skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. We are building a platform that helps founders generate a sales strategy in the EU. We're half a year in and almost tackled "how to write good emails to Dutch prospects". Next up is Flemish, which has the same language, but a very different business culture. With luck, we have then captured a few percent of the EU tech market.

Germany is so different, that we'll need to hire several experts for the different regions in Germany. France too. Italy and Spain, unattainable (we are told) without at least a local branch and solid local staff. That's still only a portion of the EU.

"Cookie banners" are not the reason tech is hard in Europe. If you believe that, you really don't know anything about Europe or the EU.
That's interesting. Most of the people I know would get (or have gotten!) bored of that after a few months, a.k.a. after the burnout has passed. On that list I include: me, my dad, his friends, multiple friends who quit their startup/bigcorp jobs etc. I myself quit on very little notice and spent a few months literally doing nothing but watching TV, and one day I just woke up and it had passed. The next few months I learned how to produce music, learned a new programming framework, treated parents way better, showed up for my friends, etc. Saw the same happen to my friends and my dad when he retired.
That is absolutely a restriction, just not implemented via technical measures; it is a behavior that is intended to prevent customers from exercising their rights. If you impose "consequences" for a behavior, you're obviously acting to stop people from doing it.
Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source
Apple likes mentioning whatever is a competitive advantage. M2 has 100GB/s, M2 Pro 200GB/s. They put in the bandwidth they think is needed for the purpose. Likewise with the 12 camera interfaces. It’s a safe bet that there’s some sort of GPU on board but there’s zero indication that this is Apples first discrete GPU. If anything you would expect such a chip to appear first in a desktop product. The R1 is likely programmable as well.
If optimization were pointless I'd be out of a job tomorrow.

(My current day job is doing GPU optimization on iterative medical image reconstruction computation. But of course, I don't do that in Python.)
To curb plastic pollution, industry and academia must unite
I haven’t looked into ZFS yet, but thanks to your comment, it’s now on my todo list.

One idea behind my implementation was to have something that’s more agnostic of specific file systems. But I guess that’s an aspect that may be worth to reconsider.
I find {} much more readable then dict() because the former is more common.

On the other hand list(L) more readable than L[:] because the fact that slicing copies is more obscure, and these are not equivalent when L is not a list.

My take would be to ignore performance and generally do what is more commonly done.
> has been using CLIP models for smart search for a while and anecdotally seems to work really well [..] results are of similar quality to the giant SaaS providers

I'm not super familiar with how the results for the "giant SaaS providers" are, but the demo instance of Immich doesn't seem to do it very well.

Example query for "airplane": https://demo.immich.app/search?q=airplane&clip=true

Even the fourth result seems to rank higher than photos of actual airplanes, and most of the results aren't actually airplanes at all.

Again, not sure how that compares with other providers, but on Google Photos (as one example I am familiar with), searching for "airplane" shows me photos taken of airplanes, or photos taken from the inside of an airplane. Even lego airplanes seems to show up correctly, and none of the photos are incorrectly shown as far as I can tell.
Can't wait for the week after Putin's death when everybody will have forgotten him. The only question is whether whoever will - inevitably - turn up as the new dictator will be better or worse.
Nice article, I'm not in this field, however, my understanding of the original paper was that the LoRA was applied only on the last dense layer, and not to all independently (maybe I misread it originally).

Digging a bit in why the implementation is like this in the link, I found that in QLoRA they used this and it seems to have some interesting effects, maybe adding a note on the QLoRA decision would be nice :)

I'm not sure I understand why it works though, my neophyte view was that applying LoRA to the last layer made sense, but, I do not wrap my mind on the rationale of applying it repeadly to each linear layer. Can someone explain their intuition?
What's the point of this article?

1939 was a radically different world and country from 2024.

In 1939, most Universities were there for the elite and the exceptional.

In 2024, most Universities are "High School 2: Away from Home".

The article basically says as much, but the headline really smells like it's trying to make the "people are getting dumber" case.
Yeah all the layoffs all across tech are 100% a result of raising interest rates, but everyone wants to frame it with whatever their political ideology is (oh, it's DEI, oh, it's capitalist profiteering, whatever).

People didn't like inflation, but they loved inflated salaries. When people said "tackle inflation", they meant "lower prices", but didn't really consider that their salary increases were _also_ a result of inflation.

When you pull money out of the economy, companies cut spending and the single largest expense of tech companies is "salaries", so of course they're going to cut salaries.

The end result of this should all balance out, but in the mean time, everyone was mad about rising prices and didn't complain about rising salaries, and now they're mad about falling salaries and don't complain about falling prices.

