skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a quote that I love:

>I'm a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.

Nvidia has been working hard(er than their competition) on the software side for almost 2 decades to be in the position they find themselves today. 16 years ago, they released CUDA for general-purpose computing on GPUs, and then 9 years ago they followed that up with cuDNN. They have a consistent pattern of making a intentional, long-term bets to diversify their market exposure and unlock new product areas while building a software ecosystem moat.

Yes, they obviously got super lucky with the cryptocurrency frenzy, but there's a reason all the miners were mostly buying Nvidia cards instead of AMD cards.
If GPT4 spits out wildly different captions when prompted 'the caption should be descriptive' vs 'the caption should be obsessively descriptive', ie picks up on 'obsessive', then that's pretty funny.

Also I didn't understand the game of telephone and am still synthesizing what it probably is/was via your comment so sorry about that; I did not mean to be rude.
You should try thinking about why the term vaporware has the word “vapor” in it, and what it’s intended to describe.
I think the implication is that the rest of the world isn’t overrun by tweakers?
There is a pretty big difference between "abuse happens" and "this environment is fundamentally worse". Schools have pretty abysmal records as far as preventing abuse to children. Bullying is massive, be it student-student or teacher-student. Shunning, insults, whispered stories, hate filled slurs, popular groups vs outsider dynamics, to physical attacks. All of these are pretty common at pretty much any school you care to name. I don't think I've met a student who hasn't experienced varying levels of this. To many, it dominates their experience.

The pandemic and subsequent politics of education has put a magnifying glass on the problems there and many parents are choosing to hit the eject button. There is a concerted effort to remove that button as it's starting to seriously pinch budgets anywhere a student can leave and take their funding money with them.

Currently my state board of education is looking at a rule change to do just that. This battle is just warming up. If you get involved, don't be on the wrong side.
So, how are they doing this when the public results for recognising pedestrians from images seem to be so rubbish? (Or at least, don't seem to have a sufficient number of nines precision for this purpose). Is it easier to recognise a pedestrian from LiDAR, or is everything just very precautionary?
You clearly don't even read your own comments.
I lived in SF and besides the occasional annoyance of parking my motorcycle in heavily inclined streets I don't remember anything remotely problematic. I remember plenty of waymo cars glitching though but that was a long time ago.

tbh waymo's ceo said what I said here: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/alphabet-google-waymo-ceo...
I think the GP's point is that if one feels the need to use a status symbol, they're already pretending to be someone they aren't.

Of course a status symbol works to a large extent, otherwise people wouldn't be spending money on them.

I'm nowhere near the social circles of "old money", but I'd imagine they're more amused with seeing people trying too hard to push themselves into upper society, than being insecure about their own status. I mean, I don't have to be upper class to find this behavior somewhat comical.
This is excellent. I love(d) fantasy books maps. I loved trying to track where the characters were in the world's I was reading about. I used to draw my own for the books I was going to write, unfortunately my talents lay with drawing rather than writing...
Since it's based on 3D Gaussians in space, is there a way to obtain sharp images? Inherently, Gaussian functions extent infinitely, so images always look blurry. Don't they?
Of course, \sigma can be optimized to be small, but then it converges to some point representation, doesn't it?

Maybe some CV/ML people can help me understanding.
I often think how every headline on HN could be inverted into its 180 degree opposite and it would get as many upvotes.

I often also think its crazy how people are painfully unaware of this fact... I swear these have got to be the stupidest headlines, and yet people don't seem to ever have an original thought about it, just for a fraction of a moment..... a moment of awareness that shows them that their factually stated headline is actually 100% not a fact.
Right? That’s immediately what I thought. Weird.
Seems like resh (https://github.com/curusarn/resh) plus a directory tab and unlike resh it isn't free. I like the directory history, but that isn't a $40/yr value add over resh for me.

There are so many free players in that space (e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31402095), $40/yr is probably a hard sell.
>> Basically I'd love to find a publication that's similar better reflects my values.

Beware of an active search for an echo chamber. Because for example:

>>it constantly runs the wrong way if you're at all skeptical of, like, giant business or ads or AI... at a social level.

Is a viewpoint that could very well be wrong when faced with the analysis from a different perspective from yours. Having someone repeat your values to you doesn't make it true or take into account trade-offs that are being made which could prompt you to change your opinion.
If it was pure luck why did they build CUDA over a decade ago?

