skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The first Apple M3 Pro chip benchmarks
have leaked!

It’s actually slower than the M2 Max based
on margin of error.

M3 Pro: 15,173
M2 Max: 15,242"

An alternate, and in my opinion more accurate and relevant, way of phrasing this would be:

"Very cool! The new *mid-level* chips perform as well
(within <1%) as the old *performance-tier* chips, so
you get more performance for less money - or more
perf for the same money."

In what world is this not a good thing? Pretty solid annual incremental upgrade.

Of course I understand why people are underwhelmed with the incremental M2 and M3 gains, after the groundbreaking M1. Now that Apple have got all of that groundbreakingness out of the way, yeah, sure, it's going to be a while before something really groundbreaking again -- but that usually happens with entirely new architectures, and new architectures don't just fall out of the sky on an annual basis. And yeah, maybe we all hoped for more from the 3nm process.

Look at the annual incremental performance increases seen from AMD and Intel. The M3's progress compares favorably. I read some 14th-gen Intel benchmarks and they were mostly indistinguishable from 13th-gen benchmarks.
Who funds the shelter system, and where do the dogs end up?

It's hard for a small municipality with a stray problem to justify a facility that is entirely dedicated to the bureaucracy of scheduled death. This is a tale as old as time and the end result is not a happy one.

The term "kill shelter" is much more common than "shelter" because by nature a shelter is temporary housing before euthanization resources are available/confirmed.
What have you seen in the past five years that's made progress in this area? There's a lot of the "Modern Data Stack" tools that have certainly helped, but those generally feel separate from ML/AI workloads (usually).
Oh, I'm well aware of that, it's just that I couldn't go this route.

IIRC that's for people under 35. I remember an Italian friend of mine complaining about this since he was 38 at the time.
They sent me the wrong item, and now I not only don't have the item I ordered, but have to take a trip to the UPS store to send this thing back. Extremely frustrating!

I also received an item that was shattered in transit and had to send it back. I felt bad for the UPS store employee dealing with the broken glass.
Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38176665
And squitch is a wonderful Perl tool for this as well
It’s a bust in its first round? As others have pointed out, maintaining performance with less power is an improvement.
In short, the judge ruled that McKernan and Ortiz hadn't followed proper procedure for a lawsuit of this type, because they did not register their works with the U.S. Copyright Office before filing the lawsuit.
It's possibly an interesting wrinkle given that, especially for certain types of works, the vast bulk of material is likely copyrighted but not registered.
Yes, highly technical people pretending not to grasp the dichotomy.
Thanks!

Same here, it's rare to use arrays directly in my experience. Just difficult to explain (or visualize) slices without also discussing arrays.
A lot of the blog news sites beyond just gaming had a vibe switch in the 2010's.

You used to find passionate and hungry writers with something to say. Then it became bitter and jaded misanthropes that don't recognize they're misanthropes. They tried to keep an alt-media rebellious tone, but warped it into tired boomer-splaining.

A tragedy really. I had to admit it was over when someone argued an opinion I already agreed with and they were still pissing me off.
Soldering stuff. Think esp32 and iot
The line is pretty simple for me, because it's the same line that applies to people. It doesn't matter what the training set is so long as it is not reproducing either the same thing or too similar to the thing it's trained from. Somebody else linked that you can't generally copyright style for instance, and if I recall you can't copyright algorithms or things of general knowledge either. So you can copyright "a specific instance of a thing", but not "the general idea of a thing". Here, near as I can tell, these algorithms generate some general idea of the things it's trained on and produce something specific different from the specific things. What should matter is only if it is different enough, same as it matters for people.

We've got much bigger problems though but if we, we as people generally not specifically you, can't even agree on something I see as so fundamentally basic bringing up things I think are problems would start war
It makes no difference to the creator when you use sponsorblock to skip sponsored segements, unless you intend to buy things they are affiliated with.
Bun v1.0.10 – node:HTTP gets 14% faster
It’s literally just logic and is purely speculation on my part.
Amateur Radio!

