skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it says this: "The semantics of LuaJIT do not prescribe when GC can happen and what values will be live, so the GC and the compiler are not constrained to extend the liveness of blob to, say, the entirety of its lexical scope. "

But it is flat wrong. From the LuaJIT documentation:
"All explicitly (ffi.new(), ffi.cast() etc.) or implicitly (accessors) created cdata objects are garbage collected. You need to ensure to retain valid references to cdata objects somewhere on a Lua stack, an upvalue or in a Lua table while they are still in use. Once the last reference to a cdata object is gone, the garbage collector will automatically free the memory used by it (at the end of the next GC cycle)."

The Lua stack in this case includes all the local variables in that function scope.
It's a non-issue/straw man and is common sense.
If LuaJIT FFI worked the way the author supposed, it would be near impossible to use practically.

“It is perfectly valid to collect blob after its last use”

This is a useless statement. It’s perfectly “valid” for LuaJIT to not even read your source code and exit immediately, but that isn’t what it does because it would be useless. What counts as a reference is both PUC Lua and LuaJIT is defined.

As far as the desirability of finer grained liveness, Lua has block scope (do end), but in practice LuaJIT does well inlining so functions ought to be short anyway.
Show HN: Multicountry/Multilingual Salary Calculator
I've been working on this tool to provide salary calculations tailored for different countries and languages. I'm always looking to improve and expand its capabilities. Now, I'm reaching out to you for input. Which country would you like to see included next?
Maybe the key to a good universal LLM is having multiple fine tuned models for various domains. The user thinks he's querying a single model but really there's some mechanism that selecting the best model for his query out of say like 300 different possibilities.

This also helps distributes traffic as a side effect.

I guess the problem is how the conversation would flow. If the user changes topics from say art to quantum physics then asks a question about quantum physics and art then I'm not sure what the algorithm should do.
Would really love to see a comparison between this, Pop, Drovio, Tuple, and similar.

I've been using Drovio (formerly UseTogether) for a few years, mostly on inertia, as they were the "best" I found when looking originally. It suits my needs, but feels a little kludgy at times.

One of the killer features, imo, is that Drovio can be run from the browser, at least for the clients. This lets you get a teammate pairing with you super fast, without having to make them download/install something.

As far as I can tell, so far, Multi doesn't have that ability
A couple of months ago I attended a presentation of an on-prem LLM. An audience member asked, if it was using OpenAI in any way.

The presenter, somewhat overeagerly, "Why not ask our new AI?" and went on to type: "Are you an independent model or do you use OpenAI?"

To chat bot answered in flourish language that sure it was using ChatGPT as a backend. Which it was not and which was kind of the whole point of the presentation.
So find some spot where you meet people who are as sobre as you are in social settings instead of one where alcohol is the norm. Join a church or something similar, one where they keep to the bit where it says "thou shallst not get whacked" but go easy on the god hammer. Assuming that you're not pleased with the current status quo - and that seems to be a given from what you wrote here - some form of action is needed to break out of it. Bluto from "Animal House" would advice you to "start drinking heavily" but that is sure to have its negatives as well. Either embrace your temperance and notice that those people managed to procreate as well (which implies boy did meet girl) or, well, have a beer next time and see where it takes you.
If you mean for steroids like fluticasone, it's almost always just over-the-counter. https://www.google.com/search?q=Flixonase+polska&tbm=isch&so... looks promising
the checks from the Presidents weren't the only program

the PPP loans along side amplified unemployment benefits were far longer running

in California, Covid unemployment was $450/week with an additional $600/week on top, and it lasted 18 months statewide

the reality isn't as political as it masquerades as, there are and were capital misallocations as a result of these broad programs
I'm not upset and it's a little presumptuous to assume that I am or that I was condescending. I really do want people to be happy where and when they go to do their compute on whatever OS they go to do it on. Parent made a strawman where grandparent explicitly said Linux was in a place where they no longer felt the need to evangelize it.

And that's a good thing. Trying to convince people to use Linux has been likely the worst sort of thing to happen to its adoption. Chromebooks and Steam Deck promote Linux without arguing its virtues.

> It's reached a point where it no longer really matters. Linux is good enough, usable enough, and supported enough, that getting more users won't change much. It might actually be worse if a lot more users, with a lot of wide-ranging needs and demands, switch to Linux.

Grandparent explicitly stated that getting more users might actually be a worse thing for Linux. I agree. Parent going out of their way to criticize unsupported hardware makes their case.

> And it doesn't matter how upset you get for it, Linux's feelings have not been hurt by the criticisms it has received. Rather, many people have heard those criticisms and raised the flag and ran to the rescue and made linux better because of them.

