skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's apples to oranges, but it's interesting contrasting this with community-driven efforts in the gaming preservation space. It's a relatively simple matter to find, say, a full archive of the vast majority if not all commercially released games for the Sega Genesis, along with a smattering of unreleased prototypes that have found their way into community hands. Many, like myself, are hobbyist digital archivists, curating collections of data and hardware for exploring the medium.

Film and TV are harder for a number of reasons. Video is just bigger, and the vast majority of works have their primary versions on film and tape that take far more effort to preserve (physically or digitally). Having said that, I believe Hollywood shot themselves in the foot by so aggressively going after piracy (the same can be said about music) in a way that the video game industry didn't (Nintendo's recent efforts notwithstanding). They spent fortunes on lawyers and lobbyists to protect short-term profits (and, realistically, how many ticket sales did they save?), at the expense of locking away our shared cultural history.
That's not "become the joker;" that's facts. The SRE book was, literally, Googlers documenting how they did SRE at Google. The book (i.e. the first two chapters) got cargo-culted everywhere, everything else became footnotes. See also: The massive set difference of places that have something resembling SLOs and places that implement interrupts and fair compensation for on-call rotations.
I admit I don’t own one of these things but reviewers seem to be unanimous that the passthrough on the Vision Pro is both the best of any headset on the market, yet also very mediocre compared to seeing things through your own eyes, especially in low light.

Given that it’s designed to be used indoors, poor low light performance is a big problem.

There’s a latency/acuity tradeoff whereby the more post-processing Apple applies to improve acuity, the worse the latency and more nausea they create. It’s going to require a lot more research into hardware post-processing.
Is that transferred to an external server?
I like that, thank you for humoring me and my ignorance

It feels like TFA is arguing "the way we calculate interest in the current model is wrong, here's a new formula". The jury is still out on whether that new formula breaks other parts of the model, I suppose
slack for work

discord for fun.
Metaphors We Live by [pdf]
Why is it fine?

History, paleontology, anthropology, cosmology, and other fields have highly educated people spending their entire lives dedicated to recovering the past when it couldn't be preserved or when people tried to purposefully destroy it.

Knowing about the past adds to our understanding of the universe and guides us into the future. There is no downside for our current culture to know about the past.

Plus sometimes it's just interesting.
It is way worse and that's not going to get better: AI trolls.

Strap a neural net to an headless blink/webkit with a virtual mouse and keyboard.

Click farms would be used to generate the data for machine learning.
It seems to me that we could just as easily record DRM’ed content (e.g. by taking screenshot videos), we’re just not as obsessed with recording it anymore
Ah yes, that's it right there. Excellent sleuthing, thanks.
First of all it looks at suspiciously limited data (Oct 26th to Nov 11th) when we know more data is available. This is a known tactic from climate deniers who claim e.g. that data from a single weather station in Canada from October 2006 to June 2014 shows the world is actually cooling.

Second of all it makes vague assumptions about distributions without clarifying or even justifying why it should have a different distribution. This is straight from the playbook of Trump’s election denialism where some variation of election results was somehow proof of tampering[1].

With statistics you can find any results you want if you look at limited enough data from a large enough pool, and you can find any abnormality you want by giving unrealistic expectations. This is why you need to clarify which distribution you expect, and—more importantly—justify it by pointing at other examples from similar pools. This is never done here, which is why I call it pseudo-statistical nonesence. Stating it is abnormal is not enough, even when you provide some fancy box plots to do so.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etx0k1nLn78
>Their e-book service isn't that compelling.

My county library system has about 100k ebook titles and another 30k audiobooks. I've probably read or listened to well over a hundred library books since the last time I actually went to the library.
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It's because they're so expensive and don't offer a lot of storage for modern standards.

People that want to store a little use cloud or other stuff like Flash. Of course that degrades over time but for a few bucks you have multiple. People that want to store a lot use tape. There isn't really much room in between.
Lecture Notes – MinHash
Tell me another way you can have a chance to change your life and the life of everyone you love, so substantially, for just $2. If you can spare $4/week it's worth the chance IMHO.
The API design of STL is often over-constrained.

That is, The style is very kitchen-sink and generalized, which means implementers have little flexibility.

Every “real” C++ codebase I’ve worked on has its own data structures for most things. And that’s a feature of C++, not a bug.

For example, don’t use std::unordered_map for anything performance sensitive. It’s a shockingly slow hash table because the interface constrains it to allocate a lot.

The STL isn’t designed for optimum performance. It’s easy to do better by satisfying your app’s requirements and nothing else.
Might be a symptom of my good memory? Shame. I like the memory but not the dreams
Could you please elaborate on what you mean by this?
But that just makes it a bigger success right? Adjusting for the crazy price it's even more impressive if it sells almost 1/8 in the first year.

