skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not my experience. It's about momentum. They are vastly different things with vastly different needs. A game needs data in an optimal form, a tool needs data in a flexible form. Those 2 things are in conflict. So game tools based on engines usually suck because they are designed inside the engine's data structures, which don't match the needs of the tools. Yes, in some imaginary ideal world it would work but it never does in actuality.
At the risk of being on the outside here, I'd have to agree.

To go a bit further I'm honestly quite interested(?) in how CGP has sought to differentiate itself from the two other providers by offering this kind of "plug and play" feel to cloud. Certainly there is value to be gained from the absolutely granular service offerings of AWS/Azure, but there's a point when it starts to feel like all I'm doing is building control towers for island landing strips.

I just want my cloud providers ML service to talk to the data lake on the same cloud tenant without having to architect my way through 15 network nics, 30 service accounts, and 4 VDI...
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True, but then Satoshi’s foresight is unmatched.

How would Satoshi know that people would scrutinise their emails 16 years later
I had this 15 years ago when my blackberry had a keyboard on it. It had buttons, and when you press them it makes the character you commanded go onto the screen. If they'd just put buttons on the phone instead of trying to draw a fake one on the screen you wouldn't need a statistical model to make the keyboard work
I had a similar experience.

* bad recruiter, communicated poorly, mishandled scheduling

* interviewer was ice cold when I started performing poorly, could not hide is impatience to end ASAP

* ghosted

I get the impression the top tech companies also have the worst recruiting practices.
The Fediverse is expanding even more with Flipboard – Cloud68.co
Just because they're new to the US doesn't mean they're new to the game. The e-commerce market in China is ferociously competitive and both companies cut their logistics teeth there.

Temu is an offshoot of Pinduoduo, a massive Chinese retailer that was founded in 2015.

Shein was founded in 2008 and started retail in Europe in the early 2010s.
I think this made a lot of sense circa 2011 when it looked like autonomous vehicles were about to rapidly reshape the world around us.

While it may yet happen, the "about to" part of course turned out wrong. There was no AV revolution in the late 2010s, and Apple reportedly pivoting away from self-driving a couple of years ago was probably the actual death knell for the project.

Apple making an AV in the middle of the self-driving revolution makes sense; Apple making just a nice EV in a very crowded market does not.
Please define 'woke.' As far as I know, it's simply an insult used by Republicans against Democrats.
This is so classic, the Simpsons parodied it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEuEx1jnt0M
You just listed "professional gambler" 9 times.
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You define operators on your e.g. Vector types to construct a type that represents lazy evaluation of the expressions and reflect the operations at the type level. So for a * b + c you would get a type like Add<Mul<Vec, Vec>, Mul>.

The evaluation then happens as assignment or Vec construction when you have something like:

Vec r = a * b + c

You could either inline the functions on Mul and Add in the evaluation loop and rely on the compiler to deduce that an FMA instruction can be used. In the unlucky case, you at least avoid the intermediate a * b vector.

Another option, since the expression is represented at the type level is to write a compile-time evaluator that replaces patterns like Add<Mul<Vec, Vec>, Mul> by FMA<Vec, Vec, Vec> using templates.

This general idea is the foundation of libraries like Eigen.
UPDATE

First of all - big thank you to everyone who gave feedback and tried out the project!

I hear your concerns about trust and invasive permissions. Here is what I will do tonight:

- Remove all data of everyone who has signed up so far

- Revoke all granted privileges

- Deactivate signup

- Put a detailed note on the front page for anyone who's already signed up

Your feedback has been invaluable and I will start working on the next iteration soon.
worse than useless, they quite literally will use the same techniques to grab ahold of the kernel as the viruses they're trying to protect from.

I always found it hilarious how the spectre mitigations were breaking AV software.
It's a bit sad this isn't the norn for education articles (and mostly everything else too).

