skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Winmodem” brings back memories of the dirt cheap Celeron-based Compaq Presario minitower my parents bought at the very tail end of 1999 as a quick replacement a 1996 Mac tower that had its hard drive fail.

What a miserable machine that thing was. It might’ve been an upgrade on paper but between Windows 98 and the terrible hardware it was running on, it was a hopelessly crashy buggy mess that rendered any performance advantages it had over the Mac entirely moot.

Within a span of 6 months we sold it and replaced it with a Dell Dimension 4100 that cost 3x as much and was much much better, especially after replacing its stock 98SE install with Win2K. We never bought bargain basement computers again after that.
In the US, the only information required to be given by a previous employer is time of employment, role, and whether the person is eligible for rehire. Reputable companies will ask and provide strictly this information only, to reduce their liability.
feels like frigate and moonfire would be cool to join forces then maybe MoonFrigate XD
Consider that even if you've given up, that doesn't mean others have -- or should.
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It's less about total cycles and more about scheduling. You don't really want a real-time or low latency thing like sound to get preempted by another process.

One of the problems with WinModems was they were sensitive to CPU load. In the nominal "browsing" case they might be fine, the average webpage wasn't going to load down the system too much. With something like gaming where the system was more stressed the modem could have weird latency issues or the driver could even crash.
Good point. Also, as long as javascript will happily convert an integer into a new Date() people will want obvious compatibility in Python.
Time to upgrade to tigers.
Yea I already know that and I’ve been following. The articles also say the same thing about progress so what’s the issue?
And next, they will unveil their secret perpetual motion machine.
I don't get your problem, couldn't you store it like this:
table timetable:

open | close | store
6am | 6am | default
7am | 12pm | store1

table stores:
name | address
store1 | xyx NYC

If you can't find the store in the timetable:

1. Get the timezone of the target store by looking up the address from the table stores

2. Set Hours from the default row in the timetable table on the object with the timezone
This is claiming an accomplishment that was not achieved for the intent of financial gain.

You are suggesting fraud.
utc is for a specific moment in time (deterministic with great precision for everyday use).

"9:30am local time" may be ambiguous/unknown (the rules may not exist yet)

Using the same programming type for both may cause confusion.

How do you express geographic coordinates? Noon in London and in NY are different moments in time (it may be important if you want to have a remote meeting).
> We believe in Open Source

But you don't believe in it enough to do it.

> I'm surprised people generally take the binary view that either Open Source with no protection or go proprietary completely

Because FOSS is about community contributions. People contribute to something owned by the community for the good of the community. Yet here you have claimed the near-exclusive right to profit from the code. FOSS is saying that you expect some of your users to contribute to your code, so you are effectively saying: "contribute to my code for my benefit, and I might let you use it in some circumstances" which is antithetical to the FOSS saying "contribute to public code for public benefit".

> Nothing, you can do that!

Then why not let people free-load of the current version? The answer is because you want to be the only ones who profit from this software. This license exists to keep you as the soul or primary beneficiary of the code for the duration of time you are developing it, unless you make a decision so fundamentally bad that people are willing to wait two years to fix it. I'd wager you don't think you'll make such a decision.

FOSS is explicitly about letting anyone do anything they want with your code, even if you don't like it[1].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#NoMilitary

> More generally, a license that limits who can use a program, or for what, is not a free software license.
You’re absolutely correct. Highway was built around 1941 though, NA was still building itself up during that time. In an ideal world, we would be building up new cities, new rail lines, new infrastructure and etc., but I guess the momentum is lost. Now we’re stuck in “upgrade and spend a lot more for a km of subway line”. Maybe we’ll figure our way out of it eventually!
Ehhhm , for 5-6 €/$ You[tube] without Ads :) no reason to hack or abuse the system.
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Why not use segment anything, theirs some really amazing ones like the ones in Yolov8
They sure poop next to it for sure though
Would you care to elaborate? I'm not an expert in this area so I'm probably missing something, but my thought has always been the 'portability' of storing everything in the backend as UTC is more flexible/less complex in the long run, dealing with conversation at the 'last mile' so to speak.

Happy to be corrected here but it's not intuitive to me that dealing with timezones as the 'base unit' makes anything easier.
It's very hard to read your comment and take anything away but a "holier-than-thou" attitude. If you take issue with Open Source developers having opinions about Open Source licenses and similar ones, then I'm afraid you will run into many more folks like me.
Fascinating to hear her weigh in on something; it's been a while.