Think you're just looking at this from the angle of a gamer and not someone who's been paying attention to GPGPU compute earlier than the past 6 months.
> unreasonable searches and seizures

But critically, "polite requests" is not in that list. The 4th does not prohibit CVS from telling the police whatever they want to. Nor does it prohibit the police from asking. It only prohibits the police from taking the information by force.
Great article! Your battery life, or your privacy. Not a great choice.
Related: More service providers need to stop using email as the primary identifier (as Google’s docs recommend). When I changed my username on Google Apps, I spent a lot of time dealing with issues at Slack, Datadog, GoLinks, and others.
see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date#:~:text=has%2052...
Again, check out the social media. If you decide to live in a van while working a $100k/year remote job, it’s a lifestyle choice.
I've bad hay fever, for which an allergist prescribed corticosteroid nasal spray. When I told him I didn't want to take it until allergy season because of dependence, he told me that's not a problem and the drug will work better if I take it ALL the time. He is the medical professional I guess but I still couldn't bring myself to take that advice.
But my goodness, "decease" seems more appropriate.
> the remaining airplane parts would be counted as assets

I'm not in the industry so can't say, but the weight of parts is always a liability as it contributes to fuel consumption. Parts also require maintenance (but not necessarily by weight).

An operational plane as a whole is certainly an asset. Perhaps this is how we should handle software, the whole is an asset, the quantity of parts that need maintenance are liabilities.
That demand can't go to infinity, though, right? I would think the new arrivals would be stimulating factor to build more houses, on the economy, produce new tax dollars for roads, etc.
its not my area of my expertise but i keep thinking about this problem and comes to conclusion some kind of incineration facility in each county/zone is only alternative. Off course u would not release that dirty smoke to air and capturing and filtration technology should get a lot better.
Nvidia had already been through one crypto bust at that point. The long view was that there will be another one and they wanted to keep their more stable markets viable for the future and not get demand slaughtered by mass dumping of used cards on the market when crypto dipped again.

Of course, the AI thing exploded afterwards this time so the demand dip didn't happen.
Sharing this article as a key example of the type of “news” that really scares the average person/normie while being very misleading.

Note: A family member sent the link to me with a rant about AI being evil.
Seems so: https://www.docuseal.co/compliance
It sounds to me that the head start nVidia thinks they have is very limited, considering that Apple built a serious GPU in just one generation...
Sharing email identities is a reasonable way to give group access to a resource.

And solutions are being built. The mission of LastLogin is to accelerate this.
Technical debt is the difference between the actual code and how you would ideally write it with today’s knowledge and no time constraints. By that definition, bad code is a subset of technical debt, as you presumably wouldn’t write that bad code today unless maybe under time pressure. The other kind of technical debt is when you have in principle good code but the assumptions, requirements or external conditions have changed, and thus you wouldn’t write it that way today. Your second paragraph matches that case.
That last one is impressive, most humans probably wouldn’t pull it off. And just imagine when all the cars on the road are self-driving, probably none of these accidents would’ve happened.
What legal and financial risks are there if one demands a warrant?
Literally in the article: Administrative Costs [total] : About 30 Percent, Administrative Cost yo providers: 48%.

You: no, it's 10%, math is not hard

I see it's hard for you. Good bye
> Everyone knows phenylephrine is useless.

It’s pretty easy to find phenylephrine on the shelves in Canada (I’d say about half the drugs use it vs pseudoephrine) so obviously somebody is buying it. Anecdotally, I always tell people to read the labels and only buy pseudoephrine based medication, and it’s consistently a surprise to people - I don’t think the difference was anywhere near universally known.
Wouldn't it be more useful to generate a vector model than a "3d image" voxel/radiance field/splats/whatever it's called? Apart from the use case "I want to spin the thing or walk around in it" they feel like they are of limited use?

Unlike say a crude model of a fire hydrant which you could throw into a game or whatever. If the model is fed some more constraints/assumptions? I think I saw some recent paper that did generate meshes now instead of pixels.
Fair enough.

Though, to my ears, that just sounds like minimizing code liability is more important in that context.
> just found themselves in a lucky situation.

Then this luck should have equally found AMD, who even today are struggling to pick up the ball they've been dropping for a decade now. My last PC had a Radeon, and I waited the life time of that PC assuming AMD support was just around the corner, all the while renting Nvidia cards in the cloud for any serious projects.

I've been in the ML space long enough to remember when people were just speculating about doing ML/computation on GPUs. Nvidia made that much easier and has continued to improve support and features for the past decade+ There insane success is certainly part luck, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss all of it as merely happenstance.
You're just confirming exactly what I wrote. There is nothing wrong with the libraries, its the social policies that are the issue.
Russia is already trying to ship all its “undesirables” over the Finn border as a soft form of warfare against Europe.
I don't even get why these count as negatives against Waymo. There's nothing it can do to stop idiot humans driving too closely or just driving into it.
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I have to admit I regret not buying their stock. It should've been obvious this would be a boon for them, but I got distracted by the crypto hype and didn't even think about the impact AI would have on them.
> Teachers are kept in check by school administrators, other teachers

Err... no. No, they aren't.

