skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are all of you people working where you get crazy machines? I've gotten a laptop at every job that didn't let me use my own computer. They're never fast at all even when they use supposedly higher end hardware. Not even a fraction of the speed of my regular workstation.
I'm already pretty comfortable not owning Ubisoft games.
Please consult the HN guidelines. Your comment violates them badly. I'm not interested in conversing with you further.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Is it just me or does this argument seem insanely flimsy?

Apple being entitled to a commission regardless of who you use as a payment processor is literally part of the court ruling.

The court did not find that the size of the commission was necessarily justified, but they definitely ruled that a commission was justified.
The fight over US solar tariffs hasn't gone away
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_A...
Ah yes, the good old argument “humans already do that”. Suppose that’s ok then.
The BSD people don't understand what little standards they do read. It's unfortunate that we have to spoil the language for their sake.

The requirements in C99 and before are perfectly clear. realloc is described as liberating the old pointer, and then allocates a new one as if by malloc. (Except that it magically has access to both objects so it can transfer the necessary bytes that must be transferred from the old to the new.)

It is perfectly clear what happens when size is zero. No byte can be copied from the old object, if any. The behavior is like free(oldptr) followed by return malloc(newsize).

Your IQ would have to be well below 85 to misunderstand the requirements.

And those requirements are still there; there is still the description of realloc in terms of freeing the old pointer and allocating a new object with malloc.

There was no need to insert a gratuitous removal of definedness for the size zero case, given that malloc handles it.

Applications now have to do this:

void *sane_realloc(void *ptr, size_t size)
{
if (size == 0) {
// behave literally as required in C99
free(ptr);
return malloc(0);
}

return realloc(ptr, size);
}

Supposedly because a few vendors were not able to code this logic in their realloc functions?
Do most pepople not? Greens are a staple in the southern usa.
It's funny. I said many controversial things over the years on HN. And I never ever got email reach out from anyone (about work stuff, sure, but never about that). Even when I had email on there..The comments could have been melting down, but no one ever bothered to reach over.

I wonder what makes you different? It's interesting! :) hhahaha! :)
Is it possible for the military to be too "strong"? Each warship, fighter jet, tank, and soldier costs time, money, and effort to produce and maintain.

That a military is necessary for ensuring the security and continuing stability of the US is of little importance when the real issue is based on a tradeoff, an equilibrium. What are we gaining and what are we losing?

The current situation of the military industrial complex is complicated, but it is nevertheless clear that is is extremely inefficient (and thats by design). I'm not sure if incorporating AI tech into the military is going to change this, when the fundamental incentives remain the same.
I think when I was 17 some old guy asked me why I hadn't changed my oil yet* and I said I hadn't got around to it. He ran into his shed and came out with a round piece of wood that said "to it" on it... So I changed the oil in his driveway.

* The oil was still <5k mi old. People are funny.
Cassidy is the CTO of an AI company who's product is ostensibly to pump out this garbage.

Maybe, just a thought, instead of accelerating our decent into hell you can be the change you wanna see in the world?
How are people using codellama and this in their workflows?

I found one option: https://github.com/xNul/code-llama-for-vscode

But I'm guessing there are others, and they might differ in how they provide context to the model.
JW Player suffers traffic loss after dynamic piracy blocking blunder
People want to make sure their loved ones are taken care of / will be financially secure, even after they die. This is a fairly core desire.

Family businesses, family farms, family homes - if you hit people there you have to expect an emotional reaction.

People who think "bigger than individuals" - their families, their communities, their churches, their businesses, how to build up productivity and abundance in those spheres. Some people view economic activity as a multi-generational effort and the government stepping in to take everything just because an individual happens to die is kind of a norms violation.

[I get that none of this justifies generations of economic parasites never having to lift a finger, which is why I think the implementation details matter a lot].
After a bit of digging I found this in their FAQ on https://madewithclay.org/, it was the best answer I've seen to your question:

> Clay harnesses AI, satellite images, and other spatial data to organize information about what’s happening in precise locations around the world. We give Clay millions of satellite data and use the latest AI tools so it can supervise itself learning about Earth through those images. As it learns, we benchmark how those skills improve its capacity to do important tasks like creating land cover maps, detecting crops or burn scars, or predicting carbon stock.
Charm == Money. It's a tiny island state, it's sold its landmass as guano for phosphate, it lost the bankroll mismanaging an office block in Melbourne as its principal sovereign fund investment, it got rich by being an offshore prison for unwanted refugees (economic or otherwise) to Australia, and then when that income stream died, it was looking for a sugar daddy.

