skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently working 32h/w and will possibly need to start job hunting for remote. I was prepared to go back to 40h but... I really don't want to. It was life changing.

Wondering if I should just hunt for 32h/w offers, if I could potentially miss on great 40h opportunities, etc. What's the success rate of asking for 32h/w in offers not advertised as such?
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Low end and IoT devices also tend to only support older WiFi, so you may have to put them on another network.
It can be an interesting thought experiment to imagine a world where clocks didn’t exist and we hadn’t subdivided the years into named slices. We spend so much time reasoning relative to our understanding of time, which is seen through the lens of clocks and calendars.

Another perspective is one of phenomena that comes and goes based on the state of the environment and the progression of some underlying process, e.g. a plant that flowers and then goes dormant.

I know that personally, I experience very different levels of productivity and mental states based on the time of year. Spring brings a feeling of newness and possibility. Summer a desire to socialize and have fun in the sun. Winter is more contemplative and occasionally depressive.

I could definitely see my output as someone who writes things taking on different characteristics as the conditions around me ebb and flow.

As others have pointed out, I don’t think this variance is limited to a single notion of better/worse, but it definitely modulates my output.
'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electronic hardware
It's a ridiculous comparison. How do you calculate "more widely" usage? I use Messages for all SMS messages. I've had maybe 5 group chats in Messages over the last 10 years, all groups are organized in WhatsApp or Signal. So what is more widely used in my case?

Messages is the default SMS app on iPhones. 130M iPhones in the US does mean there are 130M Messages users. So what? Some teenagers are angsty because of green bubbles? FFS do we not have bigger problems to deal with?
More to the point, try `[len,exit,repr]`. Consider what would happen if `exit.__repr__()` did terminate the program.
So M2 is more advanced than M3?
They do: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/rate-limits/batching...
According to https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1-GGUF :

18.14GB in 2bit, which is still too high for your GPU, and most likely borders on unusable in terms of quality. You could probably split it between CPU and GPU, if you don't mind the slowdown.
That reflects my experience. To top it off, your healthcare (including mental health) being tied to your job makes the layoff even more anxiety inducing.
Jason Schrum at Moderna https://google.com/search?q=Jason+Schrum+mRNA
Perhaps the most famous time this happened in an MMO was the assassination of Lord British.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_British
Apple had plenty of ways to detect a datacenter full of Mac minis logging into iMessage accounts from all over the world, multiple on each machine, with custom software automating message sending, which I believe is even open source so Apple could look at it.
If someone writes a decompiler, they could call it the reverse cowgol.

Sorry...
Ask HN: What do data consultancies / data teams do?
When I look at some like Mammoth Growth, I see they have lots of big clients. But what do they do? E.g. Dropbox as one of the clients. Doesn't they have engineering team that can build their data needs? Or what is the "data stack"? How does the whole process look like? Im genuinely curious.
That sounds like a RAM issue.

If you've got a faulty RAM chip, a memory-intensive use like video editing will reveal it. And it usually does so by crashing.
Did AOL really win in the end though?

My youth was in the late 90s and 2000s and I don’t know a single soul that used AOL, ICQ, or Yahoo. I imagine all of them must have been hoping for the reverse at that point, access to MSN.
> Can the defense have an "expert witness" refute the claims?

Yes, but the defense witness can make unsupported claims in the opposite direction. Neither "expert witness" is required to actually support their testimony.

> There's also the issue of jury selection.

Yes, definitely. Someone else upthread mentioned that too.
Embeddings can be batched.
the kids are alright

(GenX'er fwiw)
wow, that's really impressive for 3-d printed and being built from first principles!
We can assume that there are close to zero iPhone owners who don't use Messages, considering that almost half of the US population has an iPhone. This calculation fails to account for the critical aspect: Messages is the default SMS app, it's not just a group chat. Comparing it to WhatsApp is just incorrect.
What morelisp said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38592976
To add, the very first video, the parrot doesn't have an eye. A few videos down the line, the horse's legs meld together and split again as it's walking.

Agreed, this is no more impressive than Stable Video or any of the other things like this we've seen.
you are right. will update the language
I'm not American and I've never seen anyone use WhatsApp. I only use it to text my family back in Morocco. Facebook Messenger is even more universal than WhatsApp in my experience
The exit is that way, sir.
Show HN: AI generated lullabies that are read aloud to you and your kids
WiFi 6 (ax) did add several new features designed to help with this, called spatial reuse.
I don't think the numbers sufficiently capture the limitation. The Intel memory bandwidth speed you quoted would be for CPU-based inference, but not for gpu inference using shared system memory for spillover model size past the dedicated gpu vram. I think that would necessarily limit parts of the inference procedure (not sure how the split would work, and it would probably depend on whether you're using something like flash attention or not) to the available PCI-e 3.0 or 4.0 available bandwidth, as the gpu needs to communicate over the PCIe bus then over the chipset memory bus.

