skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting idea, however in practice: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu/#g=0 (779 products) vs https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu/ (1369 products), and this is mostly just desktop/consumer CPUs - servers are much less likely to have one, and I don't even know where to start researching timesharing GPUs on VMs - most people just do passthrough, usually as a part of a dedicated gaming or transcoding build.

One thing I've observed, is that Electron apps all tend to ship libEGL.so, libGLESv2.so, libvulkan.so, etc rather than depending on system Mesa, so the part where the application tries to take advantage of a GPU by any means necessary (if possible) is already happening, it's just it appears to be Chromium-shaped rather than GCC-shaped.
It is insane to watch Musk, who has made billions of dollars from Tesla, equate himself sleeping under his desk to production line employees sleeping on the floor after 12 hours shifts.
Amon Tobin on HN? Wow

His music is great (Long Stories, Out From Out Where, Supermodified)

The website experience is neat.

This is the second musician I see making an ambitious computer project.

The other being that game Neil Cicierega made.

I jokingly pick Slowly by Amon Tobin to be the soundtrack for when they do the lethal injection thing to me.
The code effectively flashes the monitor at 30 Hz on any 60 Hz monitor (the time delta will always be 16.66 ms or more). I have tried this before and noticed a lasting effect on the monitor that was visible after stopping the flashing. Just a warning. I thought I had damaged the screen.
I'm a Protestant, but that explanation of transubstantiation may be the popular understanding but is not the actual official doctrine of the Catholic Church. I'm not versed enough to explain it except by way of terrible analogy to software development - everyone knows what Agile is, but no one really knows what Agile is, and once you start to read the Agile Manifesto and think deeply, you realize that.
Can I just listen to more Bass Mekanik instead? 40hz isn't that low, my sub cuts out around 25 unless I pump crazy amounts of power into it to keep up the SPL.
Something I've wondered about the OSR movement, watching from afar. My observation has been that the "typical" D&D play style has changed. By that I mean it seems a lot more common now than it used to be to lean into the actual role playing portion, getting in character, etc. Whereas as an 80s kid, most people I knew would treat it like a narrative at most, "my character swings his sword" type stuff.

Are OSR players generally playing the more theatrical/performative style of play but with the older spirit/rules? Or is this also part of the renaissance?
I suggest starting with "What is Mathematics?" by Richard Courant (a book, not an online course). It has an excellent overview of mathematics for a young person who one day may want to become a mathematician. Later, it depends on which part of mathematics one loves the most.
This.
Users don't care about alternative app stores. Developers do.
That's clearly not the world most consumers want, otherwise they would have directed their money towards Android in the early days. They didn't.

For the minority who do want this world, again, there is a laundry list of Android variants they can buy.

Coercion implies the threat of violence due to non-compliance. There is no coercion here. Apple, Google, etc aren't governments.
The point isn't about whether it is unknowable or not - rather does having the answer have any practical value - ie does the attribution of 'thinking' add any value to understanding a program?
The fact that they have a detectable "stance on issues" is exactly the reason to call their neutrality and independence into question.
Show HN: Open-source popular GPTs in GPT Store
It seems that you could do this via their RSS feeds. There lots of RSS "widgets" that can be embedded onto your page.
> not just because they've been conditioned but because they want more of the free thing

That is what literally what "conditioned" means. You're belabouring a point that OP is already making, and then following that up by sneering at the "34th percentile".
Maybe the real art is always in the comments section.
I also suspect this is related to the increased popularity of laptop computers. Laptops outsell PCs by 4:1 according to https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/global-pc-market-Q4-2021

And one of the main groups of holdouts still using desktop computers is presumably PC gamers - who don't buy passively cooled graphics cards.

I'm sure there's some market for low-end desktop PCs - like traditionalists who just don't want a laptop - but I don't think it's a growing market.
> choose iOS because it’s free of viruses and malware

It's not.
GDDR trades bandwidth for latency. Modern GDDR bandwidth is one order of magnitude above modern DDR. And latency is much worse.
In Germany, you can apply for a Junior Studentship at University and learn Math as a student.
I wonder whether Apple would rather lose the EU or lose the App Store monopoly.

The EU might not be worth 10% of annual turnover.
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> I highly doubt if there is a difference, it's due to non-Google App stores or sideloading.

Tech journalists have literally warned Android users that they need to be wary of apps from inside Google's walled garden.

> With malicious apps infiltrating Play on a regular, often weekly, basis, there’s currently little indication the malicious Android app scourge will be abated. That means it’s up to individual end users to steer clear of apps like Joker. The best advice is to be extremely conservative in the apps that get installed in the first place. A good guiding principle is to choose apps that serve a true purpose and, when possible, choose developers who are known entities. Installed apps that haven’t been used in the past month should be removed unless there’s a good reason to keep them around.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/joker...
See this slow mo video taken with my phone: https://anonymfile.com/n7yX/vid-20240126151605.mp4
I think the context was prototyping.
excuse me? got a source?

