skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's well past the considering stage. J2K is used more than people think even if we're not using to spread cat memes across the interwebs. J2K is used in DCPs sent to movie theaters for digital projections. J2K is used as lossless masters for films. the Library of Congress uses it as well. this isn't even attempting to make an exhaustive list of use, but it's not something being looked into. it's being used every day
It takes roughly five minutes depending on how long the queue is, so when I'm out running errands I'll stop in. Keeps the road crud (and most importantly, salt) off the car so it lasts longer.
But you trust a committee to deliver one of the most crucial part of your infra?
Same. Twice. This is even better than crypto! ;)
X axis drug usage (street value), Y axis (number of car washes)
Luckily I'm pretty sure no one I admire would use this service, because it would be devastating to find out they are a user and instantly lose all respect for them, probably also irrevocably casting a shadow on their work.
> engineers who poured hours of their lives into building this

Not to mar these specific engineers, but that's an empty phrase that can be said about anything ever built. It doesn't somehow make the idea or implementation good.
I believe it's only range requests you need supported. there's also cool sqlite querying and flatgeobufs that can do fancy lookups on large single file formats
Made me check my hydroflask and good news, no lead: https://faq.hydroflask.com/en_us/does-hydro-flask-use-lead-f...

Essentially the same product but cheaper because there isn't a weird hypetrain around it.
Just my own experience to speak from: My use of HN is escapism, not curiosity or FOMO. I turn to it when I'm too mentally worn out to do any of the things that belong on my own plate, or when I'm avoiding them for some other reason.

There are worse choices, but I'm sure there are also better ones. At the end of your day, look back at the moments you pulled up HN and see if you can figure out what was going on then that you mentally wanted to escape from, and what alternatives you had.

Like for me today, I'm under the weather and was too dizzy to make it to my other commitment this evening. I already took a nap, and it's too early to go to bed unless I want to wake up at 3. My head is largely full of clouds, so anything else I'd be doing right now is even less useful than this. I'm pretty OK with it in this circumstance, because the opportunity cost is so low.

That said, this is also my last comment for the evening.
An editor could easily have an Insert Special Character menu item.
Here is a better article:

https://engineeredtaxservices.com/the-unique-benefits-of-cos...

> The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 made a significant change in this area, currently allowing businesses to write off 80% of the cost of qualifying property in the year it's placed in service

Why depreciate over 39 years when you can do 80% in one year.
If you have nothing left to lose, then you have nothing to risk and the question is moot.
> Pedantically, the drug dealing business model definitely still definitely works, even if anti drug laws are enforced.

Fair enough, you've got me there.

I guess what I meant was that drug dealing business model doesn't work legally.
How come I have no problem? Even with plain old sac305 let alone the supposedly nicer ones.

From big old chunky point to point, to manually drag soldering 0.5mm pitch tssop.

I have no problem doing something that you claim is impossible or too difficult, and somehow this makes me the crybaby?

Ok.

Frankly if it was me I wouldn't be so keen to tell everyone how weak and incapable I was.

I grew up on leaded as we all did. I used to really like the radio shack 0.015in 62/36/2 silver bearing. Did indeed work very nice.

And yet after an inconsequentially short maybe a single hour of effort, I was able to adjust to 305.

You telling me I'm just better than you? Well if I'm just better, then shouldn't you be listening instead of arguing? If I'm not better, then how do you explain my lack of difficulty with something you claim is difficult?
They make other things besides this one sweater though, right?
> I'm glad the story ran, even if it wasn't true - because it opened people's minds to the idea that this was happening.

By 2018, all the eyes that could be opened already were.

It's true that there were people that aren't convinced by the well-evidenced reporting from the Snowden, etc revelations. Of that group, I can't see Bloomberg's low-evidence story as what finally opened their eyes.
In Sweden washing a car at home is discouraged and depending on how you read the law can be illegal (it is not illegal per se to wash a car at home, but it is illegal to to let out untreated water into nature - and since waste water from car washing is not untreated and probably contains oil and metals, it is most likely illegal on this provision).

