skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve frequently compared modern VR headsets with cell phones of the 1980s. Big, bulky pieces of metal and glass that will one day look comical. Meanwhile this guy invents VR of the 1960s!
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The Violent Birth of the Moon
You can definitely get a lot out of JS if you start trying to "write it low-level", but it also definitely becomes a case of fighting the language to do so, because everything that it tries to help you with becomes a sharp edge for performance.

So, my experience with doing this kind of thing(and I did plenty of stuff with Actionscript back when) is that it's actually helpful to write your own codegen, even if you're still targeting the high level environment as output, because then you can define a syntax that clarifies the kind of language butchery you're doing, which in nearly every instance has something to do with allocation. Everything that needs to be fast can be programmed towards a preallocated chunk of integers, and cursors that operate over them. When you need to step outside of that and do something a bit higher level, you just bolt on idiomatic JS code and, you know, reuse objects in your algorithms by doing some load and store ops on them, or making them relative to a stack or a pool or whatever. It doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing thing.

This doesn't slow down game development very much, because, while you are adding a bunch of non-idiomatic, less debuggable stuff, again, your bottleneck is almost always about allocation and stuff that just needs to be a fast "array of whatever." Sometimes you iterate over the array, sometimes you indirect or you have a temporary buffer. But it's something that you can plan to have not be totally perfect and still address a hotspot where you would be allocating thousands of times a frame otherwise and thrashing the GC.
Let’s sidestep the legitimate uses of the money for now.

These institutions in Boston are centuries old. Boston has a very finite amount of land.

Allowing organizations with a lifespan in centuries the ability to buy and hold land without limit at no cost seems like a bad long term economic policy. What is the limiting factor on their growth?
We allow American football, even encouraging it with kids
Lob.com API-fy’s US postal mail. But I think it’s more popular in the B2C context, aka marketing mail, not C2B context.
Proof of Achievement of the First Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
You're correct. The other poster is thinking being one of the safest forms of transportation in terms of disastrous accidents == safest state of existence, which is a big misunderstanding.
Even if anti-satellite missiles are too expensive to be used to shoot down thousands of targets, the ground stations could be bombed instead. Hacking the control plane and sending de-orbit commands could be even cheaper.
MaliciouslyCompliant.ai has a better ring to it
There are a lot of programmers that dabble as musicians, and vice versa. Licklidder was a pretty good guitarist, I am told.
I wasn't going to post this article, but this part caught my attention:

"In an earlier post, I asked whether scientists might soon be forced to consider the occult as science. Perhaps some readers think the concern far-fetched. But consider: Science is as dependent on the concept of public truth as the great religions are. In an age when private truth is rapidly gaining in power, it is just as vulnerable as religion."

Feel free to downvote me.
The average profit of a large commercial passenger flight in the US is about one ticket.
What?

People commit crimes that have negative impact on people, possibly causing death

They go to prison for committing these crimes

It’s not like the guy accidentally ran over a dog

He swatted people for money
It's a good thought exercise, but I suspect that's not the case. The plane will land and deposit you somewhere with nearby medical care, and except over the pacific or poles, you're not too far from an airport. There's also staff on hand that have more experience caring for most basic issues that might arise than the people around you ordinarily. There's also very good odds that a doctor is onboard, and of course, defibrillators will be onboard and at least in the US staff are trained to use them.

Further the places you'd be that aren't a plane have plenty of their own safety risks, that people aren't checking for constantly as a matter of course. Whereas on a plane, there's very little that can hurt you, and your job is to, well, remain seated. A fairly safe activity, in moderation.

Combined with the fact your risk of dying due to a fatal accident is about 500 in 9.4 billion, I stand by my rough assessment.
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Pigment does have weight. I'm not sure of anything useful that has no mass.
They totally missed it by not allowing two rainbows to make a double rainbow.
AMD not even ready for the Linux support yet? that's disappointing.
Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater published a couple apps to the App Store. I'm not sure whether he actually wrote them or served as a product manager and had a contract programmer implement them, but they're pretty cool.

