skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just got back into PC building after taking years off using Macs. Put together a "mid range" gaming system and put a 4 year old RX 5700 XT in it, which is similar to (probably a little slower than) your 1080 Ti, and it's shocking how good GPUs are today vs. graphics cards 10 and 20 years ago. Like mind blowing. This GPU which has long since been leapfrogged chews through every game I like to play and delivers 1440p/144Hz. Really incredible compared to trying to sustain 30FPS Quake 1 back in 1999.
> In the case that you've already decided that you will not buy something

How much of that decision is driven by the ready availability of a pirated version of the product? If the answer is "not at all", then why pirate it, since the ability to use the product didn't matter in the first place?

> Why is it better to deny yourself the thing and go stare at the clouds because you don't "deserve" it?

Particularly when it comes to entertainment, nobody is born with an inherit right to someone else's labor. Copyright is just the legal manifestation of this as applied to non-physical products.

Even if nobody is "harmed" (I still consider this specious), nobody is entitled to a developer's game, an actor's movie, a writer's book. What they are entitled to is accessing those in ways the actor/developer/writer have approved. And if they don't have an approved method for someone, well, that's just lost revenue for them; it's not a pass to obtain the product by any means available.

As an aside, "go stare at the clouds" is just shy of reductio ad absurdum, since as I pointed out originally there are more games (not to mention other forms of entertainment) out there than there is time to play them. Much simpler to pick up one of those instead.
For the majority of music in my personal listening I've found stereo to be better, but I recall the recent Blink 182 album One More Time... and Hans Zimmer's Dune Sketchbook to sound nice in Atmos.
Not the same as MM test. The one-way is principally unknowable because our fastest way to transmit information is limited by the speed of light itself
Holy crap, apparently it’s already playable in RTX Remix.

https://www.moddb.com/rtx?filter=t&rtxstatus=1
I don’t know if Brazil was one of the places that convince Apple to do that, but we have a huge problem of mobile phones robbery with that aim to access the bank apps to drain accounts dry.

In a quite resourceful way (social engineering, process and system exploits) these criminal organizations will jump all the hoops (2FA, Face Recognition) and manage to access most of those apps.
The point is that chemists are tasting a lot of the novel stuff they synthesize, if it doesn't look like it's going to cause instant cancer, even they they aren't supposed to.

Watching NileRed regularly, it does not at all surprise me.
Maybe now Carriers will get whipped by the authorities for allowing these kinds of attacks to happen
Eh, when something goes extinct I'd say that's evidence that it isn't viable. That's the paradox of capitalism: anything that can be ruined eventually will be. I'd pay 2x or 3x for 30yr appliances for environmental reasons, but I don't think the company that makes such a thing could raise the capital to build them in the first place.
You have to compare that to the amount of energy spent while making it 0.1% faster. On average, I'm not sure we'd be saving any energy. The one bit that would get any remotely relevant gain would be offset by lots of tools where that improvement happens once a week.

How many minutes / how much energy would it take you to setup a project, run a profiler, do the fix, run tests/CI, commit, release, etc. -vs- how much energy would that 0.1% change save over years?
Indent by four spaces. :-)
The confusion is the system working as intended I think. It is taught from a young age that Marxism/socialism is about annihilating freedom and personal property, while capitalism rewards hard work etc etc.

So you get these well-meaning posts about how maybe life would be better if we could keep personal property and freedom and progress as a species, but lose the alienation from labour, coercive pressure, and basically everything else that literally defines capitalism and perpetuates what is bad about our system.

