skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well in a sense the right word may be oligarch...

US companies control all OSs but linux... they are surely working together with NSa and the US government which in turn let them become extremely powerful monopolies... what are oligarchs? people who play together with strong governments... Ithink the upper management of these US companies not just become oligarch-rich from soaring stock prices but the actual thing oligarch enjoy is power which is not 1 to 1 money

in the economical sense stock companies have shareholders, simple employees and management and the goal is to maximize profit... totally legit and apple is seemingly doing this by crippling the web because using apps from taxed app store and using browsers to browse simple websites is what fits their thinking and current(!) sales model

but you are right, why do people argue for apple I really dont understand... all you have to do if you want to stay simple and apple-safe to follow their suggestions, use safari, never download other browsers, do not use other app stores etc... a choice will not make their system worse

and what I want to add, I am not sure Apple actually on the profit max way with these decisions... not because I never buy iphones ever again because most people who buy apple rather tend to beleive them and accept and follow which is an understandable strategy when there is so much information around

but they missed making Safari THE browser where they now could distribute Apple products on all OS which may have lead to doubling the great profits we see nowadays... they could have bought tesla or porsche which fits this individualistic walled garden system they are so good at...they missed the cloud business, missed ai and who knows what else

and sometimes it is better long term if you lose some money but you let your developers experience some real competition which leads to actually better present value of long term future profits even if you lose some monopolistic profit

is it not apple have become?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3NASGb5m8s

and they do not have to disappear to fail, we never know the relative path, what could have happened... maybe being the biggest market cap company of the world is still failing relative to following a path with more competition, innovation etc...
I bought it when he released it. It was good for him but arguably he lowered his worth and took a pay cut, and it also set a bit of a price ceiling base rate for comedy specials at 5$, which if you aren’t the #1 comedian at the time like Louis was you can’t bring in the same sales volume.
This exactly! A large part of the market is actually shopping below the price of a new car because thats all they can do. Its getting worse since those buyers are being priced out more and more everyday. We have reached peak auto in America as well.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2wHh6sduVw

The last car I owned (Mazda3) lasted me 10 years and cost me 6k (I bought it at 60K miles)

The CX-5 is what I consider a stretch purchase. I can easily afford it but after working 15 years I feel like I wanted to get something I consider upscale.

Really wish more EVs were in this price range but if you include the nonsense that Tesla does with repair costs, the fact that even in 2024 it is still up in the air whether or not they can consistently build a reliable car, and all the other OEMs just messing around with bad designs, the state of EVs is pretty poor. :/

Like I mentioned in my previous post: This isn't a situation where ICE cars are so horridly bad that most people's day to day lives are made worse. You could maybe say that for some EVs though. People are quite happy with their ICE cars, and EV makers need to not only overcome all the issues that they have, they also need to overcome this friction to switching.
Right. I think you hit on the biggest question -- what is the likely MARGINAL improvements in weights that your hypothetical 50 million buys? -- even if you accept that we wouldn't be here without that first "50 million" that already went in?

A reasonable argument, a possibility, is "very little." Perhaps compare to "so and so is going to put 50 million in improving the Linux Kernel?" I'm not sure this would improve anything at ALL, in fact, maybe make it worse -- given that someone will want to get something out of 50 million?
Software-Defined Tensor Streaming Multiprocessor for Largescale Machine Learning [pdf]
Many countries have wanted to tax aviation fuel for a long time, but the economic downsides of having fewer planes visit your nation far outweighs any taxes collected.

I don't see how requiring SAF would be any different.
I still disagree.

I am not saying "all distros have passed." They haven't.

I am saying "all distros _could_ pass, if anyone cared enough to pay."