Australia took its eye off the pacific. China capitalised on it. Who can blame them?
I swear to you that just the other day I was trying to find these books, but I couldn't remember the names of the characters or anything other than there was a group of young boys in a club doing some shenanigans on a lake. I was, of course, looking for "The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake (1960)". Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this here!

EDIT: I also remembered the Old Cannon one. Awesome stuff. I'm going to re-read them!
Yep, with code generation I have definitely encountered this issue as well. It will write out a function description as a comment and move on instead of actually writing out the function a lot for me. It also does this when it has properly written code but you ask it to rewrite to tweak something in my experience.
How is that relevant to selfhosting the software that Ghost provides under an MIT license?
I would say there isn't such a thing as "the right amount of profit margin" as much as there is "the right way to secure a profit margin". The more your margin is able to exist because competition isn't allowed the less right it is, be it 1% or 99% in absolute terms.
Critical commentary by a retired engineer and local resident: https://www.chieftain.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2024/0...
Hehe, to me these contrarian comments are strongly reinforcing my point about overzealous pedantry. :) Of course the specific string '6174' is specific to base 10, but the idea itself can be applied to other bases.

Here are some additional examples:

dec, 3 digits: 495
hex, 3 digits: 7F8
hex, 30 digits: EECCAA88664421FFDDBB9977553312
dec, 30 digits: 988766544332209987766554332111
hex, 100 digits: FFFFEEEEDDCCCCBBAAAA9998888776666554444333222210FFFFEEDDDDCCCBBBBAA999988777766655554433332211110001
dec, 100 digits: 9999998888888877666666665544444444332222222210999999998877777777665555555544333333332211111111000001

Whether or not things settle on a single number, the number of loops that exist, etc. are a function of the base and the number of desired digits, but in the cases where inputs do settle on a specific number, there are patterns that emerge (regardless of the base) as the number of digits go up.
There are a lot of companies that probably don’t have “official” partnerships with the govt but absolutely help them, like every social media company, OS maker, telecom, auto maker, and ISP.
> Is there a rationale for a memory allocator to support zero sized allocations?

Mainly, that it has supported that before and programs rely on it.

Programs written to the C99 standard can resize a dynamic vector down to empty with a resize(ptr, 0). The pointer coming from that will be the same as if malloc(0) has been called.

So now, that has been taken away; those programs can now make demons fly out of your nose.

Thank you, ISO C!

> Do allocators really keep track of these null allocations? That would require keeping state for every single address in the worst case...

Implementations of malloc(0) that don't return null are required to return a unique object. To do that, all they have to do is pretend that the size is some nonzero value like 1 byte. (The application must not assume that there is any byte there that can be accessed).
China's population declines for second straight year
> Yes, that's why you need to organize. That stops the race to the bottom. This is exactly why strike breakers are looked down upon and why companies used to bring in 'scabs' to break strikes. To push that race to the bottom that much further.

Funnily enough, what he's describing is called "price fixing" and is illegal. The "race to the bottom" is competition keeping prices low for consumers and is a feature, not a bug.
Overtime the products we build might become more and more generic so that they can be easily built by AI?
I immediately thought of the arcade game when I saw the name
Has the last sentence, "Getting this right is very important for my career." continued to show improved results for you?
> They're the ones whose population will shrink by half every half-century from now.

How is that a loss?

I think people are realising that the 'grow your way to success' model doesn't work for countries any more, unless you're the US, which is in a fairly unique position simply due to having a geography that no other country shares.
Browsh: The modern text-based web browser
'If I don't, someone else will' is one of the most defeatist, morally bankrupt attitudes known to man. But hey, if I don't point out how shady and shitty it is, someone else will.
I'd be happier if it played Magical Sound Shower or something while you were exercising.
Right, and anyone could open a retail store and sell software with a lower mark-up.
I wish more places showed Time To First Token. For scenarios real time human interaction, the important part is how long until the first token is returned, and are tokens generated faster than people consume them.

Sadly very few benchmarks bother to track this.
It's precisely why I don't see the app store developers as victims but as collaborators.
Would you be willing to purchase such a product? What does the future of this look like for you?
There should be footnotes in forms that tourist visa works for business trips. It's often ok in that sense, not as in throwing in the straw hat and Hawaiian shirt to trash can just past the border control is ok or not
https://clay-foundation.github.io/model/specification.html

> Clay v0 is a self-supervised modified vision transfer model trained on stacks of Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1 & DEM data. It is trained as a Masked Autoencoder (MAE) to reconstruct the original image from a masked image.

> Each data entry is a stack of 10 bands of Sentinel-2, 2 bands of Sentinel-1 & 1 band of DEM data. The model is trained with 3 timesteps of data for each location, with a total of 1203 MGRS tiles globally distributed, each of size 10km x 10km. The data was collected from the Microsoft Planetary Computer.

