skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the parent post is making a very valid point that even in _popular circles_ he's relatively unknown, as his fan base may be large, very intense and vocal on social media but is still tiny fraction of the general public, the vast majority of whom have never heard of this artist but would know various older mainstream artists.

"Many millions" is a lot when compared to my popularity, but insignificant when compared to actually popular artists.

Like, HN is not a forum where art critics would be overrepresented, and it would be somewhat reasonable reflection "popular circles" and even one that favors an artist which, according to the article, draws heavily on younger and more app-using population than the general one. If we'd have a poll right here about artists people can name, do you really think that he would come out on top? Or even be in top 10?
>Yes, we should make parents investing in their children illegal.

Agred, we should make the artificial boosting of prospects for some kids and handicapping of others based on their respective's parent's wealth illegal.

>Those who grow tall too fast will have weights put on them, those who show intellectual aptitude will be given booze to slow their development.

And those sliding on slippery slopes would have to wear high-friction fabrics to be made to slide slower.

Or perhaps natural talents and throwing money to boost some children's life prospects while others are left behind (from no quality or action of their own) are not the same thing.

Who would have thought?
I've seen this kind of thin-skinned, childish behaviour far too many times in the past. One instances, from years ago, really stands out.

A well-known language learning blogger posted a review of a learning site (created by another blogger, with whom he had several disagreements). The review was generally positive, but the other blogger took undue offense to some of the criticisms in the review (which were laid out politely and accurately). He not only posted a snarky "review" of blog from whence the review sprang but his followers jumped in, castigating the reviewer in various online forums.

While I never expected corners of the internet to be a revival of Enlightenment-era salons, I'd hoped that they wouldn't be virtual pile ons. I'm naive ...
Training LLMs at Scale with AMD MI250 GPUs
This reminds me of the company I worked at that was paying for dozens of unused Redshift clusters at any one time, peaking over a hundred. There were common data science (read: ETL configuration) tasks that required spinning up a Redshift cluster, and the "data engineers" (read: fresh grads with a few weeks of training) sometimes forgot to shut them down afterwards, or got diverted to different work temporarily and couldn't find the original cluster when they returned to complete the task.

The first proposed solution was to ask the forgetful data engineers to manually tag all the resources they created, so un-tagged resources could be deleted promptly. When we asked how the tagging scheme would allow us to distinguish between clusters that had been forgotten and clusters that were being actively used, we were told that it was not necessarily a complete solution, but it was "a step in the right direction." Ultimately the problem was declared solved, but I wonder if it really was.

The company was swimming in VC money, but even so, that level of waste (which was consistent across all of our astronomical AWS spend) was impossible to ignore. Checking back now, all of the engineering jobs they're hiring for are overseas, so they must have ultimately nuked the entire department.
Myself and some of the original #warez folks on EFNet still hang out on a non-IRC chat platform, 30+ years later. Some of those guys were Razor members at one point in time. Lol most have grown up kids now. It's definitely a far cry from back in the day. I was briefly a courier for Razor starting on BBS but they were quite demanding. I would courier releases from their HQ at the time Mirage to a number of the member boards, but they wanted things done like the second it hit and really wanted all their couriers to have multiple lines. Certainly some colorful fellows in Razor 1911 like the TRC.
They kept mentioning performance relative to intel Macs which makes me think there is a large cohort of people sticking to their x86 rigs due to compatibility. Being able to run an x86 linux or windows VM is still a requirement for me.
Way more people bought in to M1 than M2, so they're a bigger customer base to sell to. But didn't I see something about M3 being 2x faster than M2? I'm sure that's some BS about it being 2x faster in a specific benchmark. But I'm sure it's still a good generational improvement.

Edit: I love seeing what HN will downvote. Absolutely hilarious.
That’s what BCL scoring and the like are for.
I guess they are seeing too many M1s in the wild - you're supposed to upgrade to a new Apple device a d create e-waste.
That will only happen when all the Intel Macs are depreciated and no longer receive major OS updates, which will take a couple years (macOS Sonoma's minimum supported MBP is from 2018)
Yup this. I'm not a herd person but I love boarding first so I can tuck my bag away. It means the worry of that is gone.

And I actually like sitting in my window seat a lot more than at the gate.
Just because you value something as worthless, does not mean everyone else values it as worthless.
Certainly, people on power trips are odious and we should all reject that behavior. Let's set that aside because I think it's uncontroversial and we all agree.

The problem is people with authority who think
that it makes them better than you.

To summarize: we've got people who (by definition) have a hard time understanding the motives of others, and they have made some pretty assertive decisions about the motives of those in authority ("they must think they're better than me!") and have decided that they don't like those motives that they, the people who are bad at ascribing others' motives, have ascribed to others.