Even more old-school, there's Tom Scholz of Boston, who was an MIT-trained engineer who built his own amplifiers and founded a company to market them. A bunch of his inventions are probably familiar to most guitarists: all Rockman branded pedals and other equipment, the Power Soak and Yellow Jackets to get saturated tube amp sound at low volumes, etc.
If you read around, training a 7B model costs on the order of $85,000; the 1.4 stable diffusion release cost around $600,000 to train.

You don't see a lot of 70B or larger models being released for the same reason; it's expensive.

We should just be grateful for what we're getting right now: basically, people are spending 100s of thousands of dollars on training and giving the results away for free. Hugging face is hosting them for free. ollama is hosting them for free. People are writing free inference engines (eg. llama.cpp) and giving them away.

Don't complain. We've got it pretty damn good right now.
Grip Car
They detail the energy used and therefore estimated carbon emissions which is interesting. When I estimate the raw electricity cost using 7-20 cents per kWh for US commercial rates, then we are only talking about $16-50k for electricity, that seems pretty small! Is my math wrong?

Is there any information on how much the computing costs were for renting the clusters?

Is the barrier to entry for a 7B model only a couple $100K?

EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39223467#39224534

Perhaps only $85K total
> To picture that dimension, Vafa said, think of every point on the imagined surface of our four-dimensional world and attach a small loop to it. That loop is (at least schematically) the extra dimension.

So I'm not a physicists and don't have much more than a layman's understanding of all this. But isn't this just Kaluza-Klien all over again, and how is it any different than string theory?

Like really honestly for me the bigger headline is that "String theorist makes testable prediction".
I think this modern internet trend of saying that every mistake is inexcusable and should lead to a breakup is super weird and destructive.

What he said was bad, and wrong. But he just needs a scolding and some minor punishment and to then learn and not do it again. If it becomes a pattern then sure, that's a different thing.
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If the goal is to use the land better, making the very very rich pay a tax for using it badly is not a great idea. They will pay the tax, and use the land, and the city will have exactly the same problem as before, but with some more money that disappears into the “general fund.”
I don’t think solvency was an issue here but another way of getting to the same place is that he felt he could deploy the capital more effectively elsewhere. He made a bet on Netflix because he thought he had some alpha. After he lost a third of it he had less faith in his original thesis and thus his allocation priorities changed.

Or at least that’s the story he’d want to tell
Sociopaths cannot be cured.

SWATing is literally equivalent to shooting at someone with the intention to kill.

Until there is serious consequences for people who do it, it won't stop.
I agree, NBA is absolutely about putting two super stars together that will score 80% of your team points and giving them a supporting cast of low cost players. The game is just more about individual talent.

In the NFL QBs play and outsized role, but really the NFL is more about organization leadership. The well led teams with good owners hire good GMs who hire good coaches and draft well. It is an incredibly fair league because of the salary cap and draft process. Successes tend to be true organizational successes versus a single individuals incredible play.

Small market MLB teams have learned that they can make a run by losing year after year and building a pipeline of high draft picks, trade for a few key players, and try to make a playoff run before the young players rookie contracts expire and the music stops.The Yankees of the World have struggled to adapt to this because their fans expect them to be competitive every year. So they never get the high draft picks and are forced to pay multiple times the amount small market teams pay players to remain consistently competitive. It is predictable if you pay attention to where teams are in the rebuild / tear it down cycle.
Typo, max/msp
Incidentally, an actual diverse group of people can't really be expected to be homogeneous.
Specifically, ntfy.sh sends to Ntfy's mobile app or to their web notifications page, and you don't need an API key just an arbitrary secret channel name.
They were riffing on the idiom. You're taking the idiom too literally.
This is wild - looks like he's messing around with OpenAI to create setlists for a show:

