skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m baffled that they decided this was a worthwhile thing to do after the bad press/lack of results Elon got for the same thing.

Sure, Elon is more of a hypocrite for doing so, but even beating up on a student for posting publicly available information looks bad.
My house has a ton of heat sources.

Mini splits for primary heat.

Steam radiators with oil furnace as backup.

A ton of space heaters for backup backup.

Oh, and a wood burning stove in the living room for backup backup backup. If shit really hits the fan, I can crank the wood stove and surviving.
Safari is the one and only browser I continue to need to write special extra CSS for.
I've expected a Fortnite movie for awhile now. The current storyline would be perfect for someone like J.J with his histroy of mistique.

Nit: It was all of Marvel not just Avengers and I think they did Star Wars too already.
> Reuters is an outlet completely captured by its owners, for whatever purposes that benefit its owners, exactly like whatever this is

Such a vague statement. You can say that about anything. Who are the owners? What are their interests? How did Reuters serve those interest? Reuters changed ownership in 2008. Did their content also change after?

Everyone who follows Chinese news knows Epoch Times is affiliated with Falun Gong — [0]. China media make sure of that. Was anyone aware of this fake network of China affiliated websites if not for the investigation of citilab?

[0] -https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times
The Stupid EV Race to Empty Batteries and Back: Hyundai Ioniq 5 vs. Kia EV6
For tech and art, yes, that's been a solid Apple domain for decades. But your average paper pusher bureaucrat? They get a crap 500$ Dell/HP that constantly has issues because there's no budget for better stuff and 90% of the non-Web/SaaS software in that area is solid Windows-only.
> Sure it wasn't the best but no one forced people to use it.

Ehh, plenty of corporate IT decided to force employees to use IE. That's actually my main interaction with programming for it, clients that HAD to use IE due to corporate policy.
Why are they comparing it against e.g. Skylake, which is 6 years old?
This seems a total waste of time when you could be learning LLMs
I think this sums it up: "a lot of the work you end up doing is not programming."

Programmers will happily hire a lawyer or a receptionist, but will code themselves into a fury and invent programming languages to avoid admitting they suck at ops and should hire someone.

Let's just call it what it is: the cloud is ego driven outsourcing. Nobody wants to admit they need an ops person, so they just pay for 1 millionth of an ops person every time someone visit their website.
Definitely not the only, but certainly the one most capable of building a scalable virtual world.
Everyone I disagree with is a Russian bot.
Some people have much worse vision? Makes sense that people would perceive visual clarity differently
A utility called 'chmod' can adjust the permissions to allow execution
Similar situation for me - 2015 13" MBA - but it's myself I need to justify the expense.... the old MBA does everything I ask...
Ford rethinks EV strategy, is working on a smaller, cheaper EV platform
I feel the same. My initial reaction is that I like the vision, but I feel there is probably a compromise to build these mechanics into a library for many languages, rather than requiring the DC burden of picking up a new 'better cloud' centric language. Perhaps I just haven't developed an appreciation for language capabilities yet.
That number is correct.
Full text: https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/1...
Quality products which can be bricked on system update and have so many issues that everyone says to not upgrade for at least 6 months after major release!

Also their software is garbage if you need to connect to or use something outside of apple ecosystem.
I think torture means the intent to harm, usually implying pain by force.

The story shows no proactive intent to try and hurt the child for the sake of hurting it.

Yes, obviously neglect and abuse will harm a child, and that is clearly mentioned in the story.

> Solitary confinement is commonly accepted to be a form of torture

Rubbish. Solitary confinement is used in quarantine, mental health and penal settings without being "commonly" accepted as being torture. The purpose isn't to cause harm, although that may be the outcome. Unfortunately many people seem to think that solitary in prison is acceptable, and too many people wouldn't call it abuse. Do people commonly call it torture? I'm sure most of us would call it torture if we had experienced it (I've only been locked up once - not solitary but threatened with it).