I had the same blind spot for most of my life, but at some point it dawned on me that everything I like about the current system is compatible with socialism, but the changes I would like to see are incompatible with capitalism.
Apostrophe – A Markdown Editor for Linux
Probably more than you imagine. The sheer volume of Snapchat messages means that I can't imagine fewer than hundreds and maybe many more people being arrested/questioned for suspicious private messages from near sensitive locations on an annual basis.
> hope you liked the games of 2023 because that's all folks [...] Game development is in an extinction level event crisis

Okay, we'll wait and see whether games are really dead this time next year. That's an easy one to confirm, since he gave a prediction and a timeline. We can just wait a year and see if he's right, or if he's being hyperbolic to the point of inanity. Being really generous, I'll interpret his prediction as weaker than stated and say that the prediction is confirmed if there are 25% fewer games released this year than last.
This law is true in some cases, but I think is too often used as the tech industry's version of "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win". The argument is that, sure, a technology's promise may have not panned out, but under Amara's law, we can expect a commensurately massive impact later.

As Carl Sagan pointed out, "…the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses." The same applies to technologies. The fact that a technology has shown slower-than-expected progress is not a foolproof indication that it will eventually have massive impact. It may just not be as useful as it initially seemed, or may even be supplanted by a completely different technology.
If Right to Repair was about the Right to Save Money rather than guaranteeing basic consumer rights, the advocates should have specified as such.

I have no sympathy for misrepresented idealogies, let alone ones driven by greed (in this case consumer greed). Y'all got your Right to Repair guaranteed, nowhere did it stipulate that had to be below <X> cost.
I don’t think insurers really care either. They just pass the cost on to the insured and because all insurers have the same risk in aggregate, they all raise premiums. We get screwed because we pay more but the insurance companies are doing just fine either way and the police is also happily doing nothing because that’s hard work.
I was on an airplane, so that wasn't a problem at all, and the lack of Internet was what made it a necessity.
I struggled to find anything of substance in this article. How did 2023 differ from 2022? Why does laying off 5% of the AAA workforce (which part?) correspond to an AI apocalypse in 2024? What is this article actually arguing, and why should I care?

For example, the author opines that

> Games in 2024 and 2025 will be a few labors of love, from indie developers or the few good AAA development houses still running, and piles upon piles upon piles of AI-generated vomit that will make people nostalgic for the days when most of Steam's catalog was Unity Store asset flips.

> And gamers won't buy them.

The only games I cared about in 2023 were from indie developers or labors of love. But... "gamers" bought them. At least I did. Am I a "gamer"? Are the titles I care about going to suddenly fail in 2024? I don't see any evidence for that in the article. Will sales of titles I don't care about fall in 2024? I don't see any evidence for that in the article either.

I didn't buy any Unity Store asset flips or AI generated nonsense or NFT-powered whatever or gacha b.s. or Call of Duty 20XX: Shootie-Person Redux, and I wasn't planning on doing so in 2024. Should I be concerned about that industry?

I don't put much value in the EA/Activision/Blizzard/Tencent/etc. gaming shops. I haven't for a long time, though. If the market somehow killed those studios, I'd struggle to call that a bad thing? Should I think differently?
> That's the issue.

> This simply isn't possible if you live in an older apartment complex or rely on street parking.

This falls under the “running the numbers for their use-case” section. If you can’t charge at home it probably will be more hassle (but might not be).

> ICE wins - at the moment - simply because it takes less than five minutes to refuel.

So does this, because for my use-case EV wins because I don’t need to spend any minutes refuelling.
Often the equivalent Airbus plane is more comfortable as well.
Especially A320 vs 737, which has to be the most common for most folks.
Of course operators control the leg room for example, but the width of the fuselage is down to the manufacturer.

https://simpleflying.com/boeing-737-vs-airbus-a320/

> One discernable difference when it comes to passenger comfort and experience is the width of the cabin. The Airbus A320 has a wider cabin by seven inches than the Boeing 737. When measured in terms of personal space, an economy seat on a Delta Air Lines Airbus A320 measures 18 inches, whereas a seat on the same carrier's 737s measures 17.3 inches.
Where does this guy live that most people smoke
Yup, and this is what one of the class-action lawsuits is about. The problem is that on our model, that drain is behind glued-in molded styrofoam that also channels the air over the coils. It broke apart when removed. The plastic is also glued on and the fan is part of the styrofoam/plastic assembly. Samsung’s design uses just a thin Z-shaped finger of aluminum that sits in the drain, and it doesn’t do enough to prevent freezing. They made their fridges destined for landfills because they wanted to save $0.20 on thicker copper vs their lame little aluminum finger.
Sure, the same way an individual ant is fragile.

