skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was there through all of it and you couldn't be more wrong. If you're not just making things up, you're clearly too out of the loop to have anything to offer.
A baseboard heater or something like a cadet heater are more than enough to keep a bathroom warm
"Just not from you" is a big incentive changer, so they won't be the same even if some junk always pays
Yes, people that can hear similarities between words do that.
Totally agree with this.

The current AI wave is creating a lot of financial incentive to find ways to speed this up though. Interested to see if there ends up being a way around the TSMC / ASML bottleneck.
The Edge browser sometimes holds features back even though they are based on chromium source code. For example AV1 support, so there is some kind of diversity of browsers possible even though the people who code it all up have power.. but they have power because they create features which is deserved.
Have you ever walked into a room and found a vampire?

No, not the sexy kind, but a foul creature with bony limbs and ashen skin? The kind that snarls as you enter, like a beast about to pounce? The kind that roots you to the spot with its sunken, hypnotic eyes, rendering you unable to flee as you watch the hideous thing uncoil from the shadows? Has your heart started racing though your legs refuse to? Have you felt time slow as the creature crosses the room in the darkness of a blink?

Have you shuddered with fear when it places one clawed hand atop your head and another under your chin so it can tilt you, exposing your neck? Have you squirmed as its rough, dry tongue slides down your cheek, over your jaw, to your throat, in a slithering search that's seeking your artery? Have you felt its hot breath release in a hiss against your skin when it probes your pulse—the flow that leads to your brain? Has its tongue rested there, throbbing slightly as if savoring the moment? Have you then experienced a sinking, sucking blackness as you discover that not all vampires feed on blood—some feed on memories?

Well, have you?

Maybe not. But let me rephrase the question:

Have you ever walked into a room and suddenly forgotten why you came in?

https://old.reddit.com/r/shortscarystories/comments/1inv0n/n...
I have no problem with Sam Altman burning some Arab cash and failing.
I don’t see how Sony isn’t simply defrauding their (funimation’s) customers. How does a merger change this? I could maybe understand a digital library being disappeared after a bankruptcy but it appears funimation was doing okay and they just screwed their customers to make extra margin. I don’t see why they shouldn’t be sued.

It’s not as though funimation advertised these leases as leases, they called them forever purchases lol. It’s outrageous these companies don’t advertise a period of time your purchase is good for and purchase insurance to ensure availability. They trick their customers with the fraudulent lie that they’re buying something and then screw them because they paid a lump sum up front and made themselves easy marks.

I’ve paid for Crunchyroll before but fuck doing that ever again when anime piracy sites like aniwave provide in many ways a better experience.
Oi you got a loicence for that opinion?
"Forever" evidently means, more or less, "as long as I, the employee writing this document or the representative telling it to you verbally, continue to work here".
Vinyl doesn't degrade with time, but it does degrade each time you play it. A heavily played album does not sound the same as a new one. The rate of degradation probably depends to some degree on your specific turntable and needle. (Of course, a worn-out record has its own special charm.)

And I've certainly lost all the MP3's I had from 25 years ago to 15 years ago. God only knows what old hard drive they were on that got tossed. I hadn't listened to them in years, of course, once Spotify's library grew large enough.
One way to look at this is that the most accurate way to "estimate" how fast a certain plan would run, is to actually run it on the full dataset. But that obviously doesn't make sense, as the optimizer is expected to come up with a plan in matter of milliseconds (or less for simple queries) and you don't want your "optimizer stats" to be as big as the whole dataset itself. So optimizer has limited information, by design, and it has to come up with _something_ in a very short amount of time.

I don't know much about Postgres optimizer, but I imagine that in addition to table/column stats, is also uses structural info as its inputs, like existence of (enabled & valid) constraints for example. If the optimizer knows that some column never has NULLs or is guaranteed to be unique, all kinds of transformation & shortcuts become possible.

(There are plenty of large big-vendor ERP/CRM/etc apps out there that do not use DB constraints for the sake of "portability"... not fun to work with these).
> A forever contract doesn't even make sense.

There are hundreds-of-years-old annuities that are still paying interest.

"A living artifact from the Dutch Golden Age: Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest"

https://news.yale.edu/2015/09/22/living-artifact-dutch-golde...
It passed a bit ago and nearly none of the funding has been actually given out. Fabs are already being delayed awaiting funds.
> Comments like yours are the worst.

This is HN's vaunted grace?

From what I responded to:

> You can't meaningfully garnish the wages of a part time casino dealer.

It is entirely plausible that there are oodles of untaxed income getting funneled over there from hasty emigrés.