Of course if you intend harm, then solitary confinement can be a form of torture.

As Humpty so wisely said, you can make words mean whatever you wish. But using a definition at odds with your audience does hinder communication.
I'm sad they weren't icosahedrons; it would have been evidence for D&D in Roman times.
I miss the internet when it was a limited access resource.

The internet of the 90's and 00's had drama and trolls, but they were few and far between.

Most people had patience (dialup), technical competency, interest (no low effort), and engaged in things they earnestly cared about.

There was no engagement / rage algorithm to fuel fires.
That's true, but only with children under 4 years old, which isn't tremendously meaningful. Few three year olds are allowed to make their own food choices, and thus may be restricted in weight despite innate hunger due to the fact that adults are limiting their food intake. Not to mention that the US CDC measures childhood obesity as weighing above a percentile of the population, an even more tenuous measure than BMI.
They might be counting on Swift's fanbase being more energetic and motivated to defend her than Musk's fanbase was.
yeah, thats depressing. the modern web is an absolute hellscape. even stuff as simple as documentation. the old Go docs used to look like this:

https://godocs.io/fmt

now its this nightmare:

https://pkg.go.dev/fmt
Take Norvigs advice which is, mostly, to not be in a rush (if you can economically afford it). Learn it on the side, make sure it is and stays fun.

Trying to get a job early is likely to be frustrating.
See also: Samsung and Apple competes in phones, yet Apple sources phone displays from Samsung
Loading the components page is far from fast.
Great work! Now do Safari.
Well now.. it is not like I need another reason to avoid Epic, but.. I am obviously not the target demographic here. I personally think, from Disney's perspective, this is not a wrong move to make.
Nice, a structural editor throwback reference! :-) I'll speak to point 1! We aim to add FFI as a fast follow on to the native compilation work that is underway. The work on the JIT compiler opens the door to FFI so that's on the roadmap soon.
> What is the caret state in the middle? It is both column 1 and column 6.

The author goes off the rails at precisely this point. The cursor state is column 1, the cursors return column is 6. Congrats, you've made a blog post about a problem that could be solved using a tuple.

There's better ways to tack into the invalid states are unrepresentable mantra. For example, cursor column should never be greater than len(line[cursor_row]). How should such a constraint be encoded into the type system?
By Chinese people, for financial reasons? How can you be so sure it isn’t part of China’s effort to influence the public in those countries?
Yes, as does any most DDR5 systems, but they are still 128 bits wide or 4 x 32 bit channels.
Has anyone here integrated MOJO into a real industry workflow.

I am looking for a language not called C++ that I can write some bottlenecked modules in and wrap it around in python.

I want the code base to feel like python with a few files offloaded to this language.

Any suggestions ?
Yes, but that’s not the trend.

The US can no longer afford to be world police with its navy.

Russia is now outside of the US economic system, while relations with China continue to deteriorate. It will deteriorate further once China attacks Taiwan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition#T...

>The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

That's pretty wild that a direct competitor targeted a browser based on a few random engineers's personal views. In 2024, privacy being front and center, I wonder if its even feasible to kill off Google. They are slowly becoming a bully and a menace to society (unless you're one of the three letter agencies).
No, Disney uses Unreal for their rendered real-time sets. This is about more than just Fortnite.
I remember those days well. IE was really the only usable browser for a long time. Netscape was incredibly unstable, didn't support any modern standards. Mozilla (before Firefox) was too new, also unstable until roughly 2005.
For a huge portion of the population goals like raising a family and owning a home simply aren't going to happen at all instead they are going to spend 0-30 living in their parents home and 65-80 living in their kids home because they can no longer afford rent once they have to live on social security.

Given that education housing and health care have been increasing faster than wages this is presumably this portion is going to expand.
I agree China is probably not in the best shape regarding fighting, but for a different reason: bureaucracies don't like wars. They are hugely unpredictive, and more importantly, wars bring generals into the front row, so if you are not a general you are going to stand back, lose power and receive order from somewhere.

