skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real issue here is regarding decision fatigue & resource management. It’s just another thing that a pilot may have to deal with which could distract from making important decisions in a potentially dangerous situation.
I've been a big fan of worldtimebuddy[1] for a long time. I book a lot of meetings across timezones and it's makes it very easy to see when a good time for a meeting would be between sydney tokyo and miami as an example

[1] https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
> if you want rich fluid client behaviour, you’re fooling yourself if you think any kind of hybrid “server only” approach is the best. It’s not. You cannot beat native apps for functionality.

Where does something like Microsoft Remote Desktop Services fit into this location-of-state model?

It’s a classic thin client app, but you can run it in “RemoteApp” mode, where instead of remote controlling a full Windows session, you only see a single app’s window, making it largely indistinguishable from running a native app.

It can be setup where the user sees, say, an Excel icon on their desktop, and the average user virtually cannot tell if they’re running a native app or a remote app.

The experience is surprisingly good. Even over higher latency connections, I’ll notice slow server hardware before I’ll notice network latency. On the flip side, if we allocate a lot of server resources to a remote app, where a user is doing data analysis on a large data set, they will absolutely prefer the remote app. Point being, the latency tends to be a non issue.
I guess Navalny is a dissident but, man, seeing his name next to Mandela is jarring considering his views.
No mention of the failures of leadership, nor of the rank and file leaving in disgust?

It reads as a marketing puff piece paid for by the Mozilla marketing department.
so I still need to download and host models myself.

I found that to be incredibly impractical. I tried to do it for my project AIMD, but the cost and quality just made absolutely no sense even with the top models.
>He did grumble a bit about the syntax but otherwise did a splendid job. I thought that was a tribute to the simplicity of the language.

I still to this day dont understand why vast majority of people in programming dislike the syntax of Pascal.
Try to use 128GB M3 Max to run LLaMA2 70B inference and enjoy the sound of airplanes taking off while your battery is dead in 1 hour...
I keep hearing about these sites that don't work in Firefox but I never seem to run into any despite using the web for 2000+ hours per year.

That includes a lot of Youtube usage. Works fine for me. I guess my machine was sprinkled with magic pixie dust or something.
What's wrong about folks selling shares they own? Maybe it's bad for the founders, but there's always a good chance these employees may not see a real liquidity event.
In the extreme, yes. But it looks like it is actually a continuum, with a shockingly blurry line forming the threshold.
Just a minor nitpick, but

> without going wildly into monopolist territory by freezing out ad & spying competitors while surely still allowing their own

You mean like killing off third-party cookies while retaining a way to track and advertise to users via FLoC-turned-Interests? You can argue Firefox disables third-party cookies, but they're not an ad company. >85% (last I checked) of Google revenue is advertising or adjacent to it, and their legal team signed off on an action that harms their competitors and helps the ad network with the soon-to-be most accurate tracking
Ask HN: Are there any PaaS that would offer pricing comparable to bare metal?
I am using render.com at the moment, and... the I am paying USD 450/month for what is a relatively small project. For context, that's 32 GB / 8 CPUs.

If I moved to Hetzner, I would be paying USD 200/month for 256 GB / 24 CPUs. However, I don't want to do that because of the inconvenience of needing to manage the service myself. (I am well aware of options like Dokku, but that still means managing updates and loosing sleep, etc)

Is there really no PaaS that would have comparable pricing to all these dedicated server providers?

I don't expect price to be 1:1, but even 20% would be a great margin for a business _and_ great value for the end user.
> A ten minute walk is half to 3/4 of a mile. I doubt you can find all those things in that distance except in the densest of cities.

I have all of that (except the museum) within 10 minutes walk in a very suburban (almost rural, but still suburb) area.

This myth that you must live in the densest cities (Manhattan or SF) to be able to walk to shops, restaurants and other daily useful things is just a myth.
A butterfly-inspired design to create crumple-recoverable electronics
This looks cool, but I paused when I saw that according to the curl examples, Nitro will accept a request specifying "gpt-3.5-turbo" as the model and then presumably just roll with it, using whatever local LLM has been loaded instead.