> The model was trained on AWS on 4 NVIDIA A10G GPUs for 25 epochs (~14h per epoch) in December 2023.

Also useful: https://clay-foundation.github.io/model/model_embeddings.htm...

> The embeddings file utilizes the following naming convention:

> {MGRS:5}_{MINDATE:8}_{MAXDATE:8}_v{VERSION:3}.gpq

> Example: 27WXN_20200101_20231231_v001.gpq

MGRS is Military Grid Reference System. I believe 5 characters corresponds to about 60 miles by 60 miles.

So presumably the result is an embedding vector representing e.g. a specific spot on earth around a specific 3-year period, such that you can compare that embedding vector with other points to get an idea for what's similar and maybe categorize them against known vectors for things like had-a-lot-of-deforestation?
Priciples are fungible marketing for corporations.
That's true to an extent, and your "theoretically" is doing some heavy lifting. The big box retailers have pretty much limited your options there. So while it's not a single choice of stores, you might get 3 or 4. If you want to sell physical items, you want to be sold in Walmart. That's where the shoppers are. When you come out of the meeting where they tell you what your wholesale price will be, you won't even look like the same person. Depending on your product, you might have some other options, but those sales will be well under anything a big box can offer. You just won't be making much money per item.
It's the same thing here in Korea. I'm implementing a 3rd party payment processor for a client right now - same 27% fee. However, the revenue is "self reported". Allegedly, most companies lie.
I let promises of being a millionaire working for a start-up drive me to eating shit for well over ten years, and it caused irreparable mental, emotional, and physical damage through stress, overwork, and self-neglect. Wanna know what I made for my trouble? $2000. All it cost me was the prime of my life, time I can never get back with people who are now gone, a lot of bad habits and missed opportunity.

Everyone wants to score big these days, but so few understand the value of slow and steady. Not saying you shouldn’t take your shots or that you should be pathologically terrified of risk or hard work, but I’ll take stability, balance, and being able to sleep at night any day of the week.

Somewhat related, be on guard for a misplaced sense of loyalty. The “old days” of you putting your life into a business and the business taking care of you, if they ever existed, started dying out a long time ago. In tech it’s virtually extinct, and in fact is actually rather risky. I’m starting to believe that sticking around for more than 5 years in this industry actually puts you at a disadvantage (unless you’re a founder or something). At any rate, don’t get too comfortable and don’t be afraid to get the hell out of there if a job is making you unhappy.
There is a big different between simply hosting websites and actively pushing them to drive engagement and ad views.

Substack is actively promoting many of these questionable people in order to drive engagement.
Not the person you asked, but here's a video you might like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNidsMesxSE&t=268s

In that example, they do the character's physics first (just a ball), then match the animation to it. The animation speed is controlled by a "surveyor wheel" approach — go to to 336s in the video for that part.

So, the animation speed is derived from the physics, rather than the physics speed being derived from the animation.

I wouldn't call that "IK" exactly, which would be more for things like matching the foot to individual stair steps as the character walks up them, or such. But I suppose in a broader sense it is, since you're deciding on a physical goal a-priori, then forcing the animation to match that goal.
It's been a while but I'm pretty sure signing and notarizing is required on macOS now, without disabiling SIP. At least for things downloaded from a browser. My interpretation is that $99/year is required if you want to avoid your users needing to use the terminal.
If such a service would be available to you, would you give it a shot? And if so how much would you purchase such a service for?
> tooth decay the most common reason for a hospital admission for children aged 6-10.

!
"... tracker iOS app"
the cybertruck with all positive reviews and >million reservations? Im sure that will flip it yeah
Yes, indeed. But that's precisely why I don't have that much sympathy for any of the players in the App eco systems (consumers, Apple/Google, developers) they are all accepting each others transgressions each for reasons all their own. I never thought that computing would come to this but here we are.
Like I said, we will see when the ICJ rules on the matter, which probably won’t be for another decade. However if the court rules in favor of provisional measures (which will probably be in the coming weeks) you must at least see how I’m justified in believing the genocidal intent. And even if it isn’t, the very fact that these serious charges are being pressed, means that many legal experts think there is a probably cause for concern.

The other points raised here are irrelevant. I’ve said before in this thread—and other threads—that there is no justification to genocide. So however heinously Israel was provoked, the genocidal conduct afterwards speaks for it self. This was explicitly stated in the oral arguments by South Africa.

As for the numbers, that also is irrelevant to the question of genocide. The convention states “in whole or in part”. South Africa argued that Palestinians of Gaza constitutes a group, and that Israels conduct in Gaza violates annex (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to the members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; of Article II of the Genocide Convention.

