skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
food should also be illegal because the one time month you buy some special flour for $10 it gives you some shit recipe on the back that also says to buy Xcorp's other $12 special grain then it also requires some meme ingredient of the month like gochujang sauce. when you go to buy the $12 special grain, there will also be a conveniently placed $20 bottle of """premium""" gochujang sauce beside it and you think, "wow i'm glad this happened to be here so i didn't have to go search for it".

now you will also buy a $5 package of some spice that will go bad by the time you use half the bag

finally, you can make the meal. and it turns out okay. then repeat next month with all new ingredients. and you throw out all these previous ones then as your cupboard is getting too full of things you will never use for anything else.

in fact cooking should be illegal for these reasons because they create too much unnecessary waste and co2 emissions.

then the next day you realize you still don't know how to cook even the most basic thing and buy KFC because you already spent like 5 hours on the previous venture. $40 for the family. then there's the medical visits due to eating deep fried food and 100ml of water 3 times a day.

> how you're telling me there's something wrong with my diet? everyone else eats like this! i'm getting a new doctor

all this could have been avoided by real education such as just buying a cook book published 100 years ago.

and don't even get me started with websites, they meme you into buying 10x more fake ingredients and meme recipes that will not teach you anything.

the average poor stressed out mom spends $20K a year on this, more than twice her retail salary! making her even more dependent on her abusive husband!

what else should be illegal? alcohol.

also the article mentions that an addiction counselor got addicted. reminds me of shit arguments alex jones people make up. like when "redpillers" thought covid was ebola they would state how a top medical authority got covid. then when they thought covid was fake the would state how a top medical authority got sick from the vaccine.
A bunch of great talks at Strange Loop this year! Two off the top of my head:

• "An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3u7bGgVspM

• "The Economics of Programming Languages" by Evan Czaplicki (Strange Loop 2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ3w_jec1v8

I've also been loving TodePond's cellular automata videos. Their SPLASH talk was mind-blowing, but it doesn't look like it's out yet.

• TodePond playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taNguu5T22g&list=ULcxqQ59vzy...
Do you have example chats you can link to? I find too many times, people make claims like this about user error then provide chats where the code doesn’t actually work or it would've taken just as long to google as to go ten rounds crafting just the right prompt for it.
> Most normal users (aka if you read Hacker News, you're not one of those) don't and won't know about shift and control clicking.

My boomer parents do. Most users I've seen in the wild do.
How big a system can be while maintaining a quantum entanglement (also called 'quantum coherence') - is still an open question. A very important one, because it affects quantum computers. Experimentally researchers see, that a big enough system can't maintain quantum coherence for long. If you want to know about how this process is described mathematically, search for 'quantum decoherence'. If you want to know about possible physical interpretations, search for 'objective collapse theory'.
> efficiency-focused laptop CPUs where one would expect at least battery life and fan noise to not be issues.

AMD laptops seem to be pretty decent at that. You can get something on par or even ahead of MBPs in battery life and performance and just a bit louder fans (IMHO the Air is till unbeatable if it works for your use case though)
Regulatory capture sounds like a criminal activity to me.

I'm concerned with the mindet that we shouldn't punish criminal activity because the response from the criminals may be more criminal activity.

I think that if we put criminals in jail they will have less opporunity to commit crime, both while they're in jail, and afterwards when they are released and still have a criminal record.

Criminals should go to jail for criminal activities is not a controversial opinion.
I wouldn't be so sure about the second bit; in my experience there's a significant overlap between Pratchett-readers and consumers of instant soup.
> Don't click on links from random people on the internet!

Ironic since I ended up on your blog after clicking on link you posted
Do you have any citizenship requirements?
I've grew up as an outsider in pretty much every aspect of my life. I don't have any need to fit in, nor any compulsion to do the thing everyone else is doing. By the time I hit 25 I pretty much realized I don't need people to be happy. Being around other people means entertaining other people. For some reason there seems to be no "just existing doing my thing" with other people.