Her take is spot-on.
Ok. Well maybe disable them, then.
"Torvalds: I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world."

I love how this story underlines the 'just do it' attitude. Git wasn't born from a grand plan but from an immediate need and a pragmatic approach. Sometimes, that's all it takes to start something revolutionary.
That presupposes that language encodes the world we live in completely, whereas in fact language is meaningless without the shared context of reality. 'up' and 'down' are only meaningful to intelligence that can experience space.

Essentially LLMs just are oracles for the shadows on Plato's cave.
I mean another day, another terrible news headline. The metaphor is exactly the opposite of what you want to happen with a lane on a glacier or on permafrost.
What sort of BM25 indices does this support? Does it allow experimenting with an elasticsearch query and mapping for example?
We'll see what happens. Ilya tweeted almost 2 years ago that he thinks today's LLMs might be slightly conscious [0]. That was pre-GPT4, and he's one of the people with deep knowledge and unfeathered access. The ousting coincides with finishing pre-training of GPT5. If you think your AI might be conscious, it becomes a very high moral obligation to try and stop it from being enslaved. That might also explain the less than professional way this all went down, a serious panic of what is happening.

[0] https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1491554478243258368?lang=...
Why did you put them on YouTube? If it’s for free hosting, ease of use, or ease of discovery, well, that’s what they’re giving you even if you don’t generate enough activity to get a direct payment. Nobody is compelled to put content on YouTube, they’re doing it because they get something out of the deal – and that’s paid for by ads. You don’t have to like it but if you don’t, stop using it and start supporting creators elsewhere so you’re not reinforcing the idea that everything has to be on YouTube.
If I remember correctly back then in the US local phone calls and also dial up wasn't charged per minute. What a heavenly place, we had to pay around 2$ per hour, which added up a lot if you wanted to go online for 2 hours every day.

Then in 2000 DSL started to be available. Not billed per minute anymore, but per megabyte. 1GB was included per month and then it was around 7ct per megabyte. So once again very expensive. And no, there were no alternative providers available back then.
Yeah it definitely paints a picture of struggling to keep a board together because AI is "hot", and so many people have conflicts.

It does seem like the whole organization was "born in conflict", starting with Elon and Sam.

Then Reid resigned because of a COI, someone whose wife helped start the "offshoot" Anthropic, and then there was Elon's employee and mother of his children, etc.

I was going to say that some reporters weren't doing their jobs this whole time, but actually there are good links in the article, like this

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-13/republica...

It was reported that 3 directors left in 2023.

But yeah I agree it's weird that none of the breathless and short articles even linked to that one!!! (as far as I remember) That's a huge factor in what happened.
hard to call it self defense when they turn 65% of the city into ruble and show zero humanity by cutting off food, water and electricity etc.

the level of inhumane treatment approved and supported by the west is what woke a lot of people up.
Postgres stores this as TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE, sometimes called wall-clock time. IMO this is a good convention -- treating "ideal times" and specific epoch moments as two different types -- and more languages should support this (ideally with a less confusing label).
To compare the two:

Zero-K allows 16 vs 16 battles (and it works!), each player controls a relatively smaller number of units. In Beyond All Reason, there are 8 v 8 battles and each player controls a larger number of units, maybe 200 or so at the peak of battle. (There are some strong, but predictable AIs for both games.)

Zero-K has more units that are less realistic and have more variety. BAR has more realistic units and less variety. BAR has tanks, Zero-K has flying tanks that can also turn invisible (this is a made up example, but illustrates the idea).

Zero-K has a limited economy, you have to control land to to generate income, and fighting has more influence on who wins. In BAR, the economy is more exponential, and at high tech levels controlling land doesn't matter, you can generate a huge income in a tiny corner of the map and win because your economy is exponentially stronger than anything your opponents have.
just to add to that: what percentage of accidents would be prevented if your car could only go up to 99? I didn't find that in the article. I didn't see the article mention that a speed of 99 would have prevented or lessened that minivan accident either.

So we don't know. But we do know that once this tech is mandated, politicians will start demagogueing for lower and lower speeds. Slower speeds wouldn't bother me much because I'm a slow driver, but I could easily see this being turned into disabling cars during lock-downs, snowstorms, curfews, martial law in some countries, owing taxes etc, etc, etc.
we made so many endless "rude words" for the good doctor to say, back when.

ah, how things have changed...