My impression is that it's going to fall in price in the next iterations though i agree with you right now it's not even targeted for the masses.
You're getting close. Over the past 30-40 years, American corporations have focused more and more and more on profitability, and "making the numbers go up." They have sacrificed employee retention in order to pay executives eye-watering packages to focus on eliminating literally everything that doesn't contribute to that goal. They gutted all the R&D they can, years ago. Apple seems to be almost alone in retaining enough business acumen to think further out than the next quarter. It's not magic. They're just continuing to do what places like IBM and HP were famous for, decades ago. It's like the quip in Days of Thunder (and I have no idea why it sticks with me): "I'm not going faster. Everybody else is going slower." Wall Street has killed the future of America, and slowed human progress around the globe, in order to buy a bunch of already-filthy-rich people even more stuff.

Not that I'm bitter and jaded, as an engineer, or anything.
Investors for iconic downtown SF Four Seasons hotel have stopped paying its loan
That's not what I mean. Well, it probably was not translated well.
Film decays if not stored properly.
Ask HN: Are Flowcharts Dead for Coding?
Hi I'm a computer teacher and I like the idea of teaching with flowcharts and students seems to structure they head better than with using scratch. What do you think?
>AFAIK in most states, the police have say in their jurisdiction. So a lot of theft crime can’t be caught because the thief drives to another jurisdiction and the chase can’t go on.

you are thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_California_Kid universe :) I dont think thats the case for a very long time.
x86_64? Seriously?

I would understand if that would be for legacy support, like x86_64 decoded to risc-v.
It's impossible to infer the right language using geolocation information, and in many locations the chance of correctly guessing the native language of a user is extremely small.

Some services, Google for example, ignore this simple fact and as a consequence force major inferior experience and usability. Many people waste considerable amount of time to fix the issues caused by that, with varying degree of success. The solutions usually have limited lifetime, due to changes in the services. So much needless pain.
Maybe ignorant, but if AI can get to a point of fully automating SWEs, hardly any white-collar knowledge based job is safe.
The mob is fickle :)
Yes at this point I hope someone builds a friendlier version on top of Nix, so we can cleanly migrate completely away from it.
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Pretty neat implementation. In general, for these sort of exercises (and even if the intention is to go to prod with custom kernels) I lean towards Triton to write the kernels themselves. It is much more easier to integrate to the tool chain, and allows a level of abstraction that doesn't affect performance even a little bit while providing useful constructs.
For one, it’s a significantly more difficult engineering challenge. Two, it’s unprecedented. OSIRIS was cinematically more dramatic, but we’ve been hitting moving things with moving things for a while. We haven’t done a mechalox reusable massive spaceship before to the point that it’s basically its own category.
please consider this reference
https://inhabitat.com/ted-moallems-braille-it-labeler-is-mad...
The irony is I can use steam link with an ipad. On top of that I can use it as a second monitor for when I am on the go among some other productivity. From what I saw with the vision pro, nothing compelled me in that department. And I have to agree with you, not having some sort of controller interface was an additional no go as well.
people spent so many years and money try to reduce diseases from mosquito. you just say they are same as this random guy who introduced invade species for fun.

hahaha
Wow, that’s interesting. Thanks for the response, I genuinely appreciate it!
Yeah, great for architecture and design especially in areas I feel impostor syndrome from knowing just enough to be dangerous. I'd say it extends the horizon of possibilities, especially in filling in grey areas.
Did you know for what purposes (targets) made mini-computers and why they was limited?
My experience of the VMWare changes has been significantly different, actually noticeably financially positive. I won't speak of specifics but I will say why I think it has been.

VMWare have bundled all their products in to a single license. If you were previously, only purchasing a single, small product, now at renewal the only option is to buy a license that contains lots of other products too.

For companies already purchasing lots of VMWare products, they may find not only is their renewal cheaper, but they have access to other products too essentially for free.
Where previously a company was purchasing vCenter, they now have access to vRealize Aria Automation for example.

That change cuts through so much red tape within enterprise... Do you go though the entire compliance/governance process, go out to tender for (Ansible Tower, Chef, Saltstack), spend months haggling, review boards... or do you say we're already licensed for vRealize Saltstack, lets evaluate if the product we already own, contracted for, that integrates with all our VMWare products does the job..

Broadcom's CEO Hock Tan said:

> "[Broadcom's methodology] was not based on taking existing products and raising their prices"

I think their intention is to not raise prices per product, but get people using more of their products.

Sorry for being vague, we're a customer of VMWare but i don't have my employers permission to release details :)
Someone investigating a potential financial crime doesn't have all the information. They only have a model of where the money is coming from and going to. It's not like it's always easy to prove that there's definitely something illegal going on if the perpetrators have been carefully hiding their tracks with shell companies and money laundering and so on. So the investigator must form hypotheses and then try to find evidence for or against said hypotheses.

