skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but that's not what I said. Too much paste makes a mess, too little makes, well, a different mess. A pea sized amount is plenty, being that a pea is fairly large.

Personally, I do an X if I'm not lapping, but that is more complex and a dot works just fine for most things.
Statistically speaking, most of them don’t.
The platform wasn’t “open.” Technologies like ActiveX were ways that Microsoft was trying to make the Internet depend on owning a Windows PC. Everything surrounding IE was an attempt to make other web browsers completely unviable.

I don’t know if you remember how it was back then, but huge chunks of the Internet simply did not work if you weren’t using Internet Explorer.

They would also sink your PC OEM business if you dared to ship a computer with an operating system alternative. They used their 90% marketshare to force companies like Dell to only sell computers with Windows installed. If someone like Dell wanted to provide an alternative like BeOS, Microsoft could terminate their contract or raise their royalty rate to unsustainable levels.
I think the GP was talking about underground aquifers not soil.
>After all, Microsoft didn’t stop people from making money off their platform or modifying their computers

This is incredible whitewashing of Microsoft. Microsoft didn’t stop people from modifying their computers? Part of the anti trust case was Microsoft ending licenses with OEMs if they dared to sell a PC with Linux installed.
I think, if you press "Open" in IE on the file download dialog, it goes to temp. Then, the default for zips is to extract to the same folder.

So, the original mistake was offering people to open downloads without saving them first. I'm pretty sure they removed that later, around the time "mark of the web" was added (a metadata on downloaded files that triggered extra/different confirmation dialogs on opening the file).
Not only dry periods, CA periodically has extreme wet periods that come once every century or so. In the 1860s the Central Valley turned into a giant lake, 300 miles long. Sacramento was completely under water. To this day the original Sacramento is 15 feet underground, the new built on top of the old after the great flood.
If Apple want to charge more for X-code and it's not mandatory to use it to sign the keys they should.

I think everyone knows how that would go for them in a competitive market.
That's clearly not the actual route aircraft are taking since it flies directly over the warzone in eastern Ukraine.
The rent seeking has begun
I guess we have to be a little suspicious these days about image provenance but yall sound paranoid. A couple of famous ornithologists are going to take a 6-week expedition and then trash their careers by using DALL-E? If the grip looks weird to you, look at "The Mist Netter’s Bird Safety Handbook".

>> The leg hold, or photographer's grip (below), is used to hold birds while photographing them since it maximizes the amount of plumage in view; to transfer them from one bander's hand to another; or to examine features. For this hold, you "scissor" grip the bird's tibia between the fore and middle fingers (or between the ring and middle fingers if your hand is very small) and then clamp the bird's tarsometatarsi between your thumb and fore (or middle) finger. In this hold, the bird is securely gripped above and below the metatarsal joint, which is bent into an "L" shape. The bird will be able to flap its wings and rock backwards and forwards, but it should not be able to rock from side to side. Never hold a bird by the ends of its legs alone — they will break! Place your free hand over the bird's back to keep its wings from flapping until the photographer is ready to shoot.

https://www.birdpop.org/docs/pubs/Smith_et_al_1997_Mist_Nett... (page 25)
Very exciting news and looking forward to trying them but, jesus, what an awful naming convention that is.
He says he got permission in writing before his employment. So not much risk there, I hope.
> some normally-hidden data in the commit lets a client resurrect the original, highly-detailed commit graph including every "uh forgot to commit on Friday afternoon, dunno what this was but it's important

Is that supposed to be a good or even useful thing?
The problem with Apple's walled garden is that there's literally zero consumer choice for interoperability. If you have 10 devices and 4 of them are Apple, it doesn't matter that 6 of them are running F-Droid. Anything that requires you to install your app on all 10 devices is impossible to do. Everyone is limited to what Apple allows in their walled garden whether they choose it or not.
I'm a barber shop. Nice to meet you chimpanzee w/ a bowtie!
As somebody who's interested in both languages and follow zog development relatively closely I'm interested in these many reasons. Can you give a few example of zig features or other reasons that would be useful for Pijul over Rust?
If anything the fact that they haven't been overrun with spam and that they're so popular shows that it does work for a ridiculously large amount of people.

