skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trains are critical infrastructure. Intentionally introducing vulnerabilities deserves the corporate death penalty and prison time for those involved. Best make an example out of them, lest the others get ideas.
And that tactic is usually called dumping in international trade, it's one aspect of the VC-funding tech culture that I don't understand how hasn't been fought with regulation, it's incredibly anti-competitive since the price is artificially low and only sustained by losses through a massive amount of capital. It isn't healthy for the free market, it might lower prices for customers for the period while dumping makes sense and a competitor outlives others but it will inevitably lead to increased prices when a company finally engulfs a big enough marketshare to be safe.

Predatory pricing is a ridiculous practice, killing a lot of innovation.
What about the other publishers whose content was used to train the model?
> 4 seconds to run on my Mac Studio, which cost $8,300 USD

Jesus, is it common for developers to have such expensive computers these days?
You give money you can't really afford to give in order to get goods that you don't really need. You do so because advertisers are skilled professionals, and are better at manipulating you than you are at not being manipulated. And they have put themselves in places where you cannot help but see them. That's what's wrong about that.
Something has to be seriously wrong with the way it was compiled for gdb to have trouble. Debugging (or in-process exception dumps), which only does a reasonable number of backtraces, should always be able to use separate unwind data sections.

Including frame pointers should only have a performance effect for sample-based profiling, which does a very large number of backtraces. And the general fact is - people don't profile, and if they do, they don't do it correctly.

Omitting frame pointers has significant performance wins on platforms with about 6 registers, like 32-bit intel x86. It's much less of a win on platforms with about 14 registers, like 64-bit x86 or 32-bit ARM, let alone platforms with about 30 registers, like 64-bit ARM.

Since modern architectures are strongly trending toward designs that support more registers, a frame pointer isn't unreasonable to choose. But that's still no excuse for all the shitty software that refuses to work correctly without them, rather than merely more slowly.

(Note that theoretically it is possible to design an ISA/ABI combo that supports easy and fast unwinding even without frame pointers, but there's always going to be some overhead and to my knowledge this choice hasn't been done.)
Interesting experience, but I tend to notice even a small amount of water mixed in. Different senses I guess.
> Nvidia at the high end for ML.

Wouldn't the high end for Nvidia be their dedicated gear rather than a 4090?
Yes, theoretically we're all guilty of felony murder.
Told stable stories, generally in a stable culture.

The 20th century is indeed an abberation; the 21st a bigger one.
With that insight, then it does sound like you might be on to something and heading down a decent path. By heading down, forging your own of course

I'm the guy in the meeting that always says you're demoing the thing too early, as it's not yet representing the full thing. Some people in the room want to constantly show progress and look for gold stars, and some people think it's premature and people will not get the full idea and think it's not what they need. Pretty obvious which group I'm in. There's probably some people in the room with other ideas too. Damned if you do, damned if you don't?
Oh, I didn’t realize that it was offering a single “Apple News+” subscription, I thought it was like the premium offered in Apple Podcasts.

That’s a little more interesting.

IMO an architecture that was a little more distributed and ala cart, as you say, would be nice. But it is definitely neat that at least somebody is taking a swing at this kind of solution.
Soverin appears not sovereign for receiving also. I think the 1st comment was only a pun.
mailbox.org (from reading ops issue)
I recommend reading The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age [1] if you'd like some hope.

All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again. It's mostly just part of the cycle between labor and capital. Teddy Roosevelt vs Bork. etc

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Republic-Which-Stands-Reconstruction-...
... or py2exe, cxFreeze...
Most laypeople have no idea what any of this means, and that's if they even hear about it at all.

The tech community that's clued into this is such a small percentage, unfortunately.

Funny anecdote: remember when those "I do not consent to facebook using my data" messages that were, ironically, posted to people's facebook walls?
Show HN: Game of Life with grid editor in browser with Rust and WASM
I coded up a game of life implementation in rust and web assembly using https://yew.rs/ as an effort to sharpen my rust skills and it resulted as a fun toy. You can find the source here: https://gitlab.com/reedrichards/wvdom Enjoy!
Indirect branches are common in many OO languages because calling object.method(arg) essentially does object.class.method(object, arg) or object.prototype.method(object, arg) - the address of method is loaded indirectly through the object's "class" field as it may be inherited or not.