I don't mind crowds, but it depends on the crowd. Throngs of people going to work? I don't feel lonely, I feel isolated. I can feel myself as a dot travelling through a sea of dots.

Maybe it depends on the city. Where I am, crowds of people inevitably afford opportunity for heartfelt anonymous interaction. You can say something very personal to a stranger and they will respond in kind. And then you never see them again.

I'm sure some of them remember me.
This isn't dogmatic, it is practical considerations.

From experience, open-source drivers that are integrated into the kernel and open-source source user space have much better quality, better out-of-box experience, and push the whole ecosystem forward.

Compared to closed-source drivers, which often need to catch up to modern software, and are difficult to debug, they need additional steps to integrate and often have to build their own stuff instead of improving existing solutions that help everyone.

You will not get helpful support for errors in your proprietary driver from the manifacturer in most cases, while you get support and fixes from the open source community. It is much easier to isolate the issues if you can access the code.
Page is struggling - https://archive.is/yn6rk
React! I was tired of the whole lack of TS, shitty dev tooling, poor DX.
Show HN: Building 50 GPTs in 5 days
So, this is tangential but, on scale of 0.0f to 1.0f, how likely do you/anyone think it is that AI needs a simulated intestine to proceed from here?
If I disagree on this website, i get downvoted (ala - reddit groupthink/hivemind), so maybe I'll try getting offended next time and see how that goes.
The subcontinent has a face-saving culture where direct criticism is socially discouraged. By contrast, Western Europeans and Americans especially almost seem to revel in criticism. I think it’s actually a cultural superpower that enables them to be successful in the modern business world.

(I’d love to understand what causes this tendency. My speculation is that it’s the “salvation through faith alone” of Protestant Christianity. If you’re not defined by what you do, maybe you’re liable to take criticism of your actions less personally.)
I have an extremely hard time understanding how marrying my wife made me more likely to break up with her.
> Except Framework

They are obviously doing a great job at what they set out to do but besides reparability and customization I don't think they are really ahead in anything compared to some premium Windows laptops.
> It's still fairly uncommon on ARM, MIPS, etc GPUs being used in low-cost cores for TVs and set top boxes.

Youtube made it mandatory to have AV1 decoding in TVs/STBs for new devices since 2? 3? years, so it should become more common. (but embedded SoCs not meant for TV are still way behind.)

> Mali being the biggest.

FWIW, on the vast majority of devices (well, all that I'm aware of), Mali isn't responsible for hardware video decoding.
Have a sales meeting with potential first customer dev team
wondering why the dev team has to decide wether to acquire a cyber security tool or not, buyer is their head of cyber. wondering if anyone got into this type of conversation with dev teams of a prospect for a saas tool
The world has had millennia of not regulating very much

The one exception is weights and measures. There is a long tradition of regulating these strictly, because experience has shown that the market is incapable of driving the cheats out of business and that there must be trust in the markets because else trade will slow down.
Can someone explain me how the Munich court can tell that to Netflix since software patents aren’t supposed to be patentable as the Article 52 of the European Patent Convention say.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_E...
My country started charging $0.12 for plastic bags at the store as an environmental push. In a few years its now $0.36.

Not sure why the environmental push had to become a profit center, kind of feel we could have just switched the bags to paper and charged no one if it were truly about the environment.
My (total guess) is that Broadcom is trying to be greedy, probably asking for a ridiculous sum that would make Netflix' use unprofitable.
> BLAKE3 is much more efficient (in time and energy) than SHA256, like 14 times as efficient in typical use cases on typical platforms.

[snip]

> AVX in Intel/AMD, Neon and Scalable Vector Extensions in Arm, and RISC-V Vector computing in RISC-V. BLAKE3 can take advantage of all of it.

Uh huh... AVX/x86 and NEON/ARM you say?

https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/sha256rnds2

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0596/2021-12/SIMD...

