skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The situation surrounding Amiga's legacy and its preservation is significantly more complex than it appears at first glance. Cloanto, holding a sincere desire for the Amiga's continuity, possesses the rights for the emulation of version 3.1. On the other hand, Hyperion Entertainment, which holds the rights to AmigaOS 4, opted for the PowerPC architecture over x86 to protect its niche in game porting, fearing that a transition to x86 would jeopardise this sector. Importantly, Hyperion does not hold rights to any version prior to OS 4. Indeed, Hyperion had a hand the death of AmigaOSXL / Amithlon.

A year or so ago, Mike Battilana of Cloanto, along with associates, has acquired the remnants of Amiga, establishing a new entity distinct from Cloanto itself.

Despite financial challenges, Hyperion is being financially supported by an undisclosed backer, aiming to initiate spurious legal action against Cloanto.

It's important to clarify that neither AmigaOS 4 nor AROS was ever at risk amidst these disputes. Mike Battilana has expressed a strong desire to see an end to these conflicts. He is firmly against the idea of undermining any Amiga-related initiatives. He said to me in passing that he would love to provide enhanced support for projects like AROS, so AROS can, if it wishes, call itself Amiga Research Operating System again.

Mike's actions and intentions throughout this ordeal have demonstrated a level of integrity and commitment to the Amiga community that stands out, marking him as a notably principled figure in the ongoing saga of Amiga.

He's a good guy.
EU needs to strongarm Samsung to more reasonable support windows.
My Galaxy S20 is in the sweet spot of 3+ years old where I still get security updates but I thankfully don't get any more big feature updates so I don't have to worry about my phone getting enshittified with whatever AI shovelware I imagine is the focus right now. Or an OS revamp that moves and redesigns everything for only the sake of being newer.

I've had both Apple and Google hardware become unusably slow on me after getting a big OS update. I don't know if it's aggressively planned obsolescence or just bad software, but either way I'm done buying hardware from them. I've never had a bad experience with Galaxy phones so I'll stick with those.
Back in the day before Spotify existed you could use different options.

You could use Discogs to find similar music. Then you could use SoulSeek to find this music. Or simply join a metal channel/server on SoulSeek or IRC or DCPP and find other fans of similar music. But even before that you could also just look at a label catalog and travel to a vinyl or CD store (where you can listen before you buy...). Or you could use shortwave radio to catch a pirate station. Yes, this even worked for obscure genres like the one you mentioned. I have a broad taste of music and at times I've been into subgenres of the genre you mentioned.

Have I discovered new music via Spotify? For sure. Did different methods exist before? Yup. Is the Spotify method high signal to noise? Nah, the previously mentioned methods also worked very well. And I have virtually and IRL met tons of people, including people within the core of music subgenres. Thanks to Discogs, DCPP, and SoulSeek.

I do like one feature about Spotify showing shows near me (even though I have passed the age / time of my life where I went to artists as I have only time and money to do things like go to theatre with my kids). However that feature as well as buying merchandise also existed outside of Spotify long ago.
$15k battery replacement for my 2015 S makes it by far the most expensive ownership cost I've ever experienced. And it didn't even have anything to do with my usage of the vehicle.
Implementing Generators (Yield) in C
Had some fun with this one
there are providers out there offering for $0 per million tokens, that doesn't mean it is sustainable and won't disappear as soon as the VC well runs dry. Am not saying this is the case for Groq, but in general you probably should care if you want to build something serious on top of anything.
As someone who worked in old fashioned cubicles for over 10 years, I think the prestige was definitely part of it. Outside of executive suite, as I recall it, very few offices had windows. In fact, more cubicles probably had some natural light than most offices did.
But is it really important to really know them?
How do you deal with case of imposter syndrome and depression?
I'm not sure how many this applies to but I've noticed with my depression (which at this point is very self-manageable) that the one area I really feel genuinely down is whenever imposter syndrome creeps up.

