skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You stated, "State of the art for low end generative AI is still running on some sort of desktop class GPU with optimised models and getting not-so-great results. A phone can't do that."

The Qualcomm article states, "Read on to learn how Qualcomm AI Research performed full-stack AI optimizations using the Qualcomm AI Stack to deploy Stable Diffusion on an Android smartphone for the very first time. "
What you're descriving is a lot of Norway. Low density, and employees cost a lot per hour.
> politicians were unethical and downright evil

Are there any other kind? any place/any time
As a funny bit found in the 3rd link on "really" dumb crypto-bros:

> The American supermarket chain and cookie butter paradise, Trader Joe's, has filed a lawsuit against the popular Trader Joe decentralized exchange. According to the lawsuit, the supermarket believes the exchange is trying to benefit off the supermarket's popularity.

> This is actually the second such lawsuit by the supermarket against the exchange, after the first was thrown out when defendants claimed that they had simply named the project after the co-founder's brother, Joe. However, shortly after the victory, a co-founder admitted on their blog that they "just named it Trader Joe, after the supermarket".

> Trader Joe's is seeking all profits made by the exchange, plus damages and compensation for the failed lawsuit last year.
Do you think Oracle is supporting Java 8 until 2030 for funsies?

If you work at tech companies led by tech people who think of their companies as tech companies, yah, you'll probably be on new(ish) versions.

Most software isn't written at companies like that; it's written at boring business companies (like banks and utilities) that are led by business people who say "what do you mean to want to update java? Isn't it working fine? That would cost us a huge amount of money and be super risky and it's not even end-of-life. Go write more Java 8."
Since you likely use 64-bit (double) floats, not every GPU would help much, especially compared to a beefy CPU.

But if you use a GPU with a large number of FP64 units, it may speed things up a lot. These are generally not gaming GPUs, but if you have a 4060 sitting around anyway, it has about 300 GFLOPS FP64 performance, likely more than your CPU. Modern CPUs are mighty in this regard though, able to issue many FP64 operations per clock per core.
If anyone’s looking for an alternative, I’ve been using Epicurian cutting boards for years. Some kind of compressed wood composite I think.

They’re great to chop on and dishwasher safe (although they may discolour a little, but that never bothered me). Not cheap though.
The Steelcase leap is the best when it comes to the high end office chairs. I had aerons for the longest time but the non adjustability is not worth the price paid.
I definitely think you're right about that we can't write perfect code upfront. Not to mention that the environment is changing, so left still software will rot.

BUT I do think at times we need to slow down. Too much "move fast and break things" and sprints have many opportunity costs. Long term optimization is a hard task, so people typically focus on short term gains, which we should be aware can leave a lot of money on the table. So don't confuse moving fast with maximizing profits (e.g. we invest in ourselves by going to school turning away immediate profits for higher future profits. But this is harder for businesses to do). A good manager/CEO should be one that is learning and focusing on this optimization problem, not the next quarter or ill defined metric.

> Design reviews (by people) are boring and it hurts when someone pokes holes in one's design

I think there's a lot to be said here too. A not uncommon gauntlet many scientists have to go through is getting their work trashed on. With many lab groups purposefully holding mock presentations and being overly critical to help train the junior scientist's confidence. We should do this in review too, making sure to do it with juniors. It's slower, but pays high dividends.

But review, in any form, has another problem. The reviewers themselves. Paid or unpaid, they often frame their job as being to find flaws in a work. Instead, their actual job is to make the work the highest quality it can be. If you frame the reviewer reviewee relationship as adversarial then you're (in general) degrading the system. Rather this always needs to be framed as cooperative, where you're working together to make the work better. This means that it is perfectly okay for a work to be accepted with no comments, and in fact that should be the goal of any QA system. That your job often is closer to a teacher and your success is reducing your work. But if we frame adversarially you're going to use metrics like the number of QA comments and rejects to determine how good your reviewers are. In turn, this will be a cobra effect and people will purposefully create low hanging but easy to fix mistakes so that reviewers can point to something (demonstrating they did their job and their need) but reviewees can fix the problems and everyone is happy. But that's just Goodhart's law in action and isn't optimizing the product/profit/work/whatever. This does need to be kept in mind since many metrics are nowhere near aligned with the actual thing being desired to be optimized (and there's environmental drifts too).
Spoiler - no big reason other than it was available and I thought it sounded cool
Why is it different? "program hasn't done anything incorrect" includes not overflowing i. And being able to even put variables in register relies on such assumptions in a very similar as certain loop transformations rely on the assumption that the loop terminates before i overflows.
find a place that sells steelcase leap... they should have a chair that works for you
I have the feeling that "isn’t the definition of" became a hollow phrase meant to raise the drama on the word which follows it.
That's a possible point!