Another analogy: we find a person, shot, in his home. There's a bullet inside the body, calibre and rifling marks point to a particular type of firearm, powder burn marks indicate a point-blank shot, all the CSI stuff. But the murder weapon is nowhere to be found. Do we assume that the weapon – and the perp – does indeed exist, or should we "tweak the model" to include a way for bullets to spontaneously materialize out of thin air and kill people?

> Chalk it up to ignorance, if you'd like, but I still feel like asking "are you sure you can't fix the model instead of plugging it with some unobservable feature?"

I don't understand how people think there's a distinction between "introducing a particle" and "fixing the model". Doing the former is doing the latter! Anyway, yes I do chalk it up to ignorance, because that's still a strawman, assuming some kind of a Scientific Orthodoxy that has decided that Dark Matter It Is, Claiming Otherwise Is Heresy.

It's tiring to repeat this in every thread about DM, but – everybody and their dog has been testing the dark matter hypothesis for several decades now, obviously, because finding definitive evidence against it could be worth a Nobel, and so would figuring out a way to detect dark matter particles in laboratorio. And thus far they've found zero contradictory evidence, but instead in several other subdisciplines of astronomy, observations have been made that just happen to fit exactly the same sort of dark matter model that was originally only devised to explain the galactic rotation curves, without any fiddling. All the new evidence has simply tightened some parameters of the model that used to be less well known.

Meanwhile, no competing hypothesis has been able to explain all the different observations that the the single unified dark matter model does explain. Different non-dark-matter models may be finetuned to explain some pieces of evidence, but that makes them unable to match other evidence.

Nobody is claiming that there couldn't be a nice elegant dark-matter-less model that explains everything neatly. Most astrophycisists and cosmologists would be elated if one were found, and people do keep on looking. But as long as no such thing exists, we must assume that something that walks like a duck and quacks like a duck is, indeed, a duck.
Unless he was a guest lecturer, if the course was for credit, wouldn't his name appear on your official transcript?
> "It's hard to deny that this isn't impressive"

That takes a bit of parsing. From context (and if you meant precisely what you wrote), I _think_ you're saying it's not impressive.
<< Society will struggle to keep up.

Thank you for putting this into words as it happens to approach my thoughts on it. Our societies are already changing at a crazy pace that makes people not entirely comfortable. Now that this comfort will be lessened still, do you think people will demand changes not completely dissimilar from preserving horse buggys? The pace of change may end up being so fast, that not artificially limiting it may end up pissing a good portion of the planet.
In 10 years time, China may come up with a production of 10-7nm. It may or may not be profitable to mass produce. By then, they will be 12 years into their 25 years Great Depression. Their real estate and stock market will still be in the toilet, and their demographics will go down 200-300m. They will have 30% of their population over 65. It would be iffy to say at that point whether the Chinese government has enough money, besides addressing their enormous debt, to keep pouring into a losing enterprise like this.

The western technology companies will be somewhere way way farther along/bigger by then - look at spacex flight this week for comparison at how fast western technologies move.
Is this unique to America? It seems the same problem exists for libraries globally, right?
The usual:

ChatGPT to find fixes for weird errors.

Copilot to autocomplete code.

I feel guilty for not using paid ChatGPT subscription more.
This thread was wild.
The U.S. Just Expanded by the Size of Two Californias
I find the paid version of ChatGPT to be an effective pair programmer with me. From ideas to initial scaffolding to get my thinking straight about outcomes. I write mostly Python, and I find it great at typing my functions and writing docstrings. I also write alot of infrastructure code for the AWS Cloud, and I find ChatGPT better at that than Code Whisperer/Q, but I expect in the AWS context it will catch up.
so basically they can prevent employees from selling their stonks at will...
makes said stonks worthless don't it?
Your evidence for the non-emptiness of this set of people is the fallacy above
It's a great deal and has been stable for me in years. I got mine for almost a decade in advance.
Why not both?

I'm not a teacher, but have worked with some folks who develop curriculum for teaching coding in schools, and they were apt to blend different tools, including offline exercises, to get the computational concepts down, and then move into scratch only once it was time to pull the concepts together.

EDIT: Saw the newer comments and wanted to clarify - flowcharts as a teaching tool make a ton of sense. They are also great for explaining high-level flow of complex systems, and collaborating on designs. But the other comments are likewise correct that their use cases don't overlap directly with writing code.
The second I started reading this thread I was wondering how long it would take for a Wosch document to show up! Thanks for making my day :)

I took his OS class in undergrad and I remember distinctly being annoyed at "Fäden".
phind.com has pretty much replaced googling for me, I've been also using it a lot for code reviews.
I often use ChatGPT to generate code for specific tasks. For example, maybe I need to pull thousands of files from S3, perform some sort of manipulation, and then send them back to S3. I can ask ChatGPT about this and have it generate the basic functionality of what I want, but then refine it myself to get the details exactly how I want them. So I find it extremely good at getting me 80%+ through basic tasks, saving me often many minutes on the mundane parts of these tasks. I gladly pay the $20/month for this.

