skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CoCo3 ran fairly well, though it did run hot. The higher speed variant of the 6809 in the CoCo3 was still fundamentally a 8/16-bit processor. The main upgrade compared to the older versions was a bank-switching chip. You could apparently map any 8KiB of the 512KiB to any of 8 positions in the 64KiB address space of the 6809. It was sort of like segment registers... except less flexible.

I sorely wanted an Atari 520ST when they first came out, but it was more than I could afford at the time.

After graduating from university, I eventually got a Gateway 386 with a whopping 4MiB of RAM. In part to play Wing Commander and Castle Wolfstein. I've mostly been a PC guy since, though I've dabbled in RISC-V more recently. Not ready yet to make that my main desktop though.
What we can make depends largely on human nature. People who want to make a radically different world tend to also believe that human nature is highly malleable, and that it can be changed to support their new value system.
I'll second that, see https://www.radicalsimpli.city/ ;-)
A national war on realtors is gaining steam after $1.8B conspiracy lawsuit
Based that you use Matrix and not disc
Hi, My Name Is Keyboard
I don't get this "adblocking culture".

If you don't tolerate ads, you could just... not visit the site? Close the tab?

I don't like paying for things, but I've never been in a transaction where I could say "you know what, I don't like the price of this, I'll just take it and give you no money. Deal?"
The author did not say can't. In the entire piece, the only person the author used the word can't in reference to was herself, when she was poor. Choice implies a don't and a won't.

But, y'know? When those self-same people go on about how You Can Just Cook when--and this is a keyhole view, a single strand of a very nasty knot, don't you dare well-actually on the vertex and not the shape--poverty is directly tied to mental health problems and the attendant executive dysfunctions that frequently come with? It's reasonable to assume either ignorance or malice (or even, though the author does not, the incapability of can't).

And adjusting one's pince-nez to hmm-hmm-hmm about perhaps it's actually the poors who are ignorant is, to put a point on it, gross.
open a space to spitball ideas for future models. You never know when a stray idea might spark a revolution. After all, not too long ago, "Attention was all we needed"
Google spent all of their goodwill a few years ago. As more examples like this come to light, it will become much harder for Google to release new products since no one trusts them anymore
"OpenPGP for Application Developers" is now live
I don't really see how it's embarrassing that the FCC set out a clear requirement for a low-latency, 100/20M rural service and Starlink (having failed to show a plan to achieve that) is not accepted into the program.

Which part is embarrassing to the FCC, exactly?
> Funniest one: When you are using cruise control you cannot disable the wipers.

You cannot disable the automatic wipers when using cruise control. This makes sense to me: Because they use the cameras for cruise control, they need to be able to clean the cameras whenever necessary. If the weather is clear, the automatic wipers never come on unless you hit a puddle or something.
> Why would this be considered? What if he didn't want to migrate 200+ TB of data and just decided to stay where he's at, continuing to pay Google a lot of money?

Because whatever he was paying Google wasn't enough, so they removed the "unlimited storage for $12/month or officially $60/month" offering.

There was another option - pay for enough Business Plus seats to reach the pooled storage requirement. At 240tb that means he needs 48 seats, and at $18/month that's $864/month. Not bad for cloud storage geo-replicated on at least 2 continents at any time.
Why not VeraCrypt, honest question?
> M1 Max has 32 GPU cores and a 4090 has 16,000.

Apple M1 Max has 32 GPU cores, each core contains 16 Execution Units, each EU has 8 ALUs (also called shaders), so overall there are 4096 shaders. Nvidia RTX 4090 contains 12 Graphics Processing Clusters, each GPC has 12 Streaming Multi-Processors, and each SM has 128 ALUs, overall there are 18432 shaders.