No need to get vituperative, good grief.
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Waiting for the movie. The Altman character is going to say,

A billion isn't cool. You know what's cool? A trillion.
It probably costs a billion dollars to train a GPT4 successor. Might be 10B to train the next one. I mean it might require a million of $30k GPUs.
Call/cc !
Man, I wish I had this in the 80s :-)

Reminds me of computers that came with very nice built-in monitors [1] which could be quite a luxury. Orao [2] had a monitor with a miniassembler and disassembly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_code_monitor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orao_(computer)
While I doubt OpenAI will be a good fit for semiconductors, my understanding is PyTorch and TensorFlow have been really good at embracing new accelerators, largely due to XLA.

PyTorch, TF, and JAX work great on TPUs. Adoption is low bc they are not really available outside the Google cloud.
Scoop provides https://github.com/lukesampson/psutils, which works really well, I am sure there are a million things people will tell me I am missing.
I certainly wouldn't suggest such a move would be broadly regrettable, but don't agree with the implication that I'm making excuses. Many people are attracted to the subtle cultural, political, and financial differences the U.S provides, some aren't, and that's ok. The countries and people are more similar than they are different. The problems Canada is currently facing though is partially to do with stagnant cultural values (that are also more similar to the U.S than different) and deeply flawed policy at multiple levels of governance both current and historical, and Trudeau but he's just the latest. A nation is more than it's current set of politicians though—obviously also true of the U.S—and to leave for more money would mean I'd be dismissing the factors that exist despite the bureaucracy.

It just depends what your personal circumstances are whether that's a reasonable deal or not, and it's not for me to judge one way or another. If I could make U.S software money from Canada, it's a no-brainer, I just can't and wouldn't really want to live there long-term. The outcome I could hypothetically have doesn't seem all that compelling, but it probably does for a great number of people for obvious reasons.

For me though, there's something a bit too intensely capitalist I guess that rubs me the wrong way. So many things and people are American size, and super, and mega, and excessive, and seemingly lacking nuance in a way I just don't like. I do get used to it and forget I'm there, and always enjoy the visit, but I can't see myself being there for more than 6 months.
I only answer the phone with "Who's calling?". If I don't want to talk to them, they get "this is his assistant, he's not available". If it sounds even slightly like a canned voice it gets hung up on.
I tried Quartz and didn’t like the RBAC and url generation so wrote my own SSG.[1] Every markdown doc gets assigned a UUID and a variable for weather it is shared or not. The site is built on mkdocs. My wiki is published using it https://ddaemon.org , https://IPFS.ddaemon.org

1. https://github.com/dentropy/obsidian-publisher
The $1.99 Dijon mustard is the best bang for the buck for Dijon on the US market. Maybe even cheaper than in France.

But where are the cornichons?
Mitchell gave us Firefox, literally. When AOL canned Mitchell as the tip of the layoffs that would be the end of Netscape, she, almost singlehandedly, made the Mozilla Foundation happen which gave my project, then m/b but soon renamed Phoenix and then renamed Firefox, a chance at life. Take her away, and when Ben, Blake, myself, dbaron and a couple others were laid off from AOL-Netscape, that would have been game fucking over for Gecko and what became Firefox. It's really that simple.
But it's equally important that where the copying would otherwise be allowed under copyright rules, anti tampering DRM laws (like DMCA 1201) make it criminal to perform or aid that copying.

That's why DRM protection for its own sake needs to get tossed. It's a massive overreach.
I would rather we take care of our humans with the trillions rather than manifest a being that might eradicate or replace them
https://www.sudo.ws/about/history/#quest-sponsorship and apparently he's no longer being paid to work on it as of this week
Does anyone have recommendations for what to look for when buying a slide rule? Are there certain features or materials that make it easier to use?
i still dont get it why people say elixir/phoenix is better than rails

people said that since phoenix incarnation I mean we still got to so everything on phoenix meanwhile on rails we have gem for everything
Up to a point. Tesla has a staggered board, which is well-known as a technique for making it hard for shareholders to control the board, and in general it's very rare for shareholders to vote board members out even in companies with more shareholder-friendly charters. Support for Tesla's directors in their most recent election was well below the median, partly because ISS had recommended voting against them (which is again unusual), but didn't reach the level of removing them.
You may want to add that the average person's phone is many times more powerful and capable than a flipper. The dual use tools that can steal cars are so ubiquitous in society (such as a cheap laptop) that no amount of device banning will make a lick of difference.
I don't understand why you are so invested in this argument, but I'll tell you this much: This is something I have witnessed personally, and the effects are pretty bad.
> At least Oracle folks had enough at some point and introduced an "optimizer_ignore_hints" parameter [1], so all legacy hints that were added 20 years ago just get ignored - and the modern optimizer does a much better job getting things right.