2 party systems aren't normal in most of the world. even in a western centric view that's not true... I'm struggling to see what leads you to say such an extreme idea as this.
You can also generate a video file that does the same thing and play it back locally on a high refresh rate device (iPad Pro). Unfortunately, don't expect it to actually do anything.
What type of monitor is it?
I see it differently. Consider a dev organization who is considering adopting Clojure as a supported (or even default) language. The case for such adoption is strengthened if you can make the argument that much of the shell scripting tasks can be done in the same* language and in a way that's more ergonomic and safer.

That helps drive clojure adoption in a way that suggesting that instead dev teams adopting clojure should also learn scheme and write some of their code in that seems not nearly as compelling.

It's the same reason that clojurescript is supportive of the overall clojure community, rather than being a distraction and diversion of resources.

* It's not 100% the same, but for what's needed to replace bash scripts, it rounds to 100%.
Even up to 1M or so rows you can just store everything in a numpy array or PyTorch tensor and compute similarity directly between your query embedding and the entire database. Will be much faster than the apply() and still feasible to run on a laptop.
Thank you. I can imagine, the current layoff's situation doesn't help. In addition, I know the FAANGs have a strict committee step that could make promotions even harder. Yes, related with what you mentioned, here's a great article about it https://www.theengineeringmanager.com/managing-managers/grow...
If you won’t read the article, please don’t comment.
Half of his clever quotes are completely bonkers though and have been disproven by history. How many of you are proving your programs correct before entering them into the computer? Because that is the only correct way to program. And remember he disparaged Margaret Hamiltons software methodology. Sure, she helped put a man on the moon, but apparently she did it the wrong way.

I suspect geeks like Dijkstra because he is "edgy" more than because he is correct.

Also, Object-Oriented programming was actually invented in Norway, even though Alan Kay of Smalltalk fame tried to take credit.

He was right about GOTO though, but many developers did not even understand his argument but just read the headline and concluded "GOTO bad".
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DnD Beyond is what people use for 5e
Many old PCIe GPUs had noisy fans and drew tons of power though. It's not the whole story.

You can, however, buy something like a passively cooled Nvidia GT 710 for really cheap, which I think is what you're getting at.
Interesting idea, although the weight of the fake VHS cassette would have given it away. Plus, hard drives from that era with their cast aluminium frames were notoriously hard to squeeze...
It sounds like you’ve conflated “gold rush” with “peak”. All sorts of novel technologies had mad rushes when they’re new, but that does not mean they have peaked. The dot bomb era with its ridiculous overvalued useless startups was a gold rush, but it was in no way peak Internet.
First: in mice, raised on a doxycycline-containing diet.

Second: if I've understood correctly, there's no idea about what causes Alzheimer, which would reduce the significance of finding reduced levels of tau.

Third: there was physical vibration at 40Hz. This cannot be reproduced with headphones or earplugs, let alone a computer speaker. The experiment used a 12 inch sub-woofer (at undocumented levels, but I assume that the levels for humans must exceed those for mice). 40Hz might not even be suitable for humans if the effect stems from oscillations in the physical brain matter rather than electrical.

Four: the number of subjects per condition is very low, and the variance is high. The individual data points can be seen on the graphs, and don't give me much confidence. E.g., 2 mice in the grid hang condition failed immediately, but the other 2 performed in the lower range of the other group. Don't get your hopes up.
So you want to utilize the power of the state to force a private entity to sell its products under terms that are "reasonable" to you?

Where is the limit on that sort of approach? Do you want the state to force everyone to set prices so that you can purchase everything at terms "reasonable" to you? How do we decide what is "reasonable"?

Given the existence of the Android alternative it is hard for me to support the argument that the government should mandate how Apple conducts its business. Even when I agree that Apple's policies have problems, I still don't think heavy-handed regulation by government is necessarily better.
Ask HN: Data Engineer looking to explore ML and also transition
Working as a Data Engineer I feel I can approach ML but feel overwhelmed looking at current ML advancements. I remember people using MNIST dataset, and IRIS dataset and experimenting around and now I see LLMs, VectorDBs, etc. I can read and watch tutorials on YT all I want, but is it close to the real-world work being done? I hardly see anyone mention what goes on in their organizations with ML or MLOPS.
I don't want to be in the backseat when things move faster than today.
I've been having problems with my Mac M1 laptop display (4 years old), and this kicked them back in.