That's not to say it's not annoying to get arbitration in a niche section of SO/SE site. The site could use a bit more transparency, but that's a difficult balance. I've been a community moderator and also on the receiving end of a power user's whims, so maybe it's perspective or maybe it's bias, but I can't say the system is necessarily going downhill.
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There are alternate diff algorithms that can be selected within even standard git diff. It's just stuck on the traditional one as the default.
I think the algorithms and data structures in Pijul have been carefully designed to be fast over a decade, and one of the original points of departure was making high-level decisions to facilitate performance. I know performance optimization in a lazy language is a special art, but I don't think it's Haskell vs Rust that makes Pijul fast. I'm sure the author can weigh in here.
It feels absolutely amazing to build an AI startup right now:

- We struggled with limited context windows [solved]

- We had issues with consistent JSON output [solved]

- We had rate limiting and performance issues with 3rd party models [solved]

- Hosting OSS models was a pain [solved]

It's like your product becomes automatically cheaper, more reliable, and more scalable with every major LLM advancement. I'm going to test the new Claude models against our evaluation and test data soon.

Obivously you still need to build up defensibility and focus on differentiating with everything “non-AI”.
My dad, when was a kid, would bust out a soldering iron and he'd show me how to swap out the quartz timing crystals on digital wristwatches to repair them (or, for fun, make them intentionally run fast or slow). On occasion, he'd even do it on PCs to under- or over-clock them and make them last a little longer.

By the time I was in college, he was on his way towards retiring, and knowing that I was into software, decided that I would be his IT support person. He went through various laptops and desktops (PCs, Macs, he even gave Linux a real try but gave up when he couldn't get his financial planning software to run on it), Android phones, etc. The one platform he liked using in his later years was iOS/iPadOS specifically because, in his words, "there's not a bunch of other s--- here, and I don't need to manage it".

It's ease-of-use dovetailing with computer safety, and that's a _hard_ problem.
AI startup wants to make GPU training obsolete with its Tseltin machine
There’s a lack of capacity, but it’s a generalization to a very large cold-war style conflict. ie - you are right NATO has identified shortages, but it’s more of a concern for conflicts on world war scales.

Just searching around, the USA alone has 500,000 JDAMs sitting in warehouses. I knew it was a lot because of the recent quotes on what Israel has stockpiled. They are much more effective than artillery, don’t miss, and can be used for deep strikes on stealth aircraft.

My main point here is that Ukraine is a bad example of supply shortages, so I don’t want to lose sight of that. That conflict is a good example of shortages for _part_ of the military supply chain in an unexpected use-case. Full NATO involvement or support would have seen the end of the conflict by now one way or the other. The reason I say that is that Ukraine has put a major dent in Russia’s military with no modern air force, no navy, world war 1 tactics, and at best mediocre support from other countries.
I've been skeptical of Anthro over the past few months, but this is huge win for them and the AI community. In Satya's words, things like this will make OpenAI "dance"!
I have 70% of Android global market share. It offers more choices of devices, price points and a less restrictive OS.

There's almost nothing you can do on an iPhone that you can't on an Android. Conversely, there are plenty of things that the more open Android platform allows that iOS doesn't.

And yet, despite all of that, some people still prefer to buy iPhones. I think it's their choice to make.
You can get Adobe DNG Converter for free and use it to convert your raw files to DNG compressed with JPEG XL.

https://helpx.adobe.com/content/dam/help/en/camera-raw/digit...
Different results. MS was pretty effective at destroying the competition.
Platform restrictions aside, maybe I’m missing something but requiring a permanent open socket seems like an awfully brittle design. There’s a lot of network conditions which phones are highly prone to that’d make apps with that requirement barely functional.
DNG Converter (which includes JPEG XL compression) isn’t paid. You can get it here: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/using/adobe-dng-converter...
note: you have to make an introduction video just to apply
Just signed up for Claude Pro to try out the Opus model. Decided to throw a complex query at it, combining an image with an involved question about SDXL fine tuning and asking it to do some math comparing the cost of using an RTX 6000 Ada vs an H100.