Effectively it's the feeling that you're so bad, so useless that even taking on say a job as a janitor is too hard for you (as in you suck so bad that can't even do that kind of job).

And any project that you think of is either all:

* Too hard to implement alone

* Or someone else already done it so what is the point

Essentially it makes everything feel very defeatist with an extra dose of "even if I make it, it'll be far worse than anyone else".

For those who have something like this, what's your experience with dealing with it?

Since it's not really something I feel typical psychology can help too much with, no amount of awareness over one's action is going to change the lingering self-regulation.
What I've interpreted from the consensus is that Apple's M-series advantage primarily comes from the relatively large memory bandwidth due to it's unified memory architecture.

Of course, it also has a very low performance-per-watt, comparatively speaking.
i think this is largely due to the fact that spotify has shifted from being a streaming platform to being a content creator AND streaming platform.

they've got misaligned incentives now because one half of the company is trying to make the best audio streaming platform that they can, and the other half is creating content and trying to get it injected into as many ears as possible.

the big round of layoffs in january included pushing dawn ostroff and de-emphasizing the podcast moves, which (fingers crossed) will lead to less emphasis on the content creation side
Its a mostly made-up number, until all of them are actually identified.
I mean it sucks that Elon went and claimed Grok when you want Groq, plus you were there first, but getting stuck on the name seems like it's going to be a distraction, so why not choose something different?

When Grok eventually makes the news for some negative thing, so you really want that erroneously associated with your product? Do you really want to pick a fight with the billionaire that owns Twitter, is that a core competency of the company?
Refuses to talk in my native language sometimes. When complies, makes basic errors in spelling and response is much shorter. Is it AI revolt?
Speaking generally: learning those things is often the best thing you can do for your brain, and then you won't be so old anymore.

I think people overestimate the effect of age on learning. Children spend years becoming fluent in their native language, and with little focus or study of it. I could learn a language faster. (Not an apples-apples comparison, obviously, because children's brains and behavior are so much different.)
Was it these dudes? https://www.thebeliever.net/aristocrat-inc/ There were a lot of armed-robberies involving RAM and chip deals done over the phone back in the 90s.
The way to do it in EcmaScript-6+ is to create your own class MySet which extends the built-in Set. In it you then add or override any methods you want.

You cannot override the equality -operator but you can add simple short-named method "eq(anotherSet)" and perhaps variations of that.

It's not too much effort to create your own custom Set -subclass because it only needs to do what you need it to do that the built-in Set does not do. You can also perhaps find such an implementation on npm etc.

A perfect built-in Set would be great but being able to subclass the existing Set-class helps a lot already.
I guess there's no way to be so boring that it's interesting :-)
accepting the moderation, in my defense: I just saw I added a smiley at the end of the problematic sentence, which I actually probably did to remove sharpness but still being able to formulate myy strong conclusion/opinion

of course it is also possible to just argue against somebody with less emotions and being more polite, without saying such things which I will 100% try in the future! my personal style is also harsh but I never intend to be offensive and surely have zero joy in attacking, insulting or making other people small

harsh honesty is difficult to separate from attacks so it is legit to ban this style altogether
> During the early part of the pandemic when points were not usable, we converted them to cash or credited them to existing expenses (the card gave a 25% bonus to use this feature).

