skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wrong? Did'nt ask how C does it and clearly you did not understand my simple comment. Wtf is going on with hn? It's turning into yet another site were kids think they seem smart by intentionally misinterpreting and bickering.
Don’t worry, queries can still be written to bring a 96 core Xeon with 1 TB of RAM to its knees.

I’ve had to calculate maximum possible data transfer rates for RAM to convince devs that their query was the issue.

“This has an index, it should be fast!”

“OK, but you’re hitting 800 GB of pages…”
By "powerful" I meant being powerful enough to overcome public opinion. The vast majority of Americans are against our bombs being used to commit genocide, yet, our senile president is fully supporting turning Gaza into a parking lot.
The Dark Side of Sales
FFs :-)
I can't find even the sketchiest rumor claiming 96GB of VRAM on a 4090 Ti.

That would be more than an H100, which costs around $30k.
This works for for people who live somewhere and go to the gym constantly. But God forbid you travel. I live in Europe, and in my town gym does not work in the way described in article. But when I went to the USA for two months, I had to sign a yearly contract with a trial and cancel it before the end of the trial.
This is exacerbated by the fact that most developers have nice, beefy machines compared to most people who will be using their products. Though we've also experienced the opposite in the case of server-side code. Improved a lot of little inefficiencies in our server-side code base through efforts to keep it possible to run on small VMs on developers' local machines. Things that we'd never notice on the monstrous 52-core 128GB of RAM infinity SSD servers, but show up quickly when you're giving it 2 cores and 4GB in a VM.
What is even worse for me - I myself make a tool then stop using it and later I cannot come back.

Like with the spreadsheets I did to manage stuff. If I don’t use it at least weekly it quickly becomes less and less useful.

But also they mostly served their purpose and it is time to use new one. Not everything has to be used forever.
They are very convenient when I work on remote servers over ssh, even if it's just my server at home. Programs I use regularly (no specific order):

vim
ncdu
nnn
mqqtui
htop
gitui
tmux
lnav
lazydocker
ctop
You too, pal.
Of course the pharma lobby is deeply concerned: all the nice cash does not go into their pockets.
https://simpleflying.com/united-airlines-boeing-767-fuselage...
I've been using an M2 Macbook and M1 Mini for a while now and I can't confirm those statements about polish.

The dock's icon scaling animation under the mouse cursor freezes in place at least once every few days. To this day the Stage Manager has a bug where pulling a minimized window to the front can throw it across the screen, with most of the window landing outside the visible screen area. For a few months I could reliably freeze the screenshot app by clicking 2-3 of the UI's buttons in an order that occurred during normal use. If I open more than ~10-15 images at once in the preinstalled preview app it often opens two or three windows instead of one and randomly distributes the pictures across those. More than ~50 image files can cause an error message and partial failure to open the files. In the first month after getting my Macbook, the "Open Anyway" button in the settings always crashed the settings app the first time after trying to start a new program. Turning off the second connected screen left windows on that screen inaccessible and I couldn't disable/remove the screen in the settings, and I could still move the cursor to the second screen while it was turned off. Clicking an 8GB video file in the file selection dialog spawned a ThumbnailExtension process that allocated 25GB memory within seconds and if not killed the process kept running for a minute after the file chooser was already closed...on a system with 8GB RAM, so it swapped 20GB. The file saving dialog is frozen as long as any connected HDD hasn't yet spun up, no matter if I want to save the file on that drive or not.

That's the things I can remember right now within a bit over one year of use. No, I don't think Mac OS' desktop is more polished than the best current Linux distros, though the OS stayed stable through upgrades, which I can't say about Windows 10 and some Linux systems. Imho the M1-3 Macbooks are still the best laptops currently available. But the desktop UI is clearly not as stable as iOS has been for me.
It's doing a whole hell of a lot more and is much smaller. I'll take the tradeoff as a casual camera user.
Oddly I haven't yet needed to work offline in my 12 year career as a software dev. But then again it's not common for internet to go away where I live.
Ada is such an underrated language. The lack of its adoption is a testament to the old adage that technologies don't thrive or die on their technical merits.
I reckon their business model is for the architecture astronaut who set up Wingman[0] to leave the company and then everyone is too afraid to shut down it’s 1000 node k8s cluster.