(In some cases the compiler may statically know the class of an object, if it's not allowing for subclassing and a potentially overridden method)
Am I correctly reading your implication that, although this is a strong point in favor of the right-to-repair movement, you remain personally unconvinced in it as a whole? If so, what's holding you back from being fully convinced?
These are all CLI...

https://github.com/jftuga/less-Windows - [not really mine, but I just help maintain the port] - GNU less compiled for Windows 10 & 11. Stand-alone version with no dependencies.

https://github.com/jftuga/gofwd - A cross-platform TCP port forwarder with Duo 2FA and Geo-IP integration

https://github.com/jftuga/spotprice - Quickly get AWS spot instance pricing - a bit easier to use than the aws cli; is also faster and has more features

https://github.com/jftuga/tcpscan - A standalone, fast, simple, multi-threaded cross-platform IPv4 TCP port scanner

https://github.com/jftuga/ipinfo - Return IP address info including geographic location and distance when given IP address, email address, host name or URL

https://github.com/jftuga/photo_id_resizer - Resize photo ID images using face recognition technology

https://github.com/jftuga/chars - Determine the end-of-line format, tabs, bom, and nul characters

Here is a fairly new Firefox extension that I created...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxcolorbox/ - allows you to change and customize browser Window colors. When you open a new window, it will have a distinct color. You can also change colors by clicking on the extension icon.
Focal points.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(optics)
Yes, and I wanted to give another example that it does not help.
Very impressive demo.
Spotify does all kinds of tricky things to their music preview player. If you're not a logged in user, it only plays a preview of the tune, which of course does not count towards plays for artists. They also steer listeners away from independent artist links by playing completely different songs on shared links.

I'm thoroughly convinced the platform is against independent music, and actively working to suppress the discovery of new and independent musicians unless they pay a lot of money in ads on Spotify and social media (even before making a dime), especially now since they have set a minimum stream threshold for unknown artists. Their corporate practices are terrible behind the scenes.
A task timer that helps me stay on task trying to get multiple things done at once in my free time; highly configurable and controllable. I've always wanted to turn it into an Android app, but it's written in a dead language for a dead platform because that's where my skills ended, and I wouldn't know where to start.
> They still wake up every day early, work much harder than you ever will in your life, but are still in a shithole

A sad fact about the world is that one can work hard and end up accomplishing very little for their effort. "Working hard" may be a necessary condition for pulling oneself out of poverty (or very near to one, at any rate), but it's not even close to being sufficient.
In theory. But in real life you'll pay more with taxes for poor service.

My big city in Poland tried several times to get public-private bike sharing. It ended the same: company ceases operation after few years and take all bikes from the streets. People get nothing while millions already spent.
Hide a spoofer on the train itself, this way you can target any train anywhere
That is highly optimistic though. Profiling is hard even when you know what you're doing, and doing it wrong can easily lead to pessimization (thinking particularly about if your profiling workload exercises a different set of branches).
OmniFocus 4
Very cool. Side note: the self-bios of lesser known artists are 99% painful to read. It would be great to use some kind of AI to suggest improvements.
I have this email

Recently we announced that Google Podcasts will be discontinued next year. We wanted to reach out directly with more information on what to expect.

For now, nothing is changing, and you can continue to use Google Podcasts as normal. Over the coming months, podcasts in YouTube Music will be made available globally and we will start rolling out tools that will enable you to transfer your podcast show subscriptions from Google Podcasts. In YouTube Music, you will be able to listen to your podcasts just like you did on Google Podcasts, no paid subscription required. If YouTube Music isn’t for you, there will also be an option to download a file of your show subscriptions, which you can upload to an app that supports their import.

We acknowledge that this is a big change and want to thank you for being a loyal Google Podcasts user. We’ll reach out directly with more details over the coming months. In the meantime, if you have questions, please check out our Help Community here.

Sincerely,
The Google Podcasts team

The podcast app on my phone also has a nag text that mentions that it will be shutting down.

I was trying to say that we have well over a year in advance to prepare for the google podcast service to terminate.

If you ignore emails that is on you, not the service.
That's assuming that none of the children marry children from other families and consolidate back into one household.
Starlink was not the only provider that was excluded from the subsidy. Giving public money away to a service provider that cannot provide the service as described in the law is the definition of corruption. You can see the details that led to the commission making its decision here: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-105A1.pdf
Completely agree. I know a few artists and that conversation applies to most of them.
It's funny how nobody ever asks this question when the topic is military spending.
Is it? I can see lower acquisition prices being necessary for growth, but property values as we know them presently are tied to land, the increased value of which is the push to densify.

You also want the natural increase (well, Prop 13 permitting) in tax revenue for city amenities.
Just to make sure I've got this right- running a llamafile in a shell script to do something like rename files in a directory- it has to open and load that executable every time a new filename is passed to it, right? So, all that memory is loaded and unloaded each time? Or is there some fancy caching happening I don't understand? (first time I ran the image caption example it took 13s on my M1 Pro, the second time it only took 8s, and now it takes that same amount of time every subsequent run)

If you were doing a LOT of files like this, I would think you'd really want to run the model in a process where the weights are only loaded once and stay there while the process loops.