Man this was one of the biggest silver linings on the pandemic. Chase allowed groceries and home improvement purchases to be paid for with points. 1.5x redemption. Paid for all the materials for my home renovation with them.
Comments don't disappear. Even those flagged, blocked or [dead] can be seen when you enable 'showdead=yes' in your profile. This user (stdclass) hasn't commented in the last 13 months.
So, your overall spending on music is down about 90% now. I wonder, who took the most of this loss: artists, record labels or music stores?
Yes thank you, great point. I've definitely seen the organizational leadership push designers to be more imposing, and that's a big problem. I think that a lot of VPs struggle to justify the cost (salary) of designers because it can be difficult to identify the contributions/value when you aren't intimately involved in the process. Because of this they want to see someone who they think will really take the reins and make the investment worth it. This is IMHO a big mistake, but it's the best explanation I can think of to explain what I've seen in the past. I think there's also sometimes an idea that engineers and designers are inherently in conflict and engineers will ruin things if not kept in check and dominated by a strongly opinionated designer. I think this largely stems from Apple and the Jobs/Ive era, but regardless, in most software I've been a part of this is a mistake. That sort of domination/conflict-based "teamwork" does not lead to the results they think it does.
> Instead, my subscription is probably pooled according to some black box formula and ends up paid to some of their top performers like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, or The Weeknd.

And Joe Rogan, which is why I cancelled my subscription and switched to Tidal.
GPUs are notoriously bad on exploiting sparsity. I wonder if this architecture can do a better job. The groq engineers in this thread, if a neural network had say 60% of its weights set to 0, what would it do to cost & speed in your hardware?
Optimize and monitor your fridge and freezer temperatures
You can still compile these by downgrading the errors to warnings. They are just errors-by-default now.
What does talent even mean anymore?

What did it ever mean?

Trying to quantify it through tests is such a… bullshit proposition. If you had Steve Jobs take a math test in third grade, I don’t think he would have done very well. Or maybe he would have - I don’t know. Some people only discover math later in life, some people can do trivial math in elementary school very well but completely fail once they get into geometry and logical proofs.

The point of the article is common sense - if everyone in the world had the time to develop like Steve Jobs and work through their bs, then we would likely have more successful adults in the Central African Republic. It just goes to show you how powerful environment is - and why everyone wants to move to America. A good reminder to be thankful to live in this country.
Using B2 as a JSON data store
Hi,

No babel plugin? Npm module… sheesh /s
Likely to be a multi-threading issue; my bet is the cache client wasn't thread-safe. I've seen this in some apps before and the solution was to turn off multi-threading while we debug the library that was causing the issue.
Agree completely. Going after small deals ruthlessly would've been my biggest change. We were trying to, but so much was wrong with the actual way we were trying to sell.

Btw the price comes from my latest adventure. I think 12k is too low unless you can literally do everything without help (i could have but it would've destroyed my time.) 20k is probably a realistic price floor with pentest included.

Although type 1 doesn't require a pen test or you to actually do anything. Just to say you would do it a certain way. Every prospect that has asked for SOC2 has wanted a separate pentest deliverable.
They’re competing with the lowest cost competitors for mistral atm, which afaik is currently deepinfra at the same pricing
I couldn't stop playing. very fun game
A lot of the back and forth in this thread seems to be overlooking the glaring fact that caffeine's half-life varies from 2 to 12 hours depending on the person. Getting to 90% elimination could take one person ~6 hours and another person ~36 hours.

This, on top of the fact that caffeine has been shown to increase cortisol secretion and adrenaline, as well as boosting the effects of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain, should give a very clear indication that caffeine is going to have drastically different effects from person to person.

Anyone who is struggling with sleep, anxiety, and/or mood disturbances should consider reducing or eliminating caffeine for several weeks to see if it helps. Don't expect it to be a magic bullet to solve all problems, just like anything else. Bodies are complex, and when we are chronically suffering from sub-optimal functioning, it's a good bet that their is some complicated and highly variable biochemistry going on that's keeping the body from homeostasis / optimum function.
Why not just make short 32-bits? Yeah, you lose the type for the 16-bit wide integers but x64 doesn't natively support it all too well anyway, unlike the 32- and 64-bit wide integers. And that is what the C integer types are about, right, about being efficiently represented by the underlying hardware, not their exact bitwidth? Right?
Removing PWA and forcing rest of the users to use gimped Safari is now pro innovation?
The Godfather is famously popular with Italian Americans, to a degree that was newsworthy in 1972 and people still write think pieces about it today. My cousin on the Italian side of the family started a Godfather-themed sandwich shop in Saugus, where he was out-competed by the existing Goodfellas-themed sandwich shop in Saugus. Italian Americans love The Godfather like Irish Americans love the Dropkick Murphys.
Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal
I love that half the people here didn't bother to read the article to understand that key point. The easy fix is just to swap out the HDPE bags for LDPE keeping everything else the same.