Enforcement is on a council-by-council basis, but of course in urban areas I imagine this is pretty hard to enforce. In rural settings it must be pretty much impossible. Having said that, I haven't really seen many people at all washing their car at home. Maybe it depends where you live, if you have neighbours who do it a lot it probably feels like everyone does it.

In the last few years, there have been a load of "wash your own car" car wash stations opening up. They're cheap (you can do the car for <100kr - $10 or so), way less than the drive in station, and have things you wouldn't have at home (e.g. cleaning underneath the car, handy for washing off the salt that has come off the road in winter). Not really enforcement but a pretty effective way of nudging people to doing the "right thing".
None of what you said denies any of my conclusions: expecting Nvidia to grow at a 40%+ rate for a decade is ludicrous.

Any of your arguments has been done about leaders like Cisco, Intel or Tesla that balooned to valuations that did not meet reality regardless of those companies in fact doing well, the revenue and growth expectations were just asinine and void of basic math.

There's no such thing as infinite demand growth and infinitely deep pockets, let alone margins staying that good for so long (and again the aforementioned companies are examples of the phenomenon).

You will likely do much better investing in VOO today than buying Nvidia, let alone having a much better risk/reward ratio.
I have worked as a tipped employee, and I have never heard a tipped employee say “wow that table/person didn’t tip much, I should have worked harder”
Wikipedia says pinnipeds are monophyletic, so there's only a single evolutionary branch they originated from.

The travel question is much more interesting. Napkin math puts the distance between the polar circles at 12500 miles, the max swim speed of a seal at 25mph, giving a travel time of ~3 weeks of nonstop swimming as the crow flies. How does that happen? What would a pod of Arctic seals have eaten along the way, and what would have compelled them to make the trip out of familiar territory? How and why did they cross the temperate equatorial seas with a load of blubber?
We had some discussions about this before removing all storage plugins except Raft, In-Memory and File storage as cipherboy pointed out in the sibling comment. If you're currently not using Raft, this should not stop you from adopting OpenBao if you first migrate to the Raft storage backend. Hashicorp has a tutorial on this which you can follow:

https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/tutorials/raft/raft-mi...

I've personally used the Raft storage backend in production for some years and can assure you it is rock solid.
Uber and bycicle comparison is great.

Author should mention technical requirements for cashless society. Data around the globe, device for everyone and electricity to power those devices. Which is something that most people cannot afford. Also, this would require constitutional right for having those devices.
Damn for that amount of money it should be made of Sasquatch down or some other hitherto unknown cryptozoological specimen.
at this point, you're explaining a parallel old is new type of devoantion

raster tiles have a specific size, but can't easily be tendered on demand.

vector tiles can be infinitely precise but can end up transferring way more data.

of course, whenever there's clear tradeoffs between techs, the modern gurus will vacilate between them, as the average programmer doesn't do the discriminate evaluation to pick the best tech, but what's popular.
Projects like this warm my heart. There is a level of detail to appreciate on the capture of 2600, the POTS regional numbers ending in 2600, and BBS xfers.

Kudos to the owner, founder, and maintainers. You embody the spirit of 2600!
No one is assuming that. People are assuming it's _worth looking into_.
Is this in the article? I just read through it twice trying to find a reference to how many were there 10 years ago, but couldn't find anything.

Even if it were true, I'm not sure that that shows there are too many car washes, just that consumer behavior surrounding car washes has changed dramatically in recent years.
Few days max.
Well, as I see you don't have enough bravery to answer simple question about purpose of mini-computers, so I will.

When computers first appeared, they was big, just because technology limitations made small machines very expensive to use, so scale used to make computations cheaper.

In early 1970s, technology advanced to stage, where become possible to make simplified versions of big computers for some limited tasks, still too expensive for wide use.

Simple illustration, IBM-3033 mainframe with 16M RAM could serve 17500 3270 terminals, and PDP of same time could about few tens (may be 50, I don't know exactly), so mainframes even when was very expensive, but given good cost per workplace.

