skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There will be a lot of debate about which is the absolute best choice for X task, but what I love about this is the level of performance at such a low power consumption.
Arianespace exec, in 2013, talking about SpaceX before they managed to land a rocket [1]: "reusability is a dream. [...] SpaceX is selling a dream. [...] The market will wake up and realize it's a dream." the word "dream" appears 3 or 4 more times in that single sentence.

I cannot find a quote, but I also remember distinctly an exec from ULA claiming reusability was a dream, because even if you could land a rocket successfully you would never be able to reuse it as the stress on the rocket from the flight would make it unable to fly again, with any material you can use to build a rocket. (SpaceX has a falcon 9 booster they have reused 17 times so far).

[1]: around 3:00 https://web.archive.org/web/20210723155930oe_/https://r1---s...
Sorry correction. 20$ a month for an enterprise account formerly unlimited - (which is pretty much free considering how much data is being used ~ 7 cents a TB if my calcs are correct). Now that account is a 100$ / 25 TB. for 273 == 1000 $/month.

https://www.gamerevolution.com/guides/942777-no-more-unlimit...
This technology has been around a lot longer than a year. The underlying math could be a century old depending on the model.
This is similar to linguistics. People often rank languages in terms of difficulty, but in reality complexity is just moved around.

For example in English words are often uninflected. Languages like Hungarian/Turkish have a lot of prefixes/suffixes. You'd think that means they're a lot more complicated, but in reality their prefixes/suffixes are very predictable whereas English is all over the place. Is it noninflected, disinflected, deinflected, ininflected, flected?
I don't know how many times this has to be repeated in the comments section: Don't depend on Google in production for anything.

The problem stems around that their culture is to break all existing backwards compatibility at any moments notice (You know, ""innovating""), their politics is to rapidly cancel projects and products due to infighting and power struggles, software development leadership is make things as expensive to maintain as possible by using the most impractical of languages and frameworks, and budgets are rarely given until a project gains executive attention, which is usually too late.
> Only one driver is written in pure go, and can be easily statically compiled and/or cross-compiled.

Which one do you mean? The WASM one? It includes WASM, it needs to be compiled too.

Ah github.com/cvilsmeier/sqinn-go. Which... is made by the same person that made this benchmark...?

edit: and that requires some random binary to be pre-installed...? Which is in C anyway?

https://github.com/cvilsmeier/sqinn-go

https://github.com/cvilsmeier/sqinn

so I don't see any "actually written in go".
The car also has the modern low beams, with a very sharp dividing line between "light" and "no light". That's one feature I wish "everyone around" had...
"The wind is blowing! Quick, everyone run your Hadoop jobs!"

-- A++ customer experience
It says we can use it with their API. Would be good to have a link to it though.
$20, a half hour of your time, and a Walgreens coupon will give you a hard copy backup of a large stack of photos not much larger than a hard drive that can live in a drawer or shelf for years without worrying about capacitors leaking or any of the other rot that mostly immortal electronics catastrophically suffer.

An annual “print-a-thon” is a good way to capture those things that still matter after a year onto a more robust, albeit less flexible, medium.
It's a letter from one FCC commissioner, of which there are currently 5. He dissents from the decision the commission as a whole came to. There are a lot of companies on the ground that could benefit from that ~$900 million so a single company replacing Starlink is not necessary. The main concern is if the FCC give Starlink money to reach 100/20 and they don't do it (because there are legitimate technical issues to solve before it's possible for Starlink to supply over half a million people with 100/20), it's wasted money. The FCC didn't think it was doable on that time scale.

Doing some math, currently each satellite launch sends up 22 satellites at around 2.8 Gbps per satellite. For each launch, Starlink adds ~61.6 Gbps of capacity. If we cut that up into 100/20 slices, each launch supports 616 customers at 100/20. To support 650,000 subscribers at 100/20, it would take about 1055 perfect launches.

