skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we start expanding this argumentation to Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo too?

I really want to start playing hardcore porn games on my PS5 as soon as possible. Sony has no right to decide what I do with my hardware, right?
Gopher support?
While I can't say I have definitive proof, my allergies decreased significantly after I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, and as a result started consuming less sugar (among other things like dairy). I still get allergies, but much less severe than then first 3 decades of my life.
Except that the errors made by an LLM might be harder to spot then converter errors that typically are very blatant, and don't usually alter text (perhaps just drop parts of it).

Also, a bug in a converter is conceptually much easier to fix than to re-train your LLM.

I am not sure that AI in it's current state is useful when "high fidelity" is required.
Alright--- Go _does_ scale.
It’s only fraud if the Feds care about it enough or for them to sue you.

I’d know, I’ve won 17 Nobel prizes.
Wow! Thanks for posting that. I was actually contemplating the idea of subscribing them.

I bought a new car with a 3 month trial period and it ended last week.

You helped me to dodge a bullet.
I see them used in pro/prosumer audio equipment, synthesizers, and effects, which is relatively low volume and medium-to-high budget. FPGAs (and CPLDs, µC+AFE, etc) are great for these applications because they have great capabilities you might otherwise need a pile of discrete components or a custom chip for, but it doesn’t make sense to design fully custom silicon if you’re only ever going to sell about 50-500 of something.

So sure, prototyping and military, but there are other uses as well. But none of them are super high-volume because once you’re selling millions of something you should be designing your own chips.
> While Microsoft and Google have largely focused on delivering chatbots and other generative AI services over the Internet from their vast cloud computing platforms, Apple’s research suggests that it will instead focus on AI that can run directly on an iPhone.

Isn’t there supposed to be a version of Gemini specifically for Pixel phones? It seems like Google see this as a USP for their hardware as well. I wonder how companies like Samsung are thinking about it.
Just hope stuff doesn’t break on sabbath, they ain’t touching no computer that day :)
From a marketing point of view, I agree - for a paid product it's not exactly reliable. If you take away all the marketing fluff though it's a pretty cool open-source project, like yt-dlp or adblock origin.
well it skips the abstract too, but yes, you can scroll back up to see it.
> I honestly don't understand the argument. I'm not saying there isn't one - but it's not as though any other tech company is clamoring to allow unauthorized third party access to their services.

I think the argument is the bundling of iMessage in with SMS. Yes, there's lots of third-party chat services too, and yes, no other tech company is clamoring to allow unauthorized third party access either.

But iMessage gets to intercept and pretend to be SMS (or more accurately, iMessage exists to block the RCS your phone line always already had) and it's pre-installed, uninstallable, and with special access exclusive to apple, which is where I think the argument could land.

A case could be argued of iMessage + iPhone is really similar to the late 90s era Microsoft Windows + Internet Explorer, in that they both break Sherman Antitrust Act: Section 2, in very similar ways, for very similar reasons.

(to be clear, I don't think they'd win, but I could see a strong argument there)
Sounds like an untapped market just waiting for more market differentiation to ‘help’ the consumer!
Ugh. I don't belong to the target audience (people with disabilities) but the typesetting doesn't exactly look pleasant on my machine (Chrome on Linux).
Side question, how do you see the future of Intel? Do you share the doom perspective or think that they continue to have opportunities ot catch up? Thanks!
This. Service operators have no saying in how you process the response, as long as it doesn’t violate any laws (e.g. redistribution beyond fair use)

But. The end of this arms race is gonna be problematic because of the halting problem. Unlike some other issues, we possibly don’t want to push it too hard here until the society catches up, or we’ll end up with black box programs inside the browsers, handling all aspects of rendering. That would be a wasteful loss for everyone.
No worries!

Date and time stuff is full of pedantry that makes sense when it matters. But on your wall calendar (and digital replacement)... Not so much.
> I'm not sure how well this works given that peaker plants have to pay for their fuel whereas nuclear - to a first approximation - does not; everything is factored in the building cost.