[0] - parody microservice in famous skit.
They are small businesses for a reason. They've already been contacted by tons of people who offer to help them with their obvious flaws, and already told those people to f off. Just because somebody has a business doesn't mean they have a brain.
If I wanted a keyboard with an "internet button", I could buy one, all the way back to the beige era.

I don't.
fascinating! i have never heard of this. thanks for explaining.
I think a significant number of people at least enter into the agreement thinking it's a feature. Roughly:

- Going to the gym sucks, and I don't want to go
- I should force myself to go to the gym anyway
- Gyms are expensive, and hard to cancel
- The pain and shame of canceling, combined with ongoing cost, will be a motivator for me to actually go to the gym

In short, I think a lot of people erroneously believe that locking themselves into the contract will motivate them. Instead, they end up still not going and also paying because of the contract.
If it's not a marketable skill it's not. I'm getting out of the door as soon as I get an offer.
> Anyone that's experienced a cracked windshield understands that this won't be going anywhere outside of some very niche and expensive cars.

Don't do the whole windshield. My car uses a bit of plastic on the dash to reflect a display. I love it!

https://i.imgur.com/jXfWf5b.png
Thanks for posting, Tom. I just sent in an application.
Bombardier sits on Canada.
and I personally think that such an analysis is the real racism
I work on OpenTofu since November, lots of coding, docs, the rest is helping the community or coordinating contributions.

I used to work for Red Hat (OCP on oVirt/RHV, Arcalot/Arcaflow, etc), in a little over 2 years I wrote somewhere around 40.000 lines of code that I can account for with 80%+ time spent, but that diminished greatly around the end as a lot of changes into the "Scrum to rule everything" direction happened, which decreased the amount of code produced by a lot.

Depending on what you do you may want to go window shopping for jobs where coding skills are valued and that are low on process. If the interview process already puts heavy emphasis on your code, that may be a place for you. If, on the other hand, the quality of your code isn't appreciated as long as it works... Smaller companies/projects tend to work better.
The Windows 7 example on their home page does not inspire confidence. I'd much rather be locked into macOS than be locked into this
If you mean the Galaxy Store, it requires a Samsung account to be used.

Google positioned itself so it is the de facto default for pretty much every Android phone.
I'm also not familiar with Sail, but you could have a single token ("&&") behave as either a bitwise or logical AND, depending on the context: if both operands are an boolean, operate logically, if both operands are an integer, operate bitwise. The complexity lies in what you do with mixed expressions. One solution is to just forbid them. This makes bitwise expressions nested within logical expressions more verbose (you'd need to add a cast), but I'd wager that those aren't used often in most high-level languages.
So embedded micro light pipes? Cool idea. I wonder if it creates any kind of noticeable perturbation in the glass. Like if you embedded this in a window and were looking through a portion of the glass that contained these light pipes would you be able to notice them? Might be a problem for putting this type of glass in front of a display.
Agreed that indiscriminate air raids are both militarily ineffective and terrible for civilians. But it is so easy to reach for them against an enemy without proper air defenses, as the chance of your own casualties is very low. It is also NATO/US doctrine - establish air superiority and then explode everything vaguely threatening.
Super powerful tiny motors. Would be great for robotics and drones.
Only you know what's right for you. If I were in your position, though, I'd absolutely leave. There is a wide world of well-paying, very interesting, dev jobs out there that are also at great places to work.

Suffering in order to maximize income is, for me, a bad deal. You can enjoy life and make very good money even if it's not technically the most money you can possibly make.

> now I feel like my skills are degrading.

