skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the difference between HS football and college football (I was a college athlete).

The sheer speed difference between the two isn't something you can fully communicate to even a spectator, much less a complete layman, but it's there. professional football is going to take it up another notch.

I once had a HS player tell me the state champions could beat many of the college teams in the state and I laughed my ass off. I'm sure you could find a college team that would lose to them, but in general? The speed difference is too great, the HS team would flat out not be prepared for it.

And it's the same with intellectual pursuits. There's a world of difference between being the best chess player in your HS and being the best chess player in your state (and even more of a difference if you consider the US).

But you know, for those who are amazing at one thing they sacrificed being decent or good at almost everything else.

I can't find the video, but someone once asked Feynman why he started painting once he got older. His response is that he went very deep into physics and math and became great at it, but he did so by sacrificing almost everything else. Paint was his attempt to learn something outside of his wheelhouse.
> But I am also without a driving force. It gives me a new appreciation for the athletes or musician who un-retires.

I have a friend who phrased that very well: the problem is "you're waiting for death" because a life without a "driving force" is just waiting for death, as it will eventually do its part.

> I am happy. My life is amazing in terms of health, fitness, diet, family life, where I live, travel etc.

Waiting can be happy, but it's still waiting. Also, how things are during the wait will change: fitness and health aren't perfect forever, likewise family members aren't immortals

No judgement value is implied: that's what retirees do, and what most people aspire to do, so it shouldn't be so bad.

Yet I believe we as human beings need things to do.
Trying to login with google I get this error:

> htmldocs.com has not completed the Google verification process. The app is currently being tested, and can only be accessed by developer-approved testers. If you think you should have access, contact the developer.
This so going to sound extreme, but it is true: I personally and professionally won’t use it for anything until it has Metal support.

The simple fact is that me and my team do our development largely on MacBook Pros and Mac Studios. We have some GPU rigs for running production code on Lunux or Windows with NVIDIA GPUs, but all of our developer tooling is on macOS. Anything that can’t run natively in recent Apple hardware gets second-class support.
I have not read the article, just responding to title:

Hell yeah!

I do wish I.P. dead. Or at least, I wish for a much shorter protection period, and for original authors / artists only. For all the wrong reasons, but primarily, because nothing's sacred. Amen.
Same exact thing happened to me. Super frustrating. I'm ready to just leave it uninstalled at this point.

I'll probably switch to Sunsama or give Amie a try again
> Citation needed. Are EVs using different cabin heating to ICEs?

I'm not sure how to cite the fact that EVs do not have engines. Electric motors do generate waste heat, but via a significantly more efficient process, so an additional source of heat is needed.

> An ICE doesn't heat the engine block?

Yes they do. Where's your Audi recirculating waste heat from?

Auxiliary heating systems like you describe are the exact same design that EVs use as primaries, just driven electrically. Advantages are that the electricity to torque conversion is still significantly more efficient than chemical energy conversion, and you can run the system without powering the main drive.
AMD and Intel allow their customers to choose lots of different memory configurations and so they prioritize compatibility over bandwidth. Apple's architecture has no support for external memory, they put their memory directly on package and can prioritize for bandwidth.
Very good points. Have you seen any examples of systems (or projects) that successfully combine multiple backend data sources, including databases, that perform better than the single backend alone? This seems like an important enough question that it ought to have been documented somewhere.
> I cant fault the ASA on one hand because this does fundamentally weaken them, ... But thats not currently the case, and the ASA exists, so it seems like they're acting rationally.

But what is the utility that they provide?

They are no longer needed for distribution. They have never been able to validate works (despite the public perception thinking that's what they do). Scale makes them unable to effectively weed out low quality work (process is always noisy, scale increases noise). As far as I can tell, they only provide a metric that can be used by governments and academic institutions to evaluate their employees, but this gets noisier and noiser by the year. It also incentivizes "novel work" but work that isn't too novel because highly novel methods are often not effective at first despite being worth exploration. They also discourage replication studies, which is the cornerstone of science, as well as surveys, opinion papers, and more.

I really just do not see what they offer to us as researchers. They don't pay us to review. That time either comes from the academic institutions, gov money, or generally "free time". They don't pay area chairs, metareviewers, or others. They charge $30-$200 for a paper, on a shitty difficult to navigate website, where many open platforms like arxiv, openreview, and various *xiv host these works for free and are quite searchable with open APIs and many tools for easier navigation.

So what do they do? Because it looks just like a system that is really good at extracting money from academia and governments.
Traditionally, rich people paid poor artists to obtain new artworks. In the future, they just click a button.
> Alternatively charge 30% but be forced to allow side-installing Apps.