In conclusion, (too much) inflation is bad and we should stop doing that.
Right? This kind of stuff just makes me look silly in what I'm able to achieve. I can only accomplish watching a video of some guy doing bad ass stuff and maybe holding onto a few notional details. People are just super smart sometimes.
What evidence? Please produce this evidence. If never seen any such evidence, and I've debated the r/Bitcoin forum's censorship countless times.

Banning all discussion about an issue forum is censorship, no matter the excuse.

Numerous long-time r/Bitcoin members were banned for promoting the BitcoinXT hard fork. They weren't paid shills. They were people who disagreed with Theymos and were banned accordingly.

Your arguments don't make sense and seem to be made in bad faith. It seems more likely you think Bitcoin mass-adoption would be socially harmful. If that's the case, you should admit that.
Yep. Got it in one...
I think "getting paid for it" is really the distinguishing point between work and a hobby or chore.

But yes, people do many things as hobbies that other people do as work.
Nah, that'd imply they think about this objectively. Most companies simply don't.

Most time this "opportunity cost" is then spent on useless hacky features that are never used and forgotten right after release (redesign anyone?).

Of course there are exceptions to all of these, but IME the majority of companies are either focusing on pennies or ignoring it completely. Not sure why you don't see balanced approaches more often. Maybe this will change with less VC money flying around.
Does anyone know what's going on when the TheZZAZZGlitch's emulator reports that the game tries to jump to an invalid address? I'm not so familiar with the ARM7 processor used in the GameBoy Advance, but I can't imagine how it would be possible to construct a jump call with an invalid value. Additionally, what would happen if one of TheZZAZZGlitch's incorrectly reconstructed ROMs was run on a real GameBoy?
Understanding Linux's File Descriptors: A Deep Dive into '2>&1' and Redirection
I don't understand how this can accurately measure the temperature of the cookware itself. I have an induction stove, and the stoves surface never gets nearly as hot as the pan or pot itself.
Nice. I think the code is at https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix for those interested.

I had played with version 0.0.1 trying to get it to work with https://www.freeallegiance.org/, but ran into issues. I'm glad to see they are improving the documentation. I'll have to try it out again.
It doesn't seem so likely that a human in the airport happened to read his message, or that surveillance cameras at that airport OCR all peoples' phones (although I wouldn't be completely surprised if they did)
I tried listening to a couple of songs of Taylor Swift. I find it is important to keep an open mind and not be a complete snob.

But I can't even remember the melodies let alone the titles. It completely goes like through a vacuum in my brain, as if my mind decided it is completely unremarkable.
Same situation with DNA. I may avoid getting an online genome test, but once a couple cousins send theirs in I'm basically a part of the network at that point
> Rust's addition of operator overloading is also a perplexingly bad decision.

Yes. The poor man’s custom operators.
>Perhaps traveling is more the last category for you, plan trips to visit your friends and family who you don't see as often.

I'd rather say that I'm going with friends somewhere cuz I enjoy spending time with them,

but I have completely very minimal interest in the stuff that we're visiting, like I have 0 emotions towards places.
> Cloud platform being an absolute terrible experience

How so? I’ve used it for a while and really liked the experience. It was wayyyy more intuitive than AWS for example (services are named correctly!). The UI is consistent and it even displays the commands to run and Terraform config on each config.

What’s wrong with GCP?
Is there a canonical parametrization that describes all cultures?
I have thoughts about that, but IANAN (nutritionalist). Not all energy is the same, as in fructose (in sucrose, which we sense as sweeter) versus glucose (what composes carbs, and also in sucrose), two simple sugars. Glucose goes more directly into the bloodsteam during digestion. Fructose does not go straight to the bloodstream but is processed by the liver. Although it gets into the bloodstream slower, it gets stored by the liver faster, and we use this as an energey resevoir when we are not getting energy directly thorugh digestion. So maybe we crave this somtimes when we need to rebuild our energy stores. Or at least it seems that way for me. I crave sugar/fruit sometimes, particularly after exercising. I don't generally even eat sweets/desserts, so my body apparently isn't fooled into always wanting sugar. I would guess from my experience sugar plays a specific role and I want it at a certain time and not others.

Incidently, I get a headache when I eat processed sugar, but not fruit. (However, fruit will also give me a headache if I carmelize it, cooking it at a high temperature for a long time.) Anyway that is one reason I avoid sweetened foods and maybe why I don't get sucked into eating sugar all the time. And people think I am trying to be super healthy...
Running iexplore.exe ;)
And every company thinks it’s the next billion dollar unicorn.
My corner bodega in a non-posh neighborhood in Brooklyn is paying $5550/month rent for a 750 square foot space. That means having to sell approx 45 packs of cigarettes smuggled up from Georgia per day just to pay rent. I don't know how they do it.
You make it sound as if the rocket science here is more critical than the chip science, or whatever. But it isn't really proven true.