> base_prompt = """
I want you to act as a show designer for Weezer's upcoming summer tour. The show is divided into four segments of contrasting moods.
1. The Pop Party section will feature upbeat, cheerful songs with a more light-hearted message about love and relationships. It will be high energy and encourage the audience to participate in singing along and dancing.
2. The Emotional Ballads section will feature slower-paced songs with poignant lyrics about love and relationships. The instrumentals provide a reflective atmosphere that may be heavy at times, but ultimately brings comfort.
3. The Dark and Heavy section will focus on heavier topics such as mental health/anxiety struggles or social commentary/satire. These songs will have intense instrumentals to match the mood of the lyrical content, allowing for an honest exploration of these issues in a safe space.
4. the Fun and Uplifting segment will have a similar vibe but with deeper lyrics that speak to mental health/anxiety struggles or spiritual enlightenment. The instrumentals may be slightly slower paced than in the Pop Party section, however they are still uplifting as they celebrate hope for brighter days ahead.
You are going to analyze 2 pieces of data: the song's spotify audio feature "energy" and the song's lyrics and then return 1 of these 4 strings, corresponding to the type of song you think it is. Make sure you only return one of these 4 strings with no other test around it. Here are the 4 strings in a list:
["1. Pop Party", "2. Emotional Ballads", "3. Dark and Heavy", "4 . Fun and Uplifting"].
Now here are the song lyrics:
"""

https://github.com/riverscuomo/apps/blob/master/songdata.py#...
People joke about people they hate dying all the time.
A cardiologist told me that the hearth rhythm is a chaotic system.

My inference is, chaotic systems are, well, chaotic. Sudden cardiac deaths could be simply the result of a healthy chaotic system going off the reservation.
Wait, no one remembers now? He once released a mobile app to stream Weezer songs, all written by himself.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weezify/id1598140531
I'm glad he's still writing code so hard.
Wonder whether it is easy to run this on m1/2 using qemu
Oh man I forgot that video was on the Win95 CD!
I wouldn't want to publicly declare malice aforethought.
> If you read around, training a 7B model costs on the order of $85,000; the 1.4 stable diffusion release cost around $600,000 to train.

That seems remarkably cheap actually and likely getting cheaper fairly quickly with improvements in training efficiencies I’d imagine.
4 nines uptime is great, but I would think the SNR matters more in a packet switched network like this. There are conditions that may lead to a very low SNR.
I was offline for a few hours and am just getting to this thread now. Here are the explanations I posted in the previous threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39210947

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172045

If you or anyone read those and have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.

Edit: I've turned off both the flags and flamewar detector on this article now, in keeping with the first rule of HN moderation, which is (I'm repeating myself but it's probably worth repeating) that we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC-funded startup is part of a story (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). Please note: that doesn't mean we don't moderate at all; what it means is that whatever we would normally do, we do less of it in such cases.

Normally we would never late a ragestorm like this stay on the front page—there's zero intellectual curiosity here, as the comments demonstrate. This kind of thing is obviously off topic for HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If it weren't, the site would consist of little else. Equally obvious is that this is why HN users are flagging the story. They're not doing anything different than they normally would.

All this goes double when a story has already had extensive discussion, and 10x when the article is sourcing its content from Hacker News itself, as this one is. That's absurd. But I'm willing to take the hit because the first rule of HN moderation is more important.
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> advocate for something better.

Advocate away. Wanting something better doesn't mean you get to do all sorts of stupid shit and not get called on it. It doesn't immunize against criticism.

And it's entirely debatable and subjective that the world of Tether and Bitfinex are "something better", so please don't act like that's unadulterated facts.
Australia has existed as a free continent for at least 35 million years, it has been inhabited for some 70 thousand years, and it had governance with a governor since 15 years after the Boston tea party [0][1].

Which Australia are you thinking of?

Quite disturbed these days by the state of governance in this country, on so many levels.

- William Kermode, Tasmanian maritime merchant (1836) [3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts.

[1] https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/about/Pages/1788-to-1810-E...

