skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess every generation experiences this type of nostalgia for the novelties of youth, but I still feel heavily privileged for having been able to live through the nineties and early 00's and experience the incredible technological explosion that occurred with microcomputers and the internet.

I started playing videogames on 8bit consoles and within a little more than a decade we had mainstream internet and games like Half Life 2. Every new generation of consoles and computers blew the previous one completely out of the water. We're also the last generation who knew what life was without having an always-online computer on ourselves at all times. Calling your friends on landlines to ask them if they wanted to hang out!

Meanwhile my current desktop computer that I use for work is about 8 years old and the benefits I'd get for upgrading would be relatively minimal. Tech is still progressing massively of course, but it feels like in many areas we've hit diminishing returns.
I tried Multiple's service out in an early beta preview, and was impressed with the flexibility of the initial product. Customer service and support was very good as well. The current product roadmap will be adding a lot of compelling features in the coming months.

I'd absolutely recommend anyone who needs load testing tooling and infrastructure to evaluate this service, and I am excited to see where they go.
Quantization also works as regularization; it stops the neural network from being able to use arbitrarily complex internal rules.

But really it's only really useful if you absolutely need to have a discrete embedding space for some sort of downstream usage. VQVAEs can be difficult to get to converge, they have problems stemming from the approximation of the gradient like codebook collapse
I have noticed very online communities were outraged about this and other people I knew in real life weren't. I wonder if it's because people who dominate HN and reddit are more likely to spend their college life in their dorm, where a windowless environment would naturally get depressing very quickly.

My dorm room was windowless when I went to university and I didn't notice because I was only there when it was dark anyway. But I remember I got the flu once and was inside for a while and I very distinctly recall that the lack of natural lightcycle began to take its toll. Still, cheaper room and board would be my preference.
I don't disagree with the sentiment, only the rhetoric. I'd settle for "unethical."

Predatory would be investing in Coke, diabetes treatment and weight-loss solutions as a package deal.
Git for Writing Documentation
You're asking why Jesus, the guy who speaks in parables, would use a metaphor to make a point?
With more delays for new equipment, Boston MBTA puts band-aids on old trains
S3 Standard has slow first byte latency for three reasons:
1. All data is stored on old school spinning HDDs with multi millisecond seek times
2. There's still Java (and garbage collection) on the request path. There has been a multi-year effort to move the request path entirely to Rust to eliminate GC but Java still remains.
3. To reduce storage costs, objects are erasure-coded "wide", which means many hosts are involved in servicing a request. This means only one such sub-request has to be slow to slow your request down.

The new storage class is SSD-backed, presumably doesn't use Java anywhere, and doesn't stripe your data across as many hosts. It's more expensive because SSDs are more expensive than HDDs and narrow erasure codes are more costly than wide erasure codes.

Source: Used to work on S3.
Any test that could cause a fatal destructive error should be risk assesed and a suitable protocol approved with four eyes approval on a final checklist before going hot on the electrics. The issue here is poor project governance not human error.
Yes. Amex is already on Apple Pay all around the world, and it’s only accepted at stores that accept Amex.
Is that still the case if the bank is a subsidiary?
If only. How about product placement seamlessly melded into any digital interaction? BRB, prompting ChatGPT for a YCombinator funding pitch.
Headerless C
How is this a $500 million mistake? It seems the issues didn’t cost $500 million.
Truth behind all that cortisol talk
FYI, there is a Home Assistant integration for the WiZ bulbs that I find works really well… I almost exclusively control my 6 or so via HomeKit and they have been rock solid.
You don't need to do some crazy speculation to reach this conclusion. People in the richest countries in the world are dying because they can't afford a shot of insulin or an ambulance or the most basic preventative care. Why will life extending drugs be any different? The only concern will be to maximize profit and not much else.
This saga is so strange. Eduards Sizovs has even been creating sockpuppet accounts on HN, saying:

'As a female developer with 60K followers on Instagram, I went through all this:

– “Programmers don’t look like that!” – “You’re fake. Some dude writes your content.” – “Are you a model or a coder?'