It made a lot of mistakes. I provided it with a screenshot of Runpod's pricing for their GPUs, and it misread the pricing on an RTX 6000 ADA as $0.114 instead of $1.14.

Then, it tried to do math, and here is the outcome:

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>Approach 1: Use the 1x RTX 6000 Ada with a batch size of 4 for 10,000 steps.

>Cost: $0.114/hr * (10,000 steps / (4 images/step * 2.5 steps/sec)) = $19.00
Time: (10,000 steps / (4 images/step * 2.5 steps/sec)) / 3600 = 0.278 hours

>Approach 2: Use the 1x H100 80GB SXMS with a batch size of 8 for 10,000 steps.

>Cost: $4.69/hr * (10,000 steps / (8 images/step * 3 steps/sec)) = $19.54
Time: (10,000 steps / (8 images/step * 3 steps/sec)) / 3600 = 0.116 hours

-----

You will note that .278 * $0.114 (or even the actually correct $1.14) != $19.00, and that .116 * $4.69 != $19.54.

For what it's worth, ChatGPT 4 correctly read the prices off the same screenshot, and did math that was more coherent. Note, it saw that the RTX 6000 Ada was currently unavailable in that same screenshot and on its own decided to substitute a 4090 which is $.74/hr, also it chose the cheaper PCIe version of the H100 Runpod offers @ $3.89/hr:

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>The total cost for running 10,000 steps on the RTX 4090 would be approximately $2.06.

>It would take about 2.78 hours to complete 10,000 steps on the RTX 4090.
On the other hand:

>The total cost for running 10,000 steps on the H100 PCIe would be approximately $5.40.

>It would take about 1.39 hours to complete 10,000 steps on the H100 PCIe, which is roughly half the time compared to the RTX 4090 due to the doubled batch size assumption.

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He would already have been heavily invested in MS. Dude has a 40-core desktop machine for funsies. And you should see his smart lighting rig...
Hello Scott!
I found the problem that you are MixRank solves quite interesting and fitting my domain of Backend and Infra given my previous experience. I have applied to a role at the above link!
I am available to start immediately and look forward to hear from the team.
I'd argue it's actually risky to build an AI startup now. Most any feature you bring to the table will be old news when the AI manufacturers add that to their platform.
Many Logitech peripherals have Turing-complete chips (ARM processors), but no one is claiming that my mouse is a general purpose computing devices.

Apple is selling a system made of a combination of hardware they make and the software running on top of it.
Rust includes source file and line information in many error messages for easier debugging—it's not looking for anything at that path.
Pretty sure it's just a random number.
I agree with what was said. Just having money doesn't make you happy.

But money provides a safety net for you to pursue what makes you happy (sometime money itself can be helpful, as it finances your pursuits that do make you happy).

I'd love to quit my job and spend all my time on a pet game, or spend all my time painting. But something needs to pay the bulls. As an indie game dev, it's unlikely that's achievable. Most good artists (and I'm a bad one, just to clarify) don't make enough money to make a comfortable living. Sure, there's concept artists who've been in various industries when these industries were cradles, but the economy of then and now is vastly different. So, most people lives revolve around making money.

Now I earn enough to live comfortably, but that wasn't always the case. It sucks when your life revolves around money, but you're not rich. I think this is the reason why most people pursue money: they want to feel safe and comfortable; not because there's some online money leaderboard
> I don't put a lot of stock on evals.