I don't think the FCC was wrong when they said Starlink could not reach 650,000 people at 100/20 by 2025. There aren't enough days to launch one rocket a day to even try to catch up.
I love how the cost of directional drilling is completely discounted here. It's an expensive process that requires a ton of skilled (often union) labor.
Yeah that was the classic bait and switch.

Relatedly, I don't know when Starbucks started asking for tips but it seems like a recent phenomenon although I am not a regular there. A tip on top of $6 coffee in a drive through is ridiculous too.
There's no actual way to use this.
On models < 24GB presumably. "Faster" depends on the model size.
Do you have any links for using Zig for this?
Chimera is normally an organism formed by two normally fertilized fetuses fusing together. They've made goat/sheep chimerae, crazy stuff.
Where do you see McDonalds advertising unlimited ketchup?

Condiment dispensing appear to be left to franchisees, but clear you only get up to 5 packets for free here: https://www.grubhub.com/food/mcdonalds/menu
I don’t believe pain has any meaning at all on the level of a single neuron, just as temperature doesn’t have any meaning in the context of a single atom.
Looks good. But 24GB of vram is quite a lot for 1024x1024
I don't know how compilers typically implement closures, but that does seem to be what some languages on that list (e.g. D) support by way of "nested/local functions", and is obviously a bit different in terms of variable lifetime.

In Pascal local functions are not closures and do not affect variable storage. All variables are still stored in the stack frame (unless optimized to be in registers), and local functions can access their parent's (& grandparent's etc) variables via pointers to their stack frames, which are normally held globally in an array of frame pointers called the display.

For a Pascal depth-N nested local function to access it's parent's variables it would use the depth-(N-1) display entry, for it's grandparent's variables the depth-(N-2) entry etc. When a parent calls a nested function the only thing that needs to change in the display is to set the depth N-1 display pointer to it's own stack frame, and to replace it with the old N-1 pointer when the call is complete. The grandparent/etc entries don't need to change.

This x86 ENTER instruction appears to be designed for a more general case than Pascal, since it's apparently copying the entire display (array of frame pointers), not just doing the more efficient incremental update/restore that is all Pascal needs.

It's interesting to see Raymond Chen writing about this "almost always unused" ENTER parameter since it suggests that compilers are not using it even for those languages that might seem to be able to make use of it. Perhaps, as for Pascal, it's not the most efficient way, or perhaps just because languages such as JavaScript don't normally compile to machine code.
What’s sad is how all of the prestige from late 00’s has gone down the toilet. More and more google as a brand holds less weight.
Even on a 1080p monitor the 2160p version of that video is much clearer than the 1080p version, the timelapses look blocky, compressed.
Both in EU and US you have laws that say the manufacturer isn't allowed to deny you a warranty repair because of a mod unless they can undeniably prove that the issue was caused by the mod. I know of several cases where the manufacturer had to be taken to court over this but the consumer ultimately won because no manufacturer can demonstrate how using OBD reader to change your seatbelt settings can cause the transmission to fail.
Hamas and Israel have been continuously at war since Israel fostered the creation of Hamas to split the Palestinian opposition and have an enemy that was easier to use to justify not making peace than the PLO.
The six-month grace period notice pretty clearly states his data would be read-only, while the seven-day notice seems to be the first time destruction is even mentioned. I think we can both agree that there's a world of difference between data being read-only and being destroyed. I think it's completely reasonable to say he has 7 days to download it.
It sounds like they decided to compete for a contract that was otherwise designed to just give money to traditional telecoms for doing nothing.
Also involved in government procurement, also provide guidance to several Congressional reps gratis as a technologist subject matter expert. Change is possible, to believe otherwise is to give up. If you want to give up, head to the bar and make way for people who give a shit. I give a shit, so I am admittedly biased.
But building-tall Japanese creatures don’t bite... :)
GCP console’s UX is somehow worse than AWS’s, which is pretty crazy
Idk, it probably has some value. But my point was that it's going to be difficult to prevent your real identity from becoming attached to your DNA forever. The moment your real (DNA, identity) pair leaks from a credible source, your privacy is permanently and retroactively ruined.

