skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one is looking out for you. You can either endlessly complain about it or build some good habits. 30 minutes of effort once a month to go over bills and budgets is hardly the end of the world.

I don’t disagree, but I’d point out that this applies to basically anything in life. Relationships, exercise, health, work, etc. The fact is people prioritize and many don’t prioritize their finances. All of us drop the ball on something.
> If you are at a stage in life where a $10 subscription is hurting, then it stands to reason you should monitor those things.

Unfortunately people for whom $10/mo hurts are usually working three part time jobs while also trying to get the kids to/from school and take care of them. So I can see why they might not have time.
A: tron = ‘tool’ in Greek.
Move fast and blow up some rockets
Standing ovation to the employee. She handled herself really well and I don't think I'd be able to talk back like that
Are they deprioritized (spelling dunno)? Or are they just different in a way which you judge as being not-conducive to collaboration? (I mean you mention mailing lists.)

There’s not really much need for a “forge” without collaboration. I wouldn’t pay the price of SourceHut just so that I can fetch and whatever between my machines. That’s like a pricey sneaker net.
Semi analog transistor would be perfectly fine for AI operations though? ( matrix multiplication, sigmoid, tanh etc )
...I did not realize merely being arrested gave you a criminal record. That would seem to go against "innocent until proven guilty." Is this Canada-specific or does it also apply in the US?
Out of curiosity, I looked at Alibaba to see if I could get a cheap non-terrible Chinese brand laser printer. They aren't cheap, and they mostly don't target paper, but the variety is astounding. They have laser cutters, t-shirt thingies, hair removers, UV 3D printers, etc, etc. How is HP still in business again? The rest of the market is at least 20 years ahead of HPs offerings, and apparently commanding healthy margins.
We own two Brothers, one of which prints ~500 sheets/month for the past 3 years (model HLL2395DW). The one time we had a problem (unrecognized Brother drum or toner unit bought through Staples) support helped to diagnose and fix the problem.

Only minor gripe is the process for getting a return label for recycling toner which requires reading a minuscule serial number to enter into a web form.
They should lease all federal parking lots for solar installations.
You can totally do some visual classification problems (like object detection) on current consumer hardware. Even more. You can also take some smaller existing language models and fine tune them for some special task - also completely feasible.
Yep. I wrote software to print grocery lists. I also print recipes. Nothing beats paper and pen for this: it's cheap and easier than futzing around with devices.

I also routinely print for work. This is how I review draft documents. This allows me to leave my desk, and I find it easier to read paper.

I don't think paper will ever be obsolete for me.
you too should start thinking for yourself, like I said to cycrutchfield above.

it will improve your way below average brain.
Downvoted for saying reality has physical properties? Where else but hackernews? Sorry to disappoint, but all the algorithms of CS, which do anything at all, have devices in them. ie., their critical steps are impure, and cannot be specified mathematically.

There is nothing abstract in the world, everything is concrete. Discrete mathematics is not some divine realm which is where the Mind really occurs, and the Soul is really kept.

No graph traversal algorithm cares, nor will ever. Science is the study of reality, not computer "science". There are no computational "properties". All interesting properties are of objects extended in space, and in time.

The world is physical, as described by physics; not abstract, as describe by mathematics. And so, not computable.
It's not wrong though. Besides North America, there are major carriers in India, France who use IPv6-only networks (with 464XLAT), and I know several South American and Asian countries have them as well. In fact, India is a world leader in IPv6 adoption.
Nowadays it's a very common for mobile networks to be IPv6-only because these providers haven't been able to secure large Ipv4 subnets in the early days. Ironically, they have the most devices. However, this is also the reason why phones work much better with XLAT than Windows or Linux.
Yup. When I get frustrated I just take a deep breath and then remember how relatively easy and well compensated this career is compared to just about anything else - for me, anyway.
Because those people are made of straw. They can only speak when you speak for them.
> Amazon, Microsoft, Meta accused by rivals of not respecting new EU rules

So Apple and Google.
Whether or not that is a reasonable response is irrelevant to the fact that the law is, on its face, idiotic. How else would you frame requiring someone not bound by your laws to break the laws of their own country?
That's not entirely true though. Netflix had to be prepared to provide that service. Meaning they needed to be able to have the capacity to serve the videos if necessary. Some times just having that capacity has a cost in and of itself.