I hope this is a typo/mistake in the docs, because if not, that's a terrible idea. Nitro cannot serve GPT-3.5, so it should absolutely not pretend to. "Drop-in replacement" doesn't mean lying about capabilities. If that model is specifically requested, Nitro should return an error, not silently do something else instead.
Consider switching teams. At every big tech company there are different teams that spend more time on different tasks. Keep your compensation, change your work. Implement new features in a kernel, or new optimization passes in a compiler. Build a UI for an new feature.

But if that doesn't work, you should leave. It's is a tremendous opportunity cost to spend your early career not learning new things.

Jonathan Blow has strong opinions[1] on this.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nL8GWU9M8LY
Repeating catastrophic design flaws though? I'd think the even the most inhumane manufacturers would face too much liability to allow the second one to happen.
Inhalable sensors could enable early lung cancer detection
I was an experienced asm programmer before a friend loaned me a copy of K+R C. I understood C immediately. I imagine trying to learn C without knowing assembler would be a much tougher road.

Knowing C also helps in understanding a lot of other languages.
i bet someone is gonna have a look at the author of that article's academic or college work too soon.
I love articles like this that explain business models that on the surface don’t seem to make sense. I’d like to see a similar analysis of how porn survives as a profitable business when there is an absolutely unlimited supply on the web for free. During the early days of the web I understand but how they make money now is inscrutable.
I actually just read a paper where some new file format achieved far faster and smaller writes than the Parquet used in all of these modern big datalakehouses, and it was done by guessing like 20 different simple compressions on a sample to figure out what will work best for each chunk of data. Sounds like manual feature detection to me!
Pretty cool, really like it. I have been using Overlap by Moleskine on iOS for a while: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/overlap-by-moleskine-studio/id...
This is what happened to Canada.
Titan's 'magic islands' might be honeycombed hydrocarbon icebergs, finds study
Have you been doing this for a long time consistently? Have you noticed your shoulders rolling forward? You do a lot of chest work but 0 back work.

I'm not big into bodyweight stuff, but I did manage to cause myself problems in my early lifting days when I used to half-ass rows and take bench super seriously.
It's not just to save money - it also increases the number you can crank out in a big hurry.

In WWII, escort carriers were small, slow, lightly armored and yet came in absolutely clutch because some slow air cover that needs extensive destroyer/cruiser babysitting >>> no air cover at all once all the fleet carriers of both sides were done mutually annihilating each other (iirc at one point the US was down to one operational fleet carrier in the Pacific; the Saratoga in late 42/early 43) due to how most leaders hadn't fully grasped just how lethal massed air power was, some figures like Halsey aside. In that breach, and even later on e.g. Battle off Samar, escort carriers were indispensable. Of the 151 aircraft carriers built in the U.S. during World War II, 122 were escort carriers.

I don't think it's totally implausible that massed cruise/hypersonic missile attacks won't play out similarly in a future conflict, leading to a scenario where both sides need to rebuild asap. Being able to crank out limited-purpose ships is important if you want to maintain any capability at all, even if that capability is less flexible than the gucci option.
Thanks, I'm thinking about something code based but you are probably right!
Indeed I often times use a GPT4 template to make my relatively simple ideas sound more concise and insightful :)

https://www.llmtemplates.ai/templates/55d1f637-e3ac-4c12-8b0...
Another drone with a bowl cut hunts you down and kills you with an attached air pressure cattle euthanizer.
Why should they fight for users?

The users who should care the most, such as the HN crowd, overwhelmingly have voted and the consensus is we read some synthetic benchmarks where Chrome is faster, and we are comfortable trading our freedoms away for that.

Everybody has a price.

It's just depressing that ours was so cheap.

