skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I read it I cringed expecting him to call their employees “grammarians.” But it was even worse: “grammarlians.”
Connected to the grid yes but usually the interconnect is simply enough for running the mine not enough to cover many megawatts of storage capability. The battery storage companies have found that there is an abundance of fields and brownfield sites close to existing substations to place their batteries where the cost of connecting to the grid is minimal.
Many excess deaths attributed to natural causes are uncounted Covid-19 deaths
There's so many layers of compression and scaling and transforming going on that it's never going to look Great.

macOS renders to 5120x2880 'display', then it's downscaled to 4k, which is then streamed to the Vision Pro with whatever compression or bitrate, where it's scaled to whatever size you display it as.
> It's got a 12 core Ryzen 5000 series

AMD's mobile 5000 series topped out at 8 CPU cores and 8 GPU compute units. I'm not aware of any laptops that used AMD's desktop CPUs prior to the 7000 series; there may have been some boutique OEM doing that but almost certainly not Thinkpads.
And utility called 'dd' can overwrite your hard disk with nulls. But should it?

The key word above is "usually". There's no good reason to make source files executable. And also, there's no much sense in compiling any source file individually instead of relying on a proper build system.
IIRC Marco also said that he is happy with the status quo. He really doesn't want to have responsibility for any moderation/curation and is happy to defer to Apple in that matter. This was shortly after Apple removed Alex Jones' podcast from the directory.
We'll see how short-term thinking works out for them in a decade. "Rich but irrelevant" isn't a good place to end up. But at least shareholders in 2024 got a percentage more in gains.
To you, what does it mean to “not work”? Or what would it mean for it to “work”?

I’ve meditated on and off, and find it sometimes helpful, but I can’t conceive of what it would mean for it to work, or not work.
The best translation, however, is from Fortinet's clarifying statement.

https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/111892744775689047

"It appears that due to translations the narrative on this topic has been stretched to the point where hypothetical and actual scenarios are blurred"
internet etiquette... lol
I know, /s, but:

If you have someone who aimlessly kills products and fires people but lacks vision or a decent plan, you could find someone much cheaper, and save tens of millions on executive compensation. If operating margin is so crucial now, then it seems cutting pay of top executives is the easiest way to achieve that with the least damage to the company.
I generally expect Grace to show up as underpowered compared to modern AMD and Intel offerings (Skylake is old), but if they do end up with any wins when they run that benchmark, I would assume it would be due to the memory bandwidth. LPDDR5 on a server chip with 2x the bandwidth of the DDR5-based competitors is really good to see.
They "acquired" Erich Gamma and let him build Visual Studio Code with his team in Switzerland.
At least that one presented itself as a story they were telling, rather than a simple factual answer. A headline about an anatomy professor detailing the uses of the appendix doesn't seem like it'll be a meandering tale about that professor's personal experience suffering with appendicitis more than 30 years ago.
Shippable, goodness no, but a 1-hour-limit prototype already solving a problem you haven't even begun thinking about? I'd take that. I tend to start over from scratch after the first prototype anyway. You're interviewing people anyway, your choice is either real issues or fake issues, and fake issues get your nothing.
I still think Snow Leopard was the peak OS
I wonder how long it will take them to morph into a financial services company.
But that would defeat the purpose of the confusing layout made specifically to have you see a maximum number of products, deliberately wasting your time!
This happens in every industry.

Once a competitor gets away with a specific controversial or tricky to explain move, the others can pass through the same hole. Apple dropping the headphone jack or glueing the batteries were the same kind of moves, it expanded to other makers because they got away with it.

Or we could look at Twitter charging ridiculous prices for the API and Reddit jumping through the same loop.

In the CPU I think it's more nuanced, but there's definitely a tradeoff that many makers wouldn't do on their own.
Not as much when taking into account the actual direction of the wind, which would be more inline with the aircraft.
Boeing execs are hopeful this means they can save three bolts per plane.
I love me a boring boss. Inept, I have zero patience for.
Based on how fucking terrible Teams is, I'm not surprised to learn that the devs on it are wildly incompetent.
yes but 422.6 has been used to arrest folks who were making racist speech, but IIUC he was extradited back to Colorado on another charge first.
There’s also a bunch there about how targeting others and posting complaints about others makes for uninteresting reading so avoid it

Just saying
On mobile device but it’s the standard weighting values for either TF/IDF or BM25. In this case BM25.