A GPU connected to a PCIe 3.0 x16 electrical uplink would be constrained to ~16GB/s, or ~32GB/s if it were a PCIe 4.0 uplink instead. Although those numbers imply slower bandwidth than CPU inference, that bottleneck would only be when paging in or out (or directly accessing?) layers overflowed to the shared system ram, so they don't really represent much on their own.
As of iOS 6.1 (2013), Apple said APNS had delivered over 4 trillion notifications already. A 2018 paper [0] claimed (with an admittedly-small sample size) that people receive on average 56 notifications a day (delivered, not necessarily interacted with). It's almost 2024. Even going off those old numbers, assuming 2 billion active devices [1], APNS would be delivering close to 41 TRILLION messages a year, and likely growing.

That's a lot of pepperoni, guys. Expensive pepperoni. Just some food for thought.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3229434.3229445 [0]

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1383887/number-of-apple-... [1]
Truth but, to be fair, you could've done that with the other countless AI Video Generator papers/techs/releases we've seen.
I think you'd expect them to be similar, but not exactly the same?

This feels like the original author is over anthropomorphizing LLMs, and expecting them to interpret prompts the way humans would, but it seems obvious that changing the prompt results in a slightly different context window, which results in a slightly different response distribution? Similarly, if you changed whether the bit about time of year was at the beginning or the end of the prompt, I would expect a statistically different distribution of response lengths.
https://www.ski.org/projects/overthere
> It’s not fair to level these sorts of potential/speculative security concerns at Beeper Mini when iMessage’s first-party implementation has way worse problems that are actually documented.

Apple has a proven track record of not handing over all your messages to russian and chinese intelligence, something that beeper is almost certainly doing (as their business model revolves entirely around MITMing your email and chat)

You sound like a fifth columnist.
I’d like to think my brain does some deduplication on interrupt. Maybe when allocating large chunks?
The only reason we are having this conversation is that some Americans can't fathom the idea that something they want is not available to them for free.
Well, when the collapse happens and you have no batteries, satellites, etc., you can use the stars[1] to tell time and reset your mechanical watch to within a reasonable estimate given the circumstances. I own a relatively cheap mechancal watch I adjust every week. I bought a Garmin vs. an Apple/Samsung watch too. My Garmin battery lasts about 20 to 24 days depending on how I use the watch vs. 24 to 48 hours. It does more than I need, but has come in handy in my line of work.

[1] https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/tell-time-by-stars.htm...
There's some news here. The OpenAI org chart changed from listing Microsoft as a "minority owner" to a "minority economic interest".

There's also an idea that vesting OpenAI employees will get much better tax treatment:

> People receiving profit interests will be granted the units upon their vesting date at no additional cost. Because of that, there’s an additional key tax benefit in that they are tax-free upon issuance and vesting, so the only tax hit would be a capital gains tax when the profit is received or sold.
Yeah, it's incredibly invasive. US desperately needs privacy laws governing these mass violations of privacy.
Thanks for the details and background. If I recall correctly, back when I had an Android, every app (Signal, Telegram, Messwnger I think) wanted to become my default messaging app. I'm assuming to do basically do what you are describing. Google had like 20 messaging apps over the years, but they never combined ot or I guess other vendors went with stock sms-only one instead?
great idea for simple use cases, but not sure if it can load handle as well as Azure
i like that its open sourced too since most solutions out there are black box and we can only rely on the "good will" of the company that they will do as they say
(P)NaCl was just too close to the past, roo many memories of activeX, flash and other crap still loomed heavy in people's hearts and they wanted a clean cut with the past, an open web, free from the dictat of corporations etc.

I do understand why people wanted something different and rejected (p)NaCl. But the reason is not technical, it's political (in the broad sense). Any technical issues could have been solved by fixing and extending (p)NaCl, but everybody involved understood it was not going to work
A problem I see is that we've long since depleted all the easy-to-extract fossil fuel reserves, if there's ever a catastrophe of any sorts there will not be any way to reboot our civilization. Or there possibly could be, but then the path would be so slow and cumbersome that on that kind of timescale we'd likely get obliterated by asteroid impacts long before getting the technology up to par with what we currently have.

So we'd better get it right this time because it's our only chance.
If a c code can automatically be compiled to wasm that is compiled to a safer c and machine code, then the same c code can also be transformed the same way without that extra step to that output. It’s either that the original c code that can be compiled to wasm is a subset of all c codes (partially true), or that compilers trade off safety for performance (wasm has more rigid control flow, for example).
Sure, that one is popular too. My point was that almost no one uses iMessage group chats.
> for the use case that Python is intended for

Where is this single use case intent articulated, by whom, and what year was it? What is the use case?