(Not me personally. I would use FF even if it was worse, but it performs identically to Chrome for me. I don't understand what people are even doing with their f'ing web browsers that gets them into these pathological poor performance states with FF.)
The flashy, braggart type is who they meant is boring, I believe. They are not being hypocritical in my opinion as the flashy, braggart person is uninterested in talking about anything but their interest while GP doesn't want to hear them brag about it. It's not a lack of interest in the subject, it's the fact that the subject isn't the point, it's the "look at how good I am at $subject" that the braggart is worried about.
>"We are looking for backers to help produce a feature film about the life of Gopi Krishna similar to Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi or Einstein. It will tell the complete story of Gopi Krishna from birth to death and describe his own personal awakening and all of its ramifications - it will be an instant classic."
Blender has been an amazing open source project - giving everyone a free alternative to create 3d content.

I also love how it’s relatively easy to script in python & you can even use a blender kernel to open in a Jupyter notebook for experimentation.
Because the well runs dry quickly if you have specific tastes.
The Hidden Worlds of Monopoly
You're right that I didn't look at the other comments. Your comment was worth reading. I agree, btw, I was just trying to make sense of that part.
I understand a bit with the one role perspective. But why build short range air defence destroyers at all? Because the ballistic missile destroyers will have a more capable radar and be able to fit all the same anti-air missiles and the bigger ones too. So it seems like their "one role" subsumes the others entirely albeit with the caveat it'll be more painful to replace if they're lost in war.
So you’re saying Apple should put a sticker on the box saying it’s a device designed to operate with a specific OS? Then you can make an informed decision and purchase something else?
The “loading” for 2-3 seconds with black text on a dark blue background… This ain’t it.
You really need to remove the tinfoil hat. It's even affecting your ability to read.

When I mentioned polarization of laser, you ignored everything except one phrase. I said, specifically (but I'll be more specific this time), that some lasers use a mirror and a partial mirror, and once the light transmitted into it is amplified enough that it can get through the partial mirror, you get a laser beam. You stupidly took that to mean that is proof that polarized light is obviously then stronger.

But that's not correct. The AMPLIFICATION, literally the A in the word lAser, is what makes it strong enough to get through the partial mirror. Amplified light is stronger. Nothing to do with polarization. It is polarized because of reflecting back and forth between the mirror and the partial mirror. Nothing more. That's a side effect of the amplification method. The single-direction amplification means all that escapes is polarized to that one direction. This is super basic. Ruby lasers are pretty typical, and LED lasers mimic them. Literally a partially shiny piece of see-through rock.

I mentioned, and you ignored, in that same comment that gas lasers use a completely different method, and as a result, produce non-polarized laser. I actually own a few lasers (so it's wild you think you are schooling me). One that I like most is Helium Neon. Fully a gas laser. Fully not polarized. And a hell of a lot stronger than your fancy polarized laser pointer.

It's easier to make laser with the mirror/partial mirror pair, and LED that mimics that, but the strength has absolutely nothing to do with the polarization. Period.

Please end the word games. You keep bopping between whether it's the satellites or the terminals that are causing your fake illness. And you're cherry picking phrases just to keep the thread going. It's neither energy source. We all know that, and so do you.

Cut it out. This is a grown up forum.
When I think opensource, the best couple projects that come to mind are Linux, Blender, and Postgres. It’s that good!
I fell down a Wikipedia hole on the earlier discussion about keyboard layouts and learned that the modifier set by modifier keys (command, option, control, hyper…) is called the "bucky bit," where "Bucky" was Niklaus's college nickname. I wanted to share this info with HN, but since TIL post titles aren't welcome here, I wasn't sure the right way to point out _why_ it was interesting.

So excuse me for piggy-backing on your post:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky_bit
Out of curiosity, would you prefer to see all the options laid out so you can quickly scan which ones would be optimal? Or would you prefer to click a button and then it just schedules the meeting for you?
Interesting! From reading up on this, this seems to be "meteorological winter" which makes me think its not an old tradition. I think it's likely that the terms mid-winter and mid-summer come from a Celtic tradition similar to that still observed in Ireland.
i have always only knew about https://www.worldtimezone.com/

it has a nice world map, but its call planner feature is simpler than some of the alternatives mentioned here.
Jason Scott is an international treasure. While the Internet Archive is many people, Jason goes above and beyond.