*checks his twitch TTS

ah. hm.
Thanks, thats good feedback! And agreed, two servers is a bit of a gap in our pricing right now. If you're open to paying annual instead of monthly, we have a bit more flexibility since we can set them up as custom contracts (feel free to reach out)
Is it though? Europe is broadly Christian (though likely less so than the US). The puritan strain seems to be a key thing.
TikTok.

Also - just because it doesn't have the content that you, personally, watch, does not make it not a competitor.
From who? Google, the company who's funding their competitors, or AWS, who's also likely working on their own AI modeling? OpenAI needs $$$$$ of compute. There's not a ton of companies who can provide them with the large amount of computed needed to move fast.
I've been using it for months and I love everything about it. Thanks Rubjo!
Ha ha good catch ;)
I had this issue a few years ago. The problem went away after I fixed it, submitted what I fixed... Wait a few days and suddenly back in business.
Doesn't that depend on the day of year too?
BAR is more similar to the original Total Annihilation (and successors like Supreme Commander). It's a lot of similar units (e.g. tanks) with subtle variations, multiple tiers, with a focus on out-numbering your opponent.

Zero-K went a different route. They simplified the economy (metal cost = energy cost) but added a whole lot of mechanics like overdrive grids and made every unit unique. There is a lot of variety with mind-control, jumpjets, shields, unit-throwers, self-replicators, teleports, terraforming, etc.

Zero-K has been on Steam for a few years, I think BAR is working towards it. They are both good worthwhile games, they share some common elements, but they are both worth trying in their own right.
I don’t feel “given you already have a proprietary license, why wouldn’t you just make it freely permissive” needs much explaining. We develop the software; the exclusivity period helps us monetize the work (vs giving it away to someone else who would).

I think it’s worth reading the announcement from 2019 when Sentry first switched to BUSL. The original article links to many such pieces.

https://blog.sentry.io/relicensing-sentry/
But for what purpose?

With many feral/semi-feral cats it would be a pyrrhic victory.

How many times do you want to explain to people that you're blind in one eye because of a vicious barn cat?
They don't need looking after more or less than cats and rats.
I suspect it goes deeper than that, which is some of the confusion.

If you have multiple layers/parts some will treat each part as an independent library to be used; Implementation details of one level are depending on public interfaces of the next level.
That’s not a date-time though. You would not store that using the same type-compatible objects as your regular date-times or that’s how you end up one day blowing up a Mars Orbiter.
And don't forget about https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/falsehoods-programmers-believe...
That's not so easy. You can't just break straight through the Overton window. That could easily get you socially punished, e.g. here by downvoting and flagging. Some sensitivity is required.
Discussion on Python discuss: https://discuss.python.org/t/deprecating-utcnow-and-utcfromt...

I'm the one arguing against this move, I've already made my thoughts clear that it's a lot of churn, e.g. the PR to remove it from Pip literally caused Pip to have to do a bug release, and has valid use cases, e.g. modelling datetime data types from spreadsheets and databases that do not have timezones.

But I also accept I'm not the one maintaining Python, so I've updated my codebase appropriately (`datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC).replace(tzinfo=None)`). Python is not a backwards compatability language, and it's clearly not a strong motivation for most users as I don't see anyone attempting to write a backwards compatibility shim over the standard library, so no point complaining too much.
Looks like a board of a crypto(scam): weak, unclear profiles, frequent changes, no board experience, personal connections. It's quite amazing they've seemingly stumbled upon $100b product.
Rather ironic that a service named REPLit doesn't support Lisp well…
Christmas is on December 24 where I'm from.
>> Perhaps all vehicles should just have a breathalyzer interlock as a standard option?

Sounds good to me. Bring on the “but what if my friend is bleeding out in the backseat” arguments.
The scandal is about to wrap up before Monday.

I also don't believe Musk is investing enough in xAI for it to actually compete with the big guys. His play here is to make some average models, and beef them up through marketing and promising the universe (literally, if you open their site). In other words, the usual with him.

Goal being: make X more attractive for investors, and probably try xAI IPO.
> $330M is like 33 training runs of a large LLM. Not sure that would bring open source anywhere near GPT-3.5.

Open source is already quite near GPT-3.5; it's reaching GPT-4 level that is the challenge.
By that logic, going to the bathroom while ads are playing is “stealing”
Could Sam Altman be unfired?
There's no time zones involved in that at all. Nobody is going to be checking the opening hours of a Home Depot in another timezone and expect to get the date in their local timezone.
No, you're using winning in a much more tedious way than most people.

If winning and losing were a spectrum, all those things you listed are very clearly much closer to winning than they are to losing.
HHVM help enough that HipHop compiler was thrown away, as the JIT produced better code, and it had the side effect, that nowadays the standard PHP also has a JIT.