That is not great or accurate thinking in my opinion. I'm saying this as somebody likely on the spectrum to some extent himself, for whatever that's worth.

I think that most neurotypical people also reject the
idea that authority makes you better. But they tend to
play along with it, for some reason.

I don't think this "some reason" should be very mysterious. What are some of the defining traits of autism? A lack of awareness/valuation of social intangibles such as peer or societal pressure. Another typical one is a discomfort with change from one's desired routines. Another typical one is sensory overload. Three common things off the top of my head that can make it tough to jive with authority.

Neurotypicals therefore don't typically have these barriers to successful interactions with authority. I realize that this is difficult or even impossible for those on the spectrum to intuit, but when seemingly intelligent people on the spectrum who seem very well versed on how autism relates to neurotypicalism declare this to be some super mystery, and proclaim that neurotypicals seemingly just looooooooove themselves some authority, my eyes roll so hard that I'm afraid they're about to fall out of my skull. It's insulting, and just incorrect, and just not very good thinking. And again, I'm not even particularly neurotypical myself.

Where autism comes into play is that an autistic person's
notion of what is intolerable is often quite different. An
autistic person is also more likely to lack or not care about
the social inhibition against challenging or rejecting something
that they feel is wrong.

I think you nailed this, hard. More succinctly than me, and certainly better than the linked author. Amen.
I think that this is a response to the rising usage of the Cronus and/or other controller modification tools that give players advantages (cheats).

For example one of these "Mods" for Cronus state that they are:

a dynamic, fully-automated Anti-Recoil system that transforms your in-game character into a laser-guided juggernaut we've affectionately dubbed as [BEAM]

Battling cheaters in video games is a never-ending chase, but I appreciate that they are attempting something.

I wish that a gaming company could figure out a less invasive way to detect these cheaters.
Why do I need to select the most expensive M3 Max version (the one with 16 cores) to get 48 or 64 gigs of RAM. The M3 Max with 14 cores only allow 36 or 96 gigs. Just let me choose 14 cores and 64 gigs.
Some spreadsheet hero who has never played a game in their life is looking for a promotion.
What's the deal with "dynamic caching"? I wish they would have talked about it more. It sounds like they're reducing memory allocations by only allocating what is actually needed.
I used to work on AI.

Now I work on Artificial Stupidity...

Jokes aside, this is ludicrous. The president cannot enforce this regulation over open source projects, because code is free speech going back to the 1990s ATT v BSD case law, and many other cases the establish how source code is an artistic form of expression, thus protected speech.

The president has no authority to regulate speech, so they can pretty much fuck off.
Does anyone remember the site where you could input a text and it would find movie clips of people saying all the words ? Like a video version of a magazine type ransom note?
I made a chrome extension for myself that does this:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-saw-it...

Edit: Oops didn't really read your question. So this isn't exactly what you're looking for, but I still find it useful.
Yeah, Apple customers tend to also just "trust Apple" and get whatever the recommended product is for their price point. Half the reason I find this troubling is ewaste, the other half is I'm sick of having to try to explain RAM to my MIL and ask how many tabs they keep open when asked which computer she should buy. If they had a better baseline memory (16gb) or a simple inexpensive upgrade that's the second option in the lineup instead of the higher storage cost, it'd be a simple, one-sentence "get that one".

Even having to upgrade the RAM is a hassle when price comparing etc. They know this and it's - by design - misleading to the type of affluent less-tech-friendly users who prefer Apple products.
Not real innovation (when comparing with Windows world) but having support for hardware raytracing now is definitely nice for games.

However, then on the information page they show Myst. Doesn't look spectacular to be honest, probably doesn't make use of hardware raytracing anyways. Having a short video of a fast-paced shooter with hardware ray-tracing support would be more impressive.

I guess it will take some time until games will adopt new Metal graphic APIs for hardware raytracing.
"Your problem is being such a punchable face and you can stop being autistic and get 99% of your problem solved instantly"

^ process this in warm peroxide for 15 minutes to obtain an analogue for GP.

That said, software engineering had moved away from praising "autism", towards a model of warm and communal, wall-free workplace, over the past decade or so. That had supposedly improved (averaged)throughput, overall productivity, and turned software field into a more mature and modern space. It should be generally a good thing that innocent regular people are less likely to be psychologically, or sometimes physically, harmed engaging in software work.