(this is all still really useful and fascinating; thanks Justine)
i think, what we build now, was already envisioned way before we built it. up to 50-60 years. if you look at papers from early system designers they were definitely looking to.build neural networks etc. already. if you look at current new research concepts you might learn more about the future 50 years on. i think ibms light/photon based chips, and intels microfibers to connect chips etc. is super interesting. maybe well all have small devices with these photonic chips connected by microfibers. everything working at lightspeed seems a fair direction. these devices can even be made on current production lines. i also think, but am not sure about this,.that they might help with issues around power consumption which is a direction also being steered in. to try and get around moores law perhaps, or optimize the power for performance ratio
Could programs compiled in architectures with 16 general purpose registers fail in one with 15?
If you know everything, you can connect more dots, and come up with innovative stuff.

Also I’ve just gave instructions to gpt4 rot13 encoded, and it followed the instructions. I don’t really care if “it” understood what it was doing, but the responses were good enough for me to be impressed.

Also I’ve got quite a lot of use cases where I get reliable value out of it, what were you trying to do that made you conclude it is “utterly unreliable”?
> > This is going to slow the adoption of broadband

Just lay down fiber. Unlike satellites you only have to do it once, but that's not exciting enough for rocket man because unlike satellites you don't get the government to pay you to play with rockets.

This is all there is to it, like the Apollo program was. A bunch of techbros want to play with rockets and try really hard to reverse engineer an excuse for government to hand them cash for it.

For the Apollo program it was collecting moon rocks that were supposed to hold god knows what secrets, for the current age of space it's rural internet.
Nothing wrong with it, but there are other drivers that cross-compile better and are faster.
I'd argue even waymo is still far away from FSD. Driverless cars on a restricted set of roads with a remote operator monitoring things (and the ability to quickly resolve issues), is nowhere close to what I (and the general public I would argue) understands as fully self driving.
Dropbox has form. The reason I shut my account is they used the root permission you give when you install the package to give back accessibility access permissions to their app after I had turned them off. They then claimed (in a very mealy mouthed reply) that this had been done because people turned these permissions off by accident and so they were trying to be helpful. Here's that thread for people who want the context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12464730
I guess that depends on where you are rsync-ing to?
Agreed on the points made of privacy.

A line that stuck out though, was the line about how it's redundant and does what our phones can already do. One of the goals of this seems to be just that, but with the intention of using the form factor/"invisible" interface as a means of blurring the lines and making it more seamless/invisible to the point that it "just exists" and we forget it's even there. I'm not a psych expert, but one could assume the many reasons for wanting this to happen with people who use this product
There are two types of statements that can be made in this world.

One is data driven based on evidence.

The other is logic driven based on axioms and the logical implications of said axioms.

My statement is derived from the later. Therefore evidence is unnecessary. It is niave to blindly faith in all truth in the hands of data without understanding nuances between the relationship of data and logic.

If you have a pure function that takes the input, the output of that function has 3 possible outcomes.

1. The output of that function is some transformation of the input.

2. The output of the function has nothing to do with the input and is thus generated randomly generated.

3. The output of the function is a combination of both random generation and input transformation.

In this case your brain is the function. Input parameters are 100 percent of your existing knowledge. That includes genetic knowledge such as instinctual/rational processing behaviors evolved into the structure of your brain through evolution and learned knowledge such as what you gain when you read a book.

The result of the "innovation" operation performed by the brain includes novel output by definition. Thus by logic it must be must include components that are from a certain perspective randomly generated.

I guess at first glance it doesn't appear randomly generated because we vet the output and verify it and iterate over several pieces of randomly generated information. Additionally it's not completely random as we only try and test ideas within the realm of possibility. For example I'm not going to account for the possibility that my car will transform into a rock tomorrow that's just too random.

But make no mistake. Innovation must be partly randomly generated. Even the idea itself of composing two existing components of knowledge together is itself randomly generated.

That being said if we want to be pedantic, there's no real known way to randomly generate stuff via an algorithm. So I use the term "randomly generate" very loosely. Think of it in a similar way to random number generation on your computer: Random from a practical perspective but not technically random.
I'm not sure how many of these claims are true.

The article claims that hiring outside of Silicon Valley is easier. I agree that there's more competition from other companies inside of SV, but there's just a lot fewer people to hire if you're based outside of a big tech hub (Bay Area, Seattle, NYC, Austin). Less competition to entice prospective employees, yes, but there's a lot fewer prospective employees.