Not to mention they still are producing content whether you watch it or not, and by subscribing you are paying for that content to be created.

It's more extreme in other scenarios, like say hospital emergency rooms. But it still applies to services like Netflix imho.
Hadoop didn't come from Google, it came from more like Yahoo, who wanted an open source clone of Google's mapreduce framework. (Yahoo was paying Doug's salary, at least). MapReduce was deprecated inside Google several years ago in favor of Flume (think "apache beam" in the open source world).

I point this out because google has had a lot of innovations that aren't necessarily now _products_.
> 30 minutes of effort once a month to go over bills and budgets is hardly the end of the world.

Maybe for someone who already has good financial habits it is 30 minutes, but for people who never bother with this it will take far more time.
My take on this:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremyallison_wither-google-f...

Wither Google ?

FYI. This is my recollection of events, but it's been twenty or so years now, so if my memory is fuzzy on the details, please forgive the ramblings of an old engineer :-).

Many years ago, I was working at SGI when the company started to do poorly under the leadership of Rick Belluzzo. In those days the company sponsored the Friday afternoon "beer-bust", when all the employees hung out on what is now the Google volleyball court, drank beer and socialized. Rick cancelled the beer busts as a cost cutting measure.

One of SGI's lead engineers, Casey Leedom (known internally as Mr. IRIX, for SGI's version of UNIX - a codebase he knew inside-out) took it upon himself to self-organize replacement beer-busts with the rest of the engineering staff. We all chipped in to buy the beer, and the Friday afternoon festivities continued as normal.

Rick Belluzzo heard about this, and embarrassed, called Casey into a meeting. "Things aren't that bad", he told Casey. "We can fund the beer-busts again". "No", said Casey. "We know the company is having some hard times, and we're all in this together, so the engineering staff are happy to continue to self-fund the beer-busts".

"There is one thing you could do", Casey added. "I know you are a busy man, but if you could take it upon yourself to occasionally attend a beer-bust, it would be much appreciated by the employees".

"Great idea !", said Rick, and promised to do so. Six or so months later, Rick Belluzzo ran away from SGI over a weekend, and on Monday it was announced that Microsoft had a new VP. "We appear to have lost our CEO" was the email announcement from now acting CEO Bob Bishop.

In the time since Casey asked him to the time he joined Microsoft, Rick attended zero self-sponsored beer busts at SGI.

For some reason I can't see Sundar attending any self-sponsored Google beer-busts either.
When they switched DNS over to point to the AMS datacenter, the DDOS attack followed it until it got smacked down by the OVH NAT.
> It's bizarre to me just how many people in this country (especially the ones who can least afford it) simply do not take charge of their financial health.

It’s designed to be complicated, confusing or easy to forget just so it traps people at least once. It’s borderline fraud sometimes, at least it feels like that to me. The recourse is to be super vigilant but when you let guard down you fall into a trap and it’s hard to beware all traps at all times especially when they’re being constantly evolving
Bunch of farmers woke me up at 04:25 this morning with a drive-slow horn-honking parade past my apartment.

If I understand right, this protest was in part due to an attempt by the (German) government to reduce the level at which farmers are being subsidised.

Reason I bring this up, is that I have heard that the US only started using corn ethanol as an excuse to keep subsidising farmers, not because it was ever a good idea.
Even if you could just magically make a reel of graphene with this graphite+sulphuric acid recipe, it wouldn't help one bit in chip fabrication. You need to build things layer by layer; there's only one place where a bulk material is used, and that's the substrate.
China can't make them cheaper than HP and Brother dump them for, I suspect.