Do you think you can falsify that?
My Python FAQ
As someone who works out regularly and tries my best to have healthy meals, one underrated benefit from caffiene (especially coffee) is that it helps me suppress my diet and fast for much longer! I have a couple of coffees in the morning and it helps me fast till 1pm!
I think its pretty obvious the comment you are replying to was a joke.
As with anything medical, there can be outliers. But having sleep problems from a morning coffee seems like such an outlier that it doesn't make for interesting reading.
Things have gone through cycles. In the early 80s when I interviewed with Boeing everyone except managers were in big open rooms with desks. The company I ended up working for, everyone had offices.

Then there was the high-wall cubicle phase. More recently things have gone through variants of open and semi-open plan.
The abstract basically says the evidence is not there. Why was this posted?
For those curious, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CimaVax-EGF
This is why we can’t have nice things (or bathroom stalls that go all the way down to the floor). People be shooting up drugs everywhere, even at work.
What's going on with Eos, Nvidia's shrinking supercomputer?
Pretty incredible paper. They statically calculate distributed workloads across the inference compute cluster. This is the technology behind https://groq.com
Given that a 1000w article is quite long and the first cut of the talk was 6000w, how else would you handle it?
When chrome first started getting popular many Firefox users were on vertical tabs, and it was not lost on me that chrome was made for small screen laptop users. A smart design decision even if it feels gimped for vertical tab users.
What's the base rate for the comparable population? That sounds bad on a first read, but:

If only 47% (or 41%) of surveyed gained weight, that's probably lower than the population-wide average.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9106499/#:~:tex.... (results from a 10-year study show a higher rate of weight gain)
If you're interested in owning your own music and hosting it yourself, you could spin up a Plex server and use Plexamp. Plexamp is probably the best music experience I've come across in the last 20 years. I just buy music from Bandcamp, HD Tracks, and Amazon when those don't have what I'm after.
Zan also recently wrote about how to break habits (like caffeine): https://zantafakari.substack.com/p/how-to-tame-your-impulsiv...
I think it’s more of a function of mental leisure time. People like worrying about these things and wrapping up simple transactions (“I’d like to stream music this month for $10”) into some moral and ethical quandary as if they can resolve or contribute to an existing relationship between two other parties.

It’s nice that we have the luxury to think about these things. But for the most part, I ignore it and discount people who bring it up to other people, unless they genuinely think people aren’t aware of the situation.

Maybe it’s guilt over benefiting from this. Maybe it’s just internet points for demonstrating one’s knowledge and virtue. Beats me, I hope it reduces.
I'm jealous.

One coffee: noticeable anxiety

2 coffees a day for a few days turns into a panic attack.

I've run the experiment many many times (easy with daily habits and a love for coffee). I definitely have pre-existing anxiety, but the effect of caffeine on me is clear as day.

Decaf and I'm fine.

I can tell when I'm mistakenly given regular coffee (frequently with baristas) or when a particular bean isn't that decaffeinated.
I think it’s fine for some things to have a popover and window, but it needs to be implemented intelligently.

Like in Safari, downloads are a popover by default, but the popover can be “torn off” to become a window. Use cases for both are served, yet consistency is maintained.

Firefox could use a good dose of this thinking.
WinUAE is the emulator used inside of Amiga Forever. I bought that, thinking I would do that instead of buying a A500 Mini. But then the A500 mini was on sale, so I bought one of those as well.

I hope the makers of Amiga Forever support WinUAE and also that they will bundle new versions like this in future Amiga Forever upgrades. I know there has been some controversy around the company behind Amiga Forever in the past. I never owned a real Amiga and I am not very familiar with what goes on in that community, so do not know any details. Any way as a frontend for (Win)UAE Amiga Forever is very nice. It comes bundled not only with some demos and games, but also a bunch of different pre-configured hard disk images to boot up virtual Amigas of different types with lots of pre-installed applications.