Yes this exactly

I don't care whether they charge 10%, 30%, or 100%

I do care that there's no alternative to NOT using their services & paying their fee
I suppose we can now replace high schoolers.
Totally agree. There are still small thriving communities on BBSes for goodness sake.
I own a Steam Deck. It's a fairly glitchy experience, especially on a TV. With constant micro problems like "the steam deck won't restart when plugged into my Sony TV, physically unplugging the USB C cord is necessary".

There's lots of fun issues like "Yes the Steam Deck supports Switch Pro Controller, but enable gyro controls and it will make a grinding sound when gyro is used" and "gyro controls work fine in handheld mode, but try them in Half Life 2 with a PS5 or Switch Pro Controller and the movement will be choppy and janky even though that game was supposedly updated for Steam Deck."

There's also fun, more serious issues like a documented "Steam Deck crashes and reports low battery, refusing to even boot up for more than a few minutes if you have poor wifi signal" which necessitated getting a wifi booster.

I also just got soft locked in Portal 2 due to a bug, requiring me to restart the chapter, my save was unbeatable as the elevator to go to the next level wouldn't operate, and I googled this error and it's also present in the Switch port of Portal 2. I guess Valve is too poorly staffed to patch a 13 year old game breaking bug.

Valve seems to only finish their products to about 90% to 95%.
Hon the Shannon siders!
Sometimes it feels like the only way to fix these problems is for the(ir) world to burn once.
Betteridge's law of headlines?
> No. If you don't want people pointing out devilish deeds, don't do the deeds.

What I was trying to point out is that it’s not about you. No reasonable person is either going to (1) thank you personally for landing on the Moon or (2) blame you for killing half a million Iraqis.

Most bad things the US does is done by the government. And the US is not terribly democratic anyway.

So you can chill out.

> This is how you disregard the opinion of 8 billion people? Memes? […] Flippantly dismissing all this is the American Way.

I keep becoming an Honorary American.

> Sure, it feels good to be blissfully ignorant of how detested we've become, and how far we have fallen in the eyes of the world.

“Fallen”.

It seems you interpreted my whole comment as an excuse for what America does. When what I said was:

- Europeans seemed to love the US when their interpretation of “the US” was by way of the US (Hollywood)

- Europeans seemed to start disliking the US when they saw what America is like by way of the Internet

I can’t fathom how that is a compliment.

Your pre-2003 amnesia is interesting but oh well; it seems that it can go in either direction.
There was a project a while back to add support for an IPFS backend.. not sure what came of it though.
That may have been why they were expensive in the past, but now it's pretty clear that they're expensive because they are niche and their buyers are old people with money.
don't see anything misleading? A big (claimed) upside of cuDF is it (clams to be) a drop-in replacement of pandas.. only one line needs to be replaced, all of the rest of the code is supposed to be the same. So the manual multi-threaded rewrite , or via dask do not really compare, unless you are ready to factor-in the programmer's effort to learn duckdb and rewrite all existing code into it.

Also the price comparison is weird.. if you are price-conscious, you don't get most expensive device which was just released this year. Find a more common device, and you'll see that the price difference is much smaller.
Sharing Fake Nude Images Could Become a Federal Crime Under Proposed Law
Well of course they have to run on something. But I guess since you don't have to configure the server yourself, the marketing guys figured "out of sight, out of mind".
> and that's when I left

Your virtue signal still shines into the night sky the symbol of a bird. You should update it to an ‘X’ if you insist on shining it in 2024.
- You can have multiple upstream DNS servers. Don't have to always query one single vendor.

- Local caching reduces upstream queries significantly, making it much harder for upstream to profile you.

- Encrypt DNS traffic for incompatible devices.
To expand on the sibling answer(s) to your question, there was a talk at the most recent Blender conference related to the topic of product visualisation which I found an enjoyable watch:

* "Multiverse of madness - how we render millions of doors": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXEVncxtmxg

Product visualisation seems to be a bit of a recurring theme for Blender talks over at least the past couple of years.
This

I don't care about the fee for using their services, I care about the fact that I'm forced to use their services
Hydro says 20 workers in Sweden may lose job over Tesla union conflict
https://archive.is/E75DG
i didn't even notice there was no capitalisation when i read the article

idk about the author, but when i was younger, some people's pedantry and pettiness over grammar / capitalisation / more casual chatting got me to switch sides and deliberately stop using it as much. now it's also an aesthetic preference

i think there's potentially a valid point about accessibility concerns, but blog posts, chatrooms, and internet comments are also very informal modes of discourse
Hancock is a charlatan of the worst sort. He knows the vast majority of what he says is a distortion of the truth at best, and completely fabricated nonsense at worst, yet continues to say it for the money and attention it has afforded him. There are so many strongly compelling pieces of contra-evidence that pretty thoroughly debunk literally all of his claims, yet absolutely nothing in way of any actual hard evidence that supports any of it.