He won't ask but I will: please consider donating directly to Jason:

> Venmo is @textfiles and jason@textfiles.com is Paypal
Related:

Teaching C (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32798826 - Sept 2022 (94 comments)

Teaching C (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18334476 - Oct 2018 (211 comments)

Teaching C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11668396 - May 2016 (152 comments)
> I'm pretty sure no company in their right mind today start a new product in C++.

The library support for rust in key areas is terribly lacking and not everyone is a Microsoft that can afford to build the world from scratch.

As just one example a few valiant folks develop plugins and realtime audio with rust, but serious work that needs to get done today happens in C++.
why can't crooks try to block bots?
parts of this seems like rehashed Taleb black swan.

The collapse of the Dow Jones industrial index during the 2008 financial crisis. A
Seneca Collapse if ever there was one (data from Dow Jones)

from pg 68.

This was not the case in 2000-2003 or 2021 -2022 in which the stock market fell in a gradual/orderly pattern. People who made tail-hedged volatility bets lost money due to the failure of volatility to spike. The gradual nature of the selling meant that the out-of-money puts did not profit as many assumed or hoped. Many bought into the Talab hype and lost money with this.
I don't disagree, but from the about[1] I believe the intention was to be able to capture HN for offline browsing including the submission.

[1]https://hackernews.xyz/about
Thought provoking article. I like to think I acknowledge the people I call for services, at least to the extent they want the conversation. I'm sure there are many more in daily life I don't notice but whose work makes my world go around.

The anecdotes about the rich in Chicago match the ones I hear about the rich in California. The divide is nearly complete.
Recommend me meets to catch up on.
Religion? We're talking practical reality here.

The reality is that when alternative browsers finally slip into irrelevance the web will belong to Google.

We had a monoculture on the web once with IE. It went poorly.

If you literally don't care about the health of the open web, fine -- but that is what I would call a near-religious dedication to ignorance
i like it but er.. it's a big thick :O
The problem with ordering me to have kids is that I'm a man and I can't do that.
It's also just like any 4x strategy game. You can harvest resources and build and build but once those resources are depleted they deplete very fast because you have grown capacity for intake.

I'm glad we aren't worried about peak oil anymore but the climate and food scarity is going to be the next pitfall to avoid.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37588526 - Sept 2023 (58 comments)
Bucky Bit
“What is clear, however, is that punishment does not correlate to a book's popularity, or its truthfulness, or the quality of its scholarship. An author's madness is rarely taken into account when offense is perceived, and neither is haplessness. It's upsetting how many writers seem to have become fatalities entirely by accident.”

This makes me think of the last long podcast from Jeff Bezos with Lex Friedman, where he explains how we are not really “Truth telling creatures, but social creatures.” in his example of people that were more inclined as to be socially accepted, were more prone to survive, against those who spoke truth and provoked others comfort…
I'm of the opposite opinion. The portable-assembler camp is responsible for a lot of the issues and footguns, because they think they know what code will be generated. But they don't. Compilers can generate any code they want, as long as the program ends up doing the correct io and side effects.

The assembler perspective is important, but not for correctness, rather for optimization. When you optimize it starts mattering how much register pressure and cache pressure etc you have.
That's one problem with these DiRs. Since the model needs to be loaded using llama.cpp (and llama.cpp uses model path), the DiR either needs to accept model path as model name (type mismatch), or just assume that your models are in a certain path and then receive model file name as model name (better). But that means the DiR needs to control the model loader (and in most cases they actually download and build that automatically after install). But I'd rather build my own llama.cpp and just have a nice interface to it that stays out of my way.
> Exactly. The issue is that postgresql takes 37 bytes per row normally, which then causes it to spill out of RAM on the limited VM specified for this challenge, causing the query to be I/O bound, hence the array representation and unnesting to fit it back into RAM. I'm guessing your machine has more RAM ?

