skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some conflicting feelings on this, the CEO stepping down and the layoffs as soon as this was announced makes it seem like this was/is a company on the verge of shutdown or at least having serious problems.

At what point should an acquisition be allowed on the sake of something being able to continue to exist and possibly save jobs? Sure there would have almost guaranteed be job cuts with the acquisition due to redundancy, but would it have been the same amount?

However on the flip side, it feels like iRobot has been stagnating for years and entering some weird categories. I still fail to see why they entered the air purifier market and them selling a stick vacuum next to their iRobot is sure one way to say "our expensive robot doesn't do everything we claim it does".

I finally ditched my iRobot for a Roborock a couple months ago and it's been amazing. It is shocking how much better it is, when it was in the middle of a clean and I could tell it to go start a different clean and it just did it? It didn't complain or anything, I shouldn't be surprised by this but after the experience with iRobot feeling like it stands in my way every time this felt like magic.

It genuinely makes me sad to see iRobot not be what they used to be, it feels like they got complacent with Roomba.
Yes, I think you're right. The way he defines two classes for holding the results is another hint that it was built to be easily optimized :) And, well, you gotta hand it to him. That really went viral!
> sapping her earnings with hours of unpaid commute time.

This is the real story here - transit should not be so much slower than a private car that it saps time. It is in most places, but a great transit system wouldn't be like that.
It'd be cool if any of the proposed bills actually suggested something like this. They do not. They specify an ID check.
It's so you don't need an exact term, you can search for a synonym or something "similar" in concept.

So more like a search engine than just a Ctrl+F in a file for a string of tokens
This is an interesting point, and we could definitely consider something like this. Where exactly do you run into problems?

For example, let's say you've figured out that a particular EC2 instance or database is too costly. What is the sticking point for you in turning it off? Is it that the resource has other essential functions unrelated to the cost spike? Or is it the identification of the exact resource that's the problem?
I think that online anonymity is overrated (and yes, I'm aware of my username). Social media platforms ought to require traceability and age verification.
Lol I just always added 10 to my birth year
I'd like to see a source for someone who actually bought a "30-40 year old Volvo for $1-2k" and put it through another few decades of "hard use" while doing only "basic maintenance" for "a few hundred $ per year".

I'm all with you that no one in their right mind should ever pay for a new car only to have it depreciate by $10.000+ the moment they drive it off the lot. But the real winner of a strategy is buying a proven reliably car that has been well treated about 10 years after it was new, drive gently for 5-10 more years and sell it once the hefty maintenance stuff starts coming in. Also it should be the smallest, most fuel efficient car you can get away with 95% of the time. You rent or borrow a bigger car for the 5% that you can't cover with your small car.
If they wanted to start producing 3D content and charging extra for that, I'd see the reason but I'd balk at them charging more for delivering the same 2D content to a new system.

I wouldn't expect a Vision Pro app delivering a 2D content experience to be dramatically more expensive to build and maintain than their vast array of apps for set-top boxes, hotels, streaming sticks, or the Meta Quest they've already supported but not charged extra for. Why would they draw the line here?
I have slowly rebuilt my wife's old 2000 VW Passat (B5 platform). 232K miles so far.. next year it's officially an antique, can get different plates for it.

Some nice things about this car:

Yes it has a computer, but from just before they serialized everything, so you can easily drop in a replacement (which I've done).

It was used as a taxi in some countries, so spare parts are plentiful.

The complete repair manual is available: https://www.ebay.com/itm/395132634978

I recently repainted it with Rustoleum from Home Depot using a roller (the clear coat had worn off, it looked horrible, but no rust otherwise).
The Linux vs. Illumos decision seems to be downstream of a more fundamental decision to make VMs the narrow waist of the Oxide system. That's what I'm curious about.
Bluetooth is famously finicky.

Apple headphones "just work" with Apple devices.