They could probably make knockoff LaserJet IIIs, but nobody wants enough to fire up an entire line.
For running an x64 container, I'd recommend running aarch64 Linux and then running the container using Rosetta 2, that yields significantly better performance than running everything through QEMU.
I worked in biology before going into tech. Dear lord its so much easier to scale your labor in tech. I have manually genetically engineered multiple types of organisms. It's insanely tedious.

To the extent that if I ever went back, I would probably immediately focus on roboticizing most of the work.
It's not the first time I see news about people committing hideous crimes just to cover up some mild offense. It's always surprising, and always feels absurd and impossible, but it just keeps happening.

I guess just like comedy and bad suspense movies, crimes always escalate.
They also happen when they're not forced to (competition), and sometimes they don't happen when they're forced to (extinction).
Yea that’s true! I don’t hold it against them at all, they keep the park nice at least, and I like walking there, so it’s a small price to hear the blower in the end.
> Chinese Lab Mapped Deadly Coronavirus Two Weeks Before Beijing Told the World

Chinese lab founded by US.
I'd love to know too. I used the trip.com app to visit Thailand from the US. They misspelled my name wrong throughout the tickets, which terrified me because I thought it was going to be a problem (second time traveling solo). It wasn't a problem. During check-in, they said it happens all the time, nothing to worry about.

Everything worked out, no complaints from me, but would love to hear about alternatives.
Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard
Why does everyone support wall streets "increase GDP at all costs" immigration platform? It seems to be astroturfed alot.

Pay a country's people more so that they have more time/resources to dedicate to making a family. Even better, incentivize families. Or is that too expensive for bankers?
Seeker, Doer, Giver, Ponderer a Billionaire Mathematician's Life of Curiosity
Actually this is not a bad idea. I was thinking phone notifications, but emails are much easier to control. Though I find filtering often not that great. I've been using Thunderbird, but if you have a suggested CLI email client that can "easily" (I live in the terminal, so that's the bar) integrate gmail and my work/school emails, allow me to hack on it, and __most importantly__ has decent documentation, then I'd love to hear about it. I tried Mutt many years ago but experienced too much friction, but things change and I haven't revisited the topic.
Two similar cases the article looks at:

1. Universal Studios v. Sony, 1984: your VCRs are letting people copy our movies.

2. Authors' Guild v. Google, 2005: your Google Books are reproducing our copyrighted works.

In both cases, the lawsuits were dismissed. If this New York Times lawsuit is similar, then it doesn't look good for NYT.

But are they really similar?
The question is why are they able to inflate the prices like this and get away with ?
Agreed, this was a really well-put response.
Coming soon to a factory near you: New game to Rocket Launch challenge run using only one assembler and an entirely unholy amalgamation of circuits.
laughs nervously while trying to get performant 2D rendering of large tilemaps in their first game

I can barely begin to imagine all the pain involved in creating AAA games. Decades of whitepapers to read and build upon only to get to a point where consumers aren't downright angry at the quality of graphics being given to them.
This is exciting. I genuinely enjoyed working with Druid (though my time with it was limited). I was wondering if Xilem would get to that level of usability. Sounds like they’re planning to go way further.
There are many workflows, with hardware-dependent requirements. Three which work for my MacBook:

1. Clone & make llama.cpp. It's a CLI program that runs models, e.g. `./main -m <local-model-file.gguf> -p <prompt>`.

2. Another CLI option is `ollama`, which I believe can download/cache models for you.

3. A GUI like LM Studio provides a wonderful interface for configuring, and interacting with, your models. LM Studio also provides a model catalog for you to pick from.

Assuming that your hardware is sufficient, options 1 & 2 should satisfy your terminal needs. Option 3 is an excellent playground for trying new models/configurations/etc.