A comment would be useful but they are also instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with the problem.
Outside of ads, and maybe LLM work, what projects are going on at Google that are interesting, to both the top brass and to line level engineers, that might lead people to feel differently? Google has been a rudderless ship cruising on ad dollars for years, with mid level managers launching one unimpressive product after another. Products that get canned by Google months later and only serve to benefit said managers resume. There's nothing apparent in the company to drive any high morale, unless morale is measured in RSUs.
This is really cool. The thing that strikes me immediately is all of the shipwrecks.
> all browsers moving over to an evergreen

Except Safari.
"And I just want to clarify that, through these changes, people feel it on the ground and sometimes people write back and say, ‘Thank you for simplifying.’"

Is there any mandatory training for CEOs to first understand when somebody is kissing up, second evaluate how devastating is cherry picking rare positive feedback to the company's morale? I can't believe top people can be so inept.
I believe Cyclops myths were inspired by the skulls of dwarf elephants who lived on the island of Sardinia. https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/01/28/cyclops-ancient-greeks...
Just because they can use AI for everything does not mean they should.

But they will try, at least because it seems cheaper. Money talks.
Also Emacs' org-mode.
The phrase "2 MW of energy" makes no sense based on units. Shouldn't writers (and editors) be required to at least take high school physics or chemistry?
Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say
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Interesting to bring this up - always wondered which way the creative influence went between Monkey Island and Pirates of the Caribbean (if i recall correctly, the game is based off the ride, but the film was allegedly inspired by the game)
They aren’t even in the top 5. There are poorer states
Certainly wearing this device would remove the need to refocus your eyes, so people with presbyopia (everyone, yes everyone, gets it eventually) would see a benefit. But there are so many other downsides (FOV, latency, resolution, motion blur, color gamut, brightness, reprojection errors, not to mention battery life and comfort) that it would be hard to imagine that anyone's vision would be improved on the whole.
This was profoundly disappointing. Between this and the contractor layoffs in January, the lab has lost over 600 people at the start of this year. More than 10% of the workforce.

I see complaints here on HN and elsewhere that so many tech workers feel like they're squandering their gifts and time convincing people to click on ads. NASA (and JPL in particular) stands out as an institution where talented and passionate folks are working on things that feel meaningful and that will pay off over the span of decades and generations, increasing our knowledge of the universe and changing our perspective on our place in it, and developing valuable technologies that will have impacts on broader society outside of space exploration in the process.

Really sad to see so many people lose their dream jobs today.
Yeah, I'd be surprised if mines weren't in the multi MW range... but nothing like a modern hyperscale data center. Those damn things are 100MW and larger!
> a compiled script will run 10,000 times faster than LISP

Putting aside some hyperbole, this depends how long it takes to compile.
>So yes, I was foolish enough to think the pundits (which represented their respective mainstream media outlets) were actually basing their opinions on polls and reasonable data instead of lying

No, you simply are making up nonsense still. Polls changed quickly near the election, as did lots of the pundits. That you are completely ignorant of what I just showed you is because you drank right wing kool aid for so long that your only reply about media accuracy is one event pulled nearly 8 years ago. That's sad.

And for discounting the pundits, so far every one of your claims and talking points is straight out of right wing pundit land: and after the Dominion lawsuit pulled all the internal memos out of Fox news where the pundits were calling your type ignorant, stupid, needing to hear stories that confirm their beliefs or they'll go to other networks that feed them the lies they want - it's completely clear all that path was and is simply lies, known to be lies to those spreading them, simply to keep people like you eating the slop.

And eat it you did.

So far all you've demonstrated is a lack of knowledge about media accuracy, an inability to grasp it when fed to you in data you can check yourself, and are unable to present even a single place you claim is more accurate. Yet somehow you still cling to the belief that you cannot present evidence for.

That's the outcome every time I discuss media accuracy with anyone that has your style of comments. Not a one has any ability to figure out how to measure quality.

If you want to adapt your world view to facts, instead of the other way around, start feeding your brain info from a place that is at least accurate on claims when checked.

If you're still unable to present a single media source you claim is more accurate than "mainstream media", then admit you must consume what we'll have to simply call the "inaccurate fringestream media," and I'm done with this thread.
In my early years at Google my coworkers called these "the taco box" because of the design. Later they made it blue, but probably for unrelated reasons.
Totally fair, there are definitely tradeoffs.
designing a new music app and/or chat app every 2 years sounds pretty fun
Its amazing that the CEO of Google is still there after wholesale wrecking of developer trust over many many years.
Yep. That one made me snicker as well…
Well that went well.
The weird thing is, a couple years ago when I contributed a little bit to Serenity OS, they were actually using an IRC channel
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We have been working hard to grow the bluegrass tech community (mainly focused on Lexington area right now). The following are a good place to start:

- https://lextalk.tech/ - should be another one in April or may

- https://www.meetup.com/The-Bluegrass-Developers-Guild on Meetup - lots of good events here

- https://www.bluegrassdevs.org/ - join our slack

I really suggest coffee and code. It is super chill and a great way to meet folks around the area: https://meetu.ps/e/MN0XK/1RyZP/i

We are always looking for folks to help out.
The problem with your interpretation is that it defies causality. The question of whether this is a well-formed C++ program isn't one that can be delayed until runtime, it either was, or was not, a well-formed C++ program when it was compiled - so if your reading requires that we don't know until runtime then it cannot be a correct reading.