However there's a degree of dishonesty or perhaps naïveté with the rationale behind the law. It assumes people will always act in good faith. There will always be a legitimate exception to compliance. Exceptions will be accommodated because of the assumption of good faith. Some people always choose to be bad actors because they know there will be accommodations made.

The supermarket itself is full of examples:

1 - Handicap spots are meant to support people with mobility issues. In practice they don't differentiate between mobility issues and other handicaps, so anyone with a sticker/plate uses the spots regardless. Growing up, my friend's family use to take grandma's car to the store because she had handicap plates and they could park up front. Spirit of the law be damned, it's about complying with the letter.

2 - Shopping carts are provided free for use while shopping, the store just asks that you return them to the cart corral when you're done. There's no accountability and lots of people do not return the carts to corrals, people leave them full of garbage and dirty diapers, and people steal them.
Just commenting to say I have the same experience.
> I typically like Motorola offerings.

Motorola/Lenovo are one of the most notorious Android OEMs for poor software support.

Android Enterprise Recommended devices used to have a 3/5 year software update requirement, but this was dropped a few years ago.

Your best bet is either the Google Pixel 8 or Samsung Galaxy S24 as they come with 7 years of software support.
LLM Stack for 2024 – Initial Survey
Hi everyone, I put together this survey of tools for the LLM Stack in 2024. I've linked the friend-link for the Medium article in the URL. I'd love feedback from you guys about any tools I've missed.

If you're a Medium member and want to support my writing, feel free to use the regular link - https://medium.com/plain-simple-software/the-llm-app-stack-2...
If you're going to use those, then there's no reason to have ints be 64 bit.

Personally, I find using int32_t in general to be an uglification of the code. I never use `long` in C code anymore, as it's sometimes 32 bits and sometimes 64 bits. I use `int` and `long long`.

Do I care about 16 bit code anymore? No. Very few programs would port between 16/32 these days anyway, no matter what the Standard says or how hard you try to write code portably.
I believe that they're just waiting for Firefox to ship it, at which point it will be upgraded to Stage 4 and included in ES2024.
James Web Telescope observed galaxy that shouldn't exist
I know that, but that's a rather elaborate way of doing the main thing sets do, and you have to repeat the name of the set twice. Fortunately C++20 added set.contains(x). Of course set.count(x) also already existed but some would prefer set.find(x) != set.end() anyway for <reasons>, and it's the fault of the language's design to cause such opinions in the first place imho.
Except the phones do last that long at that price point, it's just the software updates that stop.

I have a 15 year old bog standard Toshiba satellite which wasn't expensive.

You don't get what you pay for with hardware at all.
I both agree and disagree, in that;
- the amount of spam on Mastodon will surely increase in amount proportional to the size of it's network.
And
- Mastodon users won't usually see that new spam by the dynamics of the current system because we're only shown content from sources we explicitly follow.
octopus are great... so far from humans in the evolution tree and yet so smart.
One of Wofram's comments is that there appears to be much more internal structure in language semantics that we had expected, contra-Chomsky.

We also know the brain, cortex esp, is highly recurrent, so it should be primed for creating fractals and chaotic mixing.

So maybe the hidden structure is the set of neural hyperparams needed to put a given cluster of neurons into fractal/chaotic oscillations like this. Seems potentially more useful too.. way more information content than a configuration that yields a fast convergence to a fixed point.

Perhaps this is what learning deep NNs is doing: producing conditions where the substrate is at the tipping point, to get to a high-information generation condition, and then shaping this to fit the target system as well as it can with so many free parameters.