Models are heavy. To fit one in your silicon and run it quickly, you'll want to use a quantized model. It's a model's "distilled" version -- say 80% smaller for a 0.1% accuracy loss. TheBloke on HuggingFace is one specialist in distilling. After finding a model you like, you can download some flavor of quantization he made, e.g: `huggingface-cli download TheBloke/neural-chat-7B-v3-3-GGUF neural-chat-7b-v3-3.Q4_K_M.gguf --local-dir .`; then use your favorite model runner (e.g. llama.cpp) to run it.

Hope that gets you started. Cheers!
> the device will be priced through a subscription model at $199 monthly for five patients or $399 monthly for unlimited use.

Is this normal in the medical industry? It seems a little absurd to me but I know nothing about medical tech.
I might not have finished my Computer Science degree a few years ago if it wasn't due to Dr Z (as we called him at the time).

I was required to take Linear Algebra to satisfy the requirements for the B.S. in Computer Science, but I simply could not get interested in the course. I had attempted to take this course 3 times previously, but could not succeed. Twice, I withdrew from the course before the first exam. The third time, I missed that window and ended up failing the class. I just couldn't be motivated to study this boring subject. A flaw of mine, as I've discovered. But in my 4th attempt, it was taught by Dr. Z, and it was completely different. His passion for mathematics (and more importantly, teaching) was infectious. This was completely different than my experience with some other professors in the Math and CS departments. I never got a feeling that Dr. Z was "wasting" his time on this 200-level course when he could be doing much more important research. I easily got an A, and with that, satisfied all the math and CS requirements for my degree. Years later, I remember a lot more about that class than, say, Calculus.
You know, you're right, it would affect that use case. On the other hand, "I would have to pay a higher amount of money for my teevee if they stopped bleeding people for no services rendered" is a really funny thing to get on the the Personal Responsibility bicycle about. Like, you could've just said "I don't want to pay more" and I guess that'd be mildly unfortunate for you, maybe I could've found some sympathy for that viewpoint. Instead you got on that bicycle, just like the other person, and doubled down on the Fun At Parties thing. "I don't want to pay more because I practice Personal Responsibility, please bask in my my perceived moral value."

And that makes me think a little more. So after doing that thinking, here's what I realized.

It can still be about Personal Responsibility for you and the other person if you have to pay your own freight about it. In fact--it's more! You get to exercise so much more Personal Responsibility when you aren't being subsidized by other people, even. When you are standing on your own two feet in such a Personally Responsible manner.

Isn't that nice?
You can get off my lawn, too. :-)
Honestly this is a very out of touch view. And you assume people don't do these things. Of course they do. Some don't. But you're making a broad generalization.

People do check this stuff. Even then it's easy to forget about something for a few months. Or ask if your SO is using something.

There are so many charges on a typical CC statement that spending time every day going through them isn't always worth it either.
How does storing more copies of the same texture save ram?

Of course one can drop the higher resolution textures, but AFAIK that technique came long after mipmapping, as it requires high cpu-to-gpu bandwidth, which wasn't there in the earlier days.
To clarify, this was a sarcastic remark. I wasn't trying to actually imply that it was okay just because everyone else was doing it. I suppose that little /s really can do a lot of work.
Why weren’t there tons of earbuds that looked like AirPods before the AirPods came out? Two independent things that weren’t linked with a wire that you could put in a charging case?

I seem to remember there was one other similar looking device at the time, I think from Samsung. But it wasn’t as small and got terrible battery life.

There was absolutely nothing like them at the time in the category.
Is the situation that selling good printers isn't a sustainable business (given price competition from loss-leaders and lower-quality devices)?

Or is the situation that HP is trying to increase profits beyond that (and the way is to force subscriptions)?

On subscriptions, are there two angles? I'm thinking maybe (1) consumer has to get consumables from HP rather than competitors, no DRM circumvention tricks, so HP gets the revenue and fixes the price; and (2) consumer is forced to provide regularly recurring revenue, has little flexibility, and overall paying more than they would purchasing refills on-demand.
I print about 2-5 times a month, maybe more in bursts.

