skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're the only one in this thread not attaching the same connotations of "child raiser" to "parent" and considering one lesser than the other. I don't know what's more insulting, being called a child raiser, or considering child raiser to be off-brand parent rather than a generalization of the term.

"No man goes into education to be called 'instructor', they're 'teachers'."

"No woman goes into CS to be called 'coder', they're 'developers'."
Yeah, protesting a comedian and randos threatening violence on the internet is totally the same as mudering millions to stop Judeo-Bolshevism or cultural Marxism or whatever garbage fascists are spewing.
You don’t have to stop the family business, the resource just needs to be sustainably-managed - sustainable offtake levels, otherwise the resource itself will crash. Indeed they already have - as although catch volume is down 75%, people now catch and eat fish not consumed in the past.
The technology to make VR/AR useful for specialized applications has been available for decades. For example, South African fighter pilots had AR sights in the 70s, and the Soviets copied the idea in the 80s. The technology has improved over the decades, but so far nobody has found good mainstream uses for it.
I thought the same, until I saw Cygnus from truly dark skies. The constellation, which looks like a stick figure vaguely resembling a bird from city skies, quite literally looked like a swan in flight from dark skies.
You have to explain on the landing page how this is better than something like Notion. One challenge for you is that Notion's free plan is adequate for personal use.
I only scanned the article and the paper, but the paper linked in the article talks about the researchers characterizing performance of a MosFET.
Update: Experts are pushing back against the Spectator's reporting — including one source quoted by the magazine who says her remarks were taken out of context.
I understand the reference to Ptolemy, Newton (Copernicus?), Darwin, but how did Einstein teach us that we're "part of nature instead of a privileged special case"?
The thing that the iPhone was most criticized for has never changed: no keyboard.
Sure, to get Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K 60FPS, we cheat like hell. But, a scene from 70s ray tracing research at 800x600x24 fps on a 4090 doesn’t need to cheat much.
So if, say, George Clooney announced tomorrow that he is a trans man (assigned female at birth) all along and is pregnant, would you consider him a woman?

Not to mention, women who got a histerectomy can't be pregnant either, does that make them men?
I use mbsync/isync instead of offlineimap, but I've had no issues using mailctl to handle the OAuth2 tokens and refresh.

Does the example on the ArchWiki[0] work for you?

[0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/OfflineIMAP#OAuth2_access_t...
It's extremely loose! Using a custom PCB to connect the controller over RJ45 to a custom Pi hat I wrote some code to simply display the button presses on screen, to test the functionality of the controller (we are modifying hundreds). I had to play around a lot with the timings to match up the response of the program with the speed of my finger pushing a button, else the program would return "you pushed B" a dozen times on a single push.

I do wonder how much original SNES devs had to consider similar scenarios.
The supercomputers of the time were very heavily designed to run floating-point operations (IIRC) and so while the FPU performance might be comparable, I'm not sure a Cray could be used as a "1/4 speed Pi" for general computing things like running Linux.
I think no one in their right mind is going to use sharepoint or teams as a working folder for research data. It's barely usable for regular business users, it's a dog's breakfast for anyone using it programmatically.
Yes. Many things lie to us because we can't handle the truth. Maybe they are right? I would hope for a different world.
200 miles would be a very useful real world range, if chargers were ubiquitous and I can recharge in the time that it takes me to bathroom and buy a coffee.

Those conditions aren't true yet, but hopefully will be.
There is also the 8BitDo Mod Kit for SNES/SFC Classic Edition Controller which allows to convert original SNES controllers to bluetooth. https://shop.8bitdo.com/products/8bitdo-mod-kit-for-snes-sfc...
In that case, you’ll love tom7’s Reverse Emulation video:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0
Cities have seen plenty of high-end housing built (afaik), and yet there is still a lack of affordable housing.

Building more expensive homes doesn't seem to increase availability of affordable ones. The idea that it would seems to be another 'trickle-down economics' theory, the one from the 1980s that if we help the wealthy get wealthier, the benefits will 'trickle-down' (turns out, only the first step worked). Reasonably, wealthy people don't see poor housing as an option, though there is gentrification.

> When car makers couldn't make enough cars in 2021 and the price went up, was the solution to ban making new cars? Should we have prohibited making cars with fancy trim?

Making expensive cars wouldn't seem to result in many more affordable ones.

> This is silly.

An aggressive assertion that you aren't thinking, and aren't willing to.
> What’s amazing to me is how timid companies get when there’s limited resources. Instead of making another big bet to get back on the revenue train, they chase trends.

A classic (and timely) counter-example to this is when Boeing bet the entire company on the success of the 747 in the late 1960's. It worked and it Boeing survived but it was an incredibly aggressive and risky bet for a big old company.