It's not about the cost of nuclear, it's about the utilization of peaker plants.

If you build 10GW of nuclear, you generate 10GW 100% of the time. If you build 10GW of peaker plants, do you use it 15% of the time or 0.5% of the time? The answer to which depends on if it's the first 10GW of peaker plants (10GW shortfall happens frequently) or the last 10GW of peaker plants (only needed if the first 80GW of installed capacity was used first; 90GW shortfall happens very rarely).
Just as an example, my phone has 512gb of onboard storage and 16gb of RAM. I think it is safe to say that in the not-to-distant future, we will see the option to run multiple models on device with only a slight storage hit.
Same. Any time I visit a pharmacy counter for any reason, I add "and the largest box of sudafed you can legally sell me", to make sure I always have a stockpile on hand.
Then I guess you should've kept your Macbook.
Class of 2024 Can't Land Jobs as Hiring in Tech, Finance Wanes
You seem to be mistaken: https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone/
Does this news in any way affirm the recent decision in OpenBSD development to pin all system calls? I don’t totally comprehend the decision, but I gathered that it affects how Go operates on that OS.
Anabolic response to protein ingestion has no upper limit in humans
Cory Doctorow - Car Wars https://web.archive.org/web/20170301224942/http://this.deaki...

(Linking to the web.archive version because the graphics are better / more understandable when in the context of some of the text)

Chapter 6 is the most relevant here, but it's all a thought provoking story.
There's not even a physics reason why a heat pump needs to be electric. There are gas-fired heat pumps. There are even gas-fired refrigerators. These weird anti heat-pump memes are just being regurgitated by people who do not understand what they are talking about.
Midsize Cities Struggle with Snowballing Homelessness
Indeed - I immediately thought of hypothetical system (similar to many systems I’ve worked on) where SELECTS are 100x more common than INSERTS which are 100x more common than DELETES.

The 5x speed up on delete performance is a useless optimization.
> I would count food as a college cost, certainly, due to meal plans.

Total cost? If a meal plan burger works out to $11 and a burger at the restaurant next door is $10, is the cost of college $11 or $1? If the meal plan burger is, instead, $9, did your college costs drop by $1?
In the rare time I'd make a pro-Twit...er, X comment, if the platform makes its money from ads being delivered next to the content and then 3rd party comes up with a way to provide the users an ad free experience, OF COURSE they will not be happy with that. But this isn't specific to that particular platform. Any time you assist users in circumventing a method for the platform to earn money will be viewed as hostile. If you are build a product and pay a licensing fee to offset the lost earnings, then that would be potentially viewed as less hostile even if still not 100% accepted by the platform.

This isn't rocket science.
And next time they'll just exclude you from the group chat altogether.
Indeed. I was working at a startup doing some FPGA work about 10 years ago. We ran into several bugs in the Xilinx software. Initially we could submit bug reports, but about 6 months in Xilinx suddenly changed their policy and decreed that only tier 1 customers (definitely not us) could submit bugs - everyone else had to look for help on the forums. We spent a lot of our time just working around the bugs in their tools. At that point I determined that, though FPGA development was kind of fun and interesting, I would not go into a field where I was going to be dependent on such buggy software and went back to the software side (where pretty much all the development tools are open source and if you run into trouble you're going to be able to get help).
> The team at Isovalent is extraordinary and should continue to be strong champions of BPF for network and security use cases.

That won’t stop a bunch of them from being laid off like what happened during the Splunk acquisition.
Yes, I remember using foreign key relationships to optimize symmetric hash join back when I worked on an OLAP db. The idea was that for a 1:1 relationship you can immediately discard both sides of a joined tuple, while for a 1:many relationship you can immediately discard the "many" side of a joined tuple.
Why on earth should Intel care about having plausible deniability about that? Buying a company in order to kill it is not illegal. It isn't even considered unethical except by a few utopian idealists. It's a common and accepted practice in the business world.
They have a whole UI that avoids any sort of VCL.
This person was robbing and blackmailing people.

