focus on this. When things at the most bleak, remember that you're not allowed to quit, so work around that.
How does one handle an upgrade to mutators? If a client is running old code then the operation will differ to the server. Obvious answer would be to version them independently: `increment_v1`, `increment_v2`, but wondering if there is a better answer?
You have to pay for the initial insert but it's then hosted forever for free. For reads, you can either download the data from nodes in the network which works somewhat like a torrent, or find a service that has a full copy of the blockchain and is providing it via a HTTP interface.
Assuming you’re not joking, OP’s referring to their go-to-market strategy.
Stolen electricity is just part of it. Miners in Texas (and probably other places) have negotiated shockingly corrupt deals where they get electricity at low rates and then are paid to shut down when the grid needs more power. They're getting paid like a grid scale storage provider when in reality they're just a sink.
The American midwest is relatively safe to settle in. St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Chicago in particular.
I have two of them in my MIDI stack :-). I also had a DX-11 which was the 4-op keyboard and did patch design on that and then transferred the patches via Sysex to the TX-4(s). It continues to be a great synth.
>For some of us, compiling from source is the ONLY way to do things. If there's a zero day, I'm not going to sit around waiting for someone else to make a binary.

Usually binaries are available at the very similar moment the fix is published
The Enhanced Game – Sports, without drug testing
Knowing who's related to who is a very useful social graph if your goals are unethical.
How do you decide which to use
It is about the power you lose when going electric, rather than runtime.
There's some irony in the writer recommending books and videos to help with digital hoarding. I now have two more books sitting in my Amazon wishlist.

On another note, I recently started using Obsidian and it really is as good as they say. I also use Remember The Milk for my daily TODOs.
I like this subthread; both of you seem respectful and clear and I'm doing my best to follow the arguments.

But I'm having trouble as a result of the choice of icecream/gelato words.

I interpreted @robertlagrant to be in the "gelato is icecream" camp (which seems reasonable to me in a "baguettes are bread" sense).

But @hiAndrewQuinn, you seem to be in the "gelato is not icecream" camp. I would call this is an arguably correct position similar to "chicken tikka masala is not Indian food," but I doubt most people holding either of these positions would consider these kinds of small differences likely to be the trigger for a business becoming unviable. So perhaps you didn't know what gelato was?

In either case, I think you two need to be using the same definitions for your illustrations to make sense. And I really want them to make sense because I want to understand :)
Surely this is the more apposite link when talking about libertarian tropical island paradises? :D

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/michael-oliver-r...
I think the key difference is whether people mean it literally or metaphorically if they say that something is an "existential threat".

Inequality and oppression and war and climate change and surveillance states and slavery and all kinds of other things may result in a dystopian future, but all those are obviously not literally existential threats, as humanity would keep existing, only in fewer numbers and much worse conditions.

On the other hand, there all kinds of events that are much less likely than those former ones, but are literally existential threats for humanity - like major asteroid strikes or the worst case scenarios of stronger-than-human AI, or perhaps some pandemics or nuclear war might cross that threshold iff they can wipe out all of humanity, not "just" most of it.
The architecture is quite compelling. I would not have expected it to work as well as it does. Glancing at the benchmarks it's basically on par with other VLMs in its class, despite having no separate image encoder.

Is there an associated paper? Or more specifically, details on the training dataset? It must have been a mix of text and VLM tasks, otherwise one or the other capability would have rotted during training. But I wonder if they trained off strictly VLM corpora, or also used plain image-text datasets like CLIP. It would be interesting if only the former.

Also makes me wonder if it could be trained on something like CommonCrawl where all the images are retained and interspersed correctly throughout the text. This model could theoretically train just fine off that, and it would unlock a whole new dataset effectively.

And has there been an inspection of what the model is outputting for predicted image "tokens"? Is it correctly predicting projected image patches to any degree of accuracy? And could therefore also generate images inline with text if another de-projection layer was trained?
Its logic is based on the logic that's been in "multiplayer games" for decades.

On the other hand all web software is "multiuser", which doesn't tell you anything.
Folks that believe in the insane complexity of this have never been in management in my opinion. People really just don't put that much devious thought into that kind of plan.

Besides, it still doesn't make any sense. Having been at a company previously that had many layoffs over a series of years, a very common opinion was that it would be crazy to quit, and get no severance. Better to just hope you'd get laid off with a fat severance package, especially since most of the packages at the big tech companies over the past year and a half have been extremely generous.
The entire post is written in a “had they done this” format, and contrasted to things like charging for Twitter Blue. Clearly this is meant as “why didn’t they do this instead,” not “this is what they should do now.”
excellent work, I wish this was on bandcamp.

I have two TX81Zs, but I've never been able to coax anything this pretty out of them.
> More recently I've recieved a lot of calls from regular people "calling me back". I reached out to my provider a few times, especially about the spoofing, but they claim theres nothing they can do, which I highly doubt.