A single shader is somewhat similar to a single lane of a vector ALU in a CPU. One can say that a single-core CPU with AVX-512 has 8 shaders, because it can process 8 FP64s at the same time. Calling them "cores" (as in "CUDA core") is extremely misleading, so "shader" became the common name for a GPU's ALU due to that. If Nvidia is in charge of marketing a 4-core x86-64 CPU, they would call it a CPU with 32 "AVX cores" because each core has 8-way SIMD.
By this logic, while I'm typing my program in an editor, I'm not yet programming (i.e. being a programmer). Also not when I compile the program.

The first time someone runs the binary - then I assume programmerhood.
This letter is junk, to put it lightly. I lived in a rural area with copper lines that were destined to stay that way because of classist inaction by the FCC - one that rewarded cities with new, expanded internet lines repeatedly and required vast parts of rural America to be torn up for backbones that they weren't allowed to tap, or could only be tapped with inexpensive copper lines mandated through telephony requirements. To put it less lightly, 100/20 is still a joke and a clear discrepancy between what's offered in most US cities and suburbs. The Biden Administration is trying to fix that history with the FCCs mandate; I don't care about whether Elon's satellite business is worth it in the end. I do care whether rural people get stable, dependable, fast internet that doesn't become irrelevant the moment it's laid.
I built a simple meal plan / shopping list builder app. Certainly not revolutionary, but my wife and I use it everyday.

https://thisweekinfood.ca
When I was younger and drank more soda, I discovered I could grab a can of coke, pour it into a 24oz cup I had, then fill the can with water and pour that in and it tasted the same to me. If I focused on the flavor it was very subtly different, in a way that felt more refreshing -- but most of the time I was just drinking it without full focus and couldn't tell the difference.

Back then I was also packing lunches for my wife, and she wanted a bottle of commercial fruit juice to have with lunch. We'd buy a large bottle to save money and pour some into a smaller bottle for transport. I mentioned my experiment and she said "I'd like it if you had me try it with the juice" -- so I started doing it. A few days later she brought it up again, "Can we start diluting my juice I'm taking in?" and I told her she'd already been having diluted juice.

These days I fall into "water is the real adult beverage" but I always keep in mind just how sweet things are commonly made.
Janusz Cieszynski
Former Minister of Digital Affairs

https://twitter.com/jciesz/status/1732411016221524070?s=20

translation:
> The president of Newag contacted me. He claims that Newag fell victim to cybercriminals and it was not an intentional action by the company. The analysis I saw indicated something else, but for the sake of clarity, I will write about everything.
> But ignorance is a choice.

No, it's not always a choice.

You might be born in a family and community that actively brainwashes their members and prevents you from coming into contact with conflicting information.

This can even be true in less severe circumstances, such as being bombarded with propaganda on social media, which essentially hacks your brain.
I don't wanna victim blame, but I don't understand how people could put their entire body of work on a cloud service and not make the effort to get several external drives to have some redundancy.

All my work is probably like 50GB, but I have it backed up on an external drive AND the cloud.

It's like self preservation instinct is missing. 3rd party services are fallible, even when they don't make business decisions that screw with you, and nobody is gonna care about your livelihood more than yourself.
They don't currently, but they clearly could if they thought that was required.
"US announces rule to slash powerful planet-warming methane by nearly 80% from oil and gas" (2023) https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/02/climate/cop28-methane-announc...
:

> The rule will crack down on methane leaks from industry in several ways. In a major new development, it will end routine flaring of the natural gas that is a byproduct of drilling oil wells and will phase in a requirement for that gas to be captured instead of burned. The rule will also require stringent leak monitoring of oil and gas wells and compressors, and cut down on leaks from equipment like pumps, storage tanks and controllers.

> It will also rely on independent, third-party monitoring – using satellites and other remote-sensing technology – to find very large methane leaks.
People repeatedly say online that we know the Coca-Cola recipe, it's been leaked, etc., so it's not a secret, but it's clear doing some casual afternoon reading that whatever the exact composition is, it's not public knowledge.