I think the general attitude in the Postgres community is been from a purist point of view. When you have a codebase around 40 years old, you do have to think carefully about what you put into it, as it might not be that easy to take it out again. However, yes, I do think hints would be useful for Postgres, providing they're done well. It would be good to at least have something to assist with selectivity estimations. Those are at least not directly forcing the planner into a single choice. New planner/executor smarts, such as something like Memoize added in PG14 could still be considered after upgrading an older pre-PG14 application with such hints, but perhaps not if the hint told the planner that it must nested loop join these two tables.
How is this not a giant red flag that there is a massive fraud there?
Since when did thieves start caring about not using banned devices? Governments everywhere already pass the buck in dealing with car theft and break-ins to insurance companies.
can you give me example when phoenix destroys rails?
r/shorthotstories
Presumably that's already happened if they know the cost of implementing it?
A Brief History of Sudo
I'm curious about opinions that this is part of a trope or pattern I sometimes notice in English: we can interpret "The Tortured Poets Department" as kind of a more euphonious way of writing "The Department of Tortured Poets."

While "The Tortured Poets' Department" is also valid English, it changes the meaning slightly from how we usually think of what a Department means. A Department doesn't belong to the group of people, instead it consists of them.

I'm not sure if I'm imagining that this is even a real pattern, or if it is, is there a word for it?
One of the most important aspects of ‘sudo’ is that it takes the password of the user who started it, not the admin password. Will this ‘sudo’ work like that, or does it need the user to know an administrator password? If it needs an admin password, it shouldn’t be called ‘sudo’ (it would be an analog of ‘su’)
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) demoted in iOS 17.4 beta
Ask HN: What's are good Rust projects to cut one's teeth on?
Ideally, a project that one can complete in a weekend. The ideal project doesn't need to be practical, but it should help solidify sub-topics in the language, such as lifetimes, elisions, generics, advanced type theory, and so on. Does anyone know of a repo of projects like that? Something more advanced than the Rust documentation, but builds up from fundamentals still.
I've had some friends/family spend time in Haiti. Feral "domestic" cats are a delicacy and the hunt itself is part of the enjoyment.
This is wrong, being memory bound or not has to do with the dimensions of the matrices being multiplied (if you’re on tensor cores). https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/performance/dl-performa...

Some of the things being done to improve quality of 6-8 bit inference use extra compute and push it a little in the other direction but it’s still pretty memory intense until the batch size gets quite large
That's a clever idea, but I'm not sure it really works because the company who owns the copyright isn't necessarily the company providing the stream to you digitally.

This is about ensuring it stays available from the streaming distributor, and how much time remains on the copyright doesn't really have anything to do with them. And even if the copyright expires next year, I still want to make sure I can keep streaming it for the next 10 or 15 years or whatever, if I buy it today.
Mitchell worked on Mozilla 20 years before becoming its CEO. MS is a company, Firefox is a product. Doesn't seem like you're making a lot of sense.
Great, now its not fun anymore.
GPT3 came up with "Downtime" or "Taking it easy" for English.
"I don't hire programmers who spell correctly, I hire programmers who misspell consistently!" or how does the old joke go.
Position, navigation, and time from “signals of opportunity” (I.e., existing radio signals that aren’t GPS)
There's no logical rules built in at all. But Transofmers architecture is specifically trained to learn combinatoric play and rules of engagement from the data, so it can extrapolate and do cool, new things, that are not in the training data. In a way, you give them a chess board, the rules of the game, and then it can play. You don't teach them every possible board state. What's interesting is with significant amount of parameters it seems to encode more and more abstract and human-like understanding of the 'elements' at play and the 'rules of engagement' on top of them.

Edit: Not native. I'm not sure 'rules of engagement' is the correct english term here.
> As much as I love Hackintoshes, they can be a huge time sink if you want 1-1 feature parity with an equivalent Apple product.

Although this is broadly true it can generally be avoided by using proven hardware and premade EFI folders, which is what I've always done. I have no interest in spending time getting things working but there are many options available that don't require it. Most people in this boat are those with existing hardware who are determined to get it working.

> Hackintoshes make for great fun projects where you do not rely on that computer for day-to-day operations.

I run my Hackintosh 24/7 and it stays up for months on end. I've had very few unprompted crashes over the years. The reliability of the hardware is entirely based on what you buy.

> Though the ability to Hackintosh may soon be impossible with newer OS versions. It is only a matter of time since Apple is moving away from Intel x86 processors, which is part of what allowed Hackintoshes to be possible in the first place.

The Intel transition will have little effect on Hackintohses for now. Apple is likely to support their Intel products with updates until about 2030 and then you can keep using them for many years thereafter. Most people will be fine for at least 10 years.
not to completely stalk this guy, but for linkedin users, might be worth liking / sharing his looking for work post https://www.linkedin.com/posts/millert_after-over-13-years-w...
And someone said yes to that. Think about that for a second.

The product's global importance is now a tiny fraction of what it was 15 years ago, and the person during whose tenure this happened was recently making 10x as much as back then. TEN TIMES.