Bartosz's dedication and craftsmanship is really inspiring.
It's actually open data:
https://shop.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/free-geodata

> New conditions of use apply to swisstopo's official geodata.
> The geodata may be used free of charge, in particular also for commercial purposes.
> Reference to the source when publishing the data is the only condition.
> Authorizations and licenses are therefore no longer required.

This is based on a change in federal law that happened on 1 March 2021.

One of the (IMHO) most interesting datasets is the extremely detailed digital elevation model / DSM (swissSURFACE3D):

https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/height-model-swisssurface3...

Lidar scanned terrain model, with a grid size of 0.5m and vertical resolution of ~10cm. Available as a tiled raster or the "raw" classified point cloud (ground, vegetation, water, ...).

Raster:

https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/height-model-swisssurface3...

Point Cloud:

https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/height-model-swisssurface3...

Demo (Shaded Relief based on that surface model. Those stair step patterns are not artifacts, but the natural terracing of vineyards):

https://map.geo.admin.ch/?lang=en&topic=ech&bgLayer=ch.swiss...
Of course, it's not gonna be common. But it will occasionally happen, in such a large data center.
And I even like it boiled and then stirred with butter, salt, and pepper. But nothing beats eating it roasted...
Would one day want to see what they had envisioned
This decision makes sense. Apple failed to establish a good relationship with the existing car makers and they couldn't even begin their very first manufacturing process over 10 years. Which means even if Apple gets a magic wand to bring all the technologies that it needs, it would take another decade to ramp up the business.
The thing is the energy density, flow rate/volume, and heat flux in a raptor is just so extreme. For example, there's two turbopumps operating at around 100k HP each in a volume not much bigger than the propane tank on your grill.. and those are basically just fuel pumps, not even where the real party is (pre-burners and combustion). Anything not going according to plan like a very small piece of debris in a filter causing turbulence or a change in flow rate is almost always catastrophic.
Ten years ago Apple buying TSLA would have been something that could have happened.

Today, not so much.
NACA and the other published airfoils[1] are generally a good starting point for hobbyist/RC folks. However if you want to eke out that last 5% bit of performance (ie. you are a company/institution), you would start with one of the above airfoils and optimize them to fit your flight envelope & mission profile. Here's a neat video of optimizing a round profile into an airfoil optimized for supersonic speeds [2].

[1] http://airfoiltools.com
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHYTBguMfWc
Tesla has never supported Apple CarPlay and their sales keep rising. GM recently dropped CarPlay from new models so we'll see how that impacts sales.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/general-motors-removing-appl...
Starship is the most powerful rocket in history and should be the first ever orbital launch system that is fully reusable. I don't know what you consider to be "genuinely" exciting, but I would consider entirely new generations of rocket launch tech to be genuinely exciting.
Well, there was a notorious situation in Ancient Rome where a private fire service would respond to fires and the owner of the fire service would bargain with the owner of the house. If the house owner was willing to sell him the house for a low price, the firefighters would be allowed to extinguish the fire. Otherwise, no.

I don't think modern societies would tolerate that, but it is interesting to contemplate the idea that something like "surge pricing" was used in times when people didn't know what "zero" or "America" was.
I want to love emacs I really do. Couple things that I really get hung up on

MELPA isn't user friendly - I don't mean in the usability sense. The maintainers routinely remove packages that are being used. Breaking your end-user's dependencies for non-security related reasons seems unusual for a package repository. If it goes into MELPA and a user has downloaded it, it should stay there for basically forever or as long as feasible.

Performance - emacs is noticeably slow even on latest Apple hardware and I can't seem to get to it to an acceptable performance level. The bar for acceptable for me is VS Code.
That sounds like the sort of broad hiring practice that large corporations sometimes do to select recent graduates: a general filter of candidates, followed by managers picking the nost promising candidates, and a final round of interviews with one or more teams that are interested in you.

Salary is unrealistic to discuss early when they don't know which specific role you will be filling, and how much they want you.