For example, usually the party provincial secretary (most powerful man in that province) concurrently serves as the first secretary of the provincial military region party committee, but he doesn't have real power in the military. When war comes, it's the group of people who are more experienced with military (the generals) going to make the call, and everyone else is not going to be happy.

Think Politburo and the Central Military Commission. When war comes it's the CMC who is going to make the call. Some people take seats in both but some not. They all stand in the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party -- but power distribution is going to shift when things move.

That's why I think the biggest resistance comes from the party itself, not depression. Depression, historically, usually leads to wars, not from them.
Unless you have it backwards and now Apple uses its sway in Disney to get Epic to stop.

/s
One thing I'm happy about is that the gguf file format is getting widely used, here endorsed by Google. I vastly prefer working with gguf and have adopted it for my project, hopefully it gets the critical mass to become a "native" format and we can stop with pytorch checkpoints.
This is veering into a realm of hypotheticals and academia that ignore real world reality and humanity.

You: "row upon row of vacant luxury properties represent significant capital inflow!"

Real world: vacant luxury houses can cause blight and other problems just as much as low-income housing.

Also, the value of the vacant property does not decrease because it is occupied. Unless your claim is that the local burden of people existing in a community is larger than the combination of their property and other contributions.

So an occupied property represents significant capital inflows AND enhances economic well-being on a per capita basis, AND does so moreso than the vacant, because there's the capital inflow AND the local spending.

Otherwise you end up with the absurdist trope of talking about public budgets as "homes and communities are worth more if no-one lives in them".

"Assume a spherical cow..." "Assume a row of oceanfront villas that have roads and sewage and utilities that require less maintenance because they're all vacant."

Phrasing it, as you repeatedly do, as "envy-driven" and "anti-free market" and libertarian ideology is sophistry. "You just don't get economics" - no, people understand that housing isn't a purely economic construct.
> this kind of approach could take _seconds_ to even start running

Only seconds? Today it takes 45 minutes to do the update by hand, but there's this handy 20-line Python script that does it instantly.

(Hypothetical example only, but it's not uncommon.)
I'm almost certain that the Unity licensing debacle caused a number of Disney department heads to say "we need to make sure this doesn't sneak up on us on the Unreal side for our cinematic production pipeline." Whether or not this deal was already in the works, it certainly didn't hurt it.
We dread to live in a world of phone-zombies as well, yes.
You’re right, more details:
The goal is a working app that I can monetize, no outside funding desired. The app will be a document repository for facility managers who need to keep track of their equipment maintenance manuals. It’s a very specific niche, so not many customers but the pain is real. They have to keep the copies available in one place for regulatory purposes.
Thanks, makes sense. Good evolution too
Barbra Streisand has entered the chat[1]

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Streisand-effect

(It may be obvious to many of us, but it seems that some folks have apparently never heard of this concept.)
This survey is using self-assessed cups - without providing a cup size or any guidance. Specifically, a survey asks users "How many cups of coffee do you drink a day?" with no other context.

So, "cups" for this study is whatever the respondent considers a cup. For most people, that's going to be at least 8 ounces and probably 8-12 oz.

From the full text (https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/1...), here's how the intake is described:

> Habitual coffee intake was self-reported as cups per day, as part of the touchscreen questionnaire at baseline with the question “How many cups of coffee do you drink a day?” (38). Participants were asked to include decaffeinated (decaf) coffee intake in their response. Decaffeinated consumers were identified from response to the question “What type of coffee do you usually drink?”. Coffee consumption was grouped in seven categories, including non-
drinkers, decaffeinated coffee drinkers, and caffeinated coffee drinkers consuming <1 cup/day, 1-2 cups/day, 3-4 cups/day, 5-6 cups/day and >6 cups/day. “Coffee drinkers” in the text refer to participants who report intake of caffeinated coffee. For sensitivity analyses we constructed separate indicators restricting the data to decaffeinated coffee drinkers and according to tea consumption, using intake categories as above"
> Yo, OpenAI - publish these please, so that people know what they're getting.