And whoever approved that obscene compensation thought this was a good idea.
Love The Crystal World.

The film version of Vandermeer's Annihilation owes much to Crystal World, down to using names of several of the characters (Ventress is one I recall).
Most of the complaints I hear are from people running an unlicensed copy and complaining it nags them.
That and several million more subscribers.
Inspiration material!
At worst, the mesh is no worse than what we have right now.

In reality there will always be some people moving around between cities, satellites and drones passing overhead, and enthusiasts setting up antennas.

If mesh devices become ubiquitous, and they will, it’ll be almost impossible to control.
To add to the counter-argument you've already acknowledged, direct democracy at least forces the lobbying (and potential misinformation) out into the open. I think this particular part of the argument might boil down to "who is more likely to be able to discount misinformation and value accurate information, the general public or a handful of elected representatives and their private advisors"?

Sufficiently motivated and rich people are also motivated to repeatedly put their pet issues to our political representatives (sometimes alongside big political contributions).

Seems like a case of pick your poison (and antidotes).
Powershell exists.
Elephants and whales apparently both use tools.
that’s ridiculous
>Where is all the confidence coming from?

We already know it is possible. You just need to hire the right people.

Elon launched reusable rockets into space using the same philosophy. Jobs built a personal computer likewise.
https://archive.is/WP8p0
Glycol has a much lower heat capacity than water, I don't get why adding that to water would increase the capacity to store energy? It's usually added as an anti-freezing agent to protect the pipes or to prevent fouling
To me it reads like a final backstabbing against someone who held diametrically opposing views and who no longer has the ability to talk back. If you can't say something nice, say nothing at all. Fully half of the sentences in that obituary list his shortcomings, if that's your attitude then you should refrain from writing an obituary. You don't have to lionize the person or turn it into a hagiography but at the same time you don't have to use it as an opportunity to have the final word and to highlight once more to a much larger audience why you really didn't like someone and why someone didn't fit your view of Mozilla.
The data import solution can help!

You can check out https://impler.io/ it covers many of the features you mention and you can extend its functionality as well like converting first/last to fullname. Your problems related to edge cases, configuration, and support will be resolved automatically with it.

It's open source at https://github.com/implerhq/impler.io/

I'm a co-founder of it and if you create a feature request for something you want, I will happily cover it.
I was being told it would help me to feel calmer, help me feel more peaceful, give me amazing insights, etc. so I'd define "work" as "fulfil one or more of those claims in some perceptible way."

It did not. I never felt any real benefit from it and I didn't enjoy the process. So to me, that's "not working."

What's your motivation for meditating? Is it something that you can tell afterwards whether you achieved it or not? And I'm not talking 'achieve' like some sigma grindset maximizing gains type BS, I mean the way if I play a video game, I'm doing it because I expect to have fun, and afterwards I can ask myself "was that fun?" and gauge the degree to which I had fun.
There are other real UNIX to chose from.
CCS*
You’re right - we’re many years of tech progress away from this dream. But it might become the standard new way of getting on the internet in future. Ubiquitous, always on, secure, and probably almost free.
No way OpenAI makes up even a plurality of chip demand
Probably Apple. They didn't go on a hiring spree, most of their products are still consumer focused, and there isn't really too many employee complaints unless you're a contractor. And of course they still have excellent PR from the customers.

They probably aren't making anything groundbreaking (outside of some obligatory LLM) but they seem least likely to drop employees as if they were throwing darts on a board.
Last I heard, Vic Mignogna had been more or less blacklisted from the industry due to sexual harassment allegations, so I don't think that question would be very difficult.
I meant "out there" as in a word people are exposed to. Not "out there" as in outside of most people's experience.
Imagine that rule is not precise enough to cover every possible specific situation, so nobody can ever be penalized for breaking any rule, as it becomes a fractal problem where the entire year’s “work” from Congress would not be sufficient to exactly define every term needed.

Management has to be allowed to delegate. Those saying Congress should not be allowed to do so are really just saying they want the government abolished.
Ollama is great. If you want a GUI, LMStudio and Jan are great too.

I'm building a React Native app to connect mobile devices to local LLM servers run with these programs.

https://github.com/sampatt/lookma
In a post-catastrophe society that totally destroys our networks, knowledge is so dispersed and so many computers and electricity generation mechanisms exist, that I find it impossible to believe Wikipedia and a library of ebooks won’t be preserved in some fashion. From that point it’s a land rush to establish new companies and factories to get us back to prior glory.
Disregard the idea of end-to-end encryption (e2ee) as it is merely a pretense to maintain the illusion of privacy. The truth is, prominent technology companies all possess backdoors that enable government agencies to monitor your messages when deemed necessary. It's all a facade.
https://help.funimation.com/hc/en-us/articles/23103586580244...

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