The justice system serves to prevent these actions, and should do so no matter what the mental state of the criminal is.

Is your honest solution just to let them continue doing that as an accommodation for their disability?
I feel there’s always such a thing as paying too much, and Meta has a bit of a moat problem because I don’t think much stops somebody like Google from making a direct competitor to Quest.

Still I think people REALLY underestimate this space. First gaming has an outrageous TAM and VR games are GOOD. Second AR has an even bigger market, and I’ve realized that it’s not just about giving us all a HUD to walk around with, it’s also going to about having an AI assistant get information in the environment around us with a camera.
I guess to me it seems like common sense that a system that has substantially fewer crashes also has substantially fewer deaths. Maybe we can't make definitive statements about the expected number of deaths yet, but I think the most reasonable best guess with the information we have is that waymo deaths will be much lower.

The alternative requires a scenario where waymo is especially likely to get into fatal accidents while being very good at avoiding non-fatal ones, right? Seems far-fetched.
Insignia also makes spyware-free dumb tvs. They're Best Buy's in-house brand, which means you can at least get them in all of N.A. (maybe the same for Sceptre, I don't know). The last time I checked, they only had models up to 43". Probably meets the demands of the kiosk-mode market.
I would say that this landing page on your company’s website is unnecessarily trashing wasmtime in the headline

https://wasmer.io/wasmer-vs-wasmtime
It seems pretty possible to me that the reason Nvidia pulled off this bet is that Jensen still basically unilaterally controls what NV is working on, and Jensen is still fundamentally a nerd (in the best way).
I just drop it off and other people do the delivery for me. So, in terms of my effort vs SiriusXM's reclamation department, yes, it is more efficient.

Perhaps that's why they're being sued?
The camel's nose is already there. Say hi to DRM.
Interesting! Good point. Might give it a shot :)
This is unhinged and I appreciate this on that trait alone.
nice try to read my emails :)
I really doubt the municipal trash service dumps it in the river.
> FPGAs excel in parallelizing very simple operations.

I don't think that's a good characterization. FPGA are good at what they end up being programmed for. And in the final analysis, everything a chip does is broken down to simple operation.

The FPGA selling point has always been around perf/W and efficiency with regard to a "set of task". An ASIC will always be faster for a specific task, and CPU will always be faster on average on everything. However, when considering say "compression" or "check-sum" as general class of algorithm, and FPGA with a set of predefined configuration could be better and cheaper.
Is this called a single class in Tailwind: ”px-[calc(theme(spacing[3.5])-1px)]”?
You're right. Also, if AI drivers are safer, there will be knock-on effects of making humans drive more safely as well.
Can we talk about the fact iOS/macOS turns on the Wifi and Bluetooth radios after each system update? Almost as if the devices were made deliberately to maximize spying, contrary to the marketing lullabies.
A lot of academic journals (say from Springer) also offer HTML formats for papers published in the past decade or so, which I personally often find more convenient for reading purposes than PDFs. For example, I parse text a lot faster if I use a regex to split each paragraph into sentences and place a linebreak after each sentence, or if I do natural language "syntax highlighting" by assigning a distinctive color to functional words indicating logical structure like 'if/then', 'and', 'or', 'not', 'because', and 'is'. And sometimes it really improves readability to be able to do "semantic highlighting", in the sense of say assigning a different hashed color to each proper name (or each labeled thesis, etc) that occurs in the paper. Such manipulations are basically impossible with PDFs. It makes me wish sci-hub would start archiving HTML versions in addition to PDFs!
Nothing wrong with this, they need to be able to identify at risk people who may try to fly.
Unfortunately devs don't get a vote, we're just too much of a minority. Remember IE6? It took google literally firing all guns to de-throne it, and they did it because they injected a message with every google search to use chrome.

Unfortunately... i don't know what we can do, even if the entire dev community gives google the finger.
> DEI [ensures] a firm or company attracts a diverse pool of talent, hires and promotes people without bias, and fosters positive working environments so all individuals can thrive.