Would publishing help increasing a market share or profit?

Market is - and has always been - the power. Power against paying someone else or using their product. OpenAI has the power. It uses it - otherwise it's useless and what's the point - to earn more power and more money.
Are you sure the video memory is actually in use?

Like turn off Windows swap and use some application that will allocate around 24GB of RAM.

Windows always shows shared GPU memory as half the RAM, for example mine shows 64GB shared on my 128GB box, yet I have no problems loading up 90-100GB of VMs and running them full blast.

Now, the only thing that could be causing a problem here is if you're using any driver written by Dell themselves. They could very well be causing some kind of reservation bug that's not a direct windows issue itself.
Often that reserved memory is a soft limit that programs try to respect, but they can force allocate more. So what happens when you disable page file, close everything, open python3, and type this?

array20gb = bytearray(20 * 1024**3)

This should allocate 20GB of RAM to that process, starting with unused unreserved RAM, and then it should take your shared video memory after the unused unreserved RAM is allocated. If you get an error, then you know that reserved video RAM can't be used by programs.
i dont know why it took a week but i finally have you to confirm my suspicions based on the nebulous " its a bit out of focus i dont know" crap from every review I came across.

keep it up good man.
I'd try to get a job where the title is actually Web Developer or Software Engineer but at a lower tier less competitive company. That way you can use it on your resume to pivot to a better paid role, and the work will be similar just with lower standards, you can learn the standards yourself and apply them even if your coworkers aren't the greatest role models. People get kind of pigeon holed in QA for some reason in my experience.
> This is exactly the reason - and perhaps they finally can do it because "Apple showed the way" with the M-series.

This isn't generally what you want as a customer though. Most current games will need something in the range of 8-16GB of VRAM, but will need that in addition to whatever you need in terms of main system memory. If you also want 16GB of system memory, you need 32GB in total but only benefit from 16GB being fast, and you might often want more than 16GB of system memory.

Apple is fine with this because then if you want a lot of RAM they can charge you an arm and two legs for that much of the fast stuff, and solder it all so you can't upgrade it. But what you really want is to solder a modest amount of the fast stuff to the CPU, put it in the CPU socket (so even it can still be upgraded by upgrading the CPU, and then the socket doesn't need all of those pins) and still have the same DDR slots as ever to add gobs of the cheap stuff to suit.
Meiosis or Mitosis?
Even if the engineering was "world class", it was completely pointless seeing as people could get most of the juice out of the packs by just squeezing them with their bare hands.

Though I get the impression they put most of their real engineering effort into their obnoxious juice drm scam, and everything else was just overbuilt to make it feel premium.
This was a different era with southbridge and stuff, but what about the Nvidia Nforce2: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/NForce2

Based somewhat on Xbox 1 design.
Europe's deepest mine to become giant gravity battery
They are in many cases. I was trying to show she at least seems to care enough to try to counteract her own impact. That likely means the tried to minimise the number of fights too.
The power and cost of the discrete GPU alone in that scenario will far outweigh the cost of the APU here. The nice thing about the APU line is you can throw them in cheap mini PCs and not have to worry about having PCIe slots or "real" PSUs, you get a good CPU with a better-than-basic GPU without having to shell out double for a GPU or having a big PC to do it in. They are also monolithic on top of being combined parts so not just the active but the idle power is highly optimized.
Edenists.

MLM is the Commonwealth Saga, if I recall. First book “Pandora’s Star”
Do they still? They used Unreal for the virtual sets in The Mandalorian S1, but for S2 they switched over to a different solution.

https://www.ilm.com/vfx/the-mandalorian/

> For season one of the series ILM StageCraft utilized Unreal Engine to perform the real-time render

https://www.ilm.com/vfx/the-mandalorian-season-2/

> The real-time render engine called Helios was specifically developed by ILM engineers

> Ctrl-F "Unreal" - no results
> you reap the benefits of type-safety, testability, and code reuse, etc.