Unfortunately I do not know enough about how to use an Amiga to get any use out of those applications, and even less about how I would install other applications if I wanted to run other old software in those virtual machines.

https://www.amigaforever.com/

https://retrogames.biz/products/thea500-mini/
How to conduct an effective code review
Whether you're steering an open source project or leading full-time a software development team, the key to maximizing productivity lies in efficient code reviews.
The other day I tried to compile a really old program, the Power Crust and its predecessor. It just worked, for some reason I was expecting it not to. I didn't even have the filetype it was supposed to accept, but it was fine, it was just a list of points. One per line.

Sanity is such a rare thing these days.
Is there really any meaningful sense in which real and imaginary numbers have the same units but two dimensionless real hyperparameters don't?
There were plenty of other companies.

SpaceX just lied about building the "Artemis" project and getting to the moon by....*checks notes*... 2025.

The problem is overpromising and underdelivering. There's no full-self-driving, there's no Artemis by 2025, etc. etc. Such lofty, unlikely goals not only attract money (government money, investor money, etc. etc.), they also suck out the oxygen for more legitimate technologies.
I agree with your analysis, I just wanted to point out that this is effectively a regressive taxation. In this instance, Spotify is the state and from it's perspective, it makes sense to tax the pop stars less (as a %-age of income) than some tiny alt-nu-grunge-garage-under-over-in-out rock-jazz-house band. That's what maximizes Spotify's tax revenue. But it's still a regressive tax. The richer you are (in the Spotify ecosystem) the less of your earnings you have to give up. Whether this is fair or unfair is debatable - I suppose in a pure market economy, whatever the market agrees on is fair. But there's a massive disparity in negotiating power, which means that the small artists are naturally disadvantaged. Big popstars have a huge concentrated negotiating power. Small artists do not. It is thus less likely that they'll be able to negotiate a "fair" revenue model, whatever that might mean.

Again, fairness is debatable. As a society, we decided that regressive taxation is unfair, because rich people can proportionally bear much higher taxes than poor people without impacting their lifestyle. I'm not going to go into the realities of rich people ending up paying a much lower effective tax rate due to being able to afford to optimize their taxes.
I'm the same, though I don't consume a lot of caffeine lately. I do struggle with anxiety disorders but caffeine doesn't make it worse(or better).

Energy drinks do though, and they make me jittery and sweaty, which coffee doesn't. Sugar or sugar-free doesn't seem to make a difference.

My hypothesis is that it's all the niacin they put in energy drinks. 250% of RDI in a 500ml can is typical, sometimes even more than that.
I am in day 4 of tapering off, so this is only anecdotal but as each person is different anecdotal is ok. Try it and see. At the moment, with tiny amounts of caffeine my pm is better ie more even energy. I recognize addiction in some of the most virulent anti poster pro caffeine comments.
Agnus got fat (then fatter and super-fat), Denise turned super, Paula remained true to herself :D
People who work at a wholesaler distribution facility don’t want the same lifestyle comforts as the highly educated? That’s a strange claim. I know lots of highly educated folks who love rural life, and blue collar workers who enjoy urban amenities.
What’s funny to me is the degree to which i perceive people’s denial that caffeine and coffee get you incredibly high.

I’m not sure if this is what you exactly meant by euphoric, but I sometimes experience similar things, and I find it funny that “don’t talk to me until I’ve had my cup of coffee” is a negatively phrased statement of “I’m gonna get high on caffeine then I’ll enjoy this conversation more”- as if society wants to deny the psychotropic effects of drinking this drink.
Is there some other market system that produced better music?

This one has its flaws but it seems to be optimizing for a great variety.
The ammonia content of Greenland Shark doesn't prevent them from being a treat:

The traditional method begins with gutting and beheading a shark and placing it in a shallow hole dug in gravelly sand, with the cleaned cavity resting on a small mound of sand. The shark is then covered with sand and gravel, and stones are placed on top of the sand in order to press the fluids out of the body. The shark ferments in this fashion for six to twelve weeks, depending on the season. Following this curing period, the shark is cut into strips and hung to dry for several months. During this drying period, a brown crust will develop, which is removed prior to cutting the shark into small pieces and serving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl
The fact that a handful of enthusiasts on a technology forum have machines with ECC has zero relevance to whether it is rare. It is. Virtually all consumer prebuilt x86 PCs lack ECC. The majority of DIY builds are Intel, and their enthusiast Core CPUs lack ECC. Most Ryzen boards do not actually support it.