I got a bachelor's degree in geophysical engineering about 10 years ago and never really used it besides programming, GIS, and data visualization.

Ham radio lets me do a lot of the things I loved about geophysics. Wave propagation, being outside, electronics, talking to satellites, remote sensing. Driving around being cool with a radio lol.

I'm just getting started but I'm really glad I got licensed. Especially in case of emergencies. I hope to practice and get to a point where I can help with public events or during emergency situations.
Yeah, sorry for that. I spent more time on technical side of article rather than polishing grammar and picking right words. As for non-native speaker it is hard for me to construct sentencies that match natural English speech.
Barack Obama on AI, free speech, and the future of the internet
One of the things that surprised me about social media (facebook in this case) was how people I'd known for a long time could barely string two sentences together, and tended to use meme/gifs in place of what I'd consider "real" communication. I personally would not expect the past to be any different.
Yeah it's tough right now. One of the saddest things for me is the vicious cycle of "we can't use elixir because nobody uses elixir, so we can't use elixir because nobody uses elixir" ad infinitum. It's such a wonderful and productive stack, but people are just insanely comfortable with their typescript (or laravel, or rails, etc).
Eating local has a very small impact on the greenhouse gas emissions associated with food, because transportation makes up a small part (~10% on average) of the total. Most foods, avocados included, are sent via ship not airplane. The actual foods you choose to eat (e.g. more vegetables, less beef) has a significantly greater impact than where they are coming from.[0]

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
Yes, GPT Vision / ChatGPT is very accurate. CogVLM is also very powerful as a self-hosted solution.
Land is not a major cost factor, as the rabbit equivalent of a broiler will not be moving too much, and will either live in small cage with mom, or medium cage as a grow-out with its siblings. Only real expense is feed, and you do want quality feed. I get a locally made non-GMO feed for $23.50/50lbs.
date,start_time,end_time,underlying_start_price,underlying_end_price,instrument_start_price,instrument_end_price,instrument_price_change_percentage,instrument_type,instrument_strike_price
2023-10-09,14:52:01,18:56:19,427.14,432.79,0.09,1.92,21.5294,Call,431.00
2023-09-27,18:11:48,19:12:18,422.74,427.31,0.09,2.42,27.4706,Call,425.00
2023-10-12,16:21:35,18:11:44,437.19,431.44,0.06,1.92,33.9091,Put,433.00
2023-10-06,14:09:50,18:48:25,420.93,431.04,0.06,4.12,73.8182,Call,427.00

I don't think HackerNews supports enough Markdown to show tables but... tell me what you think about that.
I'm guessing it's because they have UPS stores consolidating returns into bigger boxes, which reduces the return cost per item. Then the returns get packed into pallets which are sold.
> "Item never arrived" can be fixed by adding $1 to the shipping label to force a signature

In my experience, drivers will sign for and leave "signature required" deliveries quite a lot of the time. I've had signature-required international shipments worth thousands of dollars signed for by the driver and left sitting in front of my house.
When it stops being the case, it’d be one of the biggest tech stories of our lifetime.
I worked with an older fart many years ago who taught me some of my best investment strategy.

He said that one time his 4 year old niece asked for an IPod for Christmas. He said that he didn’t know what that was; but if a 4 year old did, then it was probably gonna be big.

So basically if common folks in your network interact with a particular product; then there is a good chance that it’s a billion dollar product. The inverse is the same, in that if few people have heard of a product, then it’s probably not a unicorn.

Applying that logic to both WeWork and Theranos back when Uber was at peak, I asked around within my network if people knew of the anyone who had experience with either company.

People said nope; never heard of it or used it. I thought that was very strange considering how often both companies were dominating HN at the time with mindshare about their insane success.