If you treat infrastructure as a problem that has to be solved by code, obviously you'll run into code specific issues like type safety. In the real world I've never root caused a production issue back to that.
Seems to me like you're on some bizarre personal crusade against motorcyclists, and it seems like you feel like the roads belong to cars only, while people who use other means of transportation feel like the most common danger or nuisance on roads is... cars/trucks. People shouldn't feel like the only safe place to be is in a bigger car, but people do feel that way, because they're most likely going to be killed crashing into... another car or truck.

But maybe we should take a few lanes out from a majority of roads and dedicate them to anything but cars.
Thank you! It's a bit old now, but I think the principles in it are still valid :)
Again, great response, I think you understand the dynamics better than I. HN is gonna cut off this thread soon but I think your last line helps me sum up my point well:

You can have a company culture that encourages skirting regulations and cutting corners in production regardless of dividends/buybacks and executive compensation.

IMO, a good way to avoid such a culture is to choose and cultivate quality engineers. A better way is to also entice them with high pay and/or prestigious projects. The best way, which is entirely foolproof, is just to have more money so that corner cutting doesn’t come up. And given the scale of Boeing’s behavior, I thinks it’s reasonable to say they could’ve expanded QA/safety/training/testing/etc budgets by a LARGE degree.

In other words: imagine I bought Airbus (lucky crypto run, ofc) and immediately transferred 10-20% of their liquid(izable) assets as cash into my bank account. And otherwise left the company running as is. Wouldn’t you think that’s the most relevant fact when discussing changes to their engineering culture in the preceding years?

Re: “it’s always been this way so if can’t be that”, I don’t think that’s a solid enough premise to support that conclusion. A) context changes, and b) I think it really is crazy out there these days. From Jacobin:

In a 2017 article for The American Prospect that he coauthored with Sakinç, Lazonick identified one especially distressing instance in which Boeing neglected to follow through on its planned redesign of the 737 Max airplane, a project that was estimated to cost $7 billion at the time. That amount, he wrote, was what “on average, Boeing has been spending on stock buybacks annually since 2013.”

In another analysis, Marie Christine Duggan, an economic historian at Keene State, concluded the amount that Boeing spent on buybacks in recent decades has generally outweighed spending on capital expenditures like upgrades and maintenance. Duggan found that in 2017, at the height of its buyback frenzy, “Boeing’s spending on dividends and stock buybacks was 66 percent of total spending, while only 9 percent of Boeing’s cash went into new equipment to manufacture planes.”

Many of Boeing’s mass stock buybacks came after President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, despite the fact that Boeing and other major companies promised to invest their resulting tax savings on capital expenditure and innovation.
An idomatic way to do this now is to start a goroutine and range over a channel it writes to. Less ergonomic and more error prone, but it works.
> If I have an artificial limb, I'd like to have more storage space.

Importantly, the internal parts of your arm don't move around and don't change. Unlike stuff stored in a box.
This. Virtual Set Production is almost entirely Unreal engine. Fortnite is just a marketing platform. The real meat is the digital production pipeline that made Mando cool. That enabled Star Trek’s recent series’, and provides a “holodeck” for their just unveiled holo-floor.
This format is supported by Webex Teams, and I've used it to make alerts from Alertmanager actually readable. When it's used in conjunction with go templating, it can create some pretty useful results.
I find the prospect of Disney characters shooting at each other with guns mildly disturbing.
Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'
I find Brainscape to be the nicest overall app. Free to use. Tons of existing content. Mobile and web friendly.
Your argument seems to be that those 100 Mb include the necessary libraries. The problem with this assertion is that much richer runtimes don't require that much. For example, a .NET Core console app published as self-contained is ~65 Mb, and it comes with more libraries than Deno.
1.) Unreal Engine can be used in VR...

2.) Virtual worlds don't need to be VR