When people say ECC is rare, they’re not talking about you.
Ask HN: Why would a for-profit company choose the Org domain?
Example: Brilliant.org, a respected tech product with a good mission.

Why risk the reputational damage of misleading people by presenting your business as a non-profit?
Javascript Set is the least useful Set there is across languages I have used.

Why won't it work on objects when the language very good for creating objects with any ceremony.

EDIT:

By won't work i mean you are left with reference equality checks which I never felt useful.

Talking about other languages i worked with, In Java and C# you can override equals method in which you specify which property to check equality on, (even python you can do that with __eq__ i think).
> sleep is good, anxiety is bad.

Sleep is not all good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersomnia

Anxiety is not all bad: https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/43757

Sattvic food is not good for your health: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37085478/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35710164/
There are other reasons than environmental for eating fish but not meat.

I used to be pescatarian and my main reason for that was factory farming. Once reason I now eat meat is that it has become a lot easier to buy meat that has been well treated.
I'm drinking regular espresso coffee. So I would think it probably has 1/2 to 2/3 the caffeine concerntraition of the starbucks coffee. But after my whole day of coffee and say 5-6 cups I have had less by than 12oz tall starbucks, and probably less by caffeine content than half that. But that's also spread out over a whole day, that's the key.

The peak blood caffeine concentration is a lot less when drinking 5 normal (That's european for "tiny" or "ant size") cups than than if I would have had an 8 or 12 oz coffee at once in the morning, even if it was the same coffee.

In short: I drink one decent starbucks size cup of coffee. Slowly, from 8am to 4pm.
Replying to my own comment: HN faux pas, or good information organization? :)

In the Tree Style Tab options page, there's an Advanced section that has a live-reloading user style sheet section. Very cool for testing out font choices without restarting the browser.

I've changed mine to use Apple's really nice SF Pro font, condensed. Somehow the Iosevka Mono that I use everywhere didn't look quite right on the tab titles.

The CSS:

:root.sidebar tab-item.unread .label-content {
font-style: italic !important;
}

:root.sidebar tab-item {
font-family: "SF Pro" !important;
font-stretch: condensed !important;
font-weight: 300 !important;
}

:root.sidebar tab-item.active .label-content {
font-weight: 500 !important;
}

Same link as my previous comment now has a screenshot of the result of that CSS: https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/88673880d373864eee1927...
You're running fp32 models, fp16 or quantized?
You didn't read your own source, that website your linked cited 2.5 mil. I guess I was off by a factor of 1
are your accelerator chips designed in-house? or they're some specialized silicon or FPGPU or something that you wrote very optimized code for inference?

it's really amazing! the first time I tried the demo, I had to try a few prompts to believe it wasn't just an animation :)
Yep, many psychoactive alkaloid compounds are made by plants to deter insects and herbivores, for example caffeine, nicotine, and cocaine.
I love AI so much. Instead of wasting minutes reading fluff, I can easily get a bullet-pointed list that takes 10 seconds to read!

- Lead was widely used in Roman society due to its malleable and durable properties, appearing in plumbing, pottery, cooking vessels, cosmetics and more.

- The Romans were unaware of lead's toxic effects on health. It was seen as a sign of progress and prosperity.

- Archaeological evidence shows Romans had startlingly high levels of lead in their bones, far exceeding modern safety standards.

- Lead exposure undermined public health in Rome. It reduced fertility, increased infant mortality, and stunted physical and cognitive development in children.

- The effects of lead poisoning were systemic and indiscriminate. Everyone from commoners to emperors was affected through the water system.

- Chronic lead poisoning may have weakened the Roman military over generations by reducing the number of physically capable soldiers.