But we're strong as a group; we can achieve medical feats that the these folks wouldn't have even understood. We collectively know more than they ever did. Some of us have stood on the moon.
The narrator on many episodes of How It's Made says "row butt"
It's not rocket science to know that if you have a 1 TB git repo filled with massive binary files that all need to be version controlled, youre doing something VERY wrong or you are using the wrong tool.

Literally the very first result on google search says almost every major game studio on earth uses perforce due to this specific problem because perforce allows you to check out binaries on a file to file basis and mark them with a change list. This appears to be a solved problem with numerous solutions.

Theres also git-annex mentioned in the thread and a number of other options.

I love that you're saying I have a big ego, but you're doing exactly one of the things I'm suggesting in your studio. lol

This Diversion seems doomed if they're competing with git, but if they're competing with perforce, that's a different story. They're probably still doomed, but at least their product fit makes sense.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2xc5fx/whats_a_com...

https://git-annex.branchable.com/
It looks like these machines run IRIX which is a unix variant on a mips processor and has some parallelization features. I wonder if the compiler he's using is taking advantage of these, or if there's potentially some speedup possible. From what I remember, llama2.c uses OMP to optionally parallelize some of the matrix-vector products which wouldn't be available on that machine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX
Residential is ridiculous, too.

In Austin, I'm starting to see things like "2 months free". They'll do ANYTHING to avoid actually--you know--lowering the damn rent.
This is way outside my area of expertise (if I have one at all), but assuming we know the diameters of the sun, Earth, and our moon, as well as the distance between Earth and our moon, could we not determine the distance between Earth and the sun based on the scale of the shadow Earth projects onto the moon during a partial lunar eclipse?
Synchronize A & B in one location. Move A & B apart in a careful manner. Send light pulse from A and record time-stamp on A's clock when pulse sent. When pulse is received at B, record time stamp on B's clock. Return clocks A & B together (in a careful manner) to confirm they are still in sync. Compare time stamp between A's transmission, and B's reception. Who knows, maybe when you bring them together, clocks A and B aren't in sync, due to some twin-paradox thing. Maybe you can't be careful enough.
Oh this sounds like a potentially fun way to do music production. I wonder how well stuff like Reason and Live might work here.
Technically the borrow checker only limits the set of valid programs and is not involved with compilation.

So if you can write perfectly correct code then you never have to deal with it. Just like when you write perfectly correct syntax you never have to work with the syntax checker.
Unless they were inspected, acknowledged "not dangerous" and scheduled for replacement some time later. There are whole lists of things that are not required to be in good working order for the plane to fly safely, see e. g. what MEL is.
A contrary opinion in the same journal from different authors is just as intriguing, if not more so. It clearly indicates that the topic is still up for vigorous debate - in stark contrast to the OP's all-encompassing and easily-falsifiable claim that Graeber's work "doesn't hold up to scrutiny".
Sorry to hear you lost your whole wallet, I understand that's an enormous hassle. But this is one of those cases where a flashlight and a patient retracing of your movement is probably a better use of your time and effort. Best of luck!
Source? What do you mean by “unlinking”? There is no YouTube login, are you saying it will spin off a new gmail/google account?
Holy unintended side effects, Batman!

I have to say that I did not see this coming when I heard about right-to-repair legislation.