All of the recreations that you can find readily available online and through videos "come close" or are "their own thing, but pretty decent," etc. At best, what we think we know of Coca-Cola is some long historic recipe that hasn't been used for decades.
Do the signs flicker at 60 Hz, as shown in StreetView?

Aside: I'm not a fan of so many new cars with flickering taillights. I know most people can't see this effect, but many can.
The Orbital Index – issue n.248
For the peer comments

- https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai (marketing page)

- https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs (docs entry point)

- https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai (cloud console)

- https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/model-garden (all the models)

- https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative (studio / playground)

VertexAI is the umbrella for all of the Google models available through their cloud platform.

It still seems there is confusion (at google) about this being TTP or GA. Docs say both, the studio has a request access link.

more... this page has a table with features and current access levels: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/generative-ai/image/...

Seems that some features are GA while others are still in early access, in particular image generation is still EA, or what they call "Restricted GA"
>Show me a non-greedy person in Congress, with the exception of Thomas Massie, and I'll believe you that change is possible.

"They're all bad except the one I agree with."
Their last news https://www.terrapower.com/terrapower-and-enec-announce-mou-...
It's back online!
META: is M3 Pro good enough to run Cyberpunk 2077 smoothly? Does Max really makes a difference?
Related:

original news story discussion just over a week ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530885

And the followup from the company

Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked competitor rolling stock
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38570654

More late quality from 404
The chip shipped 2 years earlier than the Switch in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Shield_TV

More likely Nintendo got a really good deal on it.
I'd recommend doing these benchmarks with WAL mode and synchronous = NORMAL as well. It makes quite a big difference in performance especially with many small transactions (e.g. the first example that inserts without explicit transactions).
Sure, and that makes sense if the competitors have proven approaches to meeting the requirements. While I expect Starlink to be able to improve, I can see their point that the outcome is far from certain.
Apple’s silicon memory is fast only in comparison to consumer CPUs that stagnated for ages with having only 2 memory channels which was fine in 4 core era but wakes no sense at all with modern core counts. Memory scaling on GPUs is much better, even on the consumer front.
Yes good move, but you can't buy any Ford vehicles with NACS currently. Its supposed to go into effect in 2025 afaik.
And in this case, that amount is an order of magnitude lower that what the service cost to provide.

It seems odd that after underpaying by a lot for a long time, that the user would complain that they were given 2 months of free service and then 5 more months of read-only access to get their stuff off. Sure, Google should have communicated more clearly but Burke's expectations here are also entirely unreasonable.

The real villain of this story is the FBI and how computer seizures are handled. The FBI still hasn't charged Tim Burke with anything and are holding his MFA devices hostage trying to get him to unlock his phone for them.
> indefinitely

Does it say somewhere in terms and conditions?
We’ll also still dial a phone number despite dials being gone for a half-century.
The window is still going up via the same rolling mechanism there's just a motor doing it. Source I replaced my window motor and regulator this month
Well if it's any motivation you should go get on that haha
I think a system of N articles per month invites these low-effort AI articles that you mention, and adds a huge inter-company political problem of policing what exactly a low effort article is. The incentive is to be the company that is engaging with the system, but putting in the least effort per article, while still passing the “worth money” bar.

On top of financial motivations, newspapers often have different political alignments for example, I suspect some of them basically hate each other; a system where they get along and engage in good faith is too much.

I’d rather see an account where you dump money in, the site can say “buy this article for $x”, and it asks your account for that money. It doesn’t even really need to be a centralized site, it could be an API that multiple services can implement, or whatever.
It's a great feeling isn't it?
Ask HN: Idea validation – paid remote jobs newsletter for DevOps
Hey everyone, yesterday I saw this post (https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/18g7d9a/my_little_job_board_now_has_500_mrr/) on the SideProject subreddit and got an idea:

What if I created a newsletter with remote jobs for devsops?