Unfortunately the Boeing of today is the exact opposite (or worse). Instead of investing in a clean sheet redesign of the 737 they used the R+D budget to buy back their own stock - at the cost of 338 lives so far.

So the leadership (CEO + Board) can make this go either way, regardless of how big and old the company is.
I’ll use this article as an argument for the next time I’m forced to choose the lesser of two idiots in a round of interviews.

Thanks for sharing, really insightful.
It was a dismissal from people who didn't see the utility of a parallel product that was just bigger. Just because someone sees the utility of a small SUV doesn't mean they will automatically want to also buy an F-150.
Are there any implications of the polling rate not quite aligning as the original controller would've?
I actually know it pretty well.

> Number of ships and ability to replace ships correlates to wins in times of conflict.

Do you happen to remember a source for that? I'd be interested.
In Japan, they have a different species of cicada, and cicadas reliably emerge every single summer. As a result, the sound of cicadas is a popular shorthand for summertime in Japanese media: https://www.tofugu.com/japan/cicadas-in-japan/
You make a lot of good points, but was the failure of Google moonshots really the fault of the workers who were easily lured by comp, or management who were impatient about seeing material results? Seems like either could have been chasing higher returns.

Initiatives like Google Fiber flaming out were certainly not the fault of anyone at the company. Maybe for drastically underestimating the difficulty of the problem. Actually, maybe that’s a reoccurring issue with these moonshots.
This brings back memories. The first (and only) hardware project I've ever done is building a 4-controller multitap that connected via parallel port. It ended up working really well--lots of fun playing games on snes9x with friends.
The OHA has about as much relevance as the League of Nations did in the 1930s.

Samsung makes screens, SOCs, storage and memory. They put Android into every conceivable form factor and distributed them in every country on earth at every price point. That is why Android suceeded.

Google's original Android partners were HTC and Motorola, neither of whom ever had the scale to compete with Apple. Google even acquired Motorola, but spun it off as they had no idea how to run a phone business.
This could be the breakthrough that could miniaturized AI more powerful.
definitely the big guys are causing havoc all of their own deep sea where they fish, with bottom dredging nets etc. And maybe there was some contribution inshore, certainly I’ve heard complaints about this in Somalia. But the more immediate causes in inshore decline seems to have been increase in fishing pressure due to demand growth (population growth, exports, tourism), loss of spawning sites due to mangrove destruction, and dynamite fishing which destroys habitat.
Sure, but scaling of an organization is not the same as scaling for traffic in a technical sense. There are so many companies that employ comparable numbers of engineers that are not big tech companies.
Sourcehut network outage post-mortem
Well, you would be surprised how much historical writing you are locked out of by not being able to read Latin. Not from antiquity, but from the fall of rome up until the turn of the previous century, Latin was the language. A tiny fraction of what's been written in Latin is available in any vernacular. By not reading Latin, you're locked out almost all western pre-modern writing.

> Plato complained that "children today are not learning the things that they should"

Where does he say this? This seems an incredibly uncharacteristic sentiment coming from Plato. If nothing else because his mentor Socrates was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth, and almost all extant writing from Plato deals with Socrates' legacy. When Socratres isn't harassing rulers and generals, he's typically portrayed hanging out with the youth in Plato's writing.

Closest thing I'm aware is a section of The Republic. The section, a hypothetical aside really, deals with the horrors of Athenian democracy (the same that killed Socrates), where fathers fear their sons and children are said to think themselves equals to their parents.
yea, looks like the author doesn't understand the difference between a semiconductor and a chip.

the researchers said "functioning semiconductor".
"The PaaS team offered us the ability to migrate databases using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)."

And I'm not surprised if, they got some kickback, discount etc in some way to promote AWS on their blog. Not claiming its so, but I would not be surprised at all. It reads as one big advertisement.
Apparently, everyone that visits a particular park or part of town, or has a particular appearance^H^H^H^H undefined smell is OK already. So, just start regularly screening people in places where political rallies tend to be. (Or just target the attendees in the areas where they live.)
A cautionary tale about software dependencies during major geopolitical events
It's transparent to the client, so if the server adds support, every client gains 2FA support. The server needs to check if 2FA is enabled, and if so, try the last 6 characters of the user provided text as the OTP and the rest as the password.

It's a pretty commonly used, and works very well, but requires user education on how to fill in their combined password. A proper API with distinct fields for password and OTP is cleaner, but requires protocol support.
Pipelining, out-of-order execution, and the accompanying superscalaring did more to speed up processors than anything else. Don't know why they missed the most obvious improvements.
Sorry but you're wrong. It doesn't matter if Fennec was miles ahead if there was no device to use it on (unless you knew the magic incantations to get it working on one) and the original iPhone did have multitouch zoom too. Jobs demoed it on-stage.
This is solved more cleanly in declarative schema management systems, where you have a schema repo of CREATE statements, and the tool can auto-generate the correct DDL. You never need to write any migrations at all, up or down. If you need to roll back, you use `git revert` and then auto-generate from there. The history is in Git, and you can fully leverage Git like a proper codebase.