AST also seems to be favoring a different strategy, having a smaller number of satellites each capable of serving a larger number of users vs Starlink's thousands of satellites serving a couple of users each. IMHO AST's approach sounds more sensible and manageable (albeit both approaches manage to equally annoy astronomers). Whether they will be able to really serve a large enough number of users or not also depends on the chip science (rather than the rocket one).
Well then, my apologies.
Why would you have to migrate off of TS?
Without looking up datasheets, just form the top of my head: the Arduino DAC most likely has 12 bits resolution (as common for cheap uCs), and maybe even slower sampling than a soundcard. A sound card was probably better than that even in the 1990s (say a Sound Blaster).
> I'm one of those who prefers words to punctuation

It's not punctuation, it's notation. Notation is often essential for readability, we use it for mathematics and music for a very good reason. Consider why JSON is generally preferred to XML. While this guy might have a preference for pointless verbosity, most likely the person who needs to read his code won't.
This sounds great if you’re stuck inside the C-derivative mindset block. I.e. the best you can do.
Firefox 122 now supports iCloud passkeys (on macOS)
Firefox on macOS can use iCloud stored passkeys.
I see the current state of LLMs are when we read about Assembly programmers being suspicious something like high level languages would ever take off.

When we read about history of Fortran, there are several remarks on the amount of work put into place to win over those developers, as otherwise Fortran would have been yet another failed attempt.

LLMs seem to be at a similar stage, maybe their Fortran moment isn't yet here, parrots as you say, but it will come.
> I don't think that's the way most people are going anyway

Unfortunately some are. And not only that, but also full steam ahead on a 100% locked-in, read _all_ the AWS (serverless)services, AWS-only stack. I speak from unfortunate experience.
If you're taking a trip for a week at a time somewhere, you are experiencing their tourism industry, not their culture. Experiencing culture requires you to remain in a place for a period of time, and you don't get that by visiting shops and bars. You get that by building relationships with people where they are.
I couldn’t figure out how to scroll the page on iOS. And I think your “star for free trial” play is slimy and gross.
It's great to make conscious choices of what you want from your life, and accounting for the trade-offs. But these choices are likely different for everybody.

This post makes the fundamental mistake of assuming that "different" is automatically "better". Some people might enjoy shows over books because e.g. they lack mental imagery and enjoy visualizations. Some people might enjoy wine because it works for their palate. Yes, it has a health impact, but guess what, so has long distance running.

Choose the path that works for you, and enjoy it. But if we all could stop telling each other that somehow, we personally lucked onto finding the perfect path, that'd be helpful. It'd be different from the normal case on the Internet, too.
The other thing correlates with Western affluence is our diet that’s much heavier in animal products. The Standard American Diet: SAD.

The diet of the Blue Zones where people live longest are mostly plant-based.
With him already on a plane you would have taken chances?
Maybe those who described it dysfunctional were dysfunctional and or under 40.

I say under 40 cause after 40 you start to care less about what others think annd are much more comfortable in your skin ..that goes with others too in the same demographics.

Thus if you are working with more ppl who are insecure (younger person thing) worrying too much /trying to out do each other due to insecurities then that's a dysfunctional environment and describes the demographic at most FANNG company's compared to government.
sounds like a racist douchebag to me
A gram is the division of a standard Kilogram (Kg ) into 1000 divisions. It's a poor description to both be circular about it, but the Kg is the standard measure of mass. Look to The definition of the standard kilogram.

"Since the revision of the SI on 20 May 2019, we can now compare the gravitational force on an object with an electromagnetic force using a Kibble balance. This allows the kilogram to be defined in term of a fixed numerical value of the Planck constant, a constant which will not change over time."

"A Kibble balance is an electromechanical measuring instrument that measures the weight of a test object very precisely by the electric current and voltage needed to produce a compensating force. It is a metrological instrument that can realize the definition of the kilogram unit of mass based on fundamental constants."

"One important reason for the change is that Big K is not constant. It has lost around 50 micrograms (about the mass of an eyelash) since it was created. But, frustratingly, when Big K loses mass, it's still exactly one kilogram, per the current definition. When Big K changes, everything else has to adjust."
Anything that requires turning off the phone will need a passcode once it powers on. This includes battery replacement, screen, microphone, camera, etc. Only for camera repairs is it feasible to test fully without entering a passcode.
Of course you could leave the testing until you pick it up and pay but then if something is faulty you’ll have to come back later and wait longer when they might have been able to repair beforehand if they’d known.
>I'm so surprised people aren't more terrified to fly.

this fear has turned the flight industry into the safest and most responsible institution. They make mistakes, but they honestly investigate them and learn how to correct them.