Meanwhile, "Julia" aka codingunicorn, has on Twitter "currently building dev.courses" which is a link that just tells people they can buy the domain from Eduards Sizovs.

https://twitter.com/unicorncoding?lang=en

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=codingunicorn
> the very fact that Salafism hasn't yet destroyed them

Because they have a very active police state working to prevent a Grand Mosque Seizure 2.0 or worse.

This is a major reason Saudi troops are in East Yemen and working with the American CJTF-OIR in Syria.
Why would you not use a multimeter two weeks before launch? The two things are orthogonal to each other.
Do law firms have the ability to cut Harvey out of the chain and interface to OpenAI directly?
Many "financial advisors" will put you in funds with high expense ratios that give them a good sales commission, then take another 1% of assets under management on top. Eventually people wise up and move elsewhere.
Yeah, there's a /r/AppleCard on Reddit and it was full of examples of reps just making shit up. Completely false information pulled out of their asses.
How long were you there for? Out of how many stores? Still, that’s a significant enough failure rate to be a detractor.
I hope playgroundai.com adopts this asap, but not sure they can with that non-commercial bit...
I would say that you are correct about the New Testament. I’m not sure there is a central point in all the books of the Old Testament.
Wow, what a mess. Thanks for the recap. So is the Tanzu product going away then and were they hit hard in these layoffs?
“Meta has a track record of not doing enough to protect marginalized communities.”

Is the word marginalized warranted here?
Wait until I tell you who's doing work in hospitals and how much they're being paid for it.
That's not even true. 5,500 children (according to Hamas) is less than 9,000 in Iraq (according to UNICEF).

And around 33% of that total is from failed rockets in Gaza (based on figures collected in previous wars).
isn't like, an enormously overwhelming % of climate change just caused by corporations, though?
It was feared to be a $500M mistake.
Apple Pay won't override the merchant's point-of-sale system's configured accepted networks; for example, it won't help you use an Amex at Costco.

(It will help you if the merchant says "we don't take Amex" but their terminal actually does, though. Surprisingly common at small shops.)
I guess the idea is that it potentially could have cost $500 million therefore it was a $500 million mistake. It's not exactly accurate but it does help contextualize the gravity of their mistake.
And to some quite extreme people any kind of government that is not solely based on religious wisdom expressed via the clergy is an affront to God (to Allah) - an extremely serious crime worthy of uprisings and martyrdom. Doesn't matter if it's a monarchy, a democracy, or a Soviet/Chinese style one-party system. Unless that party was exclusively filled with religious scholars.

(there's an alternative line of thought that says "you gotta follow the leader because a leaderless state is even worse", and that line of thought is generally prevailing in muslim countries; that's how one would justify having some out of the blue family running Saudi Arabia, with its two out of three most important Muslim holy places)
TBH, the toddler was just going to drop the ice cream, anyway.
I rarely use it because my Chase Preferred has more offers/benefits.

Mostly these days it's used for Apple payments like iCloud for the extra percent back in cash.
Very strange, but hello. I am alive and well. I hope you find the motivation or determination to complete your task.
Why do we consider creation date to be metadata, for instance? In photos and audio files, it's so essencial that it is stored in the data stream, even though we call it metadata.

It's a fuzzy line and everyone is probably a bit discontent to where it's drawn.
You can use all your cards you've setup in ApplePay on the watch.
"Oh, and also put led in gasoline."

Freon and lead were engineering decisions. Both had properties that fixed a burning issue at the time. Unfortunately they also had ... side effects that became apparent later. Neither involved "a guy", they involved entire countries, blocs and multi national enterprises.
My anecdotal experience of the decline is this:

My parents have a property in Southern California and when I was a kid, there was a period every where Monarchs would glide over the property like a waterfall (the backyard is at the bottom of a reasonably steep granite hill). It was truly a site to behold.