Today, it seems that Python is pitched for almost everything, short of ethernet drivers.
That explains it. I also wondered how the ad-supported Buzzfeed style web could make the money math work out. Its good to know that’s not the source.
> What is it about the story of the burned baby and 40 beheaded babies that, because it didn't happen, makes you so angry?

I say this with all kindness and good intent: if you struggle to understand that, there's something very wrong with your worldview. I can't be expected to diagnose that.

Why do you think lying about beheaded babies is okay?
That's because the data doesn't exist. Even the site you linked said they don't have data for iMessage.

I'm calling out people for making a claim without any evidence. I'm not providing evidence because there isn't any.
So for PreCheck, as far as I can tell all they do is scan your id, and compare the name to the name on your boarding pass, and your face to the face on your id, and you just put your bags (and coats sometimes) on the conveyor belt.

So it sounds like this "incredibly expensive" machine is just going to scan your id, face and boarding pass and match them up?
We'll get to it after we finish figuring out that "crypto" actually already had laws that applied to it, and yet it still needs a whole bunch more now.

By the time the FDA gets around to outlawing "VR" headsets for causing eye and neck problems, "VR" will have gone through 3 more hype cycles and be using "people pods" with full inside display surfaces.
I would advise anyone finding inspiration in this post against using a similar solution in the real world. While this may work in a local only environment, once you encounter the real world consisting of Cloudflare, DPI/MITM proxies, load balancers, zscaler, etc... it would most likely fail to work in this manner.

Standards are at least somewhat supported among the former, often not even correctly. Any solution you choose I'd suggest implementing a fall-back to the most basic of http methods (standard get/post and polling for instance). You'll find all types of problems once you start encountering middleware that just absolutely thrashes your expectations of a well functioning internet.
Nobody's goal is to serve data to customers quickly and efficiently either. It's more like, get this startup acquired and buy a ranch in New Zealand.
> I think an important point in general is that democracy is what people think it is.

I think you hit the nail on the head here - and, it doesn't apply only to democracy, it applies to everything. It's funny, because lots of people also know this, yet do nothing about it.

> If people think elections are fair or a viable means to change their political fate, then they're going to act accordingly, and vice versa if they don't.

Where "acting accordingly" is usually ~behaving on social media in the corresponding manner.

Gosh, I wonder why it seems like humanity has little control over its fate.
Wow, beating ChatGPT-3.5 is really an accomplishment. Congrats! That's literally the default of OpenAI's product. I had to fallback to GPT-3.5 the other day because I ran out of usage on ChatGPT-4 (playing 20 questions lol). So I really hope someone can come up on GPT-4! For me GPT-3.5 isn't good enough for daily things, it gets too much wrong.
CPU packages are starting to have issues with too much or too little pressure from the heatsink mounting to cause pin contact issues too. AMD Threadripper has a $30 torque wrench that is suggested to secure the package.
> After debuting in Las Vegas in January 2024, self-service screening could potentially roll out to additional airports depending on its success.

How is "success" measured?
Is it possible to install macos in a virtual machine and use iMessages?
Like I said, maybe they read the room...
RCON Protocol
The same Bishop who wrote PRML? Nice! Looking through it does seem to be very up to date, although I wish there was a little bit more on topics like geometric deep learning and flow matching. Of course if every niche had a more thorough treatment this book would be impossibly long but more than a couple paragraphs would have been cool.
There is also the novelty of their hoped-for tax treatment:
“People receiving profit interests will be granted the units upon their vesting date at no additional cost. Because of that, there’s an additional key tax benefit in that they are tax-free upon issuance and vesting, so the only tax hit would be a capital gains tax when the profit is received or sold.

In contrast, with a traditional Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) that you’d see at a MAANG level company, when the RSU vests, an employee will be taxed upon receiving their RSUs immediately. This is because the RSU is essentially a percentage of equity in the company and holds a value at whatever the market rate is for that company’s stock.”
Good points about poorly structured regulation vs. good, unfortunately obscured by a silly take on who is productive. Where does all the most advanced lithography in the world come from? A Dutch company. The U.S. has nothing to compare, and the Chinese even less so, and without this Dutch company's equipment you cannot make the advanced chips in that iPad, or any modern computer.

The points about poorly structured regulation being the worst of both worlds (all the costs with none of the benefits) is solid, though.
Yes, they call out that glass has a lower end-of-life impact, eg glass turns into sand.
Or StableDiffusion
I do the same. I don't discuss with the people who claim otherwise, they just had a different experience and I have a different one.
> when that experience can’t handle sending a photo in the year 2023, the experience is broken

It’s Apples fault SMS is an archaic protocol? Wow, I truly learn something new every day.

> The problem is that non-iMessage support on the phone is atrocious.