If we're talking about vectorized instruction sets like AVX (Intel/AMD) or NEON (aka: ARM), the advantage is clearly with SHA256. I don't think Blake3 has any hardware implementation at all yet.

Your typical cell phone running ARMv8 / NEON will be more efficient with the SHA256 instructions than whatever software routine you need to run Blake3. Dedicated hardware inside the cores is very difficult to beat on execution speed or efficiency.

I admit that I haven't run any benchmarks on my own. But I'd be very surprised if any software routine were comparable to the dedicated SHA256 instructions found on modern cores.
An idignant victim compensating for taking without compensating.

How many other people or services do we use for hours a month for free?

Are we mad at them - and entitled - for offering an ad-supported option?
How do you handle migrations?
Sure it's targeted, it's targeted at buyers of cheap pulp fiction. You say you don't think the readers are "more bewitched by the charms of powdered soup," but do you notice them selling river cruises through France? A Great Books history course? Rolex watches?

Advertisers understood the idea of a target market even back then.
Death smiles at us all... or not so much smiles but looks at us with a frozen grin while he hums a little tune.
For short inputs, Blake3 behaves very similar to Blake2, on which it is based. From Blake's wikipedia page [1]:

BLAKE3 is a single algorithm with many desirable features (parallelism, XOF, KDF, PRF and MAC), in contrast to BLAKE and BLAKE2, which are algorithm families with multiple variants. BLAKE3 has a binary tree structure, so it supports a practically unlimited degree of parallelism (both SIMD and multithreading) given long enough input.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAKE_(hash_function)
>You can get a Youtube Premium family plan for $15/mo that works for 6 people.

The family plan is $23/month in the US. The regular plan is $14/month.
Nice welcome to the grey hat experience.
I mean, I doubt Broadcom is “blocking” the use of this algorithm, they are just demanding payment.

That said, software patents are a huge drag on innovation, which is the opposite of the intent of the patent system, and thus they should be disallowed.
You know modern software is bad when abstraction has lost its meaning and become a bad word.
Do you have speed comparisons vs OpenAI - for live transcription?
Indeed. My postdoc advisor who was prominent in the AD field used to remind us that "Alzheimer's has been solved in mice hundreds of times".

This headline would potentially be Nobel worthy if in humans.
I agree with the premise of this article; that discussion would be improved if we were more explicit about when we disagree and when we are offended.

However, it seems to me that conflating disagreement and offense, and in particular using that to shut down discussion, is a symptom not a root cause. I believe that the root cause is that one half of the current culture war has refused to recognize the validity of offense or prioritize the issues that are at the heart of the offense.

As a result, the other side has concluded that conflating disagreement & offense, and using that as a weapon against opponents, is their only option.
That’s probably just the FDA being racist, though. My family has been eating mustard oil for generations and my grandparents lived to their 80s in Bangladesh. My parents have the “for topical use only” mustard oil in their cupboard—they never even noticed the warning until I pointed it out. I’m much more concerned about the canola or soy oils…
Those outlets cover mature industries. And as Charles Kettering tells us (inventor of the electric starter motor): "You can’t plan industries". Of course no one is yet out in front with the settled science to preach so just enjoy the chaos and behind the scenes look at the birth of an industry or use an aggregator.

https://allainews.com

https://nuse.ai

https://news.bensbites.co/newest
It's interesting that Netflix uses HEVC and not VP9 for streaming, is it because of hardware support?
It is! I don't think it comes out looking as good as one would want and I think going directly to PDF or EPub would look better, but it's definitely an option.
Is 5K for this is a good amount? It seems generous to me but I’m also sure it’s only a drop in the bucket for Canva.
Please though, we shouldn't pretend there aren't things we cannot fix that prevent us from not being lonely.
mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20231113133642/https://benjiwebe...
Yeah pay for propaganda from the man.
Saying “software is math” is akin to saying “books are just letters”; the building blocks of software is not what people want to protect, it’s the idea and the effort to invent.