Every year, there were fewer. There was a small uptick during covid. This year, they saw their first one yesterday.

Over a 20 year span, it's just plummeted from hundreds (maybe thousands? It's soo long ago, I fail estimate the magnitude with certainty) to near zero.

It's depressing, and a harrowing look at the future may hold.
Among the riskiest economic decisions you can make is to hire a software developer. A bunch of things have to line up just right to even break even on a developer's output.
First, you use the word "transformers" to mean "autoregressive models", they are not synonymous, second, this model beats Polygen on every metric, it's not even close.
> work is too important to work 12 hour shifts on it

Yes. Because it is know that exhausted people make mistakes. The work is too important to let exhausted people screw it up so you should make sure everyone working on it is well rested.

> your solution is throwing “cheap” grad students at it

Yes? It is testing an electric motor. They can do it. The solution is that you employ enough people so nobody needs to work 12 hour heroic shifts.
"My almost $500M mistake" doesn't have the same ring.
Ah yes I remember the black Uber card. IIRC you got $50 annually for subscription services along with some other unheard of perks.
That's probably the whole point - they "just sleep" in their small single occupancy rooms and do most of their socializing in attractive common areas.

If you're wondering how the kids are going to hook up - well, window or not, single-occupancy beats the hell out of literal room-mates, which was my dorm experience. And we sure as hell found a way.

If you ask students whether they'd rather have a windowless private room or a shared room with a window, what do you think the breakdown will be?
He was already very rich before he made that deal with Goldman. It didn't put him on the map, in fact it only happened because he was already there.
The correct response should have been a measured hunting down of Hamas, increasing offensive attacks, and shoring up the wall. The attacks also proved that Israel's "containment" strategy has a massive flaw.

Maybe don't do this:

> At least 43% of all housing units in the Gaza Strip have been either destroyed or damaged since the start of the hostilities, according to the Ministry of Public Works and Housing in Gaza.

Or this:

> More than 6,500 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes and more than 17,400 injured.

Not only was what it did morally wrong, but Israel has just created a generation of martyrs. It has created a humanitarian crisis for over 2 million people. Over 3000 children dead. Is that justified? Or is it a tantrum?

The one thing that I think has changed between now and the last time there was a major conflict is that the internet exists. The news media is not the final arbiter of mass information. If someone, like you, challenges people by saying "it's complicated" or "those numbers are fake", I can easily point to wikipedia and a dearth of well respected and in depth research websites. It's a new world.

People who have unconditional support of Israel are now finding themselves having this information repeatedly thrown in their face, causing them to topple off of the moral high ground they believed they held. What you are feeling is likely this.

Can you remember the last time the public was so largely outraged by Israel's actions? Did it ever have this tenor? Did western countries' support waver? If "young people" is your answer, then you are about to be blindsided.
The highest Amex interchange rate is about 3%. https://www.creditdonkey.com/interchange-rates.html
Woah. Clever, but non-portable and seriously fugly.
Kirby 4 a New Era
Ah, the "Wii? My grandkids already have that, maybe I should buy a PlayStation, it looks newer..."
Kinda strange. First article says Palestinian leaders rejected request about investigation under international supervision and refused to show the bullet, claiming it was an armor piercing round. While IDF soldiers use standard ammunition.
One of my favorite quotes from Munger

> It’s very important to not put your brain in chains too young by what you shout out.

From his speech at Harvard in '95, he's talking about how loudly proclaiming something, shouting about it even, locks our brains into this, making us resistant to contradictory ideas, regardless of evidence.