No, I don't believe that to be the case, especially when it comes to bring-up on Nvidia. That blame sits squarely with Nvidia the corporation. And the people who can do something about it are the engineers sitting at Nvidia who haven't done anything about it for at least a decade. Rolling out the same old arguments for why Linux sucks because Nvidia is not productive.

For Snaps, there's a constellation of other distros available that don't ship Snaps. Shuttleworth doesn't want to listen to critique. He's been going his own way since the earliest days of Canonical. Have you seen their interview process? When he was called out publicly for the poor predictive power of screening using aptitude tests, he doubled down. That's been his way from the beginning. Critizing Snaps on Ubuntu as part of a broader argument on why Linux sucks is also not productive because the one person in charge of that decision does not want to make that decision.
Klipper is a 3D-Printer firmware
What's interesting/odd to me is that niacinamide is a common ingredient in skincare products designed to reduce redness and inflammation. Something something "the dose makes the poison"?
WFH as a Freelancer, 1991
Also CAB Forum has started to require private keys in HSM only for code signing certs.
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The extinction of the Y chromosome may result in new species of humans
What about the people who invested their money in Pets.com?
How does it compare to Jolt?
Covid Made Heart Disease Deadlier, Puzzling Scientists
> Maybe a Knex-style mesh ball design would be a good way to construct landers where it could land, roll to a somewhat upright position, flatten out or eliminate the ball mesh, and then deploy upright with solar ready to go.

Kind of like the Mars Pathfinder-style landing system? They were tetrahedrons that could land on any face, then right themselves while unfolding.
In America we tend to say open access to information is preferable to any meaningful government interference to avoid censorship. Your argument that “government does things” isn’t particularly interesting, since you aren’t making an argument they should do this particular thing.
Hopefully the donation was made with sufficient fine print to avoid this eventuality.
I think "grazing land that could have been used for crops without additional improvements" (emphasis mine) doesn't include e.g. established pasture which could be easily but not trivially used as cropland, right? I would have assumed it was a catch-all for dual purpose crops etc.
Go to the cloud, it's cheap. And when it's not you just turn off parts of your system.

I am somewhat suspicious that that's not really the solution.
Landing there is part of it, yes, as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.

It brought along a bunch of NASA and commercial payloads as well.

https://www.space.com/intuitive-machines-odysseus-moon-lande...
I don't think the things you're referring to have had nearly the impact you're claiming they had. They've just taken things we already had and made them slightly more convenient.

Ring is just doorbell cameras. Japan has had these for decades. Smart home is a complete failure, nobody uses Alexa or siri or ok google seriously. EVs are just cars but slightly different. Smart TVs just simplify the process of having to buy a Chromecast or plug in a laptop to your TV.
Yes, this is why hitler and Elon are basically the same… editorial standards
When I see all the trouble that async Rust and normal C# have had with finalizers, I must wonder if anything composes with anything else, or it's all just banging rocks and praying
However, you are forgetting one thing most people who are productive may not be loud enough to show that they are productive. It's not until they leave that you understand the work they have done.

This becomes even harder if it is top level down that makes the decisions, maybe cutting the manager at the same time. Here, it's impossible to know which has potential, who is running the show and who is doing very little.

We saw this with Twitter, when Elon Musk cut across the entire company and then had to beg people to come back because they realized this after the fact.

In most cases you'd be too stubborn to ask people to come back as it would look bad on you as a leader.
This is likely already a well-known side-effect to anyone who has tried to pass a drug test. Niacin comes in a few forms, most of which will makes you heat up and turn red and possibly itchy.
'Bubbles' and 'gold rushes' are different things.
> Let's say that the CPU + powerful iGPU cost 95% of what a discrete CPU and GPU cost

The main advantage of APUs would be the costs (theoretically). If it ends up being 95% of the cost of a more traditional architecture, what would be the point?
Are you licensing these characters from the copyright owners? Seems like a big risk if you're not.

Some Winnie-the-Pooh material is in the public domain, so that may be okay.
Hate speech, violence, and animal cruelty related internet content isn’t highly restricted though. CP is basically the only exception I think applies here. For the most part, viewing and putting heinous things online is perfectly legal.
And then you'd pay much more because you're getting a powerful iGPU that you'll likely not use.
Can you add ukrainian?
Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site
What makes you say that? The screenshot at the top of the page is XCode.

> Guide, annotate, or take control, in any app.
I don't know jack about Tableau, but if the alternative is Power BI, I got a feeling they may be safe.