A key component is that the schema management tool must be able to detect and warn/error on destructive changes -- regardless of whether it's a conceptual revert or just a bad change (i.e. altering a column's data type in a lossy way). My declarative tool Skeema [1] has handled this since the first release, among many other safety features.

That all said, schema changes are mostly orthogonal to database version upgrades, so this whole subthread is a bit different than the issue discussed several levels above :) The root of the blue/green no-rollback-after-upgrade issue discussed above is that MySQL logical replication officially supports older-version-primary -> newer-version-replica, but not vice versa. Across different release series, the replication format can change in ways that the older version replicas do not understand or support.

[1] https://github.com/skeema/skeema
The Web Renaissance Takes Off
Stylistic choice, no deeper meaning. I know people who are the sole child-raiser after separating from the child's other parent, and people who are parents but they work full-time and their partner looks after the child.
Or using a Raspberry Pi to simulate nuclear explosions and the weather.
The example you gave has nothing to do with Apple system specifically. It's all about the bad quality of Spotify in general - be it on iOS, Android or web. They truly are terrible, missing the most basic of features, and this has been the way they operate from the very beginning.

A long time ago, during the Flash time, the recurring theme on the Internet was the low quality of engineering in Adobe products.

There was a popular response to that whining which superficially sounded like a rebuttal: "Hey, be cool and always remember that not all of the bad programmers are employed by Adobe".

I guess there was enough of them to fill all the positions at Spotify.
Type-safe access to PostgreSQL in Java
Bell Labs did that, but they worked in service to the rest of the Bell system that was precisely targetting "creating an end-user service to conquer the world". Citing Bell Labs as if they were "an entire company" is misleading - they were the R&D wing for what was essentially a monopoly in telecoms.
> Overall, they calculated that the cost of electricity from the grids would be between €77 and €94 per megawatt-hour delivered. That is well within the range that grid operators pay today to balance supply and demand via natural gas-fired power plants. Their modeling found that the methanol backup is also 29 to 43 percent cheaper than that of alternate grids backed up with hydrogen

Interesting! I’d like to see the comparison with gas peakers. Seems they are on the order of $400/MWh, and utilized something like 5-10%. So if the numbers above are fully-baked including capital cost this seems like a potential big win.

On the TANSTAAFL principle, what’s the catch?
From a customer perspective Valve is undisputed. Nobody opens any other marketplace unless they have to.
When did B.O. die?

Best source I seem to find is an HN posting from 4 months ago:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37295238>

AzureDiamond/hunter2: RIP
The QFP or the BGA version? Either way, that's already pretty impressive to me, I probably couldn't do it. The best I've done so far on that front is fixing a board that had a layout error which caused the pads of a USB connector to be offset by bridging the gap with individual strands of copper. I also hope to never have to do something like that again :)
Much of it is coming from the carbon in fossilized remains of a time when there was much more O2 in the atmosphere because there was so much flora and a warmer planet... what am I missing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_history_of_oxygen
Apple Vision Pro Weighs Almost as Much as a 12.9-Inch iPad Pro
The additional weight comes from the front display.

The reports regarding fatigue are consistently related to users wearing only the band, when they add the additional strap that goes directly over the head it's fine. Typical Apple leading with form over function. It ships with the additional strap at least so that should alleviate it for most people. Quest 3 has a similar additional band which helps as well.
Behind the scenes: international keyboard shortcuts (2023)
No criticism of AdaFruit intended. I meant the HN link should be to the original article - the post that I say the AdaFruit post links to.
It would help if instead of saying "set theory" we emphasize the algebra of sets. Not by that name, but this level of teaching sets was common in middle school math late last century, not sure about this century, in the US. And this would be enough for most people trying to read technical documents using set notation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra_of_sets
OP described a specific type of practice to get good test grades using 'Anki cards' .
Standardized tests test for grinding and dedication not expertise or 'getting good'.
Lamport's Bakery algorithm, demonstrated in Python
I was watching the very good oral history of Leslie Lamport from the Computer History Museum and was struck by how he said that the Bakery Algorithm was the thing he was most proud of, despite Paxos being much more elaborate and, in my mind, important. He also described the Bakery Algorithm as being the only thing that he "discovered" rather than "invented"; he later clarified that this was because it "came out of nowhere" and had no precedent to his knowledge from any previous ideas from him or anyone else.