What an incredibly biased take by the author, who clearly has not worked at one of these companies and seen DEI in action. Having actually worked at big tech companies with DEI initiatives, there have been many instances when we have had to lower the hiring bar to meet diversity requirements.

What it really fosters in a company is resentment, both due to hiring bar changes and also as the actual DEI job function is mostly useless but gets paid quite a bit, and in times of layoffs, is often not targeted over engineering functions due to politics and PR. The whole DEI profession feels like a grift on top of the hard work of those that actually drove a company to success.

This is not to say a company shouldn't consider the diversity of users when building a product, UX, etc, but it's absurd when you're hiring a backend engineer and your team has to meet some vague diversity quota.
It works great if you know the exact incantation, but the discoverability of those incantations is terrible, and that's the exact problem.
clearly I am a doctor, physicist, chemist, lawyer and ethicist with my 60%
SP-287: What Made Apollo a Success?
Hats off, what a README.
Love to see Energent Mind continuing to innovate!
Yah, the merger between Sirius and XM was a dramatic difference in programming content. XM had spent most of their time getting quality PM and on air talent, Sirius was basically a glorified Winamp playlist. As the channels merged, you found yourself going from a base of 5000 songs a channel to a few hundred. The folks who used to have XMPCR's (computer connected receivers) published a comparison of songs at one point but my google fu can't find it right now.
Because the areas where Intel stumbled wasn’t design, it was their manufacturing being behind, something tsmc does for AMD.
Best Buy sells dumb tvs (their in-house brand, "Insignia"), and their brick-and-mortar stores always have a bunch in stock. Options are limited to 32, 40, and 43" displays, though.
Incredibly early user of beeper here. I actually didn't use it for iMessage at all. The Matrix Bridge system they used (bridge slack, discord, sms, etc) to allow all of my communications into a single app had real complexity. My biggest concern was the front end -- the simpler part of the app -- wasn't very good. The back end had complexity if you ignore the iMessage bridge.
This is very helpful thank you. I tried looking at a few job pages on those links but can't seem find any open SWE positions. Couple of follow up questions:

1. What am I looking for in a job description that would indicate i'd be working on CFD simulations?

2. What would make me a compelling applicant? This seems very different than the distributed systems/recommendation system work that I have a lot of experience in.

Thanks again!
I wrote an app called PDF Reflow that reflows the original PDF using image processing to cut out words into tiles so you see the reflowed version of the text in their original look.

https://www.appblit.com/pdfreflow
> My experience is that it just isn't prioritized

my experience as well and it blows my fucking mind every time I see it. It tells me developers have _no clue_ what it is they're doing that is helping or hindering them.
- "Technical debt" (usefully) divorces the idea of implementation velocity from business outcomes. You have a thirty year old system written in a language barely anyone understands anymore; but, its still generating profit for the business. This is technical debt; its "useful" to separate from business outcomes because it enables you to consider it as one factor, among many, to overall business outcomes, rather than prematurely co-mingling the two ideas.

- Similar to the generality "all code is technical debt" I'll make one of my own: "All technical debt is abstraction assumption failure". You've got an abstraction; you assume it behaves some way; it doesn't. You've got an abstraction; you need to add new functionality behind that abstraction; you assumed this is a good place or a good way to add this functionality; it isn't. The vast majority of technical debt is just this. There may be a couple more categories like "we can't hire people to work in this language" or even something like system performance, but the vast majority of technical debt is a failure of understanding of some abstraction.

- That previous statement does not assert that this is an invalid way of viewing technical debt. "Understanding" the code is literally the most important job of software engineers; less "engineer" and more "museum keeper" sometimes. I've never liked the term "bad abstraction" because it shifts the responsibility of being understood to the abstraction, and not the engineer. It encourages "code bad, rewrite" mentality. Sometimes that is the best course, but I think its always a bad idea to tackle that without understanding the abstraction, and if you understand the abstraction then you probably wouldn't be calling for a rewrite because its "bad"; you'll be calling it for more specific reasons.