It’s terrifying to put yourself in a metal box at high speed in a road where the risk is way higher than in any other mean of transport
It's unlikely to make an important difference. That's why it's a bad idea to spend time on it. It's much more likely there are other more impactful changes you can do to improve performance, changing the algorithm or using another better tool for the job.
As someone who grew up around (literally stacks of) analogue equipment, I feel that it's worth noting that there's nothing particularly unsafe about high voltages when they're properly contained. The dielectric strength of air is sufficiently high that you effectively need to be touching the conductor before it will arc. At that point, there's not a terrible amount of different between touching a live 240V AC terminal (the standard where I live and in most of the world) and a live 2000V AC terminal. I'm definitely not suggesting that one should be cavalier about high voltages, just pointing out that electrocution wasn't a big problem in practice for most of the time when these older devices were used.

There several more pressing safety issues with analogue equipment than simple electrocution:

- Fire risk due to the much greater energy consumption of older discrete components. Even the passive losses when in standby are considerable; the need for heatsinks is a given, and ventilation is critical.

- Explosion (actually implosion) risk of vacuum tubes/thermionic valves. There are a surprising number of videos online of people deliberately destroying TVs with overvoltage, but suffice it to say that you do not want one plugged into the mains during a thunderstorm.

- Physical injury. Not really the fault of the technology per se, but it can be easy to forget just how physically light modern equipment is. You can hurt yourself by trying to move older devices. Having the equipment fall on them is probably the biggest risk to a toddler who's not actually trying to take the device apart.
It seems to me less like some elitist exclusionary thing, and more like they're objecting to the idea that if a language isn't within top 10 programming languages used, it must be esoteric and only weirdos and enthusiasts use it.
This is my concern with AI in general. Cost, both real and monetary. Right now Microsoft and VCs are dumping money into AI operation to help with growth and adoption. What happens when AI's business focus moves from cost to grow to cost to serve? Will all these business who integrated in AI suddenly be saddled with huge bills? What if your product depends on AI, and suddenly is not profitable to operate? Anecdotally I have already seen people pull back AI features, because it turned out to be too expensive to serve in the long run.

I already pay for a GPT subscription, and its reliability is one of the worst of any product I pay for. The novelty keeps me paying, but I can't imagine building a business on it.
> really like something that isn't perfect. You don't have to defend flaws that it clearly has.

Certainly true. But it's not clear at all how does the product solve these specific problems (they say "Painless Scalability" which sounds nice but did they try developing any 100+ GB projects with massive numbers of commits/branches on it?)
the other word is used in such way only as sounds similar to the second but has different meaning
they reported my area has it and linked to a news article that apparently doesn't exist.

hmmmmmmm.
I think we can? I mean, technically it's possible. Maybe it even already exists.
I don't understand how a lawyer who revised witness testimony is walking around free.

Toss in jail and throw away the key.
Also worth noting is that while they are discouraged, the very same Go devs who discouraged this pattern chose to use it in the standard library for basic things.
You're not interested in seeing great natural wonders?
The Amazon rainforest, the cliffs of Dover, the Australian great barrier reef, the volcanoes of Hawaii etc?
Where is that?

In Washington, DC, non-emergency plumbing calls might take a week. Emergency (forgot to turn off the outside water during a cold snap, basement flooded) seems to be handled quickly.
Yes, it is quite literally not decimation, which would be a loss of 10%.
>While some people may have a temperament that predisposes them to having depressive episodes or symptoms

This is me, and that's why I needed medication (bandaids).
Show HN: I created a free tool that uses ML to comb subreddits for pain points
You give it a subreddit, it gives you back pain points + other info.

I've been using this as a personal tool, but I thought I'd slap a frontend on it and share it.

Let me know what you think, I'd love some feedback!
Perhaps its because I learned programming via shellscript(rc not bash) and piping text into programs. I never had to deal with the difference between a string and a number unless I did something that actually needed the difference to be distinguishable. especially dealing with awk which just coerces greatly, hell, I didn't even have to deal with size limits since pure awk supports bignums. Sure, awk has types as well, but that concept came much later, especially things like scope. I think it both helped me and hurt me. I never understood why people said static typing was great, only after you had a huge program did you see where the pitfalls were.
IIRC I required a Samsung account to use my TV. Won’t buy anything from them again.
I'm personally a fan of the mono-microlith (or whatever people call it), where you compartmentalize the monolith so that it's a just a flag of what "micro-services" are enabled on each instance. Easy to scale down on a dev machine (one process) and easy to scale out, the local procedure calls just become remote procedure calls (over HTTPS or whatever).
Not agreeing or disagreeing with your larger point but garbage picking is an interesting example. Aren't there folks who volunteer to pick up trash/litter on the side of the road and in parks? There's definitely an incentive (maintaining your community and other emotional/less-tangible benefits of volunteering) but it's not quite being payed to do it.
That doesn't sound right. Please explain.
Solar Thermal Steam Propulsion System for Interplanetary Exploration