It does, but I restarted postgres and cleared the OS cache.

Btw, the primary bottleneck for the array-ified query is the unnest() handling in the functions. The minimal thing would be to make the functions faster, e.g. via:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION array_avg(_data anyarray)
RETURNS numeric IMMUTABLE PARALLEL SAFE LANGUAGE sql AS
$$
select avg(a)
from (SELECT unnest(_data) as a)
$$;

But that way the unnest is still done 3x. Something like

SELECT a_min, a_max, a_avg FROM temps_by_city, LATERAL (SELECT min(u) a_min, max(u) a_max, avg(u) a_avg FROM (SELECT unnest(array_agg) u)) limit 5;

should be faster.
AS1282 PDX-ONT MAX9 decompression, lost of window section
Aww, I was hoping for some hand-tuning and spec lawyering to make the smallest possible images, not just looking the outputs of one random tool
That would be really nice to have in general. I don’t think an antitrust action is helpful to achieve it though.

Why not some legislation instead? For example, I have a friend who likes to tinker and they would love to be able to “own” their Tesla car, or Samsung smart TV (both also currently running as a black box of sorts… with even less security and transparency than iOS).
> When I got out and realized it was dark, I started to accept something bad was likely about to happen to me.

This was the only part that really got me. I have visited a few major US cities but never really lived there, but now I’m wondering how common it is for American city dwellers to be afraid of the dark.
I also discovered outdoor calisthenics over the pandemic. Massive upgrade in every way :)
Nor AWS's lightweight hypervisor for advanced security, Nitro:

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/
I'm not sure NixOS users are that different from users of other distros, all want a tool that properly manages their systems (rather than random packages being scattered everywhere).
About 5 times per week for 6 months.

The exact workout is from 19m28s - 37:22 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0WOTplwNlw&t=19m28s (I do the whole thing twice, then 3km run then stretch)

Imbalance is something that worries me. I figure it's better to do a workout that's imbalanced than to come up with a theoretically perfect workout that requires a gym that I hate going to or, worse, doing no structured exercise (which is what I did for periods in the past). If you have suggestions to better balance the workout, I'd love to hear them and will integrate changes immediately.
> (excluding the screen)

and the battery, and the better speakers, and the quiet cooling, and USB-C/Thunderbolt 4 that just works (compared to most PC implementations) and of course, macOS
Why is this better than a site map?
How does this compare to llamafile? I recently started experimenting with pointing my openAI web apps at local llamafile and its pretty straightforward:
http://blog.pamelafox.org/2024/01/using-llamafile-for-local-...

Llamafile doesnt support an OpenAI compatible embedding endpoint yet but I filed an issue and they seem to be interested in adding it.
can we stop calling cloudflare worker "serverless" ? There are multiple god damn servers.
I sort of regard these commenters as crazy. I never had the habit of printing stuff off so I could read it later. I read it online, or not at all. And by "online" I mean from computer storage on the screen, not necessarily over a modem connection or something.

The fundamental disconnect you guys have is this: in order to print something out, it needs to be stored somewhere first. So you indeed downloaded a text file in order to print it. Surely you saved it somewhere, at least in RAM if not permanent storage. Otherwise the printout wouldn't happen.

The sorts of things that I used the printer for were school reports and papers, and especially Print Shop style banners. It was really fun to run off a larger-than-life "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" sign that was basically professional DTP style with good fonts, graphics and the whole bit.

At school the chief use of the Line Printers was for large-format ASCII art. We'd take some GIFS of rather prurient pin-up shots, or anime or just some interesting subject, and run it through an ASCII art generator, then print out something suitable for covering an entire wall. Sometimes we'd even print out the Pascal code we were working on, so we could mark it up and sort of edit it offline. But that was the exception to prove the rule.