But to be clear: display was already having issues and i have a service appointment to get it replaced
Another LaTeX-to-HTML tool is lwarp (https://github.com/bdtc/lwarp) which starts from the idea that there only exists one program that can parse LaTeX: the LaTeX compiler itself. Implementing a new parser is almost futile. So instead, the lwarp package redefines all the macros to output HTML. Something like
\renewcommand[1]{\textbf}{<b>#1</b>}
This way, compiling LaTeX gives you a PDF whose text is HTML code, so now you can extract the plain text from it and you have an HTML file. The advantage is that it can easily deal with custom macros etc., because these are natively resolved by the LaTeX compiler.

I use lwarp to make https://tikz.dev/, an HTML version of the TikZ manual, which is probably one of the most complicated LaTeX documents in existence.
While I think this analysis is spot on, there are other somewhat lesser discussed factors that go into the general worsening of the "war of the sexes".

1. Massively impacted endocrine systems worldwide leading to massive drops in average sperm counts, male testosterone rates, and huge amounts of estrogen and related chemicals leading to far younger average puberties for women.

2. Further economic and social stratification between men and women over technology choices. Very real anti-green bubble discrimination and strong social pressure to use apple products. It's a meme in zoomer communities about android users not being allowed to show their phones until the third date as the social repercussions of your partner knowing you have an android are very serious. Notably this trend has caught on even in Samsung's backyard: South Korea. Even in SK, having an android phone is unsexy, uncool, and users will be stigmatized for not having the "best" (iphone). SK may be the most vain country on earth.

3. AI girlfriend/AI Waifu is here today. Such technologies will only further fan the flames of the gender wars. Women seem more happy alone than with partners they hate, so I think women will be on balance happy to see increasing amounts of "undesirable" men simply opting out and embracing AI relationships.
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"This is also the result of right-wingers being the only ones to show understanding for young men whose experience simply does not fit the narrative of a patriarchal society built around their needs.

If they are looking for guidance, influencers give them a clear path with videos, books and articles. The rules are mundane: exercise, eat healthily and don't watch porn all day. But when you have nowhere else to turn, this becomes a revelation."

https://x.com/nschniederjann/status/1750806835714564270
I don't think there's any CSP? https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/gildas-lormeau.githu...

In any case, ideally, any ebook solution should have all resources loaded as files relative to the current document, and nothing inline. Like this, the book would be compatible both offline and to be hosted online, without requiring any changes to the book.

The one file thing is cool, but again it requires JS to show anything, so that's not really inline with what I was talking about. In my view, an HTML document should work like a book, and any JS is purely to augment and extend that book if necessary. Those situations are rare though, and most JS is just to give a reader like experience.

I think if someone is going to go through the trouble to host a book, they probably don't mind unziping a file before putting it on their server. The one file thing I said earlier was more about sharing the book, similar to an app package. but once it's on someone's servers presumably it's ready to be read.

Basically .webarchive
Amon Tobin does great stuff.

His more recent stuff is interesting as well.

I love Long Stories, made on a broken Omnichord (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38563627 )
In a reply further down OP mentions that role models play a role in this divide. I've noticed there's a lot more conservative role models than liberal role models targeting men. Is there a liberal counterpart to Andrew Tate, for example? Admittedly this just might be my colored perception from existing in a bubble.
> The spec is a beast. Anyone who wants to implement an HTML based reader has a mammoth task in front of them.

That's true for basically any non-trivial document rendering format. For example, take a look at the PDF spec. Even basic things like parsing the document format is a formidable task. HTML in comparison is a trivial format. The same goes for technologies like TeX or even Microsoft's own Word format, which Microsoft famously had lots of problems supporting. It is a hard problem for all formats, not just HTML.

> The point of the thread was to tell how big of a task it is to create your own HTML based reader.

You're confusing some things. A document format is one thing, but a renderer with specific capabilities is an entirely different thing. You're commenting on the document format and the styling and layout system, and now you're shifting the conversation to what it takes to implement a renderer.

Debates on document formats are entirely separate and orthogonal to debates on how to implement renderers. Renderers for the most trivial things are tremendously complex. There are a myriad of good reasons why we're seeing GUI frameworks built on top of webviews in spite of all the complains about the formats that webviews support, and in spite of the myriad low-level rendering frameworks already available.

To understand the poiny, try to think through the requirements list to implement a renderer for Markdown. It's a document format with a half dozen of features. Would you call it trivial?
What do you guys mean specifically when you say AD&D is less sterile?
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Hence, I said "typically".
I do use a single cable in that it's just one cable coming from my monitor or dock. It's just one charging adapter in my bag. So generally speaking I am just plugging in a single cable to my monitor or carrying a single charger in my backpack. I'm not plugging in power, HDMI, network, and a USB hub separately every time I hop from one desk to another, just plug the one cable on the desk and it's good to go.