For me, speaking purely from a professional point of view, this is completely unacceptable. You need to be increasing your skills over time. If they're degrading, you're setting yourself up for a career disaster later on.
Yeah it leads to real problems for fully driverless cars, as there is no longer a human to blame.

Also note that blaming the human has been Tesla's strategy for avoiding responsibility on their software drive system failures.
Nothing you said managed to disagree with what I said.

They bought it, now they’re sucking the marrow out.
Ask HN: Go to tech stack for building small SaaS in 2024?
The following list was my goto tech stack for building small B2B SaaS at the end of 2019. Any better alternatives?

The app will manage hardware design documents for 50 customers.

fastapi/Python

Postgres

Celery for tasks

Redis for caching

React for frontend (Tailwind)

Hosting: DO app platform, heroku, k8s on AWS

Sentry for error tracking

Stripe for payments

EmailOctopus for newsletter

SendGrid for transactional emails

NameCheap for the domain

auth: Auth0 or Amplify from AWS

AWS S3 for storage

Github for code

Trello, Slack, Google docs
Looks nice already, but a true "SQL IDE" should also strive for feature parity with existing database frontends like LibreOffice Base, or with old-style MS-DOS/TUI applications for database access which had a similar featureset. Meaning an integrated view of database design, data entry/inspection (with full-screen, form-like views for individual records where appropriate!), custom querying (including a more-or-less seamless integration of QBE and raw SQL) and report generation. Hopefully we're going to see some of this in future releases!
For 3D printing nerds:

Vat photopolymerization was carried out using a Bison 1000 DLP printer (Tethon 3D, Omaha, NE, USA) with a light engine composed of a 1920 × 1080 array of 405 nm UV LED pixels of 57 µm in size. The dielectric structures were printed in 100 µm slices. The vat of the Bison 1000 heats up the resin to improve the adhesion of the printed part to the platform and to reduce the viscosity of the resin during printing. The printer is installed inside a custom, filtered HEPA cabinet to keep a clean and regulated working environment.

The dielectric parts were made with Universal Vitrolite (Tethon 3D, Omaha, NE, USA)—a photocurable glass-ceramic resin heavily doped with silica microparticles.

A paragraph down:

Following the printing process (Figure 8a), the fabricated parts are selectively masked using Procoat maskant lacquer (Maskcoat, West Monroe, LA, USA) to achieve galvanic isolation between the electrode surfaces

From:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202307665

Edit: added additonal paragraph
I don't relaly disagree with the sentiment that it is vvery unsavory, buuuttt to play devil's advocate:

1) copyright infringement is not theft
2) ai training is probably going to be rendered fair use
I believe Nvidia offers something similar with Nvidia Broadcast[0].
[0] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/broadcasting/broadcast-...
You can go even further: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene-centered_view_of_evolutio...
Smart? What does that have to do with doing their job? Are you saying that smart people aren't lazy? Aren't corruptible? Don't suffer from group-think? Geez, the list could go on and on and on.

If smart was all that is necessary, we wouldn't need the likes of the FDA. If smart was all that is necessary, the world wouldn't be the clusterfuck that it is.

History is clear...relying on smart is a stupid idea. Ignoring history? Even worse.
ASL HN: Is HN partly adding (inadvertantly) to the enshitification of the web?
Do a search for "13yo beats tetris". Now read each search result in order and take note of the DIFFERENCES in each article/website.
So what happened?

Well one of the very early reports/blog/information appeared on HN.
A search on that day would possibly find the original source or more likely the "new" category report on HN.
What i think then happened, is that various news services picked up the story and modified it enough to claim "fair usage".
Trouble is most of these secondary reports were not complete because they had been modified and cut down, no comments taken into account.

Like most news services, they were not letting any facts get in the way of a good story.

Now the bloggers and social media picked it up from the news reports and added to the mix without ever needing to be complete or even close to the original.

These people have lots of followers and make money from advertising so don't really care about truth or authenticity, its all about clicks. No time stamping either.

Now when you do a search with most search engines you are hard pressed to find the original story much less any accurate or complete 'children" of that original post.