Why would your SP be able to do something about someone else on another network spoofing your number and calling a random third-party that is also possibly on a different network?

The whole problem here is there is nothing in the legacy phone network to validate that calling party information is accurate (at least, between service providers.)
Wouldn't that open Brave to legal consequences if the author's chose to pursue them?

Also surprising to hear Eich playing fast and loose with licensing since Firefox benefited so much from Netscape's open sourcing itself.
Java developers are spoilt for choice right now. IntelliJ is on it's own plane of existence, newest versions of Eclipse are really really nice, and now this which is based on the Netbeans engine!

Hands down Java tooling, and especially the JVM debugger, is the absolute best across all languages available today. Truly is an incredible platform
I don't mind interacting with people, but the vast majority of my interactions with ride share drivers are not meaningful interactions. I get in the car, say "hi" and then pull out my phone. A large portion of the time my drivers are on the phone or have airpods in.

I would gladly trade the 1% of rides where I had a decent conversation with the driver to remove the 99% where I we both try to make forced small talk or we both awkwardly sit in silence. Plus, not having to worry about me and my friends annoying our driver when we're drunkly coming back from the bars at 2am is such a win.
That’s called natural(ish) selection, the mechanism for evolution.
And you believe that you can scare some random scammers in some random country that doesn't recognize copyright or trademarks with a US trademark?
This is amazing work - the lighting effects in the video are stunning. Kudos!
Or, you had some connection to the victim or scene of the crime and the presence of your DNA is treated as proof of your involvement, because juries are often swayed by technospeak and irrational arguments.
Target is a bad example, because they don't charge you the same no matter how you pay. If you use a Target red card you get a 5% discount.
By that standard JS should also be scuttled.
The suffocating irony of this forum being called "Hacker News" when it is filled with comments like this never fails to amaze me. A truly unimaginative bunch.
Apple started with their arm series in 2010. They are hardly a newcomer.
&*strato[cast] to over the top reference for current history?
Most of these systems do deletes with tombstones. Then you can safely insert after/inbetween deleted items.
You can probably blame the manufacturers and tech press for that.

These were always only intended to be internal designations for very specific technologies, with the devices and cables simply labeled with their actual capabilities. None of the Gen1/Gen2/Gen3 nonsense, simply "10G" / "20G" / "40G".

Unfortunately not everyone got that memo, and once the general population got used to the complicated internal-only designation it became pretty much impossible to use any other term for it.
>pretty bold claim

I don't think so. How would that even work? It's not much different from framing someone of a crime just by knowing their blood type.

>we likely wouldn't hear very loudly the stories of innocent folks with cases mishandled by a law enforcement bureaus that were enabled by 23andme or similar services

Nah. Let's suppose that someone made a typo and Mr. Buttle is accused of committing the crime Mr. Tuttle, who deposited his genetic material, committed. While the Buttle-genome link is a useful piece of evidence, it's on the judge to request a saliva sample from Mr. Buttle to ensure a trustworthy source of information. If he doesn't, well, it sucks for Mr. Buttle that he got a lazy judge, but it's not on the company. The person who wrote down the name could not have known that information would at some later point be misused to lockup an innocent man.
GitHub moved to codespaces for dev 2 years ago

https://github.blog/2021-08-11-githubs-engineering-team-move...
> they’re still kids.

One might argue that they're adults, they have left the 'nest', they can drive, vote, drink, operate guns, etc... Actions have consequences, people learn this even before college.

I'm not defending the law firms nor the students. Students have their right to say whatever they wish, and companies have their right to hire based on whatever non-discriminating criteria they wish. 'Political tribe' is not a legally protected group, so I don't see the problem here. Maybe it's for the best, the students may end up working for human rights NGOs instead of big law.
>When I first moved there I had no idea that it was like this.

What advice would you give someone moving to an unfamiliar area to avoid this?
> I understand. Here in the US 70% of my electricity comes from coal and gas. My county literally passed a law banning solar projects a few years ago because of fear mongering about renewables. The alternative to solar is the status quo of coal and gas.

But sometimes solar is not the alternative to the status quo, that's what I meant. By in many places of the US, solar is actually a viable choice though, and banning it there is as stupid as subsidizing it near the polar circle (something we actually do in Europe…).

> but also convince locals that nuclear energy is a viable alternative when enough people were able to convince the local government that large scale solar projects are harmful to environment.

