skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point, motive and intent do have value in assessing the likelihood that someone committed an crime (or any action). It's not quite the same as using motive to claim that someone is wrong though.

However, I agree that ad hominem is not always fallacious. If I claim that tobacco is not bad for health and it turns out that I have no medical background and that I was paid by the tobacco industry, arguably an ad hominem argument can be used to cast some doubts on my credibility on this particular issue. Probably enough doubts that one doesn't need to pay further attention to what I said.

However it's an approach that should be used with caution. It is much too easy to misuse it to lazily explain away someone's inconvenient argument. It is particularly pernicious when it is using a supposed feeling like jealousy, that are hard to disprove.
Seems somewhat related to the miserable paint and preservation on the hull.

(former US Boomer sailor here)
As a bonus the speed of sound on mars is usually quite a bit lower than on earth, since it's usually colder. Or you'd have to wait for warmer weather at the right spot at the right time.
> The worst part is you posting this to hackernews under the username ‘httparchive’ to make it look like it was the httparchive posting this themselves.

This was the last comment in TFA, so it seems like they just used it because it was the topic...
>> Architects can't simply release a patch or update after they delivered

Some changes are trivial, others are like moving to a new standard for railroad widths.
BUT if there is a serious issue in the houses built by following the project you had signed, well, you will go to jail (or pay the fine).
I still have to see a software engineer held PERSONALLY accountable, in front of the law, for a PII leak, for example.
I confess my ignorance about the topic.

What is the difference to the electric one? The process is the same up until the point where the hot air with the moisture passes to some sort of cold condenser to transform it back to liquid state? Doesn't the condenser use a heat pump to cold itself?
To expand on my previous comment, one of the routes to armageddon that I have been imagining for years is something along the lines of:

1) A surprise meteor hits Pyongyang or Islamabad.

2) Their military hits their preprogrammed nuclear targets.

3) This draws larger powers into a nuclear exchange.

4) Fin.

But really, I think a bioweapon made by some kid in >2070 is probably more likely.
I had the same problem. Sent it back to them and they fixed it, but perhaps I should have a look inside. They did imply I'd dropped it when I'd done nothing of the sort.
llama 2 isn't open source
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You can't really escape this system. OSX notarization requirements apply even if you just want to download some binaries.
You haven't once ingested anything but past information. Unless you're clairvoyant?
What do you think of my new emotional health and wellness app?
App is designed to help you improve your mental and emotional well-being by letting you exercise on your breathing, express your feelings, and practice mindfulness.
Related:

Game Programming Patterns (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837121 - Sept 2022 (20 comments)

Game Programming Patterns: Event Queue (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24233229 - Aug 2020 (123 comments)

Game Programming Patterns (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23203699 - May 2020 (86 comments)

Game Loop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19009206 - Jan 2019 (56 comments)

Game Programming Patterns: Double Buffer (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17845334 - Aug 2018 (58 comments)

Game Programming Patterns - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14475489 - June 2017 (47 comments)

How I made the print and eBook versions of my web book - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8555285 - Nov 2014 (66 comments)

Game Programming Patterns now available in print and eBook - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8555248 - Nov 2014 (8 comments)

How I wrote Game Programming Patterns - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7646985 - April 2014 (43 comments)

“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7634734 - April 2014 (74 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7569660 (April 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7569108 (April 2014)

Speed memory access by arranging data to take advantage of CPU caching - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7543158 - April 2014 (52 comments)

Game Programming Patterns – Bytecode - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7466711 - March 2014 (71 comments)

Game Programming Patterns - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6004885 - July 2013 (64 comments)

Game programming patterns - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=874080 - Oct 2009 (8 comments)
Also ripe for use in any number of accessories. You could plausibly decorate just about any kind of clothing or jewelry with these if you make them detachable. You could probably have a whole glowing silhouette of your body when you dance, if you space them out like the markers on those motion capture suits.

1999 hangar raves would have loved these.
Maybe.

Another possibility is that the company is capable of solving problems. It identifies a problem, creates a plan, and comes up with a solution. OP feels good in such a process.

Maybe the company is solving the wrong problems and is using hack days to surface novel problems it has not identified before. Maybe the company did not explain the value of the hack day in a way that someone who enjoys working in a structured way will not see it as a waste of time.
We agree. But remember, approximations here are nothing but lies masked as convenience.
But for the UK this is our only nuclear weapon, if it fails there are no planes or land based missiles to back it up. Different for the US.
Farewell to the .NET Foundation
The last thing anybody concerned about their looks wants is to have strong side light shining up close on all the imperfections, scars, bumps and overall messy skin that looked so nice and smooth before.