I already have experience running a job board (I run https://hrjobsremote.com/ since 2019) and I know how to easily find remote jobs - and I don't mean searching on Linkedin or other jobs boards, I have a process to scrape companies' career sites to find jobs. I also have a tangent with the devops market from a failed startup (a long time ago) with a product for testing devops skills (leetcode/hackerrank/codility for devops).

The added value (in my opinion) would be a list of curated (real remote) jobs that are delivered weekly to the inbox, without the hustle of searching for a few hours.

The target group should not be only the devops activity looking for a job, but only those looking for contract/freelancing roles or those who just want to stay connected to the job market.

I see this costing around 5$ / week (aka one coffee).

Is this something that you think could get traction? Any advice?
Etsy is laying off 11% of its staff
If the terms of the deal were that they didn't need to hit the performance benchmarks until 2025 and they have demonstrated that the technology was capable of those speeds it makes little sense to do this now except as a thinly vailed political punishment.
I still cannot believe they missed one of the most critical parts of this release - clear and simple instructions on how to use it. How do they even hope to get adoption without that is unclear to me.
Why is it called 3nm then?
> Or phrased differently, for 1/3rd the power the 7950X will give you 75% of the performance of a 7950X.

So where is the - presumably much cheaper - 65 W 7950X?
I'll take your word for it. Anyway, thanks for sharing the article.
For background: https://library.samford.edu/special/treasures/2005/mite.html
> Google should have been required to be up front about their definition of unlimited

Well, unless the definition of unlimited is actually unlimited as in "no limits", you shouldn't be allowed to use the word in any marketing material.

If a company can go around saying "Unlimited means there's a limit", then that's just nuts.
The thought emporium channel is great.

There is one really good video with an explanation of the process, brain cells to computing devices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67r7fDRBlNc

And one more video, not very relevant, but very hypnotizing description of biological processes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFtHxLjGcFM
I see what you mean; thanks for clarifying.
Yes, why wouldn't I think that? As I said, I trust Mike Masnick.

I also have past professional experience that leads me to believe Google does what's easiest for Google, not what's best for their customers.

In one case, Google suspended a Google Certified Publishing Partner's GAM account for several hours with no notice. The partner had several years of history with Google, did $100M/year of revenue with them, and had an assigned Google rep who did weekly calls with them.

Google reactivated the account, but only after significant disruption to the partner.

I agree that it's good to be a critical consumer of news, but eh, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably Google being blissfully ignorant of the impact they have on their users.
It's the same short-sighted logic that leads to job seekers using LLMs to convert their experience bullet points into resume prose and hiring managers to use LLMs to summarize resume prose into bullet points.

Or marketers using LLMs to write spam that no one wants to read anyway.

There's a lot of "look at how much more efficiently this garbage can be created!" going around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite
My car is reliable. I got lucky. I've replaced the brakes. And I was illustrating that I only need minimal reliability since it isn't my main form of transporation. I have public transport and live in a walkable place. I can (and do) dress for weather.

The rest of the comments aren't specific to 25 year old cars. I've had an array of used cars in an array of ages. Anything over 4-5 years starts to break due to wear and tear. Alternators and starters go out. Brakes have wear and tear. Things happen. You still likely have a car payment - and you are more likely to if you are poor. Being poor brings the bonus of opting for a car that's been driven more instead of less simply because of the price difference.

'Pretty reliable' isn't the same as the reliability of a newer car.
I'm in a rural location. Not that rural, about five minutes away from a town of 10,000 people. I have exactly three internet choices: old-school satellite (with 600 ms latency), unreliable 10 Mbit DSL for $150/month, or Starlink for $120/month. Many of my neighbors aren't as lucky and don't even get DSL.

My DSL provider received hundreds of millions in government subsidies and did nothing to improve the service in the region, and brazenly lied about it to the FCC. I know that it's fashionable to criticize Elon Musk, and it's often justified, but Starlink is far more deserving of government funds than most of the grifter ISPs who actually get the subsidies.
Cognitive scientist here: we have no idea how the brain works in general. In locomotive tasks like driving the brain probably does not even try to recognize objects most of the time.
Without a paper about the architecture or the training setup, these announcements are particularly boring.