You can switch audio from your phone to your Apple TV with a single confirmation click. No need to unpair and then manually initiate a connection on your desired device.

I don't know how competition law enforcement is going to make Bluetooth work better?

But your solution would be to make Apple technology worse?
Minors do not have full constitutional rights when it comes to free speech. We've had SC precedence for this for 50+ years, thanks to Ginsberg v. New York.

>"In Ginsberg v. New York, 390 U.S. 629 (1968), the Supreme Court upheld a harmful to minors, or “obscene as to minors,” law, affirming the illegality of giving persons under 17 years of age access to expressions or depictions of nudity and sexual content for “monetary consideration.”

>Judge Fuld of the Nassau County District Court had convicted Sam Ginsberg, who owned a small convenience store in Long Island, New York, where he sold “adult magazines” and was accused of selling them to a 16-year-old boy on two occasions."

It's not good for kids to have unrestricted access to pornography in the same way that it's not good for them to have access to unrestricted social media.
Indeed, the thing that keeps me happy with the Coway 400 I've got is the very small power use when particulate is low and the automatic ramp up when it goes high. My fan I keep near my bed for my own comfort pulls 30 watts. The Coway pulls something more like 5 watts in low use. Expensive up front but low ongoing cost and 4 years running now.
no, that's not faith, by any definition of the word (religious, secular or etymological).

You _can_ have non-religious faith on _people or institutions_ (not necessarily religious, but faith isn't the same as _any set of arbitrary assumptions_ (which is your example). Basic assumptions (in particular those you have evidence for or don't require an internal justification to exist) aren't faith.

Most definitions of the word also require _commitment_ to something or someone, as part of the definition of faith - so someone who blindly trusts a specific car manufacturer and always buys that brand has faith in it, whereas someone who just expects their brakes to work does _not_ have "faith on the brakes".

Trusting someone's word over something trivial isn't faith, it's just trust.
> What's the alternative? I suspect users would be equally upset if they were charged per use of the software (eg. $5 per photo edited).

For the publisher: offer the customer a choice. I doubt that many businesses and enthusiasts that depend upon a product are going to dump a subscription if it is tied to product support and upgrades. Occasional users who aren't interested in support or upgrades may end up purchasing a perpetual license. It's not exactly a new concept. From the descriptions I've seen, this is pretty much what JetBrains does.

As for fee per use, that $5 is a deal if you only have a half dozen photos to edit. (The least expensive way to access Photoshop for a one-time task is $35/month.) Granted, that's probably not the type of service that Adobe is interested in. Which is fine. There are plenty of companies that would be more than happy to develop a product that is better suited to that market.

As for myself, I have found a much better solution for infrequent tasks: open source software. In my younger days, I would have considered less expensive commercial options but I have been burnt too many times by "perpetual" licenses being temporary licenses. So instead of businesses getting revenue, they end up with nothing at all.
Nice work - I get ChatGPT to write ffmpeg commands quire frequently, this is a logical next step :) One thing: you may want to clarify that "Upload" also does the processing with whatever text is currently entered. I expected to upload, then edit the instruction, then run. Maybe renaming the button to "Upload and process"?
Wow that's a really good idea. I could potentially buy 4 Nvidia P40's for the same price as a 3090 and run inference on pretty much any model I want.
This is so well done. Laughed so hard, great start to the day.
Room temperature superconductivity shown in graphite
Let's see if it holds up better than the LK-99 stuff. Looks like there's been something like this before, not sure what happened with that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4521560
Yes, agreed that there was some luck involved, certainly. I'm just saying that there were enough successes that it's statistically significant that their results were better than more recent ones. And agreeing with the parent that the manned component is the best explanation for that.
TFA is about the UK.
One Voyager probe cost a billion dollar. I‘m not sure your Todo app can afford to be written in assembly.
Here's an example of megadolphin running on my m2 ultra setup: https://gist.github.com/nullstyle/a9b68991128fd4be84ffe8435f...
One playbook in how to survive against Amazon?
> if they can't make Deus Ex work, they are absolutely incompetent.