Guys really don't want to see woman's pores and pimples 3D facial structure. Or anybody's else for that matter.
MSI is one of the more insane file formats out there. MSIX/Appx is a little more sane but still quite bureaucratic to construct.
> Compared to building stuff that's never used or scraped shortly after building it, this is probably more productive than most things people work on in the public sector.

That only holds water if this project means that they're never going to work on the never-used or soon-to-be-scrapped project that they'd otherwise be working on if the cypher never needed to be updated.

Ultimately, of course, this project is a tiny rounding error in the government's budget, so it doesn't really matter either way.
Related links:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5z1vh/if_archi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9hwmh/if_archi...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/namanaggarwal_if-architects-h...
Browsers tag downloaded files using filesystem features.
It's a bit more like 'possession is 9/10 of the law'.

The "not your keys, not your coins" is more the fact that someone else holding your stuff happen to them and your stuff goes away. Or they never had it to start with. i.e. Counterparty risk.

`Cash` doesn't inherently have any mechanism for enforcing rights either. The difference is that real-world identities are easier to establish in situations where cash transactions go awry.
Quad core RISC-V at up to 1.5GHz? Sounds like it'll be borderline unusable. :(

Also, no mention of battery capacity at all:

Battery: Type-C power adapter

Wonder how this would compare to the 14" Pinebook Pro? That one's a super cheap ARM laptop, but has only 4GB ram.

https://pine64.com/product/14%e2%80%b3-pinebook-pro-linux-la...
> The price charged by brokers to landlords is less than the perceived value of the labor required for the landlord to list the property, receive calls from interested renters, and show the property.

There's no way this costs $10,000 ... the equivalent of 160 hours (a full month) of highly-paid labor. In a housing-constrained city where the landlords product sells itself.
How do you find exercising on it?
This!

Both Amazon search and trying to workaround it's problems by using it's "categories" are frustrating experiences.

It also extra annoying that sometimes you do get, and other times you don't get a link to category specific product you're looking at belongs.

And as soon as you sort/filter reaults it goes from bad to even worse.
A timeless TV show.
>I vote for sending meaningful probes as soon as we have tech for it. I dream of an era where humanity will spend 1 trillion per year on exploratory space tech and not on war machinery.

What if your peaceful probe starts an interplanetary war with the inhabitants of those oceans?
Be careful with unstructured:

https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/blob/d11c70c...

from: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/687
Can you use a memory mapped file?
If you consider technology to be a logical continuation of earlier technology, then all features existed.
> But why would I care about how the engine works? It should just work, I don't want to waste my time with understanding how.

Either this is sarcasm or you need someone to educate you thoroughly.

How the engine works is fundamental to understanding what you can and cannot do as a game programmer, severe pitfalls and above all: where areas for innovation exist for your specific type of game.

I make racing games for example, you might be surprised to learn that if I ignored my engine then it would be impossible, because my engine (Unreal 5) is not very good at handling extremely fast moving objects in the world. It puts enormous stress on the level-of-detail system. I need to understand that otherwise my game won't work.

What you said is as silly as saying "I'm making an apartment block, why do I need to understand the properties of bricks? they should just work!"
I don't think you necessarily need the comma but it would depend on the reader, I think. I didn't need the comma to read it correctly but I can see how you might mentally insert a pause between "it is" and "with" that makes it read weirdly.

Probably better to reorganise it as "With ample ram [...], it is."
> The government was both going to demand, and fund local companies creating a competing product and was already doing so long before sanctions arrived. Nothing about the sanctions sped up the process in the least.

Whatever encouragement or pressure the Chinese government was applying was insufficient to get manufacturers like Huawei to switch to domestic suppliers. Chinese companies still worked with established companies like TSMC, until forced by US sanctions to switch to worse domestic alternatives.
> The internet used to be filled with nerds and people that are interested in things enough to seek information on the web.

and/or actually do proper testing, and share their results, in a consistent manner, but the effort and time is simply no longer worth it. quality content gets buried under 10 second video clips, spam sites, and your content gets copied by large websites. 10 years ago I spent up to 200 hours testing one video card, having build identical systems to do proper apple vs apple tests. But all that time invested, even then, was barely worth it from a commitment point of view. And if you publish such an article now, your viewership is so limited to a very select few. New generation simply doesn't know how a computer actually works, where as 30 years ago, you had to learn more than just the basics to be able to operate it.
Thank you for the blog link, it has some very well written in depth content.
But a lot of the time it doesn't matter.