At the same time, it seems that it shifted power held by independent kind dictators to monopolistic corporations amplifying power by herding those people, accelerating techno-feudalism. And as such, maybe it's just me but, I'm not sure "autist go away" attitude is good for the future of computing, and also future of the human society by extension.
It's frustrating that they don't refresh the whole line at once. I'm in the market for a new mac mini but now I feel forced to hold off until it gets its refresh.
Love my m2 mac mini. Should have gotten it wayyy sooner.
Heuristics that identify inhuman inputs.
It usually comes with a 2 year warranty, which adds to the costs.
This is the 68K->PPC switch about a decade earlier.
There is a subtle difference between laynames and technical math names. Lay names have nouns and verbs separate: a number may be multiplied. They are data and functions in programming terms. But in math terms this is combination is also a noun, a group. Many lay terms that appear to only be data but actually have an implied mathematical operation.
Are they not supposed to make comparisons? I don't understand what alternative you would like.
Also interested if you ever expand to Mandarin!
The Kanisite Hittite that the GP describes isn't the Hittite taught in textbooks. It is a handful of Indo-European names in otherwise non-Indo-European text. For specialists only.
It wasn’t that quickly if you consider the years of iPhone chips leading up to it.
I've used KeePass (and its derivatives) for over a decade. It works across all my devices and I sync it with Syncthing. Currently I'm using KeePassXC with my YubiKey as an added authentication layer.
With VAT, I think most EU countries mandate advertised prices to include VAT.

Still, US sales tax is low. EU is >= ~20% almost everywhere.
That’s cool. What I am saying is that you should be able to decide what works for you.

I don’t want any. You do. Why not give users the ability to control what they want? It’s not a technical challenge.
Ask HN: Why don't we cover parking lots with solar?
I'm asking this to find an actual answer for a common-sense solution. "Everyone" seems to agree that covering the parking lots of shopping centers, outdoor malls, etc, is a great use of space compared to the current utility-scale model (cheap farmland).

Why aren't we seeing companies tackle this? Is it the potential maintenance? Is it the implied risk? Is it contractual issues? It doesn't seem to be technical issues, as utility dispatch, microgrids, etc are well-understood problems.
Well the average VAT in Europe is about twice as high if not more than the average sales tax in the US.

So I’d rather have to do some basic math but save 10% (of course different tax rates only partially explain the price difference, it still is significantly more expensive in Europe without VAT)
They're just the images you're talking about.

The article here and the earlier article that triggered the social media kickback both assert that "the art" includes both the images and the staging and presentation on social media.

Much like <insert other famous artist> who made themselves an essential intertwined part of the <other famous artist> art show.
"No choice" here means you didn't choose the textbook, you (or your benefactor) simply paid for it.

I don't think "normal" is any excuse for any behavior. At one time, not so long ago, <insert evil thing here> was normal.

If you need information withheld from you to learn because of laziness, fine, sorry you have that problem, good luck solving it. It should not become the problem of anyone else nor be considered acceptable to impose a solution for you on them at their expense. That's just rotten.

Any textbook that is incomplete to learn from independently, without a "professor" reading a slide deck, without TA's and a yearly bill of over $10k over and above the textbook is not worthy of the name textbook and should be treated by every educated person with contempt. Same companies rent-seeking that do academic journals right. Hate isn't too strong a word for them if we care about education over rent-seeking.

4th edition usually means 3rd time the publisher re-ordered the exercises so the numbers don't match to kill the 2nd hand market. The whole thing blows goats.
Yes and I think it's broader than that. For example, if a country uses AI to (say) optimize their education or their economy - they will "run away" from us. Rather than enabling us to use that technology too (why would they, even for money) they can just wait until their advantage is insurmountable.

So it's not just pure warfare systems that are risky for us but everything.
What do you do when the police and military forces are illegally controlled by that group?
Myst supports ray-traced reflections. I agree that it's not a particularly good show piece though.
I've heard this advice before, but in my experience you can tell the difference between something malicious or not.

But more importantly even if I provide some signal that my email is active it's not going to change that much. They can send more, but that just helps train filters.

Lastly default Gmail settings loads remote images. Just opening the email is enough to create some signal. Having remote images turned off is enough to stop most engagement pings.
It does say "unauthorized", so I assume it should still be possible to get an official license to make a third party controller, though we'll have to see if that's actually going to be the case.
The focus seemed particularly on people still on intel macbooks and selling them on upgrading. I don't think they would usually reference a product that outdated at this point but they brought it up several times highlighting 11x faster.
It seems Erdogan doesn't want us to, but maybe the people of Turkey want us to at this point. It's not clear whether most like the name change. https://www.quora.com/What-do-Turkish-people-think-about-the... I guess I'm going to keep calling it Turkey.