I'm also totally not understanding how regulation is advantageous to non SV companies. Both companies in Silicon Valley compaines and non-SV companies are subject to regulation. I don't see why lobbying for favorable regulation would be an easier outside of SV. The examples given here (e.g China) are not advantages of non-SV companies, it's the advantage of a government deliberately favoring domestic companies.
I'm looking at that list and I don't see the same thing. The top ten cities by violent crime rate are: St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, KCMO, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Stockton, ABQ, and Indianapolis.
I never presented myself as a medical professional of any sort. I think you're getting too hung up on semantics rather than reading what I typed.
Thanks - I hadn’t seen more recent sources than the NYT story which had it at unclear a couple of years ago:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/business/tesla-autopilot-...
Considering the advances in computational hardware over the past few decades plus the corresponding (and not unrelated) real increase in developer salaries, it is unreasonably cheap.
This is __really__ stunning work, huge, huge, deal that I'm seeing this in a web browser on my phone. Congratulations!

When I look at the NYC scene in the highest quality on desktop, I'm surprised by how low-quality ex. the stuff on the counter and shelves is. So then I load the lego model, and see that's _very_ detailed, so it doesn't seem inherent to the method.

Is it a consequence of input photo quality, or something else?
Argentina's Milei Devalues Peso by 54%
Thanks for posting that link, that sheds a lot of light on this topic.

I’m also in the EU, and the button was switched off for me too.
A legitimate reason to own a current-gen gaming console: unlike most gaming PCs, they still have optical drives.
Not trying to kill rentals, I'd have the tax only applied to single-family and multi-family homes, not apartment buildings. I agree that a supply of quality rental housing is an essential part of a healthy housing system.

I think anybody who intends to be a long-term resident (5+ years) shouldn't be financially excluded from residential homeownership because nonresidents (who maybe used to be residents) bought up all the local property, when it was more affordable 20-40 years ago.

I'm trying to tax the intersection of nonresidency and single/multi-family homeownership, which includes empty houses and the many rentals.
Is there a relatively easy way to apply these kinds of techniques (either NeRFs or gaussian splats) to larger environments even if it's lower precision? Like say small towns/a few blocks worth of env.
You're disregarding taxation and cost of living. Your numbers on their own mean nothing.

Oh, and USA is one the countries with most inequality, which plays in favor of a minority at the expense of the vast majority. Different story in France, for instance, where solidarity between rich and poor is higher through taxes, although not perfect.

Really depends what you want out of life.
Gunpei Yokoi's ethos of "lateral thinking with withered technology" [1] has been an guiding principle within Nintendo since the Game & Watch days: to use "seasoned" or otherwise imperfect technology in creative ways. Using a broken SoC that they probably got a great deal on that still fits their needs fits perfectly in that mindset.

[1] https://medium.com/@adamagb/nintendo-s-little-known-product-...
True but not this incarnation. And the Silicon part is all but gone.
The bulk of the innovative work on this product is done by the unnamed engine supplier it seems. I'm failing to see what is so innovative about the airframe itself (the part that Maeve provides) that differentiates it from the existing aviation industry. While aircraft and engine design is tightly coupled, thereby potentially requiring a new clean-sheet design, it seems an undue risk to be the engine supplier for a brand new unproven company. Especially in an industry that must be risk adverse due to high capital requirements and tight regulations.

Incidentally this identical concept is already being pursued by Pratt & Whitney Canada using an existing (and very successful) airframe, the DeHavilland Dash-8. An aircraft even mentioned in the article as an aircraft Maeve wishes to replace. Proven aircraft, with a proven engine manufacturer. I'd be betting on the P&WC and the DeHavilland team on this one.

https://www.prattwhitney.com/en/newsroom/news/2021/07/15/pwc...
That assumes that the children stay single as they grow up. If they all get a partner it is no longer one house - one person. You literally only need half as many houses.
This is always a game of boundary-setting. In one way that's true, in another way Waymo is 21+ years behind[1]. People have been setting up 'particular vehicles' to navigate 'particular areas' for decades. If the Waymo "self driving car" is an expansion of older site-specific tech, then there's nothing new under the sun. If their car is can be put anywhere then it just being able to drive in Tempe isn't proof of that.

IMO the truth is more with the experts. Each new location seems to require a lot of tuning to get right and function in a way the company is happy with. If a "self driving car" is one we can drop anywhere and have it drive we are still waiting on that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParkShuttle
The mirror on the wall of the bathroom in the Berlin location looks through to the kitchen in the next room. I guess the depth gauging algorithm uses parallax, and mirrors confuse it, seeming like windows. The kitchen has a blob of blurriness as the rear of the mirror intrudes into kitchen, but you can see through the blurriness to either room.

The effect is a bit spooky. I felt like a ghost going through walls.