So if 23andMe leaked a fake name with your DNA, it's out there in the hands of advertisers/scammers/governments/etc. From now on, anyone who gets access to your DNA will be able to build up data on you, and all it will take is a single leak/sale from a credible source to make it accurate.

(...but in truth, I have no idea what "DNA data" looks like, or if it's even possible to use it for targeting...)
Even more so time line:

2023/05/26 News about FBI seizure

10 July 2023 End of grace period

16 December 2023 closure of account

So there would have been plenty of time for new backups... Between July and December.
Quebec's 'Language Police' Take Aim at Sneaky English Slang
The one I hate is “unlimited bandwidth” by ISPs that then throttle and then aregue it’s unlimited because they throttled not cut off - no it’s not it’s data caps in a round about way
As a human, I often find innovation harder than imitation as well!

* I do love trying to innovate, and it feels so good when it's a success!
Unfortunately the Palestinians don't agree with that solution.
Sure, there are also some (allegedly credible) people opening their AI-optimist diatribes with statements of positive confidence like:

“Fortunately, I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world”

My issue is not with people who say “yes this is a serious question and we should navigate it thoughtfully.” My issue is with people who simply assert that we will get to a good outcome as an article of faith.
A simple google home app that triggered an IFTTT script. It allowed my kids to ask who was the best dad and say back my name. I was the coolest dad that day.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mustachio-redux/hbn... - made an offline version from the API based one a long time ago.
Well, it's not black and white.

Regulation hinders progress and makes things more expensive. But no regulation raises costs and hinders progress too: it basically creates a situation of very low trust, and low trust is extremely expensive for customers/buyers who are not domain experts. This also makes them overcautious and conservative. One needs a balance and lots of nuance to make a reasonably well functioning market/system.

The case against regulation on software business is not that "regulation is bad". It's that programming and software is very new and rapidly evolving area of human activity. It's not nearly as well understood as building houses. Written and unwritten standards and best practices are constantly changing. The field is subject to very strong fashion-driven "crazes".

(Just look at how many new languages are still being created. Most don't become as widespread as C++ or Java or Python, but many do find their niche, and very many are in use to some extent. This indicates that "language Holy Graal" is nowhere to be seen yet.)

In software, there is very little consensus between domain experts on most issues. This is very unlike construction and house building, where some new materials ant techniques are introduced too, but the basic principles are well understood, calculable, and where agreement among experts is usually quite achievable.

So arguably it's nearly impossible to create good regulation at this stage, at least outside of certain special niches. This is very different from building codes and stuff.

Of course there is also bad regulation. The bureaucracy likes to expand their control indefinitely, wants to regulate things that should not be regulated, thus (if unchecked) creating very bad regulation. Well, that's the case for checks and balances, for the society to fight back. But "this regulation is bad and needs to be changed" is a much more mature position than "we need no f*g regulation!", in my opinion...
Some spectral lines are much more prominent, some elements/molecules will stay there longer, it can't be compared only by weight.

Also, if Starship is successful as planned, means on average several tons launched per day, most of which mass to be deorbited just few years later. Starlink plans to deorbit thousands of satellites per year, V2 are 800kg already, likely getting heavier if launching gets cheaper.
Call me when that happens.
There is a good critical close read by the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/13/what-the...
Remember Google Reader?

If this is how they are going to treat customers, it is probably not a good strategy to build a business around any of their products including their new AI stuff.
In this case, the 4090 is far more memory efficient thanks to ExLlamav2.