You have no idea how hard it is to fire a bad teacher. I'll give you a hint: real friggin' hard.
Comparing autonomous vehicles to the average driver is always going to be misleading.

It’s not fair to compare it to drunk drivers, or to the small portion of people (likely causing an oversized portion of accidents) who shouldn’t have a license.

I’d like to see these comparisons made against a typical good driver, who never drivers impaired and obeys the law.
Lucky. It was boiled onions for me.
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I'm watching nvidia researchers doing a TON of AI at a wide spectrum, that your 'lucky situation' is a hard understatement what nvidia is doing on Research & Development area.
Perhaps it should in circumstances such as private medical information or any private information. We need digital privacy laws badly.
Maybe stop reading the titles as a statement of fact.

I certainly didn't interpret it that way, your statement is obvious enough that it immediately turns the headline into a strongly held opinion.
Yeah, just watch out for things like water permits.
No. Some people like the idea of a semi nomadic lifestyle enough that they would prefer it to living in a mansion overlooking the ocean.
Having grown up in the projects, they were a million times better than tent cities.
That's not new.

If you want people to read your comment a certain way, you should say so up front.
I thought you were gonna go with “Audentes Fortuna Iuvat” for a minute.
Hate to derail a bit from the discussion you're starting, but let's always keep in mind that Teller would propose a 1GT for frying bacon if you let him.
Yes it does, e.g. compare the pdf [1] and corresponding html [2].

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.12451.pdf

[2] https://browse.arxiv.org/html/2312.12451v1
The logo is Linear's logo but inverted?
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Visible SSIDs are absolutely used to fingerprint location.
In this case, a type sade programming language would stop you from trying to write to read-only memory at compile time.
What would happen is there wouldn't be a giant payout for construction anymore, so public housing could finally get bids that aren't 3x what private goes for. For decades the problem hasn't been cities refusing to build, it's that contractors fuck cities on bids.
That's a sufficient test. It's the community's prerogative to keep it up to date later with further PRs. I don't expect anyone, whether a company or a volunteer, to do ongoing maintenance work on features that don't directly serve them. The thing I'm testing for is whether they'd block someone else contributing a change that doesn't serve that company or volunteer.
Thanks for your comments I find your writing has some satisfying and interesting components to it. These are important observations— putting in words some of my own feelings of my own western society. I would emphasize also a feeling of decline: that there is a sense of helplessness with the state of society sometimes.
I had the first iPhone up to the 3GS. It didn't feel that way then. Now there are continuous software updates that keep changing arbitrary and invisible policies.
Some samples here: https://authors.apple.com/support/4519-digital-narration-aud.... It's good, but it would definitely get very monotonous to listen to for 10+ hours, and even in these short cherry-picked examples there are a couple kind of jarring tonal decisions. You'll also notice they avoided sampling any dialogue, presumably because these voices will read all characters in the exact same manner as the narration.

I listen to a lot of audiobooks and I definitely notice and get annoyed when I don't like the narrator. I think I could maybe get used to this for one book but I would avoid it if possible, and I would really hate it if every book I listened to used this exact same style.

I would say this is probably already good enough for short non-fiction articles, but not there yet for fiction. It is genuinely confusing (for me at least) when an audiobook narrator reads a phrase with the "wrong" emotion, or doesn't vocally distinguish between characters.
Why does apple get to decide which app gets automatic access to my private data, on my device, without needing to ask me?
In today's market a mobile home is an investment, they sell used for ~$200k on a lot
Ok, but this is not an opioid, and it has no known rebound effect. The compound had been on the market and in use in consumer products for more than 20 years.
Sure, things can be made more efficient one way or another. But why are single family homes unsustainable?
i would certainly rant just below climate change so think it deserves one of the biggest title for sure.
Nice job! I'm glad the team was able to ship a useful subset of the desired functionality. Yes the current implementation shipping next week has limitations, but they're clearly marked, the compiler helpfully explains them and warns you away from some sharp edges.

I'm glad the Rust project is willing to ship useful but limited features quickly, see how people use them, and then iterate and slowly remove the restrictions in the future. I think it'll be more productive than taking another 3 years to solve all the remaining rough edges and problems.
I think it is unconscionable that we can use the force of the state to coerce someone to delete ALL copies of a work they created. I'm fairly anti-copyright but I get that they probably shouldn't be able to sell the books (even though the author has been in the ground for decades), fine. Give them a fine, write up a ticket, community service or whatever, but deleting everything just seems so brutish.
Yeah, me too. I’m in the beginning of the journey, and I chose Hugo as my first step.