Whether software should be patentable or not is obviously open for discussion, but saying it’s just math isn’t really enough of an argument.
I rarely saw their (vmware) products in the recent 5 years. So maybe, who cares?
Ah, ok yeah I think it would actually be less work than how you have it setup which is why I asked. You could also just make them 'profiles' where including the files is the same as enabling the feature.
> AV1 was literally created to be patent-free.

AV1 was created to be license-fee-free. There are lots of patents in AV1, it's just that their holders don't ask for money:

> Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Licensor, on behalf of itself and successors in interest and assigns, grants Licensee a non-sublicensable, perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as expressly stated in this License) patent license to its Necessary Claims to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import or distribute any Implementation.

* https://aomedia.org/license/patent-license/
> Nowadays = this + last generation on nVidia, Intel and AMD GPUs?

Roughly; Intel since Tiger Lake (2020); not that it makes much difference.

> It's still fairly uncommon on ARM, MIPS, etc GPUs being used in low-cost cores for TVs and set top boxes. Mali being the biggest.

Depends; Mediateks and Rockchips do support it; finally also Qualcomm (with AV1 being mandatory in Android 14).

I agree, it will take some time (years), until people replace their devices and AV1 will be universally available.

But it is available in devices sold today, which was the point.
How to Do Time Series Cross-Validation in Python
I learnt a lot of physics from Marion's 2nd edition (not SR there though). An older and completely forgotten fine textbook is W. Hauser's Introduction to the Principles of Mechanics. Then you jump into Goldstein (the 1980 one, again not SR there). It's a good idea to buy any Schaum book from Spiegel about this too, also for vector analysis if you can't take a course on that.
I had a professor freshman year of college who offered the question “How many times can you split the distance between me and you in half?”. Ultimately I arrived at the conclusion infinity which forever more made the general idea of calculus stick.
Connections with James Burke is back
In French it's largely based on picard, a dialect from northern France.
Aren't physical machines just math too? We can simulate them on computers, clearly just math, but maybe can't fully mathematically describe the non-idealized versions we produce in reality. Why does that level of completeness of description need to serve as such a sharp line on patentability?
>They could charge a price I'm willing to pay.

So if the price of Premium was lower you'd be ok with this? Premium costs about the same as Netflix.

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on Youtube.
In "Moving Pictures" Dibbler tried to do just that with... well.. moving pictures. Only it was not a 5-min soup but Harga Ribs. I think even phrasing was the same "why not try..." "...nuorishing..."
Indeed. I hope it does include the WASM VM.
This person either doesn't get laid, has an atypical understanding partner, or no partner at all.

While DeBeers and Madison Ave. crafted a tradition to artificially inflate the value of this specific gem, create a monopoly cartel around it, and established it as a material standard of love and "suitability" for marriage, it's been subsumed by culture as much as children demand Christmas such that the odds of escaping this manufactured foolishness are scant. For example, what % of women would date a man if they heard he was a Cornell grad vs. a self-employed electrician?

The individual has a Hobson choice to either follow a convention, pretend to follow it, or ignore it altogether. Without being subject to these peer pressures, I would prefer to allocate to coin to investments and reducing debt, and instead carve a ring from a wax blank to be cast in a metal like platinum or silver.

The non-salaried working man trying to enter marriage with the demands of a large wedding party and an expensive diamond ring bought on credit would be economically foot-gunning themselves. It still happens everyday and keeps the diamond business in business.
> 4. Teach changes of variables

This has been something that always seems a bit magical to me, when someone comes up with an obscure change of variables that completely simplifies the problem. I'd love to learn this in a more structured/rigorous way. Does anyone have any recommendations for picking this up?
It's not hard to tell the difference between moissanite and diamond, but a lot of normal people won't really know what to put their finger on or if it's a good or bad thing.