If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck; it’s probably a duck.
Absolute garbage. The Montreal subway has nothing in common with the NYC Second Avenue extension or the SF Central subway.
Exactly. A mid level part being basically equivalent to a top tier part from last generation is a huge win imo.
I'm genuinely curious because all we hear about are the bad examples
op's is a valid criticism in a post gonzo journalism world. hunter thompson, an otherwise conventionally trained professional, embeds himself in the world of his subjects, and produces a masterpiece of investigative journalism. it's also sexy, and generations of journalists imitate him after. but the division remained up until quite recently, where you have the chicago manual of syle, and then you have (late 90s) vice magazine. tongue-in-cheek faux investigative article works when you're a professional humorist and that's your beat, or when you're a professional game reporter, and you want to produce some levity. in the second case the deficiencies are excused, because what otherwise carries your writing and by extension your reputation, are your serious pieces. in the post gonzo journalism world most writers act as if they have that reputation to cary them, but what they consistently produce are low effort tongue-in-cheek, insider jokes articles. there's simply not enough good will to humor them.
Why the case for Rust is not particularly compelling
The M1 Pro came in binned 6+2 and I’ll bet most buyers took that configuration to save money or upgrade to Max if they want more performance and RAM. Apple could be providing a good upgrade for what people really bought, and with 6+6 and more single core score it is a real upgrade. Is it worth it? There’s no other improvements than the chip anyway.
Ask HN: Why is there no dark mode on HN?
Not as easy as the current trend of "just get a vasectomy, it's easy and reversible" suggests. The problem with a vasectomy is that there is a low, but non-zero chance that you get long-lasting pain from it. After all, they cut through a bunch of nerves and muscles. These aren't just some dumb useless tubes.

So, given you're in a stable relationship, you essential trade X years of care-free sex (until menopause) for a slight risk that it fucks you up pretty badly. In other words: the potential upside is limited, the potential downside is quite severe.

Regarding reversibility: Not as easy. It's a sophisticated operation which requires a specialist and takes 2-3 hours. If your body produces more sperm than it can absorb, they might rupture tiny tubes in your epididymis, which makes it almost impossible to reverse. The risk is higher the longer ago the vasectomy was.
NFTs: A Journey Through Time and Value
NixOS project adopts Contributor Covenant 1.4
Those who act with the power of the state should be held to the highest standard of accountability. Surely these departments have the manpower to do a civilian review of any manual bodycam turn-off? If its just the officer turning it off when entering a bathroom, all good, but if its them turning it off before conducting a traffic stop, we have a serious problem.
His pediatrician specifically ordered the test, examined it, and let us know we had nothing to worry about, so hopefully it wasn't that bad. All I know for now is that it was below the threshold you cited.

I'm sorry that that your daughter's test went up, I know that's soul crushing to see happen. When I was freaking out back when I got an email about contamination, I found a study that gave some perspective and made me feel a little better. Obviously for threshold of lead present in any food should be 0, and we should not be complacent, but look at the magnitudes for both the blood concentrations and deltas of IQ they're looking at here:

"A highly significant association was found between lead exposure and children's IQ (P < 0.001). An increase in blood lead from 10 to 20 micrograms/dl was associated with a decrease of 2.6 IQ points in the meta-analysis. "

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8162884/
A lot of people don't think of Ecto when doing data validation outside of the database, but that's a mistake! It's a really powerful design pattern and implementation, and I've found it to be immenseley useful. It's clear from inception that they recognized it's general-purpose usefullness for data validation, so you don't have to hack it to make it work. Very useful tool in the toolbox
Maybe you could have a speed governor that can be overridden if the gas petal is fully pressed to the floor. (Fine for gas cars but probably not a good experience in EVs).

I live near a blind turn into an intersection where the speed limit is 50. When there’s heavy fog, it’s deadly. I’ve seen 2 fatal accidents, one with a dump truck and school bus, multiple people died. Another one I witnessed the next year was someone head on hitting a telephone pole. Same intersection. Same conditions (heavy fog).