Known example, PDP used to control one of scientific nuclear reactor. PDP chosen, not because it have best mips/price ratio, but because it was cheapest adequate machine for this task, so is affordable for limited budget.

Very long time, mini machines stay in niche of limited machines, used to avoid much more expensive full-scale mainframes. They used to control industrial automation (CNC), chemical factories and other small things.

Once appeared microcomputers (CPU on one chip), they begin eat mini's space from bottom, when mainframes continue to become more cost effective (more terminals with appearance of cheap modems, etc) and eat mini's space from top.

And in 1990s, when appeared affordable 32-bit microprocessors and became affordable Megabytes of RAM, mini's disappear, because their place was captured by micro's.

To be honest, I just don't know anything we could not name microcomputer now, as even IBM Z mainframes are now have single-chip processor and largest supercomputers are practically clouds of SOCs (NUMA architecture).

And I must admit, I still see PDP's (or VAX's) on enterprises, where they still control old machines from 1990s (they are very reliable even when limited from modern view, but still work).

As I remember, last symmetrical multiprocessor supercomputer was Cray Y-MP, later machines become ccNUMA or just NUMA or even cloud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINPACK

Unix was simplified version of Multics, system considered to run on mainframes (BTW even exists officially certified Unix for mainframes).

You could try mainframes software yourself, it is very affordable now with emulator (sure, be careful about license):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(emulator)

And you will see yourself, how many things borrowed by modern OS's from mainframes.

This is nature, people choose simpler, cheaper thing.
Space between atoms is also very large compared to the size of atoms.

Yet, making two everyday objects pass through each other is not that easy ...
You are aware that this means, validates, invalidates, nothing?
Or just stop selling it altogether and focus on some other more profitable industry. LVMH can find another supplier or tend Vicuñas themselves.
I've been looking for a CSS optimizer that will remove any styles that aren't actually used -- e.g. selectors matching ids and classes that don't exist in the html. Does anyone know of such a thing? Preferably easy to use from Jetbrains IDEs?
I'm not suggesting they should. But the parent is acting like the technology wouldn't make a difference - it'd make all the difference.

Ukraine controls a lot of their territory, they have a lot of well paved runways to operate out of.
I love this investment because when Bloomberg News posted their SMCI story all the security suckers ate it up and dunked shares. Picked a bunch up at a 50% discount and they rebounded.

The problem is that security groupies are really eager for there to be obscure security flaws. HN was full of them. And they have this thing about "respected sources" and shit like that because they don't know how to evaluate things themselves.

Your loss, my gain. Haha.
What specialist equipment? Incas managed to make fabric out of the wool without advanced equipment. I think garments are still made (by hand) from the wool around the regions where the animals live, though I assume they aren’t as consistent as what you get from Loro Piana, and maybe they aren’t exported (if I remember correctly, this is to try to allow those goods to be used by locals in traditional ways, rather than being made for export, though I’m not confident in that claim)
Yes. So say the same thing about them
Open source has a definition and abusing that hurts all of us except the billionaires.
Indian diet is diverse and emphasizes moderate consumption, resulting in some good health outcomes overall.

However, the lack of protein is still a major concern. Indian's have "skinny fat" bodies with low musculature. This puts them at risk for cardiovascular diseases. This does, in some part, contribute to low life expectancy in India.

The study you posted in the other thread shows better health outcomes for Asian Indians in the US. But it also mentions Asian Indians have higher socio-economic status, better education and higher per-capita incomes. The same is the case with other Asian demographics. It is not the least bit surprising that they have higher life expectancy, irrespective of diet.

I would argue adding more protein (doesn't have to be animal protein) would result in even better outcomes for Indians everywhere.
Thanks for the links. This is what I meant by an interpreter: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins#code-interpreter
The oscillations are not "around" the plane, they are through the plane.