The search engines with their advertising maximizing value algorithmic results at the expense of "truth" or "real" or "complete" alter results we are looking for.
This ensures the original source on the web has been replaced by a poor, usually inaccurate, and sometimes completely wrong sources.

The enshitification net is now complete.

(I don't think HN is at fault, but like google/bing/amazom/microsoft, HN finds itself as a web influencer its its own right)
> It's like if sperm/eggs went around making all of the important decisions and only bothered to spin up a human briefly for reproductive purposes.

That's very close to the thesis of Richard Dawkins' seminal book, the Selfish Gene--we're just machines constructed by genes to replicate them. It's literally true, of course, but we don't often take that perspective; yet many things in biology aren't intuitive unless and until we do.[1]

[1] OTOH, some things in biology become inexplicable when we do take that perspective, such as non-kin altruism. IIRC, Dawkins admits as much in the book. (Contra some subsequent sociopolitical interpretations, Dawkins never used his "selfish gene" model to refute the possibility of non-kin altruism, just that the model in isolation was insufficient to explain non-kin altruism, the existence of which he seemed to take for granted, at least in humans.)
I prepay my membership up front so I don't get stuck in some recurring system. 6 month terms are the way to go.
"The founder of Colman’s Mustard used to claim that his fortune was based on the bit of mustard that everyone left behind on their plate"

Wow.
Americans living in their cars are finding refuge in 'safe parking lots'
Boeing got taken over by McDonnell Douglas business types, and engineering excellence is no longer the main thing there. This seems like how the situation would naturally play out.

(I hear from the rumor mill, something similar is happening at Google).
> The problem with starting a single platform app is that you have to decide very early on that you're not going to need any collaboration/sharing features

I beg to differ. Many industries (Graphic design, many engineering disciplines and game development) have a defacto platform for this exact reason
WTF? Seriously, just check any C/C++ reference, equality operator has higher precedence than any logical or bitwise one.
>(If a company valuation stays flat, stock options are worthless - but RSUs have value)

Can you help me understand why? I'd expect if you're granted options at a strike price of $Y, you will still make money as long as the valuation at liquidation time is more than $Y.
This is true in any field. It's just another manifestation of the 80/20 rule.

In all honesty, even in my hobby projects (which I do because I find them inherently interesting and fun), 80% of what I'm actually doing is still grunt work.
I remember a friend on a team adjacent to the surface table team talking about them trying to do this when they switched from projection tables to tables with screens in them. As I recall with the projector based tables (the ones that looked like old cocktail arcade tables) I think they were using an ir camera to detect items and touches on the 'screen'.
Poor logic here. Listing examples of apparent order in universe does not prove that the universe is rational.
It’s true as long as you don’t chain more than a couple billion Boolean checks.

More importantly, only if you don’t rely on short circuiting logic.
More aggressive learning rate? Wouldn’t we need more information on why they decided to stop training at this point to conclude that?

My current understanding of the story is, to recap:

- First the game was increase model size massively

- For example GPT3 had 175B parameters, but less than 0.5T tokens of training data

- Then Chinchilla showed for a given compute budget we can scale better by increasing training data

- Now we have models like this, and Phi, that have over 1T trained tokens

For any model, the loss curve going down could mean it’s learning, or could mean it’s overfitting, we don’t know which without looking at validation loss, which is like a second set of test data the model hasn’t seen before.

So getting back to your comment, I thought they were actually a multitude of indicators that should be used, not just validation loss, to determine what would be gained with more training.
Parsing Netlists of Integrated Circuits from Images via Graph Attention Network
I’ve had it never charge, and sit reliably at 80% for weeks. Then when I unplugged it the schedule was ruined and it reverted to charging at night. Overcomplicated for no reason lol
my apologies, you came in late, i'm on the other side (your side) of this debate, I was debating a rationalist, using the subterfuge of pointing out the religion that is materialism. some material that was getting downvoted was removed
I'd expect it to take a decade at the very least and probably much longer. Don't hold your breath.