The previous games set a pretty high bar, though, didn't they? It's not like they're making Farming Clicker 3000.
Insight full comments.
Thanks for sharing.
The company can still be acquired to save jobs. Just not by Amazon.
Sorry, yeah, I'm just living in a world where asserts being misused to "handle errors" is unfortunately rather common. My argument is specifically against that kind of assertion, I should've been more clear.
Is it just someone in China or the CCP? The title and the content differs.

My personal take:
The CCP doesn’t have much of an interest in LGBTQ+ people. Their laws are archaic but at least a few years ago, Chinese social media was full of content leaning towards LGBTQ (or maybe it was just my feed? ) and even with million+ views, they were not taken down.
Wouldn’t that enable Walmart to pay less, since the job itself is better?
Lots of circumstances that could mean a fairly paid person is eligible for SNAP. Especially if you are counting part time employees.
The Big Little Guide to Message Queues (2020)
Talk about rhetorical self harm. The person you're screaming at isn't far from you, but you refuse to acknowledge a premise.

Notably, you ignore their autonomous driving pitch is supposed to increase working quality of like, like many instances of automation (in theory).

What if someone can think drivers deserve better pay and ethical treatment and that self driving is a long term solution to a grueling job?
Wait, dwarf fortress is in 3D now?
No because it's not mysterious anymore. Also not many museums in the world that can fit one.
> privacy-destroying

We ARE talking about social media.

Like, the least private software on the planet.
VRChat stands out as one of very few “multiplayer” experiences in VR that are successful. Sure you might have somebody jump into tutorial island yelling “I am a furry! I am a furry! I am a furry” but I also had positive interactions with people right off the bat whereas there was no way I was going to get somebody in Horizon Worlds how to work the stupid fishing rod.
I don't understand your comment; if reddit is part of the dead internet then it is full of spam bots no? Or are you saying that users perceive that most other users are bot when they are not?
Evergrande, once China's biggest property developer, ordered to liquidate
CEO and founder message: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7157729...
We all can share in the costs of electricity, something centralized and 99% of us need, and that need isn't going away. Fewer of us need gasoline.

E-cars almost always have charge scheduling built-in, to charge when cheapest. Here it is after 8 or 9PM for example.
To clarify, there’s nothing stopping you from learning Japanese with it. Almost all of our beta testers are polyglots, studying 5+ languages, most of them studying at least Japanese or Chinese. It’s just that the alignments don’t work well with Hanzi/Kanji - the app itself still function fine, just with a bit more manual effort

We’ve made sure to be transparent with any of our beta testers about the limitations. We also agree that more docs would be better, and they will be coming. We been discussing internally a way to grade languages… but any conversation we’ve had in that area ends up in the same place: we need users to help us grade the languages.

We very specifically do not want to focus in on just a couple languages. There are hundreds of tools out there dedicated to individual languages, and we don’t feel we have anything unique to contribute there.

Sorry if it came across disingenuous! That was not our intention. As we work with beta testers, and learned of all these languages, we will develop more documentation around the precise limits :)
You're not the only one!

I also believe that this is a Big Deal™ that we need to take seriously as a nation. I have yet to see any HN commentator offer a robust pro-social media argument that carries any weight in my opinion. The most common "they'll be isolated from their peers" argument seems pretty superficial and can easily be worked around with even a tiny amount of efforts on the parents' part.

As an added bonus, this latest legislation removes the issue of "everyone is doing it". I mean, sure, a lot still will be—but then it's illegal and you get to have an entirely separate conversation with your kid. :)
This isn't totally uncommon. Companies just use their own shares instead of VOO.
Not sure if you're joking or not, but it seems like they might be saying July 4, 1976 in reference to the US Bicentennial? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bicentennial
The Walton family has consistently been the wealthiest in the world over the past few decades (currently ~$250B networth). If there was still just 1 Walton, Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos would never have held the #1 spot. Greedy as they are, the Waltons have always been greedier.
> significantly increases bug count per delivered software feature.