That said, for more experienced people the process tends to be much more personalized, to the point where the very first person you talk to may be the hiring manager or their superior.
This being HN, I thought this was going to be about SwissTable.

I'm going to go touch grass now.
Easy to mitigate it in urban environments which are heat islands due to the low albedo of man-made surfaces. 99% of the earth, however, is not paved.

Reducing heat on a global scale is a wee bit more difficult.
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I also found the "predictions" article interesting:

https://interviewing.io/blog/when-is-hiring-coming-back-pred...

But "FAANG" is an obsolete acronym...

Google => Alphabet,
Facebook => Meta,
Amazon,
Apple,
Microsoft,
Netflix,
Nvidia => to be added?

This yields "MAANNA"... if you are hired, of course. ^_^
Why do you keep arguing? You have nothing better to do?

We're done here.
Google is innovative in AI though.
90% of the problems solved with puppeteer could be instead solved by replaying a few API requests. Cheaper, less wasteful, faster, in some cases, harder to detect (WAF is rarely deployed on APIs because there are much less heuristics)
I'd rather the money spent on the TSA were spent on other programs that produce value for society, like funding the child tax credit, or school lunches, or more teachers to reduce class sizes, or repairs to roads, or public health care, or public education so more people can get degrees, or programs for the homeless, or treatment programs for addiction or mental health crises, or anti-domestic-violence programs...

Not all 'jobs' are of equal value to society
There's been lots of discussion about how games companies staffed up during pandemic yada yada, but it's likely that these are a reflection of more long term issues. I've read elsewhere that even long before the pandemic, like 2018/2019, there were companies discussing broader industry trends that were unfavourable for AAA games and live service games.
I can see Jenson picking up the phone to call Tim right when he saw this headline to make a deal for 100k A100s or 20% of their next gen chips
> making their monolith easier to manage (Google/Facebook)

Google has Borg.

They literally invented Kubernetees to make their microservices easier to manage.

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Don't confuse mono/microservices with mono/micro repositories.
yep, Tesla has won the war.
There is hardly anything more secure than writing a password on paper and storing it in a safe. Hell, a password on a post-it on your desk at home in plain view isn't all that bad in most situations.

I constantly recommend the use of password manager and unique credentials everywhere (to prevent cred stuffing attacks). I always get feedback from friends/family that they worry about forgetting the password to the manager. I tell them to write it down and put it in their safe. And it always results in a deer-in-headlights response. They've been told for years to NEVER write down a password.
Second mover in every example except maybe the Apple II where the competitors released in the same year.

iPod was released in 2001. Portable MP3 players were released in the late 90s.
I have read half of his work. I recall that he would dictate to his wife who would then write.

I wondered if the lack of punctuation is just text to speech made manifest.
Unpronounceable and uber-niche software project breaks from slightly less niche software project
That's super cool! Will you share it when you're done?
Good ! Chinese are already ahead of everyone in EV
I have very bad brain fog today, so this might be that talking, but I don't even know for certain how to parse that sentence grammatically. There doesn't seem to be a verb or object, only one long extended subject, unless both "shelves" and "climbs" are verbs, in which case thats some serious Calvin-and-Hobbes verbing, but it works I suppose. In any case trying to understand this sentence required several read-throughs before I came up with the second explanation, and made my headache about two increments worse. I'm not a huge fan. It doesn't matter much to me whether writing is "difficult" in to sense of having a lot of big words, complex sentence structure, or long sentences, but I hate ambiguous writing.
All kind of websites....ecommerce, corporate, government, non-profit etc. I think we need to evolve old-school type web directories and make what I call discovery engine because we already have search engines.

For example we should think how we can evolve old directory like this one: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Dmoz

Here is the new revived version of it: https://www.curlie.org/ but for sure something more sophisticated can and should exist.
To be honest, I think the F/A-18 is an excellent jet for Canada's needs. Also Canada currently has 88 F-35s on order and will get their first ones in 2026.
Obligatory XKCD comic (also with the name "Airfoil"):

https://xkcd.com/803/
Can you own&use a Tesla car without an account? Thought so.
Asteroid mining I think is one of the most interesting initial space industries. Something silly like a single asteroid having metals with current valuations of a million times the global GDP. Obviously you can't sell for that much but asteroid mining could make a lot of commodities become insanely cheap, and that would enable some pretty amazing things here at home, and in space.