That suggests that using iterative generators that are somehow closer to the dynamics of real neurons would be more efficient for AI: it'd be easier to drive them to similar feedback conditions and patterns

Like matching resonators in any physical system
I hate to be pedantic, but since you started it:

That is not a contains() function. That is a search followed by a test for not not-found.
I have been exposed to some absolutely great new artists from University affiliated radio stations like KEXP or non-profits like KRCL.
That is an interesting opinion, what sort of knowledge are referring to ?
per-chip compute is not the main thing this chip innovates for fast inference, it is the extremely fast memory bandwith. when you do that, you'll loose all of that and will be much worse off than any off the shelf accelerators.
Couldn’t you polyfill your own Set implementation using Map<Symbol, Object> where the symbol is constructed how you need it from the object?
Does reinventing the wheel every 3 years count as progress?
Yes, that was one of the big reasons to move to C++11 where I was at the time.
I dont agree with your criticism. It is a unified cache for multiple microservices, deployed in multiple regions, has at least 20 million DAU. Not hard to imagine that peak can hit 40M total reads.
U.S. lawmakers try to bar Chinese biotech over fear America can't compete
It's quite good. I noticed that my back button had to be repeatedly pressed to go back to write this comment, after interacting with the examples a few times. I'm sure that's simple enough to fix.
Refactoring a monolith? You need(ed) a map
It wouldn't have been surprising to make this the default in the 90's even. The things here are pretty much never done intentionally post-standardisation. And it's easy to force these back to being just warnings to make old builds work if needed.
As it works at inference do you think 'Representation Engineering ' could be applied to give a sort of fine-tuning ability? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39414532
Why not both? Green spaces and buildings are necessities insofar as they provide important amenities for mental health, pollution/heat island management, and placemaking, and in this sense they are critical infrastructure. But many cities, even big ones, operate at scale without investing in important infrastructure, such as public transport, traffic engineering, third places, and affordable housing; it is unsurprising that the operators of such cities should see green spaces as luxuries in a similar fashion.
By 'quality' or 'performance' I mean the metric by which a post (and its children) is shown higher or lower, or even auto-collapsed.

I think reddit just counts a ratio of upvotes to views (ofc downvotes too). It is possible that users collapsing a comment/subthread also has some weight. Would make sense.

> And, importantly, the quality requirement for the post increases the higher in the total hierarchy it is: root-level post, top-level reply to a top comment, and so on

What I mean by this, is that the more prominent a place a post holds, the better it must 'perform' (per the above definition). Prominence being mostly just how high on the page it is.
And do you accept this "reasoning"?
Do you have a source? Because that actually, properly working would be headline global news and would value the company in the billions.
Thanks for posting this, really makes a big difference!
Yes, and I don't disagree it communicates. I even went so far as to look up the definition of the word speak, and there are two that are relevant. One is a mechanical interpretation, producing english words, and the other is about feelings and thoughts. gpts qualify under the mechanical definition, but not the thoughts and feelings one.

[Edit]

And the dream isn't one of mine, the parent references "sci fi dream."
Ages ago, when I was in college, a "numerical methods" course was more or less obligatory... has that changed?

Anyway, toying with a slide rule is a fun way of making these things very obvious, because you are essentially working with something like 3-digit floating point. When you find yourself subtracting 1.234 from 1.235, but you know that both the "4" and the "5" are really fuzzy around the edges, it becomes obvious that the resulting 0.001 does not really mean much. Similarly, when you take 1.234e+6 (again with a really fuzzy "4") and add 2, you realize that 1.234002e+6 is not really a sane answer.
> nobody understands that open-spaces are awful to do a job that requires focusing.

The people making the decisions don’t have jobs that require this level of focus, and can’t even imagine what a job like that is like (or at worst, they just want the geeks to stop complaining and deal with it, because if you really were that smart you’d be the boss making the decisions).