Sure, I'm not literally talking about a single cable I'm taking from one port to another port, but the fact I can just plug my laptop into my monitor and get all of that is awesome. And if I bought a good cable I could totally do that. The fact I'm able to charge all my devices off my laptop charger is awesome. The fact one could cheap out and buy a cable that wouldn't work with all the features of the monitor/laptop link doesn't make that less awesome. I just use the included cables with the docks or what not or make sure to buy a cable that does what I need if replacing/upgrading and it's not a problem.

You're still not convincing me the existence of cheap cables that can't do it all makes having several different cables and power adapters a better time. In one case you're absolutely forced to have them be separate every time, in another it's only that they're separate if you're buying cheap bullshit online from trash vendors.
Same monitor here. Damn strange. I'd experiment more if I didn't need to work with it. Keeping the monitor off for awhile seemed to help , but a quick off/on didn't.
> This is just a better way of doing DOM scripting

Better than what?

> enhancing without waiting for Document Ready event

Instead you wait for `connectedCallback`

> and having more freedom when to load the dynamic bits.

You literally have no freedom over that. Web components are rendered the moment they are added to the page, and you have no control over that. So if something dynamic is happening in your `connectedCallback`, boom, our dynamic bits are loaded whether you want them or not.
Dell Monitor – P2722H. A common LED LCD

It's not even a year old.
> because if they put conservative they get no matches

Why is political affiliation on a dating app?

> one of my single friends is conservative herself and won't even match with conservative men

Have you asked her why?

To me, someone proudly putting a conservative political affiliation on a dating profile raises safety issues not related to their political views, but to their choice to put them there as a marker of their identity.

> Women might not hold a lot of political power directly

Wat.
This is my preference as well. Gives you the option of looking at the nice manicured "this is how I wish it happened" view, and when needed/helpful you can dig into the nitty gritty of what really happened with all its false starts and mistakes.

But most orgs don't do that, so rebase it is.
The data for the US shows young men in the US staying relatively around the center after a brief left shift in '08, but young women have skewed far to the left. So the gap shouldn't have much to do with the material conditions of men, in the US at least.
It's not their award process. They administered the awards this year. They are supposed to execute the process according to the WSFS constitution, not to make decisions according to their own wishes.
> mate selection is a powerful motivator for change.

As someone smarter than me probably said - "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

Or, in layman's terms, this is pure, unfiltered bullshit.

In truth, politics is not front and center of people's existence.
Might still be pretty limited, but I've been looking for something with a more modern syntax for years, and this seems a good candidate! Thanks for sharing.

Of course it will take years to replace LaTeX, but we need to begin working on it.
> Apple made an API that developers liked, [...]

Citation needed. I definitely didn't like Metal.

> [...] and what do you propose? Apple start being Google and ditch their thing for another thing?

I would propose Apple to have worked together with Khronos on Vulkan. The could have also cooperated with AMD and based Metal on Mantle (released a year before) - as soon as it was apparent that Mantle will be the base for Vulkan (which was long before its release IIRC) they could have slowly merged it all back together.

The least they can do is to also support Vulkan on macOS.

> Don't see people complaining here about Direct3D being windows-only.

Ehm, the article we are commenting on complains about it being Windows only.
If I had to guess, it’s probably we (as in the US) consumes more. One takeout meal for my family is probably more plastic in weight than your grocery runs. My plastic foldable table is probably your annual amount. While it seems wasteful, plastic bags are very minimal compared to other items.
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I agree.

The last time I read something by JBM, he had said that "people who don't have a passport (a sign that they have not recently travelled abroad) were more likely to vote Brexit"

To me, he was implying that ignorance of other lands led them to vote Brexit, but I think the more important underlying factor is that passports and travel cost money.

So to return to my point, I too am suspicious of the statistics that JBM shows.

As with all statistics, they are crafted to push a particular opinion.
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Private Eye has been reporting on this for years. The Guardian only started to care when the story finally blew up.
The claim that nobody could discern more than 24 fps is an odd one (and not one I've ever heard), since it's been generally known that's not true even back before 24 fps was chosen as a standard. Originally some (including Edison) wanted to standardise on higher frame rates for better motion. 24fps was basically compromise to balance against the amount of film used, being fairly close to the minimum speed that was considered satisfactory for motion.

Even then, a two bladed shutter was used to flash the image on the screen twice for each frame, and more modern projectors used a three-bladed shutter to reduce flicker.
The problem with this is that email has no negotiation. So you then need to teach users how to configure their email client to compose in plain text. Otherwise users will be confused when their message renders differently after sending and from how it appears in their outbox. (IIUC most clients will generate a text/plain message, but this isn't very visible to users).

By using the subject line the composer is already forced into plain text and so the user will get a more accurate "preview" of how the final post will look.