Same, although they are helpful for setting expectations for me. I have some use cases (I'm hesitant to call them evals) related to how we use GPT for our product that are a good "real world" test case. I've found that Claude models are the only ones that are up to par with GPT in the past.
Hello Bitkeeper, hello Mercurial!
One of the initial reason for the Lisp Machine project back then was to run Macsyma, since the PDP-10 was too constrained, and a multi-user system that meant you had to share resources.

So MACSYMA runs well on the CADR :-)
>you have such tools at your disposal that will not look weird to the audience

Much of the moviegoing audience is so confused that they somehow think increasing frame rate from a paltry 24fps makes things look worse.
My main issue with Kubernetes is the cluster-scoped Custom Resource Definition (CRD).

We are here because we wanted a way to deal with software that each need different versions of libraries or configuration, so we invented containers. Then we wanted to run multiple services, so we invented orchestrators. But now applications are deployed with cluster-scoped operators that depend on cluster-scoped definitions, and we need to run separate services in separate cluster. It's like with need to create containerization for Kubernetes apps again.
Seeing Rational Rose, ClearCase, etc. mentioned without expletives is novel! My impression of that family of tools was not favorable. They worked… ok at first. But were slow, and if things got messed up, recovery was very difficult. Also, I once found an entire install of Perl down in the directory structure of a Rational product!

I'm not sure I used a pure IDE from Rational though, so maybe that was better?
CORRECTION:

An employee of GitHub has reached out to me to inform me that there are more than 2 engineers people working on npm full time, including multiple full time support staff and full time staff to review possible malware. The engineering team working on npm is "substantially larger than 2". Additionally they informed me that a new product manager for npm will be starting tomorrow.

Even though I made no claim to the contrary, I would like to emphasise that there are obviously current product managers at GitHub that product manage npm as _one of_ the projects they manage.
Funny Numbers: Steve Martin, Bob Osserman, and Robin Williams (2002) [video]
>as I cannot sleep sitting upright. It means I get off extra-fatigued and that multiplies my jetlag several-fold.

Well, you can pay for lie-flat seating but obviously it's a big premium.
Ask HN: Will Rust gain momentum over PHP or Ruby with the recent endorsement?
Especially talking for the next 5-10 years...
I swear the only thing that the Bolte Bridge attracts more of than seagulls is photographers.

Also the desktop I have now for ML work is powerful enough to do a full 3d simulation of a lens using the full Maxwell equations from first principles. I remember doing the back of the envelope calculations that I'd need the Bluegene/L back in my undergrad days to do it for real, well: https://bnnbreaking.com/arts/video-gaming/nvidia-geforce-rtx...

What a time to be alive.
It's very obvious.
Plus, in SEA you can find the Business Fish in the walkway art of B-gates. Fun!
What was the solution on Jain? Gbnf grammars?
Surely effectiveness is a meaningful indicator when you are in a dispute over whether something is anti-competitive.
There's not a single mention of Apple Music. There goes the credibility of this statement.

It's rather obvious that problems started when Apple decided to build a services business the size of a F100 company by directly and unfairly competing with said developers, unchained from all the constraints and costs they impose on them.
For payment terminals the core problem is that the trust model is ass-backwards. The user is the one at risk from a faulty authn device, so they should be the side "controlling" the authn flow. Merchants would be fine just carrying dumb plastic cards with an ID number. Though these days there's little reason not to just make both sides smart… it could even run on the phones they already have!
You are not going to take the expensive human out of the loop where downside risk is high. You are likely to take the human out of the loop only in low risk low cost operations to begin with. For those use cases, these models are quite expensive.
Anthropic is also not really a traditional startup. It’s just some large companies in a trench coat.
> Didn't stop you from selling your SW for the Windows platform without paying Microsoft a dime

Microsoft would charge you up-front for things like dev tools (Visual Studio), documentation (MSDN), server software (MS SQL, Windows Server), etc. Yeah, you could get alternatives, but it wasn't until the very end of the 90s that you started to see FOSS really take off in a way that would be appropriate for an enterprise-style environment.