Going to need a source for this.
The real monsters, and with the most dangerous beliefs and mythology, which are just as much beliefs and mythology as the religious despite their protests that claiming they have beliefs or mythology or even are anything is nonsensical, are the [whatever the word is for not believing in the reality of Russell's Teapot]-ists. You'd be shocked how many horrible people were part of that movement!

Don't get me started on the non-IPUists.
Less consolidation is good. Layoffs suck.
Iirc, that's how the space shuttle control systems worked as well, but they were not COTS...
It's not generally about left-wing and right-wing, it's more that the UK is an authoritarian state, with relatively very few civil liberties compared to other western countries.

To give an example, when the government becomes upset with protests they just make them illegal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police,_Crime,_Sentencing_and_...

and if people in the UK strike too much, they just make that illegal too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikes_(Minimum_Service_Level...
Using Supabase as an Auth Service
Online discourse proving once again the worst thing a company can do for PR is employ poor people.
For this law juries don't need to interpret the law, merely deciding whether the clauses of the law have been met or not is enough. Saying that they don't think the plaintiff or prosecution met the burden of proof is fine.

In the US jury nullification is also a right. If the jury thinks that the law is too draconian for the facts of the case they can vote to acquit.
Manual locks require new jigs on the assembly line for the different parts. Since most people want automatic locks they can save the cost of building those jigs and the inventory management to go with them by not offering it. You only get something as an option if the profit of having the with and without version is more than just offering the "better" option to everyone.
If you're running in one of the big 3 cloud providers, the bottom-level hypervisors are not-linux. This is equivalent. Are you anti-AWS or anti-Azure for the same reason?

This is the substrate upon which you will run any virtualized infrastructure.
It was originally all on a single Z-level. You would dig sideways into the mountain, but you couldn't go up or down. I'm pretty sure it was 3d by 2010 or so, though.
Do you and the GP have 350K GPUs and quality data to reproduce 1:1 whatever Facebook releases in their repos?

Even if you want to reproduce the model and they give you the data, you would need to do this at Facebook scale, so you and the GP are just making moot points all around.

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/05/metas-infrastructure-for-a...

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/20/metas_ai_plans/

The fact that these models are coming from Meta in the open rather than Google which releases only papers with no model tell's me that Meta's models is open enough for everyone to use.

Besides, everyone using the Pytorch framework benefits Meta in the same way they were originally founded as a company:

Network effects

It's relevant.
I think Arch and Gentoo are generally considered closer to upstream. So, it is less likely that you are getting os-specific advice on their wikis.
> If this is Earhart's plane, it's probably also her grave.

Only because no one knew where she was to bury her properly.

I assume you don't say that we shouldn't recover bodies from ANY plane crash; most people would expect bodies to be moved from a plane crash to be buried properly.

Why is this one different? The length of time it took to find the crash, I assume. So how long before we can't move the body because it is a grave? 3 months? A year? 10 years?

I don't think I would consider this a grave, and recovering the body and burying it properly is not grave robbing.
Darknetlive Sold to Incognito Market
For at least a decade.
I'm glad this is out, i'm going to deploy this locally and learn as much about it as possible. Oxide is pretty much the company I dream to work at, both for the tech stack, plus the people working there. Thank you Oxide team!
I guess the docs call it "beta" so maybe that's more accurate. Last I looked a couple months ago there's still a fair bit of corruption issues cropping up
90 second video demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnC8I3d2MXQ

Lots of different notes present. Perfect 5th, major 2nd, major 3rd, major 7th are all found in the harmonic series. In addition there's some beautiful non-piano intervals, notably the 7th harmonic (slightly flat minor 7th) and the 11th harmonic (flat tri-tone)
> More broadly, I don't believe humans have the capacity to foresee second and third order effects of policies like these which is what makes them so dangerous.