Like what if steel were cheaper than plastic? If there was enough of it around to build a bridge between New York and London? If you could build a ship the size of Manhattan and then a city on top of it to roam the oceans? If you could build entire cities in orbit or city-ships that slowly wandered the solar system.
> But what's it for? I can tell what an electric car is for, can you tell me what "generative AI" is for? A car can transport goods and people, really good non-deterministic typeahead is just.. well, I don't know what I'd use it for, do you?

It doesn't even seem to matter anymore. The tail is fully wagging the dog. Wall Street doesn't really care what companies are doing with AI, how they are using it, or whether their use of AI is going to actually drive earnings. They just care that they are using it. If a company says "We're doing AI blah blah blah" that's enough: investors are happy and stock price goes up.
If you watch it very slowly, the paper initially folds under the mouth and then it blows out straight.

I'm guessing the initial puff creates a high pressure area on top of the paper, rolling it downward and back. Them after the puff has pushed the air away, there is now a low pressure zone on top of the paper which lifts it up as the air below is rushing upwards around the sides of the paper.
$110M is insane. Anything under $1B seems unfathomable. $25M for a 2MN full flow staged combustion engine seems cheap. SpaceX plans on building them for $250K a piece. They're not there yet, but current estimates of $1M a piece are just as insane.
It hasn't been a year of AVP sales yet.

And as you say, the VR market is small compared to the phone market of 2007.
> These will be the people looking after us in our old age

By choice, some of us wants to go to sleep before we reach that situation. Need no need to be looked after. We want the right to death with dignity.
LuaJIT lets you remove a finalizer:

> An existing finalizer can be removed by setting a nil finalizer, e.g. right before explicitly deleting a resource:

ffi.C.free(ffi.gc(p, nil)) -- Manually free the memory.

https://luajit.org/ext_ffi_api.html#ffi_gc
SECOMP: Formally Secure Compilation of Compartmentalized C Programs
I suspect Ive (and Jobs) had a big impact on how this project got off the ground.

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/2015/2/16/8045625/jo...
Have a browse on Alibaba and check out what the products cost at the factory gate. I was recently in the market for a cover for my car, and I found the exact same model that retails for $200+ locally for $2 (two). Shein is just cutting out the middle man.
remember when he published the actual algorithm for twitter and everyone could look at the code that was reportedly boosting the woke and canceling maga, and it turned out not to have any kind of censorship regime or boosting, except it boosted his account? That was a great time.
https://firedating.me/ - the first and only dating website for FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) community. It is cool, because it dramatically affects people lives, e.g. I am aware of multiple couples marrying as a result of meeting through the site. Looking forward to FireDating babies :)
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This was a fun read. Merging a few quotes to provide the gist of the article for discussion: "Dracula’s own powers – superhuman strength, the control of local weather, the ability to summon and direct brute creatures – cannot match the powers of his Enemy. And that Enemy is not Dr. Van Helsing or Jonathan Harker or any of the other people who chase him, but rather technocratic modernity itself […]

"Our heroes’ long pursuit of Dracula is largely a matter of tracing the written records of everything Dracula does in England. Note also that the enemies of Dracula coordinate their plan of action with reference to the sequence of events that they have recorded using typewriters and phonographs. (Dracula is the first novel featuring voice memos.) […]

"[And modernity reigns not just in England: even in eastern Europe the pursuers are greatly aided by Mina’s knowledge of when the trains run — and by telegraphs they receive from London. Railway timetables, telegraphs, phonographs, typewriters, invoices, bills of lading, double-entry bookkeeping: these are the instruments by which Dracula’s pursuers draw their net around him."
So Apple pivots from one thing that it doesn't have a natural advantage with to another.