Right now the only other solution is to reduce the speed limit or to add a red light. Or do nothing and let the accidents continue
Does it not end up in the Playstation app or whatever? At least on Xbox any captures end up in the app. Nintendo has a bit cumbersome system using QR codes but that also works.
For that matter you’ll need a universe, the physics of which must allow both semiconductive metals and the eventual evolution of multicellular biochemistry.
i do wonder how many people are willing to pay almost $100 annually for blogging. defector seems to be successful-ish with that model? if you can make it work, the editorial independence is probably amazing. i don't really care for kotaku now or back in the day, but wish them luck nonetheless - funding for journalism in general has been badly broken for a long time.
.... even the smallest dots are huge...
Glorious Eggroll is awesome. I’ve been low key following the GitHub for his fork and it’s really dedicated work they’re doing. Kudos to them.
As others have speculated, maybe it improves battery life? I’d be curious to know if there’s a meaningful difference.
I use extensively when in LATAM. It sometimes feels as if the route chosen was for the algo to "probe" an alternative.
My advice is don’t engage with the ‘rebase is a lie’ argument. It is a textbook bad-faith argument, since it deliberately and explicitly ignores the stated intention behind rebase. It’s a talking point that people like to parrot without fully understanding what the author of the argument (Fossil developers) meant, and without fully understanding the implications of the argument. FWIW, HN mods in the past have previously confirmed that repeating this hyperbolic claim goes against HN guidelines.

Fun note though, I argued this directly with Dr Hipp (principal author of SQLite and of Fossil, inventor of the ‘git rebase is a lie’ argument) and during that discussion, he agreed to soften the language on the Fossil pages. They are still hyperbolic, using the word ‘dishonest’, and continue to distort the reasons and usage behind rebase, but he did remove some instances of the word ‘lie’ and ‘lying’, which is progress.

It’s a bit of a shame that they haven’t found the strength to frame Fossil in a positive light without trash-talking the competition. There is a good-faith argument for Fossil vs git, but they’re choosing not to use it.
It's pretty hard not to see it as a growth hack given that posts can't even be viewed without an account. That seems pretty transparently to be a system to create a feeling of FOMO/exclusivity, to make it so that you don't only need an account to participate, you need an account to even see what the network is or to follow anyone on it at all.

As a comparison, Cohost limited account setup when it launched as a way to limit growth. But it didn't lock viewing the entire site behind an account requirement because... come on. What does that have to do with scaling, we all know why that restriction is there :)

To be fair, it seems to be working. Needing to seek out and find invite codes means that signups are more visible -- signup codes get shared over social media and that means mentioning Bluesky publicly and keeping it in people's minds. It also forces people to ask publicly about access, which makes the network feel more exclusive and turns every signup or expression of interest into an advertisement for the network. It's a good marketing strategy, and I suspect that a nontrivial portion of Bluesky's current buzz comes from that marketing strategy, so I can understand why it hasn't been abandoned yet. I mean, look at the current thread; if people didn't need to coordinate publicly on HN to get access then this subthread wouldn't exist and then there wouldn't be a public thread where a bunch of people express interest in trying out the network -- and that publicly expressed interest in this very subthread makes Bluesky feel more in-demand.

In fact, this is such an effective marketing strategy that I've seen Bluesky users complain that invite codes are too common now and that their invite codes aren't in as much demand as they used to be. That FOMO loop is so powerful that it's even affecting the people who already have access to the network who enjoyed the feeling of being in control of an artificially scarce resource.