- Unilaterally classifying all code as technical debt isn't just wrong; its asinine. "Technical debt" is a useful way of thinking about some code; if you remove that from your lexicon, you may start believing that all code either is or isn't technical debt. If all code is technical debt, your ability to think about the quality of code holistically, with its nuance, is reduced durastically. If you think no code is technical debt, you'll inevitably walk down the path of hyper-engineering perfect giga-systems that, even if they work flawlessly and satisfy all business needs, took way too long to build, cost way too much to run, and inevitably still confuse your replacement in six years.
No problem, and thank you!

For what it’s worth, I don’t think changing a political stance should be considered “flip-flopping” unless it’s done for a self-serving purpose. Reevaluating should be considered an attempt to learn and grow. That’s why wisdom is often (but not always) associated with age and/or experience.
> I first heard this joke in the late 1980s, but the protagonist was the Soviet Premier.

https://wiki.c2.com/?ThreeEnvelopes
I guess if an asteroid is has high albedo already, a dark paint would be better for this purpose then dark. What you want is to make sure that some parts reflect much more light than other parts.

However, I don't think you need vanta-black for this. You hit diminishing returns on a thing like this; so something like common soot would do just fine.

Most asteroids are rather dark, though.
> The extra column next to the one I'm reading introduces a lot of visual noise

Papers are generally not read start to finish in one go: there's lots of rereading and jumping back and forth between key parts, and anything that moves them further apart makes this harder.
Who are you going to call when your private jet breaks?
HTTP Headers of Note for Synergizing into a Cohesive Security Stratagem
I use everything.

A windows laptop, a mac laptop, and also a Linux one.

I've got everything connected to a CalDigit TS4 dock, and a single thunderbolt cable connects any of my laptops to it, that cable also charges the laptop at the same time as connecting the AV and monitor.

I'd probably say I'm mostly Mac and windows, but I've in a while it's Linux... So a 45/45/10 split.

I do prefer the windows laptop if I'm running Aircon in the same room and not using online video conferencing, as then I need Nvidia broadcast for noise cancelling on recordings. But this is entirely due to the portable Aircon and nothing to do with anything else.
The metal support for pytorch is a real sh*t show at this point - all APIs are either legacy or unfinished. Also, app memory is about 3GB even for the largest phones.
It really still feels that it‘s all in its infancies.
Proud to be a New Yorker. Small stuff adds up to make life a lot nicer here.
Current LLM's, Combined with Symbolic AI. Could that be the next jump.
Learning is doing little projects that use multiple technologies. The only way to get better is to write code.
Well of course they do, they have 0% of the cloud hardware market and a gigantic percentage of the phone market. They like money, after all.
It's not worth it to me personally, but here's how I understand it:

Some iphone users have a bias against green bubbles. Either because the service is functionally inferior (pictures and videos are heavily compressed when sent via SMS) or because they perceive the green bubble to be a sign of poverty (that green bubble person couldn't afford an iphone).

I have no idea how common either belief is, how many iphone users carry any amount of bias, or how much that bias might weigh on their decisions. Nor do I know how many android users care enough about this bias to pay Beeper to try to avoid it, but it was enough that Beeper thought they could make a business out of it.

I suspect that if you worry that people will judge you for having a green bubble, then you must be under the age of 25, extremely insecure, working in an industry where image matters quite a bit, or some combination of all 3. It genuinely doesn't make any sense to me, but then again, there are a lot of things that don't make any sense to me that are deal breakers for our salespeople. Image matters a lot to some people and a green bubble is the equivalent of a used Toyota Corolla or a cheap suit.

As far as using a different messaging app: most people (both iphone and android) don't want to install another app if they don't need to. And the same iphone users who see a green bubble as a mark of poverty have the attitude that they shouldn't have to install whatsapp, you should just buy an iphone.