Instead the models are about types, not about individual values or groups of values (except in the sense that a type "is" all its possible values). Unlike individual values, the types are known at compile time, so at compile time the types used mean it is or is not a well-formed C++ program in this regard. If we use a type which matches the syntactic requirements but does not model the Concept, our program is Ill-Formed and No Diagnostic is Required, we've written nonsense, we don't win a prize and our program has no defined meaning.

You seem hung up on the fact that we often can't be sure, that's Rice's Theorem, the option we'd prefer (accept exactly the set of programs with the desired semantics) is mathematically impossible, Henry Rice got his PhD for showing that a lifetime ago. If you want non-trivial semantic properties (and in a language like C++ you certainly do) then you have two practical ways to resolve this and get a working language. The first way is the one C++ chose, you can reject some obviously unacceptable programs, but whenever you aren't sure you assume the desired property is satisfied and don't worry about it further.

The other option (which I happen to think is the only reasonable choice) is the one Rust took - only programs which we can show have the desired semantic properties will compile, other programs are rejected. This means the compiler will reject some correct programs, which is somewhat annoying if it happens to you, but effort put into the compiler can reduce the frequency of its occurrence (and it did in Rust, that's what the Non-Lexical Lifetimes change was and what Polonius is all about)
Definitely sounds like something a Russian bot would point out
You might be surprised how few sites are suitable for pumped hydro and how costly it is to build. I can easily see this being both cheaper and more efficient. Most pumped hydro installations outside of northern Europe end up requiring large dams to create a big enough impoundment uphill. A direct weight solution should have better conversion efficiency as well, Gravitricity quotes 80% which is on the high end of pumped hydro. The charge/discharge rate and response time also look better than a similar pumped hydro setup, unsurprisingly considering the lower inertia.

It so happens that pumped hydro was considered for the same site but abandoned last year due to the high cost estimate.
Literate programming, Donald Knuth
I took those things m, and I’m a successful software engineer and founder with an exit. I can never remember anything but joules for energy. Which I think doesn’t matter? And my RV has amp-hours? No fucking idea.
Congrats for demonstrating her point (which was that commenters often claim that anyone who ever benefitted from tech in any way must not criticize tech).
That's a really cool app. What JavaScript framework did you use?
Firing people actually helps raising a stock price [0].

0 - https://money.com/tech-layoffs-affect-stock-prices/
Some people like goofy mashup fun.

There's a ton of people who apparently really liked Kingdom Hearts.

It's pretty elitist to consider some IP too sacred to remix.
You get more bandwidth by having all memory channels populated. When you have multiple slots per channel, filling all slots at best gets you a few percent better memory performance due to having more ranks of memory, but for DDR5 platforms the extra load on the memory controller due to multiple DIMMs per channel brings a big hit to the (officially supported) memory clock speeds.

The fastest memory configs for a desktop currently are using one single-rank module per channel. Using one dual-rank module per channel doubles the capacity for typically a slight performance penalty.
It's not an either/or.

I'm fluent in Python, but had spent most of my time in 2.x. When I had to finally switch to 3.x, I went through all the 3.x release notes for new capabilities. One thing stood out: scandir was the preferred method compared to os.walk.

There's no way I'll remember that and I'd be too lazy to Google it. So it went into SRS.

Ditto for concurrent.futures (broke my habit of using multiprocessing directly).

The other use case for SRS and programming languages: There are always languages I use only occasionally (e.g. Emacs Lisp) So I'll never develop muscle memory. Using SRS significantly boosted my Elisp capabilities.

I don't code in JS, but I decided to take a course on it and put a lot of the stuff in SRS. I've almost never used JS since, but a coworker is using it in a project we're both working on. I was looking at his code, and pointed out to him various alternatives that he wasn't aware of (e.g. newer features since the time he learned it). Definitely would not have been able to do it without SRS. I can mostly read/understand his code. Again, almost entirely due to SRS.
I'm hoping they're building a commodity AR/VR operating system -- essentially spatial Android. They've already announced a partnership with Samsung and Qualcomm so I've got to imagine some interesting hardware is coming soon.
The regular employees are far more deluded than management in thinking that they're somehow changing the world for the better.
The issue with moviepy is that it's looking for maintainers, the original author doesn't have the time to reason about some PRs, and they're undergoing a "v2" rewrite in the process.

https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy/issues/1874
Survivorship bias in action.. "I'm glad to be alive.. thanks boss!" How many of the people laid off said "thank you for simplifying.." ..
Probably, they had to let 830 (16%) go to reach financial stability and got rid of Bandcamp and SuperAwesome for another 250. [1] Apparently they were "spending way more money than we earn" to try and turn Fortnite into a metaverse concept. However, lately they say they've been getting by on low margin creator content revenue sharing that seems to not be enough. Based on the letter, the layoffs and divestitures brought them to financial stability again.