I have fb messenger, WhatsApp, telegram and discord on my phone. I don’t find having to use these “atrocious”, they’re just different apps. Atrocious would be the awful “this messenger does all chats, but awfully” experience of early Android devices, that was a dumpster fire of confusing contact details and lost messages. Also, it’s not like Android is immune from these issues: your complaint is that SMS/MMS is archaic and needs an upgrade, not that we need to make iMessage bend over backwards to support everything else.

I guess I just don’t see the argument why iMessage explicitly needs to shoulder the burden here.
Inspired by Paul Graham, lived out in reality.
> 2. No biometrics - Doesn't survive rubber-hose cryptanalysis. Easily impersonated.

Also, biometrics generally can't be revoked. Not nearly enough attention is paid to that, and it's very important, IMO.

In the extreme case, let's say you're using actual DNA. On the surface, that looks impregnable to anyone but maybe your identical twin (barring the "rubber hose" thing, of course).

In practice, anyone who's hacked a genealogy site (as happened quite recently with 23andMe, IIRC), or who's managed to grab your used coffee cup or cigarette butt pwns you forever.
Next-Gen Broadcom PCIe Switches to Support AMD Infinity Fabric XGMI
While overTHERE is not currently working, we are currently seeking funding and support for a new version. Please feel free to contact us with questions or comments about the app or related research by sending e-mail to overthere@ski.org

Smith-Kettlewell's work on overTHERE was made possible by a grant from NIDRR supporting our Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Low Vision and Blindness.
> Microsoft isn't micro, making its very name a fraud

No. The majority of their business for their entire history has been making soft for micros.
Do you live in the US though?

Messaging is done extremely differently in the US. All those group chats on Whatsapp or Signal would be done in iMessage because most Americans don't have Whatsapp or Signal, and Android users would likely just be left out of them.
we've seen this play out so many times. It's over.
That's not the tradeoff.

It's a decent house out in the suburbs vs some dense urban inner city apartment or something attached to other people with people of varying crazyness for lack of a better word living around you. And if you do want to own a house, it's going to be crazy expensive and cars you can't drive unless it's tuesday and you have an odd numbered license plate.

The people living in the villas are the actual wealthy who gets to bypass the system (ie billionaire flying a private jet to a climate change conference to try to get the government to ban cars to force you to use a packed train). I'm advocating for freedom/autonomy for the middle class instead of grouping everyone who isn't a billionaire together. I'm just saying we add one more partition.
Until recently, I've never heard it used to mean anything else. If you're running your stuff in the cloud, wouldn't that be "cloud-hosted"?

If "self-hosted" now includes cloud-hosted, then what should we call things that are actually self-hosted? The distinction matters. We should have a term.
I can't play many games on my MacBook, so can't play and hang out with friends who all have Xbox/PS5. What should I do?
> I had never in my life met people who make stuff. In Europe, my parents worked for non-profits. The parents of my friends were mostly middle managers, financiers, or professional service providers. Living in Silicon Valley is profoundly different, because the people you meet are working on building things that you use.

Your milieu is not a whole continent.

I know lots of people who actually make stuff.
+1
i dont think Azure provides that much more in terms of data privacy unless youre saying we should believe Azure's policies but not OpenAI's...
Seems totally normal to me. In the past people would have come into work with this attitude predominantly I think. Work is a place you work to have money to live your life. For better or worse that norm changed a bit, but I think more and more people seek it out as they get tired of all the meaningless, only semi-voluntary socialising they have to do for work.

If you're in a place that allows this kind of interaction, then I'd say cherish it. It's far from the only one, but lots of places now try to pretend like everybody needs to be bestest buddies and want to spend even more of their precious lives in each other's company.
Have You Built with Preact?
If so is it worth while learning over other frameworks like Next.js?
Source? Of the many group chats I'm involved in, exactly one of them uses WhatsApp.

(I'm American, for context.)
So i if i add "legal services" to the name of my creative writing company (because our services are not illegal) no one should be surprised when the results don't work out well in court, right?
Yes but many of those have been ground breaking e.g. WiFi, Solar Panel.

Not sure why people expect everything to be a revolution rather than a series of incremental technological advancements that mostly come from research bodies.
I suspect as with wood you'd see more expansion perpendicular to the grain compared to parallel to the grain because of the effect of the cellulose fibers all running in the same direction.
Everybody was on all three for me. That being AIM and ICQ then later MSN. I don't remember much Yahoo messenger usage, just gaming on Yahoo, but everyone was on ICQ.
Technology currently lacks an aesthetic in my opinion. I think for a craft to exist the working of the material must have aesthetic.

I know that both hardware and software have aesthetics but I believe for the most part those aesthetics aren't used. I believe this is due to being in the early stage of digital system creation.

Double entry book keeping be expressed in hardware I think could be really beautiful which is what I hope Tohands from the earlier post develops into.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38599270