And it's easy-ish to go from calling update on everything to moving objects in or out of a "currently visible or at least close enough that we bother simulating them and may need updates" bucket (which might be what's on screen, or what's in a room, or in a level, or within X amount of distance, or any number of other things) at whatever granularity you need to get the performance you want.

The general advice of splitting the updates into frame-sized chunks solves the important beginner issue, and the performance tweak of reducing the number of objects you update is something you'll likely encounter much later.

E.g. I'm currently doing a simple platformer with my son for fun, and just a very crude "is any part of this objects default starting position within x distance from what is currently on screen" is more than sufficient to constrain the update. Before that I just had it even naively render every single object in a level, because it was fast enough, so I didn't bother filtering anything. I only needed to start thinking about performance in the first place because of a combination of me going over-board with various effects and a fully waveform-based software synth and this all being written in Ruby (using the DragonRuby game toolkit [1]). If it'd been written in a faster, compiled language, or I'd been more reasonable in my expectations we'd likely never have needed to think about it. But 10+ parallax layers, wave-formed bases synthesis, and a bunch of pixel effects might be nothing in C, but keeping 60 FPS in Ruby that way takes a little bit of care. That said, we got to 1000+ objects updated every frame before I needed any filtering at all.

I'm sure we'll eventually do more - not all objects have any animations or move, so they'd be easy to filter out too, but then I have to ensure every type of object is categorized accordingly, so I won't bother doing that until there's a need to, and it takes calling an update or render method that does nothing for a lot of objects before it starts dragging down the frame rate.

[1] https://dragonruby.itch.io/dragonruby-gtk
Is there a good source of data on this?

This. It's not that I don't believe the article per se, but it doesn't come much further than 'technician says' which I find hard to consider as evidence for various reasons. Moreover, and that's the major flaw imo, it talks about 'appliances' as one big group as if all are alike and all brands and price ranges behave the same, and gives examples like fridges with icemakers which is a thing which is fairly new in e.g. Europe and I wouldn't buy anyway because I have no need for it.

Would be interesting to see how a plain fridge holds up, how long current 'normal' diswashers and washing machines etc last compared to the past, and that split up per brand/model group/price category. Also because anecdotally I haven't encountered issues, but that could just as well be because my expectation is different or I just had luck or I just happened to buy the right thing. I mean, I have several examples, but just to name one: my expensive cordless drill is now about 17 years old and I got a new battery for it recently making it again as powerful as it used to be. It has had zero issues and I renovated 2 houses with it. Is that expected? Did I just get lucky? I don't know, but price divided by hours of usage this thing costs close to nothing yet works great and for what I'd consider a pretty long time.
Assange Final Appeal – Your Man in the Public Gallery
One developer on my team added basic emoji support to our commenting system. It was a business app and adding emoji support was never on anyone's top feature list. He did it because that's what he felt like doing.

We feature-flagged this buggy implementation and turned it on for our internal accounts that we used for dogfooding. It was an instant hit. We fast-tracked emoji support, made the implementation stable enough to put in front of customers, and released it.

The good news is that it was well received and used extensively.

The bad news is that emoji support has surprising edge case issues (not talking UTF8 and display) and we've carried that burden ever since :).
You pay premium for Apple because of advertised privacy. Yet every market analyst is well aware how they are expanding their ad business with very bold plans for the future. There is only 1 direction they can go - invasion of privacy.

They are not even trying hard to make it look like they are above ads revenue streams. Which is fine, as you mention everybody else is doing it in some way, but lets be honest here.
Windows NT didn't ship until July 1993, a full three years after Windows 3.0.

The OS/2 interregnum was quite long. All those years Microsoft was still selling their 16-bit OS/2 1.3 because their server software (including SQL Server) ran on that platform.
You can also force its appearance by sticking a ? at the end of a query, either space separated or otherwise.
Yeah I can't imagine using the current model as part of an API (a popular use case for GPT-4) having seen this. I'm not sure it impacted their API edition of GPT-4 but this plainly shows how it could have given it leaked into another service in production, and that's bad enough.

I think GPT is fundamentally not good enough as an AI model. Another issue is hallucinations and how to resolve them, and an understanding of how information is stored in this black box and how to / if data can be extracted.

We have a long way to go and probably all these topics need to be answered first out of accuracy and even legal reasons. Up until then, GPT-4 should be treated as a convincing chat experiment. Don't base your startup or whatever on it. Use it as assistant where replies are provided in digestible and supervised fashion (NOT fed into another system) and you're an expert on the involved system itself and can easily see when it's wrong. Don't use GPT-4 to become an expert on something when you're a novice yourself.
My best explanation is that some people believe that project management can be completely oblivious to the nature of the work to be done, and still be useful.