- Lead also likely impaired decision-making among Roman leaders through cognitive and behavioral changes.

- The health burden of lead poisoning bred social stresses like reduced population growth and a less productive populace.

- While not the sole factor, lead poisoning gradually eroded Rome's strength and resilience over centuries.

- The story serves as a warning about unintended long-term consequences of substances integrated into daily life.
Any speculation on the effects of any human related behavior, like tiredness, are just that, pure speculation. we have the illusion to have enough knowledge about these things to infer conclusions and emit opinions about it but the truth is , we don't even know what we don't know. There are inumerous processes that we don't grasp yet the full scope and spectrum of their consequences and side-effects, much less the ones we are yet to discover.

In relation to tiredness, specifically, it seems to me that it's an evolutionary trait that involves all sorts of chemical responses from the body, besides the related induced brain activity, This works to save energy and to ensure it's spent on activities that benefit the spread of the genes, somehow. You get tired mentally (what you are specifically referring to) because the executive function of the brain taken by the frontal-cortex are the most energy expensive one and gets shut-off as soon as anything that can be perceived as life-threatning is detected so that energy can be redirected to the fight-or-flight response required for your survival, as it's coded in your genes.

Now, assuming it will be possible, an uploaded version of whatever human conscience there could be, it would not need to have any of these energy regulation stuff. Or at least as much as we need it right now, as humans, per the limitation by our body's capacity of energy intake. The uploaded conscience would have at its disposal an quasi-unlimited amount of energy to it would not trigger the tiredness response or any "suffering" reflex.

However, of course, I really don't know ;)
I would also like a quick way to see if any new activity has occurred in my posts' comments, or beneath my own comments, since my last visit. Is something like this already possible? I find it difficult or tedious to keep up-to-date with comment threads I'm interested or involved in.
Brightest and fastest-growing: astronomers identify record-breaking quasar
It doesn't need to. Memory issues are easy to catch with good tests and Rust approach to memory safety has its own trade-offs.
I stuck with 7 or so months of dandy blend and roibos to make sure it wasn't just an addiction to the caffeine - and I eventually came back to decaf coffee. The problem is I want hot drinks with body and complexity - and dandy blend comes close, but is so flat compared to a coffee or a black tea. :(
I recently started tracking my caffeine intake after discovering this small app called HiCoffee on someone’s blog. It has a neat curve of how much caffeine is left in your body as the day progresses and how much will be left at bedtime. It made me more aware of how much caffeine is in different drinks. Philz has a lot! But now I can work around that with timing and limiting drinking other things.
That's nothing. My company had to buy me a 4MB expansion card in the late 80s so I could run this new fangled OS called OS/2. It cost nearly $2000.
While I agree with the geo-political arguments, I'd prefer to see regulations that allow the freemarket to design a solution, rather than a government contract to choose the winner. (eg: cars with 100% US made chips, or no chips, receive a tax rebate at the final consumer purchase)

I also feel the need to comment that this is corporate welfarism and that is very much contrary to free markets or capitalism. IMO the government should not be choosing winers, but incentivizing everyone who generates a benefit. As an illustration (but not neccesarily the exact policy), what if the government awarded a benefit per TFLOP produced in the USA, or per chip created etc. (up to some maximum). Then a handful of competitors could all participate and benefit from the incentives. As it stands now its $3.1B harder to compete with GlobalFoundaries on the open market, meaning competitors and thus innovation and supply will actually be harmed.

We also see time and again that corporate subsidies are not sufficiently beneficial to constituents to be worth the money.

The best data i can find is on stadiums[1], but also some about when amazon was shopping itself around for incentives.[3]

[1]- https://reason.com/volokh/2023/12/16/virginia-should-refuse-... , https://reason.com/2013/12/21/why-stadium-subsidies-always-w...

[2]: https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/tesla-inc is a good resource for seeing how much companies have been subsidized

[3]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2019/02/27/sh...