In the context of the final game, where there is no shadow of the future, it's possible to speculate that if the host is personally invested in the economic return of the show, their motivations might align with wanting the contestant to lose.

Additionally, in some TV shows and certain regions of the world, hosts have aimed to confuse the audience and maintain control over the show for their own advantages.
Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave Resigns After Israel-Hamas War Comments – AP News
If there was anything there to communicate with, we wouldn't need ai to do it. In fact we'd probably be at war with them just like with other humans, not owning them and using them and extincting them.

This question can only spring from magical mystical nonsense thinking.

You may as well daydream about ai unlocking communication with toasters, or the earth.
Thanks, i don't want to use my phone number, it's not very secure.

and for KeepassXC, i need to keep the KDBX somewhere, in the worst scenario, what if i lost the KDBX? (my laptop is stolen, broken etc.)
Have you ever encountered a scenario where interchanging limit with integral in practice was not allowed?
FWIW, insiders regularly get away with dumping regulated securities just before bad news becomes public.
>We are not relying on specifics about bar(), just the general assumption that up until the return 0, the program hasn't done anything incorrect which interferes with what we want to do.

That's not qualitatively any different. You're still describing a class of behaviour (messing with local variables not in the same scope) that the program isn't allowed to do, because it breaks the compiler's view of the code. That behaviour is UB.

What do you think separates "good" assumptions from "bad" ones?
Doesn't the US already have SAT which despite being non-mandatory, is required by 80% of degree-issuing US institutions? And there are already tons of studies showing family wealth has a positive correlation with higher SAT scores.
It's not too hard to write your own extension for this.

I did this myself, but I'm hesitant to share it as I fear lots of people using it will result in everyone hiding the same band of assholes, their comments not getting flagged, leading to a sort of "broken staircase" effect.

That said, I would not be able to use HN without it. I find some prolific people on HN completely and utterly insufferable assholes. Currently the variable name is "bozo", but originally a different four letter word, and was written in a fit of "anger-driven development" after I decided I have zero interest in ever talking to a particular person ever again (the context was that they seriously straw-manned my "I think it's a complex trade-off with up- and downsides" opinion as "zomg you're saying it's impossible, you're stuck in the past!!11" over several threads even after I carefully tried explaining the nuance; I have no problem if people disagree with that, but this person is either not capable of reading the English language or is only interested in bullying their opinion on others – whatever the case, I have no interest in engaging with that).

"You're also posting good comments, so I won't ban you yet" is the policy I disagree with the most on HN. Especially for some prolific people it means at least one, and often several, bad comments per day. These people should be held to a higher bar, not a lower bar. I don't care if you also post good comments about other topics if you lose your shit every time {certain politics, religion, Go, systemd, X11, Google, JavaScript} gets mentioned and you shit up every fucking thread with the same stupid bullshit.

The occasional bad comment is normal; I probably have a few of those and no one is perfect. But I can name a few accounts from the top of my head and can virtually guarantee you there are going to be flagged shitty comments right on the first page. It baffles me some of these people aren't banned.

Some other people on my list shouldn't be banned necessarily, but I just don't enjoy talking to them for whatever reason. Easiest for everyone to just hide it.
There are a couple answers in this interview with the game’s director, Paul van der Meer, and art director, Jeroen Backx that might help you make up your mind on this.

https://www.heypoorplayer.com/2023/10/11/the-7th-guest-vr-an...
> an HR lady

First of all would you have said “an HR man” if that was the case?

Second, it’s somebody’s job to determine who’s a good fit or not. Sometimes they get it right and sometimes they get it wrong. But it’s their call. If they’re good at it, they might get to keep doing it. And if they’re bad at it, they might not get to keep doing it.

Honestly this is partially why it’s preferable to let people know that a company is moving ahead with other candidates but never give a reason. Just invites follow-up questions and confusion when the reason is that someone at the company didn’t want to hire you.
Lemmy seems to be growing as an alternative. Tehcnical superiority is overrated - Reddit is held together by the network effect. The nagging about its bad technology turns out to be quite a talking point on reddit too.
Also we need better education about the risks of carrying around an always-on GPS receiver that continually transmits your location to third parties.

Victim-blaming? Maybe. But you can choose to turn your phone off.
We also all breathe; so we emit CO2 at each exhale.
Ask HN: How do you track NLP models in prod?
Working on a service which uses GPT-3.5 and was wondering how I would go about tracking the usefulness of it. Wondering what you guys have done, or if you guys even track your NLP models at all.
He's pushing his book. It's "buy now for the full picture!" Only his way of displaying a partial picture makes me hesitant to labor through the full picture.
Andor had a quarter billion dollar budget. What kept it free from exec interference was Tony Gilroy wrote a “here’s what you won’t let anyone make, that you should make” manifesto and they didn’t have any choice but to give him control if they wanted to work with him.
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I fully agreee that owning a few slivers of a fund doesn't make people like me nobility.