Like compare it to other experimental stuff like quantum computers, light based computers. Where are they? Not on a shelf near me, that's for sure.
If you're reasonably confident they'll go up, options are better. The vast majority of startups are heading to zero.
Solo founder; it tends to change rapidly depending on the stage of the product.

Probably 90% of the time writing code currently. Once the hardware product is released publicly it drops to 10% (maintenance) and then ramps up when new significant features are added.

Broadly speaking..

Stage 1: design specs
0% code

Stage 2: prototyping
50% code

Stage 3: the hard work
90% code

Stage 4: selling and maintenance
10%+
I interpreted GP's comment as asking what the precedence of == was (assumably in C, given that we're discussing a post by Dennis Ritchie). On second read it could also be interpreted as asking what a good precedence for == would be, in which case you're absolutely right. Sorry about that.
FedEx has large self-serve scanner/copiers where you just load up the pages and let it rip.
Can HN make the first character lowercase? Is the application constrained somehow?
I do think it's important to recognize they are working on a fix for the issue, which is called out in the article.

I also think it's important to recognize no one commenting in the article has seen the analysis, knows what is meant by "structural damage" or what went into Boeing saying a failure resulting from it is "extremely improbable". Could be it's a solid analysis, the structural damage they mention is no where approaching a concern, and they think it's extremely improbable for good reason. Or not, I just don't think we know.

That being said, it is hard for me to look at this as something other than another example of poor company culture. You have a component that can be damaged when exposed to temperatures above a certain limit, for a certain length of time, connected to a heater that can heat it above that limit for longer than that time... And no systems to stop this?

This strikes me as being due to someone without an engineering degree saying "We've always used this heating system, there's no need to go through an in depth new analysis or testing regime to validate it's use, that would cost lots of money!".
Yeah, all kettles in the UK which start in price from about £8 have a bimetallic strip based device to disconnect the power if the thing tries overheating because it's got no water in or such like. You'd think something like that would not be so hard or expensive to do.
Previous discussion (6 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36847133
Sometimes I even get into infinite captcha loops without a vpn, even just on my phone. I LITERALLY cannot browse certain sites like wayfair because of cloudflare. I have done nothing wrong.
>The retrieval part is way more important.

I don't agree with this - at Intercom we've put a lot of work into our Fin chatbot, which uses a RAG architecture, and we're still using GPT-4 for the generation part.

GPT-4 is a really powerful and expensive model but we find we need this power to 1) reduce hallucinations acceptably, and 2) keep the quality of inferences made using the retrieved text high.

Now, our bot is answering customer support questions unsupervised - maybe it'd be different for a human in the loop system - but at least in our case, we feel we need a very powerful generation model to reduce errors, even after having benchmarked this thoroughly.

We've also done work on the retrieval end of things, including a customised model, but found the generation side is where we need the most capable models.
Hamas opened the gates of hell, awfully hard to prevent what happens next.

Imagine if the Mexican army went on a rampage through Texas (again) - how could a similarly overwhelming response be avoided?
I'm something of a scientist myself*, and every time I delve into cellular biology I find myself wondering if there is a primitive consciousness on the cellular level, because lives of many cells are complicated.

Consider Memory B cells, which are formed early during foetal development. They hang around in the body for years - sometimes decades - looking out for new and unusual pathogens. When they encounter one, they internalize the peptides and then (typically, but not always) rush off to a germinal center to help manufacture new T cells that can recognize and defeat the unwanted interloper. then the B cells leave again and go back to their vigil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_B_cell

Conversely, when you look at the dynamics of large groups, organizations, and corporate entities (institutions as well as business, up to whole nations), it's hard not to see them as organisms in their own right that have a sort of meta-consciousness independent of their component humans.

* This is a joke
If the company value stays flat, that means its valuation at liquidation time is equal to $Y
Thanks. I must've missed it. I'll take another look.