This observation has felt more and more important over the last decade.
Quick question - Does anyone know if a cluster of 6 Jetson Tegra K1 could run a 12b or 20b model? I haven't been able to get consistent information regarding the ai capability of the boards.
Another failure is from the person who used the multimeter to complete a circuit - and then didn't even leave a note on the multimeter. That person could reasonably have anticipated this error mode, and taken steps to prevent it.
Except he was NOT stating the truth, not even remotely close to the truth, and I replied to his post.
> but it'll probably be 5+ years before this is commercially available

I think you should look at the progress of image, text, and video generation over the past 12 months and re-asses your timeline prediction.
Limão Capeta must be what we call Limão Galego or Limão Bergamota or Limão Cravo in the south.

It has more names than tangerines and makes a great caipirinha.
I've never had a decline on the Apple Card and I don't even live in the US.
Ironically, I just read it on Apple News.
Reminds me of a quote attributed to Thomas J Watson:

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
Which comment from Bryan Rasmussen are you referring to?
> A competent modeler can make these types of meshes in under 5 minutes

Sweet. Can you point me to these modelers who work on-demand and bill for their time in 5 minute increments? I’d love to be able to just pay $1-2 per model and get custom <whatever> dropped into my game when I need it.
> there was a court ruling

What jurisdiction? USA?
Further reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolemite
That's also not true. It seems every single thing you write isn't true.

Afghanistan child deaths: 26,000 vs 5,500 in Gaza (according to Hamas).
> I probably know all the details already, unless something really unexpected happened.

There was a late addenda to the agreement; as a concession on behalf of Goldman Sachs, David Solomon agreed to DJ at Tim Cook’s eventual retirement party (for half of his normal fee).
I don't think it is the Microsoft part or that anything becomes evil merely by changing hands. Just that the network effect of chat clients or social media platforms in general is so finicky that changing hands might be enough to cause some splintering of people off to the next thing.

I feel like it is getting longer and longer between the next biggest social media, but there has been a lot of chat clients over the past 2 decades. I don't think many people have any company loyalty in this market. The main thing people care about is that the people they want to chat with are already there. If people start moving to something new for whatever reason then everyone else will likely follow.
Gaming - Yes Linux and Proton and all, but it just won't be as good I know it. All new and old games are basically guaranteed to run best on Windows due to the massive userbase, what other choice do devs have?

Work - I work on Windows clients and Windows Server, so I need to know my way around the OS. The tooling with Powershell is nice now, too. The workflow with window snapping is actually also excellent.

Entertainment - All "official" streaming Netflix stuff runs at 4k and I can also run VPN and torrent just fine on Windows.

Stability - I run an old rig on Windows 10 privately and a work Win11 laptop. Nowadays, you only need to reboot Windows once a month for updates.

And all the good apps runs like Firefox, Ocular, sumatraPDF etc...
AI helps historians solve ancient puzzles
Take the most challenging interpretation and you're probably correct.
There's a quote "Science progresses one funeral at a time" but it's also true for political progress too. We're never going to talk older people out of their political views, and unfortunately, we need to wait them out. The good news is that the demographics are undeniable--the popularity of their ideas will die with their generation, and we can finally move forward.
My favorite tweet about his death:

"TRUE G IS IF YOU DIE AT AGE 99 AND THEY STILL WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE CLOSE FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT."

[1] https://x.com/INVESTMENTSHULK/status/1729608350751449218?s=2...
This is a bit of a meta-comment but, there are a great deal of of comments in this thread that say something that's already covered in the article.

I've noticed that Hacker News comments do seem to be trending more over time to being from people who only read the title, or at best only skimmed the article.

If you go straight to the comments on any news post on Reddit, the discussions usually seem relatively insightful, but if you read the article and then the comments, suddenly many of them seem ridiculous. Either they're discussing questions that are already answered in the article or covering topics that are completely irrelevant. Often they're interpreting the article in completely the wrong way..

I've always much appreciated that Hacker News is not like that and most comments are responding to parts of the article itself. I hope we don't end up that way eventually.
They invested in the for-profit part, not the non-profit part. The board is for the non-profit organization.
> But whipping out your phone sucks compared to just tapping your card against a reader.