It seems like there is one workaround for a reseller; I can just buy Bosch washing machines new, and disassemble them for parts. In the worst case, the most commonly failing part will cost as much as one washing machine. Plus the cost of carrying inventory. Or I guess you could try to do it on-demand, but you've still got a bunch of motor-less washing machines in the shed out back.
Point taken!
Why copyleft though, and not MIT/Apache?
The first time I ever really noticed it, I was on a bus home from work and listening to music on my AirPod Pros with noice cancelation turned on. The music sounded uncannily like it was coming from my phone. When I turned my head, it was still coming from the same place. I had to convince myself that I didn't have my phone speakers up loud to be That Guy on the bus, but it was still loud and clear when I covered my ears with my hands.

The illusion was perfect. It was weird and awesome, and I love it.
Disingenuous articles are the anathema of the common man. multiple valuable seconds of precious days are lost to such thoughts. Understanding how information can be stored multidimensionally is just a convoluted way of expressing what is already known. information can be encoded and decoded, transformed, transmogrified, obfuscated, masked… Humans, for example, have employed numerous techniques for smuggling or concealing messages in what might be considered otherwise completely innocuous objects.
Who is asking for spatial audio mixes? Is there any demand for this or is Apple pushing it for corporate reasons? To my ears, the spatial mixes are an interesting gimmick, but the audio quality sounds worse than the "HD" (or whatever they are called) mixes. Personally, I'm just happy with CD quality streams - I'm not able to hear differences with anything higher quality than that, but I can often (but not always) tell the difference with lower quality streams.
In 2022 and 2023 I hired a number of people in the 20-to-30 years old age group, and also passed on many applicants. They all seemed to have two surprising things in common: AA or BA degrees that weren't applicable to any subsequent work history they had, and a desire to not work more than 20 to 25 hours per week.
A 1 Gigabit DRAM chip sounds far smaller than anything that's been used with GPUs in a very long time. That's a capacity from 15 years ago.
That's likely because you live in a car-centric place where buses are generally only used by poor people, causing it to inherit a stigma.

Transit in car-centric areas is generally under-funded, with low frequency service, so really only those who have far more time than money are likely to use it (see previous paragraph). Nor are the routes oriented towards parks, the beach, the local library, or other places kids would go to to meet their friends.

Taking a bus can also be confusing for a beginner. I didn't start using the bus until visiting the UK in my late twenties. I didn't know how to pay, I didn't know how to request a stop, I didn't know what I could ask of the driver, I didn't know the route or what the stop looked like, and more.

If you don't have the experience yourself, and your kid hasn't been with you on the bus to learn from you, then of course you are unlikely to want your kid to use the bus.

On the other hand, go to the UK and you'll see that kids take the regular bus to/from school, along with people doing the work commute or running errands.

There isn't a fleet of student-only school buses, because the mass transit system has enough capacity and frequency. There I am on a double-decker bus on my second day in the UK and to my surprise the bus stops near a school and a gaggle of teens (okay, maybe 15-20) climb aboard.

And the UK is pretty car-centric compared to what I've heard about the Netherlands.
Compare active reactors + reactors in construction during three mile island vs where nuclear production stabilized.

Things stabilizing like that is very suspect. It probably has to do with capacity factors and the long lead time, but I wouldn’t assume there’s no correlation.
Which, yes, but now we're at the "instead of using Dropbox I would just rsync to my Linux server" stage of it being a product.
Already has its own Wikipedia page with examples of what happens when your rudder flops around uncontrolled too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
Part of the problem here is we don’t know the margins of this stuff. Just how badly are we being screwed? Probably pretty bad but…

Manufacturing cost for a non-OEM part is not representative of total cost to an OEM to provide quality-assured and warrantied spares of said part to customers.

Some parts are stored as complete assemblies. A unique screw may not be stocked as a separate item. It’s possible replacing a damaged or missing subassembly puts the whole thing out of tolerances.

The majority of these arguments are probably complete bullshit. Repairability is the cost of doing business.

This is going to be a pain to enforce. Hopefully enough companies get painful penalties to deter the rest from playing this game.
No, large companies using monorepos will have repos much bigger than Linux even without large binary assets. Apparently Linux has ~10 commits per hour. I probably do ~10 commits per week. So a team of ~150 mes produces commits at a fast rate than Linux. Very rough estimate but it takes less than you'd think.