Whenever my wife gets comments about her moissanite, people notice it's different. Due to it's refractive index, it breaks light more and leads to a lot more colors seen when reflected back out of the stone. Loads of people just think it's a fancy diamond though since they don't know anything else and it otherwise looks very diamond like.

CZ will look about the same as diamond just not as sparkly on day one. But it's way softer, so if it's a daily wear it'll get all scratched up within several years. After 10 years of wear the difference between CZ and diamond is pretty clear.
I think it’s important to make those requests as minimal as possible. If we have a well oiled system of Jira tickets, estimates, and expectations for each sprint, these one off requests fly under the radar and impede engineer performance and expectations

You could have a percent of each sprint dedicated to one-offs, but then are they really one-offs in the colloquial sense?

The smaller the team and org, the easier it is to handle the one-offs (imo), because we can more directly connect the request to tangible impact more often. At the very least, in a small co your manager (or C suite executive) would easily back you up as the engineer if other executives were questioning output or something etc etc

In larger orgs the extra communication burden makes the one off requests more expensive
should have been called greenblue no?
Well, this is a company that creates Linux laptops. So if they decide to offer laptops with dGPU, they might want to use hardware that is well supported by Linux.

Laptops with Nvidia dGPUs are available from many/most other manufacturers, as you said, so there is no real reason to buy them from them. Especially if they offer sub-par Linux experience.
You got a point there. Maybe I'm more annoyed by the implementation (cost, lack of reliability, absurd waiting times) rather than the idea itself.
Curiously for an example home page, the linked site's example ...

// What if tentative ideas looked handwritten?

/**
* What if docstrings looked authoritative?
*/

... misaligning the two ** in /** is awkward.
My daily driver is a 1986 911 Turbo (aka the 930). That's a nearly 40 year old car, they make a similar new infotainment system that works for even older cars. Thing runs like a dream, and they tried very hard to make it "fit" in the old interior even though it clearly had completely different design constraints.
Yes the crime of breaking and entering.

If I took a piece of potato peel out of your bin that was on the pavement, that might technically be a crime (I don't know). But are you going to pursue a civil suit? What compensation are you going to get?

Are the police or CPS going to prosecute? Is it in the national interest? Or are they wasting resources for no reason.

The BBC are in no way being harmed by someone who has permission to be on the premises taking something that the BBC literally believes to be rubbish.

There's a legal concept of irrationality. This would seem to be an example of that.
In the same vein, are people with borderline now suddenly not human, just because they role play to people please?
> Do you have $2000 to spend in the first place?

From my post:

> if you were going to spend that money anyways.

Obviously if you weren't going to spend it anyways it's a waste.
Yeah they are quite rare, I bought an ASUS ROG Strix Advantage edition because it has an AMD CPU and GPU and have been quite happy with it.

I don’t know if they make them anymore but I highly recommend it.
I wouldn't say it works well. On some machines it takes ages to start up and will always say it's updating even though it isn't. The ingame browser that is used to view the store breaks often and thenI can't open it inside Steam at all. On Macos, the system menu completely stops working most of the time and I can't exit the app normally, I have to kill it instead.

OK, the core functionality of downloading and running games works. But I think we can expect a little bit more from a billion dollar company.
Really bad name. “Switchblade” is both evoking of violence on its own, and the name of a suicide drone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVironment_Switchblade
Thanks for the book reference!
For what it's worth, I'd interpret is as "disagreeing and being offended aren't the same" not that they aren't on the same level. I point that out, because I think that viewing them as on different levels could make the issue worse. It could basically mean that if someone wants their offense to be taken seriously, then they need to convince people that it's actually a disagreement.
• flashcard app delivered via podcast feeds (almost finished!)

• researching plant law

• pushing out a new frontend feature for work (LLM stuff for attorneys)

• endless home improvement

• learning to talk; learning to listen

• chaos for social good

• compulsive writing
It isn’t a software patent. Compression method is patentable as an algorithm.