In comparison the Army of Republika Srpska was convicted of Genocide for killing 8,372 victims out of a population of 1.2 million living in territories controlled by the perpetrators. The total number didn’t matter, what mattered was the intent to destroy Muslim Bosniaks living in Srpska as a group.
Yes i think there's two components to this and that's the first part. Each digit sum on the left and right side converges to 18.

Each side of the equation a - rev_a = b has digit sums to that iteratively get closer to each other (sometimes stay the same distance but never getting further). Additionally that convergence only happens at 18. Eg.

5200 (sums to 7) - 0025 = 5175 (sums to 18, 11 apart)
7551 (sums to 18) - 1557 = 5994 (sums to 27, 9 apart)
9954 (sums to 27) - 4599 = 5355 (sums to 18, 9 apart)
5553 (sums to 18) - 3555 = 1998 (sums to 27, 9 apart)
9981 (sums to 27) - 1899 = 8082 (sums to 18, 9 apart)
8820 (sums to 18) - 0288 = 8532 (sums to 18, 0 apart)
8532 (sums to 18) - 2358 = 6174 (sums to 18, 0 apart)
7641 (sums to 18) - 1467 = 6174 (sums to 18, 0 apart)

I think this is the first clue. The digits can only be equal on each side when they are 18 and the sum of each side progressively gets closer on each side, eventually equalling each other which has to happen at 18. I think if you dive in it's a variation of the classic 'digits sum to 0 mod 9'.

Then once the digits on each side sum to 18 i think they must converge onto 6174 from there.

So first we have digits always converging to have the same digit sum on each side and that convergence is always when the digit sum is 18 on each side of the equation. I think property is going to be provable by the classic mod 9 rules but it'd take some work.

Then i believe we have a second property kicking in that all 4 digit numbers that have digits that sum to 18 on both sides of this equation will converge on 6174. This is a more limited set of numbers. Only numbers of the form a - a_rev = b that have digits that sum to 18 for both a and b need to be considered since we can separately see the convergence to 18 on both sides above.
Gee I don't know, but I'm glad that digital goods do not incur the same material costs as a car. "You wouldn't download a car", we've come full circle.
How is it non-app store purchasing if Apple still gets the commission?

If Apple gets commission, the sale took place on Apple's cyberturf, all of which can be identified as being their app store.

The user's Apple device where they made this purchase is effectively a branch location of the that store.
Would it be possible for you to go more in depth to what are DFT simulations? And is this something you see adding great value to your life? Would you be willing to purchase such a product if made available to you?
How do you use these models with your editor? (E. vscode or Emacs etc)
Yeah, sorry, this feels like a strawman. The adblock issue is only the most recent and exciting of the multitudinous pile of suck Youtube has been generating the last 5 years or so.

The content discovery genuinely sucks. Being forcefed tiktok cancer content (shorts) and needing to install plugins to remove that shit from /my/ browsing experience is asinine. I just checked Blocktube, too: I have 1012 blocked channels, and the list constantly grows, because their "algorithm" is less competent than their search function somehow, and I'm constantly shown bullshit I'm not interested in. If blocktube couldn't programmatically block all videos with <1k views or <120 seconds of content, that blocklist would be at least twice as large.

So what is this delightful, friendly, relaxing experience worth to me?

Zero. $0. Nil. Nul. Null. 0. False.

I will pay them nothing and continue using their resources to the detriment of the multinational megacorp until it becomes more difficult than `yt-dlp $url`, after which I will replace their valueless time-wasting experience with something else.

Because their product (trying to recreate cable television) has no value beyond wasting my time.

And to head off the "But muh creators" argument:

I don't care. Between having to install plugins to remove ads AND being forced to constantly watched 2+minute inline sponsorship ads (which I tolerate a single time, after which they're skipped; I already know about the product and I'm not interested), I just don't care anymore. I will not be advertised to constantly. I will not comply. I haven't watched cable TV since 2006, and I'm not about to start now.
Check out https://gdocweb.com/ for this use case. You can generate GitHub Pages sites from Google Docs which means even novices can do that and get the free hosting benefits.
Apple tops Samsung as largest smartphone maker by volume
Maybe the disdain is because the US military is actually very very evil?
I'm down for a Butlerian Jihad.
welcome to Haskell !
The Buterian Jihad approaches ever faster.
Indeed there are many free-to-play games on Steam with micro-transactions that are not required to give Valve a cut.
Can I use the Google Play store on my iPhone? If not, there is no other provider competing with Apple in the market that is “selling apps to iPhone users”.

Whether that’s a market considered relevant from an antitrust point of view is the big question.
Hire a cop to walk the neighborhood. Its not that difficult. The human element should not be replaced by technology in law enforcement.