Although it seems pretty simple on the surface, it came as a surprise to many people who had been working hard on the mutual exclusion problem in the early 1970s, with one of Lamport's colleagues (Anatol Holt) describing it as "impossible" upon first hearing it. Not only did it completely solve the mutual exclusion problem, but it managed to do so without requiring atomicity of reads or writes, and it was fully described and proved in just 3 pages. This was something that both Dijkstra and Knuth were unable to do despite each writing at least one paper on the subject prior to Lamport's solution in 1974.

Anyway, I thought it might be fun to demonstrate the principles of how it works in Python. In some ways, Python is uniquely unsuited for this because it has a Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), the main purpose of which is precisely to avoid the kinds of mutual exclusion issues that the Bakery Algorithm solves! Still, we can "fake it" by using the multiprocessing library and by introducing random delays at various points in the code.

Here is the oral history video btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXt3-iZpQQc
The US has by far the most powerful military in the world, with its current domestic manufacturing capability. The idea that the US will be self-sufficient - a path followed only by North Korea - isn't realistic or desireable. They'd give up all the enormous advantages, including manufacturing capability, of all those allies, including S Korea, Japan, Germany, etc etc.
Trash talking your current employer publicly isn’t a great career move. It arguably could be more effective to work internally, but even if it’s not as effective, it’s far less risky.

Then later, you have been at Google long enough you’re relatively wealthy. You feel free to speak your mind.
You've outlined the problems with entrusting the judicial branch and legislative branch handle these issues.

But what about the problems with entrusting the executive branch, which can turn over every four years? We've had two very different presidents over the past 8 years. The agencies (such as the EPA) that you are entrusting to protect the things you value may actually be given very different directions, depending on who's in office.
And that kinda makes it unfair to the Raspberry, maybe not the RPI1 but I'm pretty sure that the RPi4 (rated at 78x the Cray) running code in compute-mode would thrash the Cray 1 even harder (yes, not entirely comparable but since you probably didn't get full throughput on the Cray with regular C code then using the GPU on the RPi should be fair game).
Having a title for anything with "Researchers claim..." is such a red flag that I don't even want to click the link. I've been burned too many times. I know that fire is hot, I don't need to touch it again to find out. I'm a quick study, and after the 10th time, it took hold
"The typical company is like a septic tank.

It's the biggest chunks that rise to the top."
Yes, Youtube for example could certainly be spun off into its own company. But Google (or is it Alphabet?) has always resisted this. We do know that YT is not profitable, so I imagine they can't spin it off and charge market rates for GCP hosting.
In a way, yes, partly because we’re rendering typically larger images now (1080p is 4x larger than 800x600), but also because the image quality standards are very high, and because scenes are enormous compared to a pair of spheres and a checkerboard plane with a single light, because games don’t get to spend the entire frame budget on rays, and because we’re using a lot more stochastic sampling now using path tracing than what Turner Whitted did. We do get the 500,000x relative to Cray, and denoising effectively adds another x-factor on top of that, and that’s what it takes to get today’s games up to passable real time ray tracing. On the other hand, genuine real-time ray tracing without denoising has been possible for a long time for toy scenes outside of games, it all depends on what goal posts we’re talking about exactly, right?
Meanwhile, Daniel Ek's estimated net worth is $3.5 billion[1]

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/profile/daniel-ek/
Google Earth resolution? You'd need satellites in low orbit around that planet.

For taking images from earth, the resolution would depend on the size and distance of the planet. Within a couple hundred light-years a $10b starshade spacecraft may be able to get a 30px by 30px optical image.

The physics are pretty limiting.

(this is all from memory, I worked as an engineer at an astrophysics institute for 8 yrs, but left that job almost two years ago, so the raw numbers are a bit rusty)
This was in southern Maine, not Connecticut.
They meant the link at the top here.
> Part of the function of a Jobs type character is to be the defining asshole in the organization that no one has a chance of defeating alone.

Except you don't have to be an asshole to be that person, just in charge.
> I was happy to assume it was good faith until Altman started trying to engage in regulatory capture to protect his competitive moat

I've not seen him do that, just a lot of people saying that's the only thing they can believe he must have meant.

What I've seen in his comments, in the original transcripts, is basically "regulate GPT-4 and better, don't bother regulating anything smaller or simpler than that, don't regulate open source models".

> You are correct in saying we should pursue lawfare against OpenAI to make sure such blatant and widescale theft can't happen again. I believe you are incorrect in saying it's a bad idea to produce more models.

Contradictory position. To produce more models based on one you characterise to be "theft" is to actually make it happen again.

Making new models from the output of their models is one of three ways I can see of doing this, along with court ordering their models be published (rather than destroyed), or some other company retraining from scratch on their own crawl of the web. This third option is also why I think anyone using the "moat" metaphor with regard to OpenAI's models needs to stop and think about how they're acting like a stochastic parrot.
It is. They mentioned in the live stream.