In Europe the biggest, and by far, source of opposition to nuclear comes from renewable energy proponents, even in countries where it doesn't make sense (especially solar). That's how we got Germany to get rid of their perfectly functional nuclear plants, spending tons of money investing in inferior solutions (for the context), and consuming millions of tons of coal in the meantime. Similarly idiotic to your county banning solar…
You haven't answered my question as to why.
it costs money to store/write a transaction to the chain (transaction fee)
- binance smart chain is subsidised so runs at a loss/pretty cheap to store small amounts of data on (if you did this on ethereum would be very expensive)
- retrieval is free in that you can use a public RPC to retrieve the data
when you talk about Winsorizing, you're talking about applying some subtle sophistication to statistically sparse data... so then you mention histograms, which also apply subtle sophistication, so you best be talking about histograms with unequal bar widths. Equal bar widths is a bar chart. It doesn't get to be called a histogram (pace wikipedia) unless every bar reflects the same proportion of the population.
Because with real world data like in production in tech there are so many factors to account for. Brittle methods are more susceptible to unexpected changes in the data or unexpected ways in which complex assumptions abut the data fail.
8 voices is so little... Older FM synths could do a lot more, even if they didn't have the VCFs/VCAs. Older sound modules tended to be full-song workhorses, while the Digitone has more of a tracker philosophy. That's ok, but they could at least have done 16 voices so we can have nice chord pads with bass, melody and drums.

The Yamaha MODX has 64-voice FM polyphony, but of course not a compact module (but it could be, probably, but there is no market for it).
Big Fire; Or, Introducing the Pyrocene
HN Hug of death?
The 7B LLaVa model is smaller, even considering the image encoder (CLIP-L).
Do you have any insight into who, if someone else is making their tools? I have never seen then their electric offerings used in person; I would love to know what the market penetration is like.

Likewise, I have not seen any performance benchmarks comparing the gas/electric, even from an OEM.
This is an old myth by now
Creating something and working with something established are two different things requiring different skills.

Let's say you are an inventor, you just made, say, a new type of coffee maker. You just did some prototypes, worked out the details, made it safer and more convenient, have it make better tasting coffee, considered mass production, etc... You filed the patent and now have a great product on your hands, and now what? Are you going to do value engineering, process scaling, etc... and build your career on that? These are interesting topics, but maybe that's not what you are good at, and you prefer inventing, so you will sell that patent to someone who is more into mass production and optimization and work on your next invention.

Businesses are like inventions, some people prefer and are better at creating new businesses, others are more about keeping things stable and profitable on the long term. The work the founder has done does not necessarily make him better for growing the business and making profits.
Very fun experience indeed. Here's a video of what you're describing: https://streamable.com/asu261
And I'll eat my hat if a $39K CT is an option at all. Or the $49K option, for that matter. Either at all or meaningfully available.
Are you saying that there are no other languages than Java that target the JVM?
But, that's just capitalism. The "tech" part has little or nothing to do with it, unless you're taking a very broad definition of the word "technology." That's just what happens when someone gains an infinitesimal advantage and is able to hold onto it in an environment of exponential growth.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age
For any folks who appreciate old UNIX things, check out Unix a history and memoir. It’s written by the one and only - Kernighan and he talks about people like Aho. Awesome book
Side note:

I started following freight waves when I was working for an autonomous trucking company. This publication is one that I recommend adding to an RSS feed.

It's a surprisingly complex ecosystem that has deep insight into several facets of global economy. And this publication's coverage of this ecosystem has my vote of support.
except our bodies already kinda do that on their own

how would killing species of gut biota would helpful? helpful for whom to accomplish what??

we're headed to a future in which you have to take special pills so that the food doesn't kill you. like the glysophate and GMOs but applied against ALL life, including humans. if this is too far fetched for you then I also hope we don't get there.
Ask HN: Why did the number of new GitHub repos crash in late 2022?
I was looking at the data from https://ossinsight.io/explore/?id=6c060cc1-83b4-43f7-be4a-a401e4a5387f. I filtered to US only but across the board there was a large crash around August 2022. Curious if anyone knows why.
VB on Windows 3.1 was my first intro to programming, thanks for your work!

I've always wondered where the "Thunder" prefix for VB's window class names came from (ThunderForm, ThunderButton, ThunderListBox, etc). Do you know who came up with it and if there's any fun meaning behind the name?
Yeah, I used to work on the Kinect which is why my mind went there - but the v1 certainly wouldn’t be up for this.

Fun fact, originally, the resolution of the depth sensor was 640x480 but was nerfed in firmware to 320x240. Why?

The makers of Rock Band wanted to make a Kinect version. But, with a Rock Band mic, bass, two guitars, and keyboard plus Kinect, the Xbox 360’s USB bus couldn’t handle it. So the Kinect got nerfed.

The company behind Rock Band either shut down or went bankrupt before the Kinect went on sale. At that point, way too much of the tooling (not to mention pose estimation modeling) around the Kinect had been built with the 320x240 resolution constraint so it wasn’t feasible to “unlock” the full res.
Answer what I asked. If you’re going to respond to my question with more questions that avoid answering what I asked, it makes it clear you have no intention of actually discussing this and are only here to post pro Israeli takes.