The first settlement, at Sydney, consisted of about 850 convicts and their Marine guards and officers, led by Governor Arthur Phillip. They arrived at Botany Bay in the "First Fleet" of 9 transport ships accompanied by 2 small warships, in January, 1788.

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/feb/02/george-arthu...
At airports there is never a problem. I also have recovered my stolen wallet (stashed in the garbage a few blocks away, with IDs still in it) using it. An airtag would always be better, but I really do think Tile is not too bad. Far better than nothing, if you aren't in the Apple ecosystem.

Tile does display the number of users in your area in the app. Not sure how reliable those numbers are but it's regularly in the hundreds in places like busy airports.
At the ground stations
There's other applications for latching USB-C, not many, because latching is often terrible, but a few.

Apple is probably big enough to convince the USB-IF to make it an official extension to the spec, if they wanted to.

But definitely not an expert, not planning on buying anything Apple or any VR anytime soon.
Yes, I have a PhD in a mathy STEM field despite also not being that good at algebraic manipulation. Mathematica is much better at that than I am, I used a lot for my course work and research. Recommend you get a free student copy and just try it out, I don’t know any good resources I just dove in.
> How about an l and an I? Or a closed "a" and one with the little handle? A zero with a stroke, a zero without a stroke, and an O?

Those are font differences, not character differences. (Unicode has also failed by adding in some fonts. The nuttiness never ends.)
This sort of implies the street criminals become cyber criminals, which seems to not be a matching skill set. Call me skeptical of the study I admittedly haven't read.
This [1] is a fantastic refutation of string theory in that the string theorists have taken more than their fair share of research dollars and public consciousness and that it's time for other branches of physics to get the funding.

With limited resources, if you don't context switch, you starve everything else.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E
Not in security but I recommend 1) Put an email address in your user page, and 2) Maybe remove "Cyber" from the wording because I read from somewhere security people don't like that (I could be wrong so do your own research).
I think you mean fonts. No, Unicode should not encode fonts.

Nor should it encode italic, boldface, underline, line out, reverse video, point size, superscript, subscript, or colored. Those are all style attributes, best applied with a style sheet, not a code point.
Dark matter by definition doesn’t really do anything interesting.
Right, but I don't feel like it's the employers responsibility to be my economic safety net. There's a million ways to approach this problem without having workers keep pretending they're still relevant and collecting a paycheck for something technology can do better.

At some 90% of human labor would become obsolete and we as a society should spend some time planning how to handle this situation. UBI is one such solution.

I think that continue paying people doing meaningless work just to preserve their dignity is stupid and counterproductive.
The new generation of Starlink satellites have laser connections between them (which is what the article is discussing). They can send data to the other side of the globe to a friendly country for the ground link. (That’s a less efficient use of the inter-satellite bandwidth, of course, but worth doing for war.)
I see your point. We are migrating to using github issues for that and related reasons.
Patreon has been amazing for niche creators, it's way bigger than I thought it would be. There's a long tail of podcasts and YouTubers with 1000+ supporters, which is a respectable steady income for one person, or a great side gig for two or three.
> AVIF hasn’t been around much longer than JXL, has it? Only a year or so.

For better or worse, it has much higher adoption. JPEG XL is supported by Safari, and.....well no that's it.
What has happened to running backs has to be address in the NFL. It is probably the worst position in football. Your body takes an incredible amount of punishment and you are typically washed up by the end of your rookie contract. Only the truly top running backs manage to get a decent second contract.
> The law prohibits any program, office or initiative that has “diversity, equity and inclusion” in its name or “asserts that meritocracy is inherently racist or sexist.” It also requires student support services to be open to all students, outlawing efforts that focus on students of certain races or genders.

The actual meat of the article, either good or bad depending on your viewpoint.
As a large language model, I must advise you to play every song off Pinkerton, in order, since that is by far the pinnacle of Weezer’s musical achievement. Some early demos and similar deep cuts would also be acceptable.
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