Further, I also don't think pension funds are similar to nobility. They have a lot of money and own a lot of buildings (indirectly through funds), but also a lot of future obligations to a lot of people who aren't any kind of nobility. Their assets don't add up to more than their obligations, certainly not to so much more that the difference can sustain a nobility.
One aspect of technical debt is simply accumulating less until the lightbulb moment arrives to include mandatory refactoring. Build the least number of features you need to.
The OP means flip phones. Foldables are the full size phones that fold out to be mini tablets. Flip phones are like modern moto razers with a small screen on the outside and a larger screen inside.
The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology (2021)
I cook every day and my number is closer to 50 than 500. 50 even seems high.
> Thinking about it, all of the media I’ve enjoyed in the last decade — my middle age — were made with a single “dictator” in charge instead of a committee in charge. E.g.: I like Christopher Nolan or Ridley Scott movies precisely because their personal vision and style is apparent and beautiful.

Agree with this totally. Two recent examples of that, that I really liked, were Succession (where Adam McKay ruled the production with an iron fist and scrutinized every detail), and Hamilton, where Lin-Manuel Miranda not only wrote the music and the lyrics and played the lead, but also had a hand in the choreography and probably in more stuff. And both of these things were considered some of the greatest, or the greatest, works in their respective genres in the last God-knows-how-many years!
Yeah, that is wild. I'm honestly very confused by it. I feel like I'm pretty average and I probably make about two orders of magnitude fewer cuts than that as a daily average. The average person is roughly cutting up some meat and/or some vegetables, and probably not even every day.
To my knowledge the difference that allows that is that you license the software, you purchase the car.

You can purchase software, it's just not the common case. Companies but other companies and parchase the software that they developed along with that, and scammers purchase the software of popular browser extensions so they can use them against the existing user base (which are licensed, even if implicitly).

Evem with open source you're almost always using software under a license. For the vast majority of people, the only software they'll ever actually own is something they wrote themselves.
Agreed, I would wager I average a few dozen cuts a day at most, if even that, never mind hundreds.
honest question: what's wrong with something like Waygu, then?
If it's 'composite' then it most likely contains some binding material apart from wood, which will still get into your food.
You are correct.

A huge majority of streamers rely on overlays provided by either the companies Streamlabs or StreamElements for things like displaying a chat on their stream, among others.
> why our team hasn't delivered the features they want.

Good work takes time.

But I think it is an optimization problem. Rather, that different people are optimizing different things. Your team is optimizing long term profits. The senior leadership who's frustrated is optimizing short term profits. I think one way to handle these situations is to clarify which is the more important optimization problem. That makes points like "opportunity costs vs marginal cost" discussions. The same way we turn down immediate profits to go to school, because in the long run we make more money (and for other reasons). But our systems often push us to focus on short term goals because these are far easier to measure.
So all custom software should be written with a blank check and an unlimited timeframe?

You're either arguing for something that can not work in commerce or you're not arguing in good faith; I'm not sure which.
When I was renovating I found this white board behind the fireplace, I chopped it into smaller pieces and been using it as cutting board ever since.
Yes, a step in the right direction for C2x, thank you for that.
You still haven't defined what "true 24fps" is, and the idea that it "has nothing to do with tech" makes no sense. 24 fps is a technical term, no more and no less.

And everyone here is left baffled because it seems to be some personal notion of yours, as opposed to what it is universally and clearly understood to mean.

I literally have no idea what you mean when you talk about things being "sampled down" or "sharp, jittery shit".

The only thing sampled down in most modern TV/film production is a usually a 4K source down into 1080p or less for distribution. But I can't possibly imagine you're objecting to that. And frame rates aren't "sampled down".

Meanwhile, by "jittery" I can only guess you mean shutter speed, not frame rate? Normal shutter angle is 180°, and that has been standard for many, many decades, identical between film and digital, and which has never been jittery. Sometimes action scenes use a smaller angle (faster speed), which you're free to call jittery, but that's not the norm. Generally just for action scenes, or for occasional other artistic effect.

If you want to have any kind of productive conversation on HN, I suggest you start explaining what you actually mean rather than throwing around terms with idiosyncratic personal definitions you simply invent, that have nothing to do with how the terms are generally understood.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but your cutting board probably isn't the biggest source of microplastics in your life and many of those sources aren't your choice.