I think they have the capacity. We have pretty strong evidence for that. But I do not think they have the will. So at least that would make it possible to solve, albeit easier said than done is quite the understatement. The distinction is important though.
Translation of D-functions into tacit form
My weed whacker batteries stay inside because the summer heat makes them nearly unusable.

I am surprised you are mowing the lawn and a cold snap though
It's not trivial though - it's not easy to 'push air through a HEPA filter' - you need to shop for a motor, blades, and filter more than simply fan (comprising motor and blades) and filter really. Or at least you need to be aware and get a suitably beefy fan - I think $50 is a hard budget to hit just for that reason. Or at least it is if you don't have easy access to cheap 'box fans' that are for some reason so prevalent in North America (what's their usual use?).

You can spend a lot of money on just a fan, it's not just air purifier marketing nonsense.
3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39145728
We so back?
I saw your comment[1] after I wrote mine, but I'm not saying that he's forcing you guys to use it (that would not a good way of being a CTO at a start-up…), but that doesn't prevent him from advocating for solutions he believes in.

Would you say that Oxide would have chosen Illumos if he wasn't part of the company?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39180706
On the other hand their customers and regulators are taking it seriously, which will enable mitigation.
https://www.facebook.com/glassybaby/videos/2723369747740357/

i'd prefer a side-by-side with real candle but oh well
Public transportation is hardly an "inferior option". If done well it can be cheaper, more convenient and quicker than using your own car. It all depends on the willingness to invest the capital needed to build a system people actually want to use.
Aaronson is one of the world's top quantum computing scientists, he's a professor at I believe UT Austin.

He's also written papers that are basically philosophy of physics. It would be interesting to go over what he has actually said on this topic.
> If there is a constitutional right to absolutely 100% friction free access to information then what happens to all the barriers the government has erected to access covid, Trump, Russia and other "disinformation" progressive pushed for?

...those barriers go away. They never really existed in the first place in any real way. Like the Great Firewall, they were a polite fiction defining what people are allowed to know, but were trivially circumvented from minute zero.

This is one of the most reliable and desirable features of the internet in the first place.
Many engineering teams unquestionably find this challenging. Just a quick question, does it solely track usage, or can it also aid in cutting down costs?
For whatever technical reasons, it might just not work as well as the website.

E.g. maybe it will only display video on an emulated "iPad screen" whereas the website uses Safari's video player that might have many more VR-friendly playback features.
Sure. But I'm approaching this from the assumption that we're actually talking "observed/resultant performance" and not "baseline required performance," i.e. talking about "'excess' performance over the required threshold," and if that regresses due to a correctness issue, I don't see the problem. Now what is "the minimum required performance threshold," I cannot say, but it is surely at least the ability to render on "CPU" at 60Hz.

(which CPU? render what? using how much of the available CPU power? with how many frames of latency allowed?)

Note that I don't fundamentally disagree with you and I cringe when I hear issues dismissed as "premature optimizations" myself.
Linux is a nightmare in the embedded/appliance space because one ends up just having platform engineers who spend their day fixing problems with the latest kernels, drivers, core libraries, etc, that the actual application depends on.

Or one goes the route of 99% of the IoT/etc vendors, and never update the base OS and pray that there aren't any active exploits targeting it.

This is why a lot of medium-sized companies cried about Centos, which allowed them to largely stick to a fairly stable platform that was getting security updates without having to actually pay/run a full blown RHEL/etc install. Every ten years or so they had to revisit all the dependencies, but that is a far easier problem than dealing with a year or two update cycle, which is too short when the qualification timeframe for some of these systems is 6+ months long.

So, this is almost exclusively a Linux problem; any of the *BSD/etc. alternatives give you almost all of what Linux provides without this constant breakage.