But sure, all of this is definitely not a growth hack, I believe you ;)

Regardless of whether it's good marketing, the account requirements make the platform a lot less relevant in any serious discussions about the direction of social media, because despite its plans for the future for federation and access, what Bluesky is today is a platform that is in practice even more locked down than Twitter is.
Player reviews for games aren't much better, unfortunately. So many games get review bombed for political reasons. It's the Amazon equivalent of "this book sucks because my package was late" but orders of magnitude more frequent. It's nearly impossible to find high quality game reviews.
I've followed this tutorial recently, and it's amazing:

https://github.com/BrunoLevy/learn-fpga/blob/master/FemtoRV/...

The author includes detailed instruction for how to build a micro-controller in Verilog on an icestick, starting from a very simple blinker all the way to a functional RISC-V core.

My other suggestion would be: for most of the toolchain, skip your package manager and directly install the binary artifacts published on this Github repo:

https://github.com/YosysHQ/oss-cad-suite-build

You'll spare yourself a world of pain.
Probably people would become more risk-averse, on average. Interest rates would tend to go lower, as money in the future would gain relative value compared to present money.
Musk says X subscribers will get early access to xAI's chatbot, Grok
Didn’t I see this headline 5 years ago?
At this level I suspect it disconnects when you look at it funny. Hope the rate makes it worth it.
I mean, at the risk of making this political, I think we can find at least one ostensible billionaire that most people are not arguing for the intelligence of. I'll let you figure out who I might be implying.

I think intelligence is helpful, but not a necessary component to become really rich. I think there can be combinations of luck, opportunity, and charisma. It doesn't hurt that silicon valley investors appear to be the most gullible people on the planet.

I don't know the guy, but I did hear reports of him constantly drinking and smoking weed at the office, and him claiming that they're making a "human based operating system", a claim that does not make sense.
> It's not always -- usually? almost never? -- a matter of one side eliminating or crushing the other to the point of abject subjugation.

If you decide they're going to live then yes. You need to show them that if they can't or won't unconditionally surrender and change their ways then they will in fact be abjectly subjugated and their lives will be miserable. Eventually enough of them will agree that it's not worth it. That was more or less the the USA approach with Japan in WW2. The thought being that they will fight to the death if they feel there's any sliver of hope. So nukes were dropped which showed there was not and that it wasn't worth fighting anymore.

The other option is to just slaughter them. This has been used more frequently throughout history.
Find it hard to believe that this is being framed as a 'UK-first' project.

If it is, then I'm genuinely perplexed. This seems to be a fairly frequent tactic on mainland Europe and even across the Irish Sea.
Easy loophole: walk into a toilet and turn the camera off, then leave and conduct a traffic stop, then go back into the toilet, turn the camera back on, then leave again and go about your day.

The footage will show you walking into a toilet, turning the camera off, turning the camera back on again only an hour and a half later, and then leaving the toilet.
The article makes it seem like kids one day having a phone is a fait accompli, I like to think of smart phones as this generations tobacco. Right now it looks like a universal practice, but we already know the significant mental and physical issues that have been caused mainly by constant access to our phones and the networks they connect us to. I hope my children never own or use a smart phone. If they do I hope they are disciplined enough to use it only as a very capable tool, and not as a necessary accessory to their life.

My children currently have access to a phone that can place call's and send text messages. Maybe it would be nice to have GPS on it once they get to driving age, but everything else is very much detrimental to their life and happiness.
You can do it through voice assistant.
EVs Surpass 20% of Calif. Car Sales for First Time; Tesla Leads
I guess modern gaming journalists are journalists first, gamers second. It used to be the other way around.

I miss the sh*t out of printed specialist journalism. Growing up, we had a couple of printed magazines. You could tell they were incredibly well written, with great reviews, walkthroughs, interviews with people in the local industry, as well as surprisingly in-depth exposes about things like for example, how CG animations are made etc.

Unfortunately, thanks to a leaky water pipe, I can only cherish the memory of said collection.

Their business model was exchanging product (the magazine) for money. Based on that business model, they could pay their employees, a couple of passionate and talented people a living wage. something that I'm not sure modern internet-based outfits accomplish.