I have briefly tried it in my IDE, but so for I don’t like the experience of any of the plugins. They feel a bit awkward to me in their current state. But, I know other devs who love the integration directly in their IDE.
It’s pretty amazing that $100k can decide an election much better than $1B is able to achieve.

The simple conclusion is traditional campaigns are money laundering and money wasting operations but you really want to win, just pay the Russians and Chinese a rounding error of an amount and they’ll change the outcome in your favor!
The thing that bothers me the most about this article is that the sheep were "created" for the purpose of hunting and taking them as trophies. A totally vain and senseless act and not worth taking a creature's life for. Some humans really are the worst.
I've found a fair number of series at my library where they only have e-books of, say, #2 and #4, and I've always assumed it's because the rest expired and haven't been re-purchased.
That makes sense really. It's about 5 glasses. So for two people if it's a 2 hour lunch break even with a very low tolerance at the end of lunch your BAC would be very close to 0.00. The average 150lb male metabolizes 1 glass of wine per 45-60 minutes.
When I was in school in the mid-80's flowcharts were already a bit outdated, and I've never seen them since in my 40 years of programming.

The problem with flowcharts is that a real program has so many conditional paths you can't possibly fit it on paper. One solution is to have a very high level flowchart and have separate flowcharts to "zoom in" on parts. I doubt (and the industry seems to think so too) that flowcharts help in any way in modern programming.
It's infinitely easier to spend $0 vs $0.01 if you're trying to be anonymous online. The criminals can certainly afford it but that also almost certainly means interacting with financial systems that leave a paper trail.
Draw like its excalidraw or tldraw, but on a map
Spot on. I got about 2/3 of the way through looking for the specific problem, wondering if it was codec issues, backups, etc.

No, just mystical hand wringing about losing digital works. It's a procedural problem driven from the top.
Sure. I read a book from someone who was in the space his whole career and I don't listen to shallow commentary, so I must be fucked. Makes absolutely no fucking sense mate
Every sofa on that page looks like it belongs in the mansion of some Hollywood pervert.

Just get a La-Z boy reclining sofa
Sometimes there's a lowest common denominator that puts pressure on everyone else to reduce quality & value, especially gradually over the long run.

When it comes to sofas there's a less common low, and that's "model home" furniture.

These upholstered representations look just like the real thing but they are not counterfeits, merely imitations of what it would look like if the model home were to be equipped with actual furniture where its usefulness was a consideration.

Occasionally appearing on the second-hand market so caveat emptor.
Cataloguing my vinyl collection with computer vision
The Poetic Odyssey of Paul Dirac and David Bowman
This video claims 2011

https://youtu.be/j-KxS3L9bcM
this may be a shit take but i won't ever forage for mushrooms. Every other story seems to be "got sick" vs "i can eat for free from the local woodlands".

If i ever want to harvest my own mushrooms i'll buy the plug sdtarters from a reputable place, i think.
Reminds me of this paper where some researchers had AIs role play as employees at a startup and tasked them with building various forms of software. It was pretty interesting. Managed to build Pong.

Thing is though, they neglected to compare this against a control, and the examples they tested this on were examples that GPT had no problem building. No idea if this actually improved performance in LLMs.

I think comments like these are worthwhile because, frankly, I can’t trust AI researchers to run good experiments or evaluate their models properly for a variety of reasons. I mean, most scientific papers in general are hard to replicate and have flaws concerning sample size and what have you (Related, I still remember my disillusion in finding out that the average Hacker News commenter was an idiot incapable of critical thinking when the LK-99 hype reached a fever pitch). In any other context we would be deeply suspicious of the results if they were sponsored by a corporate party, yet in the context of AI we don’t seem to care that most AI researchers work for Microsoft.
Same thinking here. We evaluated their incident product and found it sleek but ultimately an unnecessary luxury. With their pager product we will be giving them another try. Personally I won't miss PagerDuty.
The arguments the US is using is literally the exact arguments Iran uses for why the censorship.

It's fascinating to see Americans cheer this on.
*prosecuted, lol
ChatGPT (paid) for everything from mentoring to memory-refreshing to creating wiki pages. It's a complete game changer for me.

I also use copilot/chat in VSCode and have used GitHub copilot in the terminal in the past.

But really nothing above is as useful as ChatGPT.

Apparently Claude 3 Opus is it's first serious competitor, I haven't tried it.

Ignore negative feedback on ChatGPT from anybody who hasn't used the paid version, free stuff isn't the same.