And I’d have said whipping out my card sucks compared to using the watch that’s already on my hand. (Of course that works with my other cards as well)
In context, the new believers were frequently put out of their homes and sent destitute, so being willing to give it all up was a requirement.

That said, there isn't a whole lot of evidence what is meant here and a rope makes more sense than a camel, because a rich man can become poorer by giving it up just as a rope can be made thinner (by taking away most of the fibers), whereas a camel just can't manage at all.

It wouldn't be too surprising if it was an obscure bit of slang among a less literate group meant for a joke, but there are a few other words that seem to have been coined by gospel writers that have seen lots of litigation, e.g. arsenokoites which seems to echo a construction from Leviticus.
Both of your numbers, Iraq and Afghanistan are simply not true.

Also, as a percentage of civilian population Gaza deaths are very close to Iraq deaths, except way less dead children in Gaza vs Iraq.
One of the keys of being able to learn something adroitly is believing that you are capable of learning it, and one of the pitfalls is believing you can do something that you cannot.

Some doubt is good and healthy. When doubt is preventing you from living a good life then some temporary chemical bypassing can be good, but if there is no doubt in your way then you're just chasing the high.
That stood out to me as well when I read the article.
try that with a coonhound and tracking training. 3+ hours nose work and the dog is fine but I am dragging my ass through the fields (damm you comfy office chair). Drive an hour home, the doggo is zzzzzzzzing away in the back seat so that when we get home she is rested and ready for a snufflewalk though the neighborhood.
For NASA, Iceland's Lava Fields Mimic Venus's Hellscape
Lol for 3D artists, this will be used 99% by people who have have never created a mesh by hand in their lifes; to replace their need to hire a 3D artist: programmers who don't want (or can't) pay a designer, architects who never learned nothing other than CAD, fiver "jobs", et al

I don't think people here realize how are we inching to automating the automation itself, and the programmers who will be able to make a living out of this will be a tiny fraction of those who can make a living out of it today.
In 1969, the U.S. turned off Niagara Falls
Shopify Files Fresh Lawsuit over DMCA Takedown Harassment
SDXL Turbo also uses a distilled version of SDXL so it gets a speed bonus from that too.
OpenAI's Q* model can solve grade-school math
What the last two comments are really saying is that "nihilism" isn't the right word for the state you enter when you give up on developing an accurate picture of the world from luridly presented tragedies in news stories.
in his early days, Buffett made is money by buying "cigar butts", the analogy being that you can pull a cigar out of the ashtray for free and get one more puff.

These were trash companies that Buffett could wring for one more dollar before they inevitably expired. The problem was that it didn't scale. Munger revolutioned Buffetts method by essentially teaching him to buy great companies are fair prices rather than fair companies at great prices.
This was a test fixture so probably banana leads.
I trust my observations of people I know more than the claims of celebrities. The vegans I've met have pallor skin, very low muscle mass, and look 10-15 years older than they really are. Vegan diets are very often deficient in various nutrients so their bodies start to cannibalize muscle mass and skin tissue, leading to weakness and premature aging. That's what my observations and intuition tells me.

If you don't want to eat cute animals that's fine, I think you can be reasonably healthy eating a mostly vegetarian diet with some eggs and small fish. But complete veganism is slow death, I won't go there.
WhatsApp Founder Jan Koum Is Quietly Building a Startup Portfolio
I don't chose to be spied on by any government! But if I could chose only one, it would be an opposing country like China or Russia.

American businesses are forced to share our private data witn three letter agencies. Conversely, I can't imagine any leverage, money or lawful, that would cause a Chinese citizen living in China, with families in China, to be so stupid as to collaborate with the US government in any way, unless they wish for their families to be sent to labor camps.

My data is safer with the Chinese. I don't like it, but that's where we stand with our privacy.