His entire central thesis is essentially "Things are older than what scientific evidence suggest because I think this thing looks like that thing."

The ancient world is a fascinating place full of many rich cultures and interesting stories, and it doesn't need charlatans like Hancock making shit up to make it any more exciting.
The UX was just way, way better.

That said, it's clearly been neglected since the Notion acquisition. IMO it has gotten actively worse/buggier, and the mobile app hasn't seemed to improve at all? I am not hopeful for its stewardship under Notion, given how clunky Notion is. The entire value prop of Cron is the lack of clunk.

I've switched to Amie (amie.co) and been really enjoying it. The aesthetic is a bit overly "playful" for my personal preferences but it's decidedly not-clunky, which is what I care about.

FWIW: Cron and Amie both sit on top of Google Calendar. They're just better frontends. So it's not really an "either-or" type decision.
I am using attention weighted pooling strategy to generate cross-attentions across N transformer heads, this allows us to visualize which parts of an output were caused by which part of the input -- this is used to debug summarization. Only works for encoder/decoder networks - i.e. ones where you have cross attentions
No subscription and archive.is is broken on 1.1 but it seems like the conversation is finally moving in a good direction.

I'm very very tentatively hopeful that we might see some reduction of IP rights in my lifetime. It's going to be a long hard fight but maybe, just maybe we will see people wake the fuck up and realize how important the building up the fucking commons is to the progress of all humanity.
I replaced Resophnotes with Obsidian, since I found Obsidian to be extremely similar.
At first I was slightly disappointed by the definiton, but not anymore after scrolling through the list.

> Islands in lakes on islands in lakes on islands in lakes

> Moose Boulder was claimed to exist in the seasonal pond of Moose Flats on Ryan Island in Siskiwit Lake on Isle Royale in Lake Superior in the United States.[17] In 2020, an expedition to the island found that it is potentially a hoax, along with the aforementioned seasonal pond

(...)

> Lakes on islands in lakes on islands in lakes

> Only one such lake is known

> 62°39′5.8″N 97°47′11.8″W

> There is, even further, an island in that lake, making it the only such island in the world that has been discovered so far.
A better comparison would be Obsidian or Logseq.

If you are trying to do those things on Excel... geez.
Nonetheless, no one was calling out her plagiarism before they got their knickers in a twist over Claudine Gay. Pure meanness and revenge. Are they going to shadow his kids at school, too?
Yup. Entire core business product for a succeeding startup, though it's a small team of contributors (<10), and a much smaller platform team. Serverless backend started in 2018. Been a blessing in many regards, but it has its warts (often related to how new this architecture is, and of course we've made our own mistakes along the way).

I really like the model of functions decoupled through events. Big fan of that. It's very flexible and iterative. Keep that as your focus and it's great. Be careful of duplicating config, look for ways to compose/reuse (duh, but definitely a lesson learnt) and same with CI, structure your project so it can use something off-the-shelf like serverless-compose. Definitely monorepo/monolith it, I'd be losing my mind with 100-150 repos/"microservices" with a team this size. If starting now I'd maybe look at SST framework[0] because redeploying every change during development gets old fast

I couldn't go back to any other way to be honest, for cloud-heavy backends at least. By far the most productive I've ever been

Definitely has its warts though, it's not all roses.

[0] http://sst.dev
Even attempting to drag the economy down with them (not possible) would be a waste of their time, because that is ultimately futile and they know it. What they need to focus on is how to repurpose their real estate portfolios. For example, it’s not trivial to convert a skyscraper office tower to a mixed residential and retail condo building. Now multiply that by thousands of different buildings in different locales with different zoning laws and different calculus for convert vs. keep vs. demolish. A profit maximizing commercial real estate company would put most of its effort into that, after flailing and trying to maintain the previous status quo. If it doesn’t, it will go bankrupt earlier, and new ownership will push forward changes that are necessary in the new WFH reality.
> [3% discount]

> Apps that use the StoreKit External Purchase Link must continue to offer in-app purchases as an option.

This is worthless. I cannot believe a court allowed Apple to get away with such a useless remedy.
> A Hybrid is a better option until refueling EV's are not an issue.

When ever will refuelling EVs not be an issue?
The legal basis is that Apple is not privy to the transaction that happens outside. Purely on a data privacy basis, Apple cannot force a vendor to tell Apple what it does outside of Apple property. So any link tax that Apple wants to impose would have to be a fixed cost, and not a percentage of what happens in a different universe.
A UI like a calendar has been iterated on enough by now that it doesn't really need reinvention. Google, Apple, Outlook and the rest all look largely the same for this reason.
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Just migrated to Google Cloud last night. Still ironing out some details. Will check what broke there.

RE terrible sources, the sources are chosen based on what Google identifies to be credible sources. I am aware that some of the sources Google chooses as the source of truth are not great though. I've not found a good way to filter them out.