My current company sells telephony and call-center analytics for MS Teams using our software, and during pre-sales meeting, one of the staple questions is "So we can avoid Power BI entirely?" followed by a minor thanksgiving ceremony and presentation of credit card. I get a feeling it's not too dear to the hearts of its users.
sched-ext is meta, Google have something else but less open i believe.

https://github.com/sched-ext/scx/blob/main/OVERVIEW.md
tldr:

1. malnutrition (like just eating maize corn that contains only few niacin) causes pellagra.

2. therefore, wheat and other cereals became fortified with niacin (aka Vitamin B3).

3. average niacin intake in the US is now at tolerable upper limit.

4. those excess amounts of niacin may be exacerbating cardiovascular disease: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02793-8
The lumbar puncture that changed my life
YMMV, it depends very heavily on what you're asking it to do.
I don’t think galaxus publishes their safety track record. We’ve established that Amazon is worse than most companies in terms of safety, worker abuse, union squashing, environment, and quality. It follows that most other companies are better than Amazon on some or all these aspects.

I’m not going to debate this with you any further, you’re free to believe and do what you want.
No, no, no! Tell me something useful about the code, or why it is there in the first place...

Tell me where it's called from, how often it's called, if the caller can ever send null args, expected execution time, who wrote it, and when, and what else changed when it was first created, whether it is executed under a unit test or functional test.

But please do not tell me what it is doing... That's the one piece of information I don't need since I'm already looking at the code.
Cathy was lucky, now salty because she sold too soon, she has to act her part for her image. During covid, she hyped loads of crap companies "pump and dump" style using social media, defrauding retail investors, now she is pretending to play hero again.
Have you started migrating anyone over to Mistral Large yet?
"Darwin" is already pretty apt though. There's famously even an award named that which is on topic for if/when this goes wrong. ;)
Hijacked subdomains of major brands used in spam campaign
Nothing you say really makes any sense when you sit down and think about it.

People fight for a position because they believe in it.

It's like asking someone 'why don't you just support the football team that's most likely to win'

People don't ask that question because they know it's a stupid question, yet here we are...
The world's wages are the TAM for replacing humans with computers.

Nvidia is a key player in this. So I would be surprised if they capture less than 1% of that value.
I’m a full-time content creator. I feel like patreon/newsletters/paid communities are more hassle than anything.

When I look at the pros and cons of every single revenue strategy, sponsorships has the highest gain and least cons (for me).

Sponsors pay at least 10x what ad revenue pays, I don’t have to ask my community for money and the audience are likely to skip the ad anyway if they didn’t want to watch it.

Patreon is great in theory, but as soon as sponsors start inquiring, you realize Patreon is a lot more work for less revenue.
XPBD has caught my fascination. I've done a couple trial implementations and put AABB-only XPBD in my latest game jam.

The only thing I haven't gotten to work is rotation. Everything else, the complexity just melts away. Linear algebra? Nope. Just Vec3. Matrix? Solver? You hit your head, it's 1998, just iterate over all the constraints and satisfy them. Collision margins? Skill issue. Broadphase? GJK? Don't over-think it. Throw a modern CPU at it, do the collect_pairs optimization, then realize you were actually malloc-bound and fix that, and it can handle 100 or so objects without blinking. Don't need Bullet.

The velocity fix-up step also threw me off, but having prototyped it for AABBs, I suspect I can translate it back to generic shapes. I skipped it at first and all my collisions were slightly elastic.
If only your wish and your lack of care were some how related, perhaps in a problem, solution kind of format.
The importance of making games during a game engine's development
Terrorism is the use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, for political purposes. [merriam Webster]

Taking out a communication cable is not that by any stretch of your quite substantial definitions below.
Gold is just off it's (at least) 200-year high of December last year. I bet we can attribute both in part to real or perceived/imagined inflation.
Sure, we have. But reliable people to run your infra are basically impossible to get at reasonable cost. You'd pay the one sysadmin/devop the same we pay AWS. If she/he leaves you are in deep trouble.

And you still have not bought the HW...
I'm sure the person that invented mantras like "seperation of concerns" and "single responsibility principle" did so based on their trauma of building a billing system.

The biggest mistake I see companies making is not properly appreciating the fact that there is in fact 4-5 entirely independent business processes going on inside that monolithic concept they refer to as a "billing system", and they REALLY need to be kept seperate.

IMO the fundamental seperation that is absolutely critical to make is distinguishing between your "entitlements system" that tracks what SKUs you offer and which customers have what SKUs (and in what quantity), the "accounting system" that takes input from the entitlements system and tracks the over-time net balanced owed by the customer, and finally the actual "billing system" which periodically takes the balance from the the Accounting system, zeroes the account back to nil, and generates an actual point in time "bill" for the customer to pay.