App stores take a cut of revenue, while Microsoft would get its revenue before your project shipped.
It is possible (and is) for both things to be true.

Both Apple and Microsoft were/are abusive of their market position.
The value/competency may approach that of a human but the price won't necessarily follow. Price will be determined by market forces. If compute is cheap and competition is fierce then the price can be near free even if it is at human-level intelligence. Then there will be a lot of surplus value created because buyers would be happy to pay $50/million tokens but only have to pay $0.1/million tokens thanks to competition. Frontier models will probably always be expensive though, because frontier by definition means you're sucking up all the available compute which will probably always be expensive.
Eh, I'm just gonna point out that you can find ffmpeg code (proprietary decoders even) distributed with Electron. I'm not even going to think about how many proprietary apps built on top of Electron have no idea about that. Look at the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67799370/legal-issues-in...
> including hidden under ground ice bergs that took thousands of years to thaw

Citation needed?
> I read somewhere that around the $ 60,000-a-year mark. Your happiness level doesn’t go up the more you earn.

The "happiness caps out at 60-75k" meme has been pretty well debunked at this point. Even the author of the original study that came to that conclusion now agrees it was a result of limitations in the design of the study.

> Using this data, which constituted over 1.7 million experience samples, Professor Killingsworth found that larger incomes “were robustly associated” with both greater happiness and greater life satisfaction. Further, there was no observed plateau in either happiness or life satisfaction at $75,000 or any other level. As income increased, positive feelings increased, and negative feelings decreased. [0]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnjennings/2024/02/12/money-b...
I chalk it up to a desire to increase positions and departments under one's authority, or a fear of being supplanted by self-organizing volunteers, rather than some evil lust for power or dominance. In either case, holding back the civitas. Hence pettiness and fecklessness respectively.
It's a great question. Clear lines are always hard, but something has differentiated the two. And it may be less about what Apple has done, and more that Google is not a very good product company.

IMO, having used both platforms, Apple hardware and ecosystem/platform works better for me. /shrug
That's small potentates compared to what MS was doing. Windows was actively updated to break other browsers and then IE was actively leveraged to kill off competing browsers and server side web technology. For years the only thing that survived their onslaught was OSS.

And that's on the tech side of things, business wise they would do even less ethical things. If Apple bought Briar specifically to kill it because it ran on Android then you might get a taste of what MS was getting up to.
NVidia's execs think so.

It would be an ironic thing that it was open source that killed the programmer; as how would they train it otherwise?

As a scientist, should I continue to support open access journals, just so I can be trained away?

Slightly tongue in check, but not really.
I would have thought some of these "well educated" people would be able to list even one of these reasons before spouting off at the mouth, but I guess that requires trying first.
There is no European nuclear deterrent. The non-proliferation treaties bar any further countries from developing one. It would be a huge upheaval for even Germany or Italy, let alone the EU itself, to develop their own nuclear deterrent. (Not to mention politically impossible within Germany itself!)

The UK has a quasi-independent deterrent (we developed our own and then agreed to abandon it and buy the US option instead), but is not part of the EU any more.

The only true independent EU nuclear deterrent is France.

An under-appreciated aspect of the NATO/EU defence situation is that the US does not actually want the EU, or any of its constituent countries such as the former Axis powers, to become too capable. Or develop a local manufacturing capability that outsells the US one. The US actually prefers a weakish Europe defended by US troops to one strong enough not to need them and even to contemplate removing them.
Its even more complicated now. USB4 has a lot of timing related things that the system has to do before you can even start sending data. More complicated, much of it is done in hardware, which might be nice for quickly slapping USB capabilities, buttttt is a bear if you're trying to build something thats not a computer. Theres cases where the device wont even power on unless you do everything just right hardware side. Gone are the days of simple signals and connections.

USB isnt so universal anymore
> I’m still single at 37, and the idea of having kids and a family is gone.

Some men have their first child well after 50. It's not gone. And I know several men who have been very happy marrying a woman with kids and raising them as their own.