* worksheets/coloring pages for the kids

* FedEx/shipping labels for various things

* documents/forms/etc (especially legal/school/rebate)

* state taxes when not e-filing to save money

The printer is small and sits in a corner on a shelf, far from everyone.
The world is ripe for an open source printer hardware project, maybe something we could 3d print, with some raspberry pi as a controller. Please, take my money and do that.

At first, I'd be content with a manually fed dual axis flat tracer, or anything able to transpose a pdf to paper. Really, the printer companies cartel need some opposition here.
My programming background is that I started in High School in Java, and then moved to a C and C++ workload in my college courses, and then in my later college years I picked up Python for research work. The importance of this trajectory, is that throughout those first 6-7 years, there weren't a lot of people telling me to be less clever, or to always focus on doing it the most "obvious" way. In particular, jumping from being in an environment where I was constrained to using C++03 with little access to a standard library to Python 3.X made me feel like I was drunk on the power of clever one liners. More specifically, it was the sense that I can get SO much more done with a screenful of code. It was also this exposure to Python on a regular basis that introduced me to functional programming, which didn't help with my propensity towards a code-golfy style.

It wasn't until I started writing code in Go years later that I really felt like I had encountered a programming experience that TRULY made me pay for my subconscious emotionally-driven need to get a dopamine hit after cramming a bunch of logic into a few lines of text. I have confess, when I worked on Go codebases, there is still a lack of "spark" that comes having code that feels so straightforward. But learning how to deal with the reality that it's quite frankly emotionally immature of me to shirk away from programming stuff just because it doesn't tickle my brain has probably been one of my most significant growth moments as a programmer.

If I'm writing code that pays my bills, I'm much better in the long run setting aside my emotions and keeping it as straightforward as possible, even if that occasionally means that simple stuff like walking through a CSV takes up an entire screen of text.

All of these words to say, you're right, and I thought it was worthwhile to discuss how I ended up realizing you were right.
> a Phoenician hero walked along the shore and discovered that the molluscs that crushed beneath his feet created a purple hue

This can be taken littorally, but not literally. Is clearly speech beautification.

In ancient times it was probably understood by the public that the narrator talks about a task that is impossible (or really difficult at least). Is clearly a metaphor to stress that a character has heroic qualities like strength and, in particular, a high tolerance to pain.
The better solution would be to fix the problems causing low fertility.
> Women and children generally wait around in UN refugee camps

Reports from the Open Society Foundations show that instead of finding protection and relief in Europe, refugee women and children have often been trapped in makeshift camps that lack adequate food, sanitation, water, or safety. These camps sometimes resemble prisons, and the inhabitants, especially women, live in fear of sexual violence, smuggling, and trafficking. Legal and medical access is also a significant issue for them.

According to USA for UNHCR, 40% of individuals arriving in Europe by sea in 2019 were women and children. In 2022, over 159,000 people risked their lives trying to reach Europe by sea, with more than 2,400 reported dead or missing.

> It means people either can't find work, or the work available is so unattractive that it is preferable not to work.

I disagree with your interpretation, but let's not also get into that.
First of all ray tracing was invented well before real-time rendering.

Second of all, all these difficult things are difficult things that game ENGINE developers are responsible for tackling nowadays.

In the 90s and early 2000s, most of the people building engines were laying down games at the same time, which is very much akin to building a railroad while running the train. For most folks (like me; I'm developing an indie VR game on the side) this is all handled by Unreal, Unity, or Godot.

I've tried to build a simple game engine in the past... you wind up reinventing the wheel a lot...
Hope that includes the non-invasive glucose monitor for the Apple Watch.
I put most of my non essential subscription spending on virtual debit cards. I rotate the virtual cards frequently so stuff that is low priority gets automatically blocked and churned out.
Your answer is well intentioned and well written, but it doesn't address any of Huemer's abstract points in a way I find convincing. You're welcome to walk through the paper and try your hand at it, though. Maybe there are holes in his logic I'm having trouble seeing, it wouldn't be the first time with these philosopher types.