I was hoping to see some research development but nothing.
"And a legal agreement allowing 1 party to publish substantial falsehoods"

Gag contracts I have seen, gag the person leaving and getting the money, not the company. Companies have the challenge that thousands of employees can't say something, it's hard to enforce and easy to trip over and get burned.
is it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT63TPTtMKE
classification performance increases from 51% pre-training to 78% post-training. The question is what causes the improvement, is it some reorganization of the connectome to the specific task, or semi-random LTP due to the barrage of activity during learning
I thought, as I got older, that my hearing was slowly deteriorating, but here you are, proving me wrong because somehow I’m able to hear you playing a tune for GM on the smallest violin ever made by humankind.

Nothing stops vehicle manufacturers from making the best entertainment system any customer could wish for. Instead, they’d rather nickel and dime their customers for everything they’ve got.

Subscriptions for connectivity, subscriptions for car features, subscriptions for basic entertainment functionality, fees for current maps, and on and on it goes.
All the while pinching pennies wherever they can by using yesteryear’s computers barely more powerful than a Raspberry Pi (if that) while inflating prices in the US market on cars sold cheaper overseas and lobbying to keep the market as closed off as possible so overseas competitors cannot enter the market.

And make no mistake, this isn’t about being “wary of partnerships”; GM happily licenses Android Automotive.

This is about collecting as much data as possible and capturing revenue by gating as much as possible behind a paywall.

After all, who will pay for connectivity and other features when people can hook up their pocket computers with all that to the screen?
There's a better parallel/batching that works on the 30s chunks resulting in 40X. From HF at https://github.com/Vaibhavs10/insanely-fast-whisper

This is again not native PyTorch so there's still room to have better RTFX numbers.
I assume anyone seriously in the book business has a fairly well-calibrated idea of roughly what a book cover should look like to sell a book. And I imagine if you really studied book covers for various genres, you'd see a lot of pretty common patterns.
I'm gonna poke at this only because some people take the anti-sugar message too far and use it to rationalize away the stuff that's really killing them.

Refined sugar is certainly not good for you, but a 12oz can of Coke - is 140 calories. That's about 6% of the recommended daily caloric intake.

Calories RDI is about 2000-2500 for most people. But most Americans eat more like 3000-3500 and don't exercise.

You can drink a 12 oz can of Coke every day and it's not even a blip on the radar. (A 64 oz tub of it, of course, is a different story.) What people need to do to be healthy is not overeat by 1,000 calories a day while never exercising. That combo will send you to an early grave, the can of Coke in a diet that otherwise hits the right macros, will not.
I can't believe Google with a trillion+ dollar market cap gets away with all this. They have zero human customer support and basically enable account takeovers and identity theft. I hope someday Google gets some comeuppance for how abusive/hostile they've been to their customers forever.
The prompt "A shot of a 32-year-old female, up and coming conservationist in a jungle; athletic with short, curly hair and a warm smile" produced an impressive image. But I ran the same prompt 3 times on my laptop in just a few minutes, and got 3 almost-equally impressive images. (using stable diffusion and a free model called devlishphotorealism_sdxl15)

https://imgur.com/a/4otrN17
we are not legal professionals. we're a bunch of tech ppl arguing on the internet about the semantics between agreements vs laws.

i agree to the copyright because a metaphorical gun is held to my head by law — if i break the copyright agreement then law has power to persecute me. i don't see how that's any different to a layperson.

you can split hairs all you want about agreement vs law, i'm not interested in that. there's a reason i didn't go to law school, those sort of debates are boring and annoying. yet here i am...
Multiple backups are significantly easier with 50gb that with 250tb. Additionally, any external drives he had were seized by the FBI so he would have needed two cloud backups.