Let's be honest, this is just preemptive marketing for kitchen nerds. HN is too easy.
Or stop chasing the latest fad(s) and build a regular old boring service. The dev experience for building/debugging/troubleshooting distributed functions/lambdas is atrocious. Use boring tech, solve business problems and create value without adding needless complexity because devs want to play with the latest toys.
Also makes me sad to think about a 80 billion (yes you read that right) animals killed each year for food but we don't like to talk about it because thats outside our overton window.

Not a vegan BTW.
The number doesn’t seem that outlandish. Slicing a single onion of 50mm diameter into two halves and each of the halves into 1mm thin layers is 100 cuts already for example (yeah, 99, I know…).
Waygu is a breed. I don't follow. Are you referring to how Kobe is treated before slaughter?
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It appears that those cutting boards are made of Richlite [1], which seems to be fused layers of paper. Apparently some form of phenolic resin is used during the creation process, but only little of that ends up in the actual board. Not sure about any adverse health effects there.

[1] https://www.richlite.com/
"I’ve personally developed a very simple rule called the ‘Sledgehammer Principle’. Whenever you commit undefined behavior, you have to imagine that you’ve taken a sledgehammer and smashed it into a large, very expensive vase your mother (or father, or grandmother, or whoever happens to be closest to you) owns. This means that if you needed that vase (e.g., the result of that signed integer multiply), you have to imagine that it is now completely unrecoverable. The vase is goddamn smashed, after all; only through brutally difficult craftsmanship could you ever imagine putting it back together."

Doesn't undefined behaviour more appropriately mean that once you used the sledgehammer on whatever item in your house there is a chance that not only the vase is gone but the structural integrity of the whole building is compromised?
At the start of the pandemic, I was using my girlfriend's piano bench, but she wants it to be at her piano. Now, I sit on an Ikea bekväm step stool. For decades now I've dealt with lower back pain, but that's almost entirely gone ever since I stopped sitting (and slouching) in office chairs. Sitting on the edge of a hard chair encourages good posture (for me? for classically trained violinists?). It's not terribly comfortable on the sit-bones! That's a feature: sitting motionless isn't good for you.
There is a US law limiting the resolution American companies are allowed to use in sat imagery of Israel. It was changed in 2020.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyl%E2%80%93Bingaman_Amendme...
The first paragraph of the article describes the author making one meal with over 500 cuts.
500/day is frankly preposterous for the "average person". I cook very regularly for a family of three, and the most cutting I'm usually doing is cutting the ends off green beans. That's two cuts per bean pod, with maybe 75 pods. (And I'm usually cutting a few in one go.) That's an above-average day. It's nowhere close to 500. It's much closer to 100.

Also, it's not even clear what toxicity level there is for microplastics, if any. The article even points this out.
Bound together, so you're eating bamboo and whatever they use for the bonding.
>Cosgrave, the Irish entrepreneur who is also founder of Web Summit, said in a statement Saturday that his personal comments “have become a distraction from the event, and our team, our sponsors, our startups and the people who attend.”

Translation: I give in to the blackmail and cancelling, as apparently I can't afford to make a critique on geopolitics AND keep my business. Or rather, I perfectly could do both, but only if I parroted the established view.
Interesting. Both versions seem to have structural/grammatical errors in different places, and both feel machine-generated. Curiously, the different wording of each version also affects what's supposed to be direct quotes, which makes me irrationally angry for some reason. I think because once you allow yourself to paraphrase quotations that you'll have readers believe are verbatim, you may as well make them all up.
SecretLab Titan Evo (with fabric instead of leather), great chairs. I also got their standing desk which is very nice.
A nice feature of snowflake is the min_by/max_by functions.

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/functions/min_by
How’d you catch that?
Would you rather get someone who can do fizzbuzz correctly on a board the first time in 7 minutes or someone who can write it in 1 minute on a laptop incorrectly, test it, and fix it in 30 seconds?

I see no value in the "gotcha" of you made a logic mistake since we all make them and there's a reason why we test code
Always a bit confusing since reddit has admins and moderators, and they are very different. Admins are reddit employees, moderators are just random people who run a specific subreddit.

So if I understand correctly, this was a site level feature, and admins gave a 1h heads up to the moderators of the specific subreddits using that feature, allowing the moderators to sell early.

Wouldn't the blame here be more on the admins? Is there a reason this "heads up" was secretly only given to mods, and not just announced publicly right away?
Is 7.4 grams per year a lot?
I don't think they're suggesting that this is specific to Tasmania.
It's not as if crypto has a particularly good reputation or the scammy nature of crypto is a secret. I wonder if your former friend has the same kind of personality that just as well would have deluded themselves into thinking they have some amazing insights into horse racing or sports. Without crypto, would they have found some other way to gamble away their future?
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The average person is not in the same universe as doing the equivalent of cutting five onions into one millimeter slices every single day.