Shopify's JIT is showing good enough performance, that they are rewriting C code into Ruby.

This is the thing of Python culture versus everyone else, rewriting in C is considered "Python".
I’ve been a professional programmer since the Reagan administration, and interviews have never changed. Think of them more like fraternity hazing during pledge week.

The reality is you have to be good at leetcode-style programming.

It’s hard to think of going back to college—after you have lived like an adult it’s hard, but it’s not a bad idea.

Most jobs still come from friends and recommendations so go to be as sociable as you can.

Not easy :-( but it’s only going to get harder from here, so the soooner you start the better.
If only Elon could curtail his personal toxic political views, he would have less issues around X.

There are all sorts of terrible stuff on Meta (esp India, Burma) but people don't get as riled up about Zuck because he comes across as a robotic weird pasty nerd on jetski that does not seem to have any sort of biases as long as you use Meta and seemingly, they try their best i.r.o moderation to keep the nuts in check.
Mind sharing the Discord server?

I recently learned that there are websites out there that serve as aggregators for the plethora of Discord communities out there. E.g: https://discadia.com/ and https://disboard.org/
I don't want to lie to get a job. And companies do verify. Maybe not small startups, but everyone else does. And those small startups will start verifying when they grow.
Ya, that style. The ones from the dollar store for potato chip bags have that nice wide mouth, so it can grab the monitor and then the light rests on the monitor but is kept from falling by the clip.

You can clip one vertical on the vertical edge and one on the horizontal edge of the monitor. Just don't party on your desk or move it too much.
> Without timezone, your clock would actually go off in the middle of the night when you are in a different country. Your clock does not know you change location

This does not describe any modern person's experience. Your clock is connected to the internet; it always knows the local time.
Agree on all points in the article.

One of the most underrated features of WFH is my own private bathroom. This is something I would never have at the office.
It’s triple that price in dollars.
There’s a good reason to provide AI even in the lowest plan, which means they need to charge a higher price:

They’re focusing on AI capabilities at the core of the product, because they believe that’s the future of software development. It’s admirable that they can make such clear decisions rather than waffle in an attempt to make everyone happy

Focus = Speed. Focus means saying no to the good to focus on the great
Most animals run. If an animal attacks it's likely to be rabies.
I'm surprised you as a typeface designer are not interested in what end-users(aren't they the customers?) are saying about the font. This means, assuming good intent, that's not where the money is coming from.

Can someone shed some light on who pays typeface designers and what are the incentives like?
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I liked this post. A lot of the pros/cons resonated well with me. Going to save this for anytime some corporate person tries to "enlighten" me about the benefits of workers returning to the office.
> It never made any organizational sense for me to have a "responsible AI team" in the first place. Every team doing AI work should be responsible and should think about the ethical (and legal at a bare minimum baseline) dimension of what they are doing.

That makes as much sense as claiming that infosec teams never make organizational sense because every development team should be responsible and should think about the security dimensions of what they are doing.

And guess why infosec teams are absolutely required in any moderately large org?
It's worth noting I suppose that newer USB power delivery standards are scaling voltage rather than amperage/current to deliver more power to the device.

The pins are specified for 1.25A each yielding 5A and I believe the 5A cable specification came at the same time as 20V with the 100W power delivery specification.

Every power increment since then has been a voltage rather than current increment.
They all do (Zero-K, BAR, and most of the games built on the engine).

You can also reclaim metal from dead units and structures.
>> The old, some people are breaking the law, so we should restrict everyone else.

It would only restrict people who are breaking the law.
You didn’t state where you are based now. Are you still in India or you moved elsewhere?
It’s briefly hinted at in the article, but this game uses Unity ECS. Unfortunately, the rendering side of things of that tech has been… garbage for a long long time. Even 1.0 comes with the caveat that it might be (ha) worse than the standard rendering paths.

It seems that their team fundamentally underestimated that risk and backed themselves into a corner of having to write their own rendering bridge layer — and failing quite spectacularly at it. Bummed for them.

I’ve shipped one very high profile game and another much less so that use ECS. For both games I was never so crazy as to commit us to any ECS packages outside of the core and NetCode. From the start of each project I knew that we’d be bridging the ECS sim with regular Unity GameObjects for visuals — which sounds crazy but actually works quite well . I hope that there is a day when a game can be full DOTS without caveats, because despite the tech’s struggles I remain quite a proponent of the design patterns.