Apple has gone from leading the industry to increasingly desperate and huge "me too" developments that they've failed at. AI, generative or otherwise, is going to be their next failure. To say AI moves fast is a serious understatement. I predict that which is white hot now (LLMs) will be a blind alley long left behind in a year or two.

How are Apple going to attract the talent they need to pull of something decent in AI? Their share price can't have the upside of hot startup or even a sleazy non-profit for that matter. I predict they buy something fairly pedestrian from some large player at some point.

Apple is a huge cash cow and with Cook at helm it will remain so but will slowly fade over time and resort even more to extractive behaviours on their customers and suppliers.
I added it as an experimental source a few hours ago, but I haven't had the chance to test it, that's why I haven't put it into the support matrix yet. Do you mind trying it out if you do use Oracle?
Apparently in certain parts of Beijing it's not uncommon for someone to be completely ignored at a business unless they have a nice handbag.
> They literally wrote the book on this

I didn't realize Apple literally wrote a book on the subject. Sounds interesting, what's the title?
The clickfarms nowadays already use tons of non modified devices built on racks so I really don't see how it's going to make a dent.

Devices are way too cheap for an attestation system to work to counter bots
There are attempts to define it https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke but I don't understand what the relevance to AI is.
> Apple's biggest successes have come from being the first mover in a brand new space.

I would say that only one of the examples you gave was unambiguously the first mover in a brand new space. I will give you "category defining", though.

For example, the iPod had tons of competitors already in the field when it launched.

Airpods were not even close to the first wireless earbuds.

One of the Apple Watch's major competitors (fitbit) launched 8 years prior. The first smartwatch that could sync with a computer came out in the 80s.

The iPad came like a decade after Microsoft's first major tablet push. ATT and Sony/Magicap and Apple all released "smart tablets" in the early 90s.

The iPhone was not the first capacitive touch screen smartphone, and certainly not the first smartphone - over a decade late to that game.

The Macintosh was (sort of) a sequel to Apple's own Lisa, which itself was also not a first mover. The Mac was incredibly innovative and successful, but was preceded by the LISA, PERQ, Alto, various Lisp Machines.

> In fact Apple is terrible at throwing its hat into an already crowded space, and doubly so when it comes to software.

Couldn't be farther from the truth.
But what about this one:

> You will never know what the world is made of. The only thing that’s certain is that it’s not made of the world. As you close upon some mathematical description of reality you cant help but lose what is being described. Every inquiry displaces what is addressed. A moment in time is a fact, not a possibility. The world will take your life. But above all and lastly the world does not know that you are here. You think that you understand this. But you don't. Not in your heart you don't. If you did you would be terrified. And you’re not. Not yet.

Almost Lovecraftian to me. I don't think he is drawing a distinction between literature and science either, they are similar in this view of the world. It's more like pre-modern vs. modern, not art vs. science.
I really liked Children of Time and Ruin. I could not get through Children of memory and its very rare for me to abandon a book. It just seemed very different than the prior ones for me. Maybe I will give it another shot. With that said I loved his Final Architecture series and just finished the final book in it.
As a current owner of a BMW 5 series, buying anything non-electric for the price of an EV sounds ludicrous to me. The moment your warranty expires, BMW takes ownership of your wallet and never lets go, and there’s _a lot_ of expensive maintenance and repairs you need to do. I know they also make EVs, but just based on my current experience with their dealers buying anything from BMW would be insanity. Whoever overhauls the ownership experience will make a ton of money. In the meanwhile my next car will be a Tesla. My wife already has a Model Y, and in 3 years we paid $0 for maintenance and the car has been in the shop 0 times.

IOW Apple could easily charge their customary 20-30% margin and create fierce brand loyalty by just looking at whatever it is BMW is doing and doing the opposite in nearly every situation.
And then we have social media for Ants
I agree, I am looking into it right now!