Also if you vendor a few dependencies that quickly increases the size.
I try to repair as much as I can because I don't want stuff end up in the trash. If the parts are expensive, we need a way to source the parts from the non-fully functional units out there. From my experience, most people find the repair a daunting task and won't even think about it.
i thought it was about consumer choice.
> Moving the phone from the place it was left with consent of the owner is not theft.

Tell me more about how I somehow gave consent to that. Also, tell me more about how a stranger holding a random found device authenticates a caller as the owner of said device.
> So we've seen that this works, but why would anyone think to do this in the first place? The Power of Two Random Choices: A Survey of Techniques and Results by Mitzenmacher, Richa, and Sitaraman has a great explanation. The mathematical intuition is that if we (randomly) throw n balls into n bins, the maximum number of balls in any bin is O(log n / log log n) with high probability, which is pretty much just O(log n). But if (instead of choosing randomly) we choose the least loaded of k random bins, the maximum is O(log log n / log k) with high probability, i.e., even with two random choices, it's basically O(log log n) and each additional choice only reduces the load by a constant factor.

This sounds very powerful! And intuitively doesn't make any sense to me. So, say I have n choices, I do not know which choice is better. Does this result say that it's more efficient to randomly choose k and find the best among them (even for k=2), instead of randomly choosing a single choice? Could someone point me in the right direction?
Huh, what podcasts (and podcast apps) support spatial audio? Or can you somehow emulate it with any regular stereo audio now?
Even as meta commentary this hand is so over-played it's already cliche - and going up one level in meta doesn't improve it.
I volunteer as an ESL teacher, and have worked with some who are retired and seem to put in a fair bit of volunteer time to other activities also.

I can't speak what else all of them do, but one is a frequent source of information on free concerts and plays, local art exhibitions, and so on.
It would be interesting if some of these launches happened to have an accident xD
Ask HN: Consulting for a Financial Instution
hey,

just for context, i am fully employed, but am ( passively ) looking for a full time remote position

i got a call from a recruiter the other day about a longer term contract and i am considering it. frankly, the remote aspect and getting my beak wet when it comes to consulting makes me wanna do it, but the call with recruiter set off some internal alarms:

1. its remote, but they want you to come in every so often into office, but they are not married to it
2. its consulting, but they want to ensure you don't work for anyone else, but they want you to have an llc ( i have one setup for one small offs, but it never was a year long engagement )
3. its lower than my current pay, but the remote part offsets a lot for me
4. recruiter said previously hired candidate got dropped due to visa issues
5. oh right, there was a weird level of focus on jira; the recruiter wanted to make sure i know it -- somehow it made into job description

i guess what i am saying is, the call felt weird, but i dont think it is a scam and i know from experience, financial institutions are weird when it comes to tech

so here are my questions:

- did any of the points above feel off?
- did any of you do it ( consult for an FI ) ?
- and if you did, did you run into any issues that you would handle differently in retrospect?
Good memories. I still have my iPod Classic, I upgraded the battery and added 4 256GB MicroSD cards. I saw a mod recently for adding Bluetooth but it involves swapping the rear case and I don't think I'll go that far. There's something timeless about the design (and about owning copies of music files).
I don't really care about it at all for music, but I want it to get popular enough that it finally actually happens in games, which for some reason still pretty much entirely lack binaural audio.
There appears to be a manufacturing issue at Boeing. Missing bolts is not a design matter.
Basically 1 gram.
My Dad was a pilot, and we'd often align a family vacation with one of his flights. There was no prouder moment as a young kid than being invited into the cockpit to "start the engines" after push-back. I vaguely remember pushing some button and Dad pointing out a moving dial in the cockpit. I vividly remember walking back to my seat feeling like the biggest kid in the world.

That kind of thing definitely wouldn't happen post 9/11.