Out of curiosity. Which source in particular stood out as low-quality?
My team uses Notion and I begrudgingly adopted it. I'm not one to dictate.

The UI is clunky. It's not as bad as Atlassian software, but it makes me miss Google Docs.

I'm hoping Gsuite grows ticket and wiki support, because then I can use Gsuite for everything.
Actually, it's an opinion that's going to dwindle as AI tooling becomes more commonly available. I am not worried about it
Self driving AI will be perfect for this. People will put a high degree of trust in their car to drive them around.

But then one day, it sees a specific symbol on the road.

Accelerate to 200 mph, crash into an obstacle, kill all the passengers.

Easy.
Do you typically take tutorial blog posts and put them in production?
This DNS server supports DNS-over-TLS, DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-QUIC among others, so it can’t be bypassed.
They should not be trusted more than other power groups (well, maybe a little more, arguably, but let's say they're all equal). However, they are the only significant power group regularly absent from a person's life. Religion, legislators, police, and businesses are almost always there, but unions are just as important a balancing entity as those others, and yet are frequently absent.
I really hope Notion Calendar will build the "schedule todo" feature for its Calendar. That's the primary reason I used Amie.
I've been in Fintechs for a bit, and this article is pretty much the result of that. As a developer (joined very early on), I wasn't initially aware of the challenges posed by settlement times. However, as we expanded, I began to see how much capital was tied up by our partners. Many times our growth was limited by our partners and their settlement times - the longer those were the more capital was bound and the less we had to actually serve demand.

Especially in a start-up's growth phase, we found that the available capital was inversely proportional to our growth. We needed more capital to manage the settlement times as we expanded, but the more we grew, the more capital was tied up, leaving us with less to fuel further growth.

In summary - I've realized that settlement times from acquirers are far more critical in Fintech than I initially thought, which inspired me to write this post. And just to clarify, I'm not a huge advocate of unregulated crypto. However, I do believe that regulated stablecoins with quicker settlement times could be really advantageous for Fintechs.
Content-addressed derivations are a blocker for proper IPFS binary cache support. They're still a work-in-progress.
I sincerely think you (in the thought experiment) sounds like an incredible hero.

Libraries are awesome and great for reducing inequality, using ads to support that cause and also funneling cash to UBI initiatives? Even better
If Obsidian grew team / cloud features, that would be pretty slick.
Does anybody happen to know what SQR algorithm BBC Basic uses? http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/manual/bbcwin7.html#printha... does not seem to have the actual algorithm.

Intel's optimization manual has suggestions for fast versions at 15.12.3 (recommended by @James https://stackoverflow.com/a/2637823/10981777) Don't look especially long to implement for 22-bit approximation.

https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/downloa...

Also, what's the SQRD? Not finding that referred to anywhere.
When security through obscurity isn't.
Sounds like Notion ownership to me!
I find Google calendar on desktop to have a bunch of little annoyances relative to Cron.

Examples:
- When you create an event, it pops over your calendar instead of on the right
- You can't easily tab through the event creation process
- Not simple to share a list of available times for scheduling with external users
- To switch which calendar my event is going on, I have to click to expand, then click to change

Cron (excuse me, Notion Calendar) is just cleaner.

I know there are ways to make a web app act like a desktop app, but I prefer installing an app and being able to jump to it or open it from Command-Space on Mac.
It's not tiny, this is a quite normal size outside the field of LLMs, e.g. normal-sized language models, or also translation models, or acoustic models. Some people even would call this large.
Can you elaborate on DK64? AFAIK it shipped with a memory leak that was known to the deva but could not be fixed in time for Christmas season 199x. This bug lead to a OOM crash in less than two hours or something so it was decided to require and ship it with the Expansion Pack with 8MB (?) RAM instead of the default jumper pack with half as much.
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Universities offer mechanical engineering degrees, not just physics degrees. In the same way, they need to offer software engineering degrees, not just CS degrees. Some do, but too few.
pg explicitly tries to write very simply, which I've definitely appreciated and tried to learn from. However, I think Patrick's unambiguous style is also interesting in its own way, and he is writing very specifically about how (human) systems operate at a level which very very few people write. Others make generic statements like "the Post Office usually delivers mail on Sundays", while he might say "the Post Office has an obligation to deliver mail on Sundays unless one of several [adjective] scenarios occurs, which tends to happen once every [adjective] weeks". I think the former is easier to read but doesn't convey as much specific information.
See this talk for someone who tried to do this with MySQL on Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN6IwNriwHc
Scientific journals are a racket anyway. My dad used to explicitly violate the journals rules and put up his articles on his homepage for free. He reasoned, correctly, that they journals would never call his bluff, because that would threaten the entire corrupt system.