I am curious as to why you did Hugo thrice and why did you choose Astro in the end.
Yea, i think i'd agree if i saw the revenue split or if they helped me understand what went to consumers. I'm not invested enough to research this (which isn't an excuse, just saying i'm not interested), so as a basic consumer my assumption is that the revenue i put into something like Patreon is far better than Youtube.

I say that primarily because of experience. For example i subscribe to Spotify, and the revenue split there is atrocious and often a point of debate between platforms. Maybe YT is better, but it's not clear to me from the outside if that's true.
The miners were buying both Nvidia and AMD I think?
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> While it's not a great financial situation and ideally nobody should be in it, in reality these people don't have a choice and budgeting away a fixed percentage of their salary on a vehicle that guarantees them to be able to get to work (to pocket the remaining percentage of salary) is a better option than not paying a monthly fee but gambling on the fact that a significant breakdown might completely wipe them out financially and jeopardize the transportation they use to get to work.

This makes sense so long as it isn't used as an argument for leasing a new car on an ongoing basis. If one actually finds themselves in this situation, the responsible approach would be to find the cheapest possible lease and to save aggressively until they can take the more economical approach.

Leasing is like credit card debt. It makes sense in some rare cases, but in most cases it is wasteful and the average consumer should avoid it.
650k out of 340M is an astonishing number. That's almost one in 500 people who don't have a place to call home in the richest country in the world. There were more than 500 people in my high school class ...

Anything that affects 650k people has more than one cause, but we have mountains of evidence to show us the main cause: housing is too expensive.

We don't build enough housing and the housing we do build is far too expensive. We then give homeowners and real estate developers so many tax breaks, loans, and other incentives such that America is completely addicted to housing-as-investment and the ever-rising price of a roof over one's head.

It makes me ashamed to live here. It makes me ashamed to have a home of my own.

If you're in the Bay Area and you want to help locally, I can personally recommend Larkin Street Youth Services as an excellent organization: https://larkinstreetyouth.org/
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Yeah, that was a watershed moment about him for me. I was never enthralled with Trump like many people because I was familiar with his history, but that moment was when I shifted to thinking of him as an actively terrible person.
I’m waiting to see how it will handle Chinese roads. A few self driving startups in China actually, although I haven’t heard anything from them recently. It would be the gold standard for a self driving car to handle Beijing roads, drivers, and pedestrians.
No, the resistor will pull more current.

If you supply a 100 ohm resistor with a 12V100Amp power source, the circuit is going to pull 0.12 amps from the supply.

If you supply a 100 ohm resistor with a 24V100Amp power source, the circuit is going to pull 0.24 amps from the supply.

The supply isn't pushing current, the characteristics of the circuit has changed and it's pulling more current.
Ask HN: Apache-2.0 or LGPL-3.0?
The most common license in the Cloud Native space is Apache 2.0. Our current Open Source Tool is licensed under LGPL-3.0.

Should we change the license to Apache 2.0?
- yes (if yes, why)
- no
- doesn't matter at this point

Thanks!
> Phenylephrine should be banned as an oral decongestant in all cold medicines, prescription and OTC, because it is a scam and doesn't work.

How do people keep buying it and using it if it genuinely doesn't do anything for them?
Thanks! Money Stuff is great and of a similar caliber for sure.

I think Platformer is solid, but seems to fall a bit more into media-punditry, though there are a lot of interesting reported stories which you don't get on Stratechery.

I don't really read the other two, but I'll check them out. I do think Noah Smith falls into a category I'm wary of, which is folks who seem to cast their net really wide, but not super familiar with his work so hard to criticize specifically. Maybe he is really good too.
Cruise and Uber were equally snake oil, too, and have spilled more blood than Waymo or Tesla.
Yeah I'm confused why e.g. Google's TPUs, etc. didn't catch favour in the market?

I'm not an ML developer, so I'm curious. Just economies of scale?
I had the same experience with phenylephrine. It dried out my sinuses, which helped me slightly with decongestion but moreso with post-nasal drip.

The effect was not dramatic, and as I understand it, people with allergies need that dramatic effect to be able to breath well.

It seems to me phenylephrine was effective for something different than what the FDA had in mind, but due to their folly, now both phenylephrine and pseudoephedrine are unavailable to the average person.
Note: this is an opinion piece, not reporting as you may expect from just the headline.