70B in particular is indeed a significant compromise on the 4090, but not as much as you'd think. 34B and down though, I think Nvidia is unquestionably king.
I don't think Newagg stands a chance. The hackers didn't hack a third party IT network/system. They hacked a train that was owned by the railway company, not Newagg.
I was referring to the entire 100 year long middle east conflict, of which the Israel-Hamas war is a part.
Is there a bug in the lsd game? If you draw a line exactly in the middle of the ball falling, it gets stuck on that line wiggling like a pearl on a string.

Great game!!
Many many many farmers rely on loans to start their ventures. VCs fund because of possible returns to them not to society. Banks and Gov do the heavy lifting on ag funding.
Wait, so its his fault that he did not pay Google more? "Just in case" money?
JetBrains Accounts Compromised
Default setup now includes scheduled scans and supports all languages covered b
I need to update the word list for this year, but same: https://007.github.io/tnetennba/
The manufacturer is trying to evoke "murky status".

But both national law states it's OK, and there is a ruling by Court of Justice of the European Union stating that Reverse Engineering done by owner even of a program license (EULA style) to make it work or fix errors is legal.
I've worked at multiple places that unfortunately paid for CF services (and support), and have consistently had trouble with them. And that doesn't include just general CF service instability for end users.
You're being incredibly optimistic. Show me a non-greedy person in Congress, with the exception of Thomas Massie, and I'll believe you that change is possible.
Supabase Branching
Thanks for the feedback, and you are not being overly critical at all! I appreciate the suggestions. I might need to explore my options better because I think even though the web version is a side product it's what people prefer the most (no installation step, etc.), so perhaps it's worth digging deeper into it and make the web app as smooth and compatible as possible.
Yes. They will flip on their customers sooner or later. It might be years. And so long as you are prepared to bail when the time comes, you may as well keep taking advantage. But if it's critical infrastructure, make sure you have a failover plan ready.
If they get in trouble for repairing a goddamn train, what chance do we have to keep the right to repair our phones?

I hate living in (techno)feudalism, I thought we moved past that...
Anyone know what kind of traffic a 6 dollar a month digital ocean droplet can handle?
1. https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space Space Nerds in Space, a multiplayer starship bridge simulator for linux

2. Gneutronica, a MIDI drum machine program https://github.com/smcameron/gneutronica

3. gaseous-giganticus a program to generate textures for gas giant planets https://github.com/smcameron/gaseous-giganticus

4. explodomatica, a program to generate "explosion noises" by filtering white noise https://github.com/smcameron/explodomatica

5. note-driller a simple program to drill guitar fretboard notes and chord shapes https://github.com/smcameron/note-driller

6. wordwarvi a side-scrolling shoot-em-up similar to Defender, Stargate, and Scramble https://github.com/smcameron/wordwarvi

7. cosmic-space-boxinator a program (in the Processing language) to create sky-boxes for my space game, Space nerds in space https://github.com/smcameron/cosmic-space-boxinator
They run the whole testsuite on the transpiled code. I think.

But yeah it does give me a little shiver to think you are transpiling C code to go code, and the go-code is not really "pure go", but has a platform-dependent unsafe operations. Just look at the repo

https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite/-/tree/master/lib?ref_type=h...
Some railway specialist also noted that some of the trains that were publicly known to be part of this have explicit registrations that make the owners also fully in their right to decide about their maintenance.
I'm no great defender of Google but point some fallacies the article pushes:

"regarding a woman losing her entire Google account after one of her 7 year old sons, messing around with a camera and uploading the videos to YouTube, published a video of himself naked. For obvious reasons, that’s a problem"

If a 7 year old found a parent's gun, walked into the street and shot a neighbor to death accidentally; the parent is also still responsible and accountable.

"he had obtained and published some leaked video footage from Fox News." and "he was able to access the footage by using publicly accessible URLs to obtain the content."

https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/website-permissions/websites/

"As a general rule, it is wise to operate under the assumption that all works are protected by either copyright or trademark law unless conclusive information indicates otherwise. A work is not in the public domain simply because it has been posted on the Internet (a popular fallacy) or because it lacks a copyright notice (another myth). For information on these and other public domain issues, see the section, “The Public Domain.”"