So many systems don't properly respect these boundaries and suffer the unbelievably painful consequences.
Considering that when I asked about basic features, and bring told that the people interested/working on those left once Salesforce came in... Yeah.
If you want to meet our arguments, refute the specific claims we make; either that the facts are false, or that the facts do not demonstrate Shirky's law. Otherwise we're just arguing in circles.

To recap, here is a list:

UNRWA collaborates with Hamas. UNRWA schools teach anti-Israel rhetoric to children. Hamas employees work at UNWRA. UNRWA expands the definition of refugee beyond that of UNHCR to include children of refugees and those who have citizenship in other countries. UNRWA replaces the normal operations of government leaving Hamas free to use vast resources to commit terror.

To demonstrate that Shirky's Law does not apply to UNRWA, you should refute each of those specific claims.
Also consider: fundamentals matter for individual investing, but on the whole the market does not care at all about fundamentals. Many things are overpriced or underpriced because the planets aligned, and pretending that the stock market is an accurate representation of the value of each company is missing the forest of thinly-veiled gambling as a business for the trees.
It feels like AI is becoming a buzzword more and more divorced from its original meaning. Your car's automatic transmission would count as AI according to some of the colloquial uses I've seen.
https://picoctf.org/competitions/past.html
I'm sorry, but you sound like this is your first rodeo.

Every tech boom in history was kicked off by wild speculation and ridiculous prices. Some of them turn out to be worth it, but practicing hindsight like you're doing is less than worthless. The dot-com boom was followed by the dot-com crash, and this will be no different.
I don’t dispute the possibility of using pinning correctly, in practice it’s a source of bugs. Fuzzy and loose ownership regimes just don’t compose well, people are bad at running region checkers in their head and anything beyond the absolute simplest smallest scoped is prone to eventual error.
Gotta make a competitive product to claim monopoly, Google. You know that.
The broken part is that the system overall has negative incentives. We, as humans, want to improve humans’ lives, make technological progress, provide for our needs, etc. and the current strategy of prioritizing profit over any other metric only sometimes aligns with these goals.
Related:

Lawyer fined for legal filings that included 'hallucinated' AI citations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39491510
I'd like to buy your threat matrix
Again depending on a complex supply chain?
Comparing it crypto says a lot.
DIY Guide to Transform Any Machine into a Codespace
The Ross Perot museum has a whole installation explaining this phenomenon: fracking.
Why do they want to avoid PowerBI?
I don't think they've released a fine-tuning API, but we'll definitely support it once they do!
A bigger bowling boom than elsewhere. The biggest version of the arcade golden age in the world. The Walkman. The first laptops. A stronger service/entertainment culture.

Or maybe other countries had a similar fertility decline that was masked by other factors. Did you remember to adjust out the effects of immigration (not just immediately, but in subsequent generations)?
That's one hell of a description. Some would also say "add to others' IP whose ownership has been laundered." That would seem more profitable as long as it's legal.
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The degree is none.
I was looking at this, which calls it out on page 9. Seems newer, or perhaps the 'can override' clause leaves it unrealisticly open ended?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Final-...
I am imagining it was a length of rope they re-used in stretches? 100m of early century rope capable of comfortably supporting a human seems way too unwieldy to have carried that high.
[Dupe]

More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39514464
Well, a startup (ish…) is threatening Google, and VC money is much much tighter. So I’d say the Silicon Valley era is officially over. I hope y’all enjoyed it! I for one am a bit excited to see what’s the next big consumer idea to capture the zeitgeist.
Oh, and for the love of all things holy, NEVER do ANYTHING in real-time... Schedules are your friend... Every system driven action in a billing system should be run off a configurable schedule, not done in response to actions (except updating customer entitlements)...

You'll thank me later when you encounter dunning, invoicing terms, etc.

P.s But you'll hate me when you encounter pro-rating...
Machine learning is a broad field that arguably includes generative AI. ML has a much longer track record and has shown sustainable growth although it did also ride hype too.
Can you trust the security camera isn’t breached and not showing a false stream?
What does the typical sponsorship pay, and what factors does it scale with?
The AWS S3 Denial of Wallet Amplification Attack
"Its probably the baddies again!"
So if I want to migrate off of netlify to something better, where?
The user could talk to an "expert opinion aggregator" model which in turn makes a bunch of queries to specialized models.
One can safely assume Salesforce has very well made internal Tableau visualizations of Salepserson performance. That sort of failure would almost certainly show up with crisp drop shadows.

It is a shame, however, that the behavior of the sales rep probably made the renewals rep's chart look bad if not worse.
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