[1] Sept 28, 2023 https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/layoffs-at-epic
Thats awesome, now I'm going to have to find a reason to use this for something ;)

Tiny nitpick: the #![allow()] generates a 'warning: unused attribute' warning for me.

If you change it to #![allow(unused_attributes)] it disables the warning for itself.
Google does plenty of stuff well, but what's their last big exciting new product or even new feature? Bard is good but they're chasing OpenAI. Same story with the Pixel phones and Samsung. Or YouTube Shorts and Tiktok.

It all seems directionless or stagnant, like the bad old days of Microsoft.
Raising stock price makes so many people happy than firing a few wealthy individuals does some small harm for the greater good of many.

/s
Have you tried Google of late? I have to click way too many links to find the site with my answer. Even for basic Python APIs.
That's explained in the article, which serves as the documentation for the code within the article. The link for BM25 goes to some of the math, and a little more searching the internet about BM25 parameters can lead you to some relevant articles on how to choose them.
This is the first thing I thought of when I watched Casey Neistat’s VP review.

He was obsessed with using it out in public, in NYC, where other reviews are in living rooms.

I immediately imagined enhanced store signage, with dynamic, personalized ads floating in consistent space, placemarkers, directional arrows, etc.

Love it or not. It seems to be what’s coming.
Video- FAA's FPO division's plan to reduce the number of white males in aviation
In theory it should be possible to say this as a shorthand to "we do not share the same values", but of course in practice these discussions get emotional really fast.

This recent one comes to mind, note how the author takes a lot of precautions around it, but still...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39285804
It what way is it not usable?
It's telling the name of this repository is "MoneyPrinter"—says a lot about the monetization of videos today. I wonder if the creator has made money on YouTube from this repository. I didn't see any stats in the README.
> People with English as their mother tongue have some advantages - we actually recognise a huge variety of vowel sounds because various English accents contain them

Not so sure about that. For example, I noticed it takes a bit of effort to get native English speakers to pronounce the ы sound, or to get them to hear how the ь letter affects pronunciation.

> We also know pronunciation and writing are completely disjoint: anyone coming from a language where you say what you read has a big disadvantage.

I don't quite agree. I come from a language where the spelling is almost phonetic (so, not totally disjoint from pronunciation), and it's very easy for children to learn reading and writing, which means they quickly move on to more important things.
Meanwhile, children learning English as a first language are stuck memorising spelling and obscure rules and exceptions just to be able to write correctly.
And conversely, when they hear a new word (or name) they need to look up how to spell it.
I don't see an advantage, it's just a waste of energy.

It was relatively easy for me to learn the spelling of English words because I already knew a reasonable amount of French, so it was quite intuitive to spell "restaurant" or "renaissance". But for someone with English as a first language, I suspect it would have involved a lot of memorising.
But then you might have to watch it get killed right before your eyes. And the lack of new features and general support for a lot of their products makes me think there are a lot of employees wishing they could continue work on the products they've built, but can't.
Build houses not clouds
What ever happened to Google X, have they released a single product or is it all resume padding just like their balloons or whatever
AI could be smarter than people in 20 years, says 'godfather of AI'[video]
Only works if the competition does indeed leave the market. The risk of staying out while everyone else embraces the next generation technology is a reduction in customer loyalty. Every current Toyota owner who buys a competitor's product is potentially someone who will switch loyalties going forward.
I think you're just in for a rude awakening if you expect the Google from 20 years ago. It's no longer a scrappy startup, it's closer to Microsoft at this point.
The idea that people get out of prison and their life goes on is largely Hollywood. Mostly prison means life is over. They may get out but they won't be long for the world.
This is why many of us are excited about LLMs. This.
The current hoist at this mine is 2.5MW, so that gives an idea of the existing connectivity.

I actually wondered if it might be possible to reapply the main hoist at a mine for this kind of application, many already have some energy recovery. But I don't think it would be practical in that many situations because these deep mines often have other "tenants" (this one has a cosmic ray observatory for example) that will want to continue use of the main hoist---and of course it is appealing to install this type of system in operational mines when there's a disused shaft.