Related, search for "OpenAI lawsuits over copyrighted materials it uses to train ChatGPT".
Amazing, I really appreciate it!
Great suggestions by the way!
:)
It's easy to run Whisper on my Mac M1. But it's not using MLX out of the box.

I spend an hour or two, trying to run figure out what I need to install / configure to enable it to use MLX. Was getting cryptic Python errors, Torch errors... Gave up on it.

I rented VM with GPU, and started Whisper on it within few minutes.
Google gave him 60 days after they fired him to continue using his account for free. After that they gave him another 5 months in read only mode to find a solution.

The short timeframe now is because the user did nothing in over half a year to resolve the problem.

Google could have more clearly communicated that read-only state was temporary, but assuming it was permanent seems wildly optimistic and naive.
This is consistent with the original decision. LTD Broadband, another big 2020 recipient is no longer eligible. https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-rejects-ltd-broadband-starl...
Yes, though it would be more helpful to have a comparison chart of the various (Open)JDK distributions, because for most purposes they are exchangeable, apart from the support terms.
What a deal!

I found that in Miami they add 18% by default in the check. When I was there earlier this year, I did not realize it the first day and ended up paying 20% tip on top of that.
It wasn't free. He was paying for the "unlimited storage" plan.
Definitely AWS.
You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)
Huh, I don't think I've had to retry the back gesture once, it's always just worked. Are you using a case which makes it hard to access the screen edge or something?
The answer, of course, is to do both. PV is great and we should be building massive amounts of it. Nuclear is also great and we should also be building massive amounts of that. They each have pros & cons.
I'm compiling a list of things I hate about my tesla.

https://jodavaho.io/posts/things-i-hate-about-my-tesla.html

New one to add: The front license plate falls off constantly. They dont require those in california, so when you buy one in states that do require it, they send you a janky plastic holder with just a bit of double sided tape that never seems to hold.

Funniest one: When you are using cruise control you cannot disable the wipers.
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/

https://www.fetterman.senate.gov/

https://foster.house.gov/

https://frost.house.gov/

Hope is in short supply, but not at empty yet. Make sure to vote every election. 1.8M voters over the age of 55 die every year in the US, and 4M voters age into voting at 18. Demographics are inevitable. As I tell the young folks, Hold Fast.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/07/the-chang...

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/americas-electoral-...

https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/41-million-members-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/09/maxwell-frost-will-be-the-fi...

(disclaimer: I have maxed out my FEC political contributions to every rep enumerated due to my belief in their character; if someone's character changes or evidence surfaces they are not a good person, my support changes accordingly)
Unlimited does. And it should.

But if its your "lifes work" i would assume the value there is more than just the cost of storage. That the person storing it would have thought about ownership and egress options a bit further out.

Like i use workspace for all sorts of stuff. But its google, they can and may just axe your account for any reason. So i have backups of all things at all times and worst case, i just move my email/drive whatever to another service along with the domain, which I own (and he appears to as well)

Im not excusing google at all. But at some point you have to take some accountability. Not having a backup plan and just trusting google or ANY company to faithfully keep your lifes work for you seems slightly....naive.
Are you aware of how much pilots do once autopilot is engaged? They do some checklists, then they sit on their arse, eat food, watch something. While being responsible for 100's of peoples lives. They only intervene in start, landing and if something really goes south.

Calling something an autopilot implies you can do essentially whatever you want while the machine operates itself.
Dropbox did the same thing in August: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/24/dropbox_ends_unlimite...
Also worth noting even if this wasn't true, you can talk to a lawyer about an NSL: https://www.eff.org/issues/national-security-letters/faq#24
Really weird for Nintendo to have picked such a completely broken SoC.
Oh I see what you did there. Very accurate acronym from that list.