To them, maximizing their ability to make choices about the way work will be done means they have more ability to take the good decisions that will lead the project to a successful end.
It’s pretty wild how little discussion there's been about the core feature of these models. It's as if this aspect of their development has been solved. Basically all NLP publications today take these BPE tokens as a starting point and if they are mentioned at all they’re mentioned in passing.
Much as I can appreciate the sentiment, and find problems of my own with the man, his wealth is mostly in the form of "how much money other people want to pay for the marginal cost of a ticket to ride on his coat-tails". Tesla and SpaceX have their valuations because of the things his teams did being valued by those who have money to spend on the investments; which isn't him directly doing those things (which is a general issue with corporate organisation), but it is the result of the choices he made that other leaders didn't make[0].

> And I’m guessing even just figuring out the cost of the fuel to reach escape velocity would show how this a non-starter for more than Musk himself and a few companions.

You'd definitely be wrong about that. Fuel costs specifically are very obviously fine, the hard parts are (1) "can they make the superheavy/starship combo as reusable as they hope?" (2) "solve in-orbit refuelling", and (3), "kiloton/year Sabatier process ISRU without human supervision or maintenance, growing to megaton/year when humans become available for such tasks".

[0] Which is also why a criticism I see others making, "Musk didn't found Tesla!", isn't a big deal. It's true, but also Tesla had delivered no more than 147 individual cars by the time Tesla took over as CEO.
That's a digital signature, same as sending an email with GPG to prove you sent it. You wouldn't say that because some people use GPG you can somehow detect who wrote every email on earth, it's a push model vs pull. This is why I wrote "any sentence" vs "some sentences".
Just tested this out, you can add "in decimal" to get it as a decimal.
If someone is measuring your team metrics, is narrow-mindedly managing by numbers, and can not incorporate the fact that you had a hackathon into the holistic picture of the team, they are doing metrics wrong.

Re: rushing things to prod, that's what feature flags are for!
although my new business spams appliance repairman forums with bogus information to drive up value of crap products sounds like a surefire service to sell Samsung etc. perhaps these forums being mainly old school internet would be better protected against this kind of abuse than say Facebook or other engagement algorithm gameable sites.
Strange that he's the PM then, seems undemocratic...
Just tried with and without quotes and it sent fine. This was on Messenger version 445.0.0.41.109 on Android 14.
Oh, I'm sorry, did I argue my omnipotence? Or the fallacy of marketing? You shifted the goalposts pretty far.

Our existence in the 'now' means we're reactive to the now and the universe of events influence us as much if not more than our concept of free will. I don't think to make my skin react to cold air. If these models can't ingest, quantify or even understand/intuit current stimuli, they're a dead end solution and the problems are bigger, harder and still being ignored during the cash grab era.

I haven't seen or heard a single word of progress on that front. Any sources?
Ah, a fellow power washing fan.
There are places where one's mobile phone is effectively one's identity. South Korea for example:

<https://www.nfcw.com/2022/10/20/379863/south-korea-to-roll-o...>
This has a very simple reason: the cost of manufacturing has shrunk and the cost of repair has not. Because repairs require expensive people and manufacturing can take place with automation or cheap labor.

The worst offenders aren't large appliances, it's the cheap crap. If a store sells me an electric toothbrush for $79 and it breaks after a month shouln't just be required to replace it, it has to be worse than that to make products where even 1/1000 fail. And the result of such action would be that electric tooth brushes soon cost $200 instead of $79. But that's a good thing.

When I browse appliances or electronics, I want to know the lifespan. Not just the warranty. I want to know how long people actually use this particular product. And it can't just be based on some Amazon review system, it needs to be reliable and cover every seller. Like car mileage I need to have a decent idea about what to expect. And even if just 10% of product have this rating - that's also a good thing. It would mean less churn because manufacturers would be reluctant to replace an officially labeled product with a new one.

So we'd have longer lasting, rarely replaced models, more expensive products. Which is what we need.
Agree. Bizarre to use an LLM to do that. I wouldn’t be surprised if the LLM output wasn’t identical to the ORM-generated SQL.
A little digging suggests that photo was taken at the end of a six month deployment. Which probably explains the state of the hull - it’s absolutely covered in barnacles & other marine growth.

The crew must have been shattered. Six months is a long time to spend at sea.

Links:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a452796...
https://www.navylookout.com/royal-navy-nuclear-deterrent-sub...