Edit: looking at Google Maps in English, maybe I hope this will be reversed. This seems to be UN sanctioned bullying by a dictator. Türkiye looks weird in English a way I wouldn't be proud of. There are plenty of other countries where english speakers don't call them the same thing they call themselves. I wasn't aware until your comment that the bird was named after the country, that changes it for me, along with Google Maps putting the dots on the ü on it when it doesn't do that for other countries.
https://www.pbgc.gov/wr/find-an-insured-pension-plan/pbgc-pr...
It's even better, you can buy the whole machine, with a great monitor, connectors, a keyboard, and so on!
> AIUI it's an absence or deficiency of theory of mind

This is become more and more a dated belief, especially as autistic voices are getting greater privilege to convey their own experiences. Autism may present as processing difficulties around interpreting body language and facial expressions, as a result of, or in concert with, sensory overload. These challenges don't exclude being able to empathize, but they do present obstacles. An autistic person might be confused for being self-absorbed as they're often dealing with these hidden struggles. I think also a lifetime of being misunderstood could manifest in either a combative or inward disposition.

This confusion between autistic and 'allistic' people is described by the "double empathy problem":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_empathy_problem
Also: "Xbox's new policy – say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November" (79 points, 79 comments, 17 hours ago)[0], "Xbox is ending support for unauthorized controllers" (3 points) [1], "Microsoft May Drop Support for 'Unauthorized' Xbox Controllers, Accessories" (2 points), "Microsoft Appears to Block Unofficial Third-Party Accessories on Xbox" (1 point)[3], "Microsoft is cracking down on unofficial Xbox gear" (3 points)[4]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38066858
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38065269
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38070427
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38073269
[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38076461
Yes, I know what it is about. But what gets me is how incredibly prescient it all is, we're pretty much running headlong into this future without any ethical framework to guide any of it. It's a free-for-all right now, as if the new frontier of the Wild West re-opened. Reminiscent of the early days of the web. But Gattaca seems to be used as a blueprint rather than a warning.
Also comparing it to an intel based macbook instead of intels newest offering
apple silicone doesn't need ram /half the people on HN
It’s actually enough for light work, but you can get more ram just pony
Same here, battery lasts for a long while and it never gets hot, which is a big deal for me as I use it on my lap for long periods of time.

When I bought it, I knew it was going to be a laptop that I'll keep for at least 5 years. So far, it still feels like new.
The point of the original review is actually that it's his tik tok fame and video format that is what creates the audience and not the art itself. His fans have little interest in the actual art, it's the vicarious and voyeuristic aspect that his fortune is built off, the art is incidental.

Yeah, the painting is boring, safe, well trodden material (and he's not good at hands!) but the phenomenon is social media. The hype machine. The parasocial relationships.
The complete lack of power or ownership of your work.

Do you think anyone consented to have AI companies scrap GitHub etc?
One thing that left me a bit confused was the comparison against Intel Macs. Although I am still using an Intel 16-inch MacBook, I really wanted to see how the M3 fared against the M2, not Intel and M1. I think it's no surprise the M3 exceeds the Intel Core i7-9750H in basically all of Apple's own benchmarking. My real question, which will probably be answered next week, is how it compares to the generation right before it.

My work laptop is a 14-inch MacBook Pro and I've been impressed with the battery life considering all of the containers that run (on Kubernetes!) as part of my dev workflow. I guess Apple deciding to compare Intel and M1 was to try to convince existing MacBook users to upgrade to the latest generation CPUs.
What do you mean, have you set foot on a college campus this decade? It's a sea of macbooks. A $1500 sticker price isn't stopping people.
:(

I think the base MBP from 2015 had 8GB.
To be honest, Act 3 has ridiculous frame drops on a dedicated GPU. Act 2 is also heavy but Baldur’s Gate (the town) is just very graphically heavy for some reason. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s just that same performance issue.
I think it makes sense in that the people that bought M2 are not likely to be in the market for an M3. The people looking to buy an M3 are likely upgrading from either an M1 or an older Intel based MBP.
Are your children and your parents also on board with this? If not: did you realize you just contributed half of their DNA as well?
Not all. I'm not. Though years of psychotherapy did have a hand in that.

I see what you mean though. I'm used to being the token guy at self help workshops lol.
there should be an official mastodon instance for public servants
Looks like a FOSS, audio editing equivalent of video editing tools like Descript and Videate. Will definitely keep an eye on this for my own (non podcast) audio recordings.
I proudly use an M1 Mac Mini but the fact that they're so full of themselves constantly makes me laugh(?)
Given Apple’s history and California law, I wouldn’t worry that your M2 will have a short lifespan.
In previous gens they had different die sizes with different physical numbers of memory controllers and connections. Guessing it's similar here.

Rumor is Apple bought all of TSMC's initial 3nm production. They are probably yield limited on full featured chips.
It does have a much better screen and relevant ports compared to an Air.
but of course dickens did publish a detective novel, or at least one featuring a detective in a major role (Bleak House) prior to The Moonstone. of course the two writers were friends, and undoubtedly influenced each other.