That is; the plane itself has a local gravitational attraction
which is orthogonal to the galaxy core gravitational attraction.
If a mass is above or below the plane, the "local" gravity will
pull towards the plane.
since nothing stops it at the mid line of the plane it passes through
to the opposite side; rinse and repeat.

This bouncing above and below center line of the disk
is more or less independent of our solar system completing galactic orbits.
Can we seriously compare these two when one costs double what the other does?
Seems a little out of touch.
The quote is from the GP.
Try digitally give money to your kids or homeless people. Or anyone who does not have data, device or even access to electricity (most of people).
You're not as smart as you could be (1948)
In my area it’s mostly done by the water department itself. They have people that drive around documenting violations, and the owner is directly billed. This is mostly done overnight.

They also have a hotline for tattletales and HOAs and the police can also report you.
It's 2T+ in revenue in a decade. That's where 42% growth starting from today's 60B leads you.

That's all of Microsoft, Apple, etc, etc revenue combined all being spent in GPUs at 50% margin. It's not realistic.

You're taking a bet where risk/reward is just against the investor.
I'm curious about the decompilation process.

I know compiling is a lossy process and optimization can make things even harder to remap, but if an LLM can recognize patterns correctly, chunk or classify each routine or even give a more palatable overview of what a part of the code is meant to do step by step, it becomes closer to what HexRays offer with their assembly to pseudo code translator. And from that point, it can make serviceable translations to real world languages.

LLMs won't replace an engineer, but maybe they can help romhackers in identifying bugs or how some values are calculated by a game.
Not sure if coincidence, it was going to make it super easy to migrate off Datadog, to me it looked like a defensive acquisition.
Open source has had a useful agreed upon meaning for over 25 years. Maybe you're too young to understand why that matters but we're not.
Electrical engineering basically boils down to the fourier transform, discrete transforms (eg cosine), and their cousins the laplace transform and Z transform.
> If I'm assuming everyone involved had good intentions, the best thing I can guess is someone was speaking to the writer about the potential of the BMC being used for spying and got some details mixed up.

I can't judge their intentions. But Bloomberg doubling down on the story in 2021 strongly discounts the possibility that the original reporting was based on any kind of bad info.

ref: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/years-later-bloom...

Three years is a long time to believe in bad data, with everyone everywhere pointing out the same issues with their story.
I am also using projectivity and pressing home button on remote was taking me to default launcher until I uninstalled it via adb.
They are paying the village the local minimum wage for a month per jumper and the village can't afford to pay her for one day's work?
Well, I meant for me personally. Currently using TIFF. :-)
> If the market were too small, the weakest would fail, right? Right?

I find it interesting that we have sayings like this, and sayings like "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

> why should a politician need to step in to regulate, rather than letting the market decide?

Because the market doesn't price in externalities. Sure the market will figure out which car washes live. But what about the ones that don't and the people who subsequently lose their jobs.

It's a fair question to ask if you're building too many of a certain service, especially when the ones that fail leave behind abandoned husks and unemployed people. Ya know, the people that the local politician is supposed to help. Local leaders should be at least thinking about these questions.
That's been happening for at least a year for me on Gmail.
who do you think is protecting us from the lovecraftian horrors?
Isn't this Apache licensed? Regardless, you can run multiple models concurrently on the same input using well-known ensemble techniques. (Not to be confused with mixture-of-experts, which is more like training a single model where only a few blocks are chosen to be active at any given time - a kind of sparsity.)
Decipher – An AI powered error monitoring tool
I think this article is referencing the common trend of drive through automated washes which would make sense if large investors are in the picture. The big automated ones are pushy with their subscriptions which the article also talks about.

These big wash machines are typically staffed by only 2 or 3 people hence the complaints that they don't even create jobs.

That being said, I wish there were more automated washes near me. We find ourselves making excuses to drive by the one we pay a subscription for.
They all do this marketing bull.

Mixtral has an 8x7B model but it's actually 46.7B, not 56B params.

Kinda similar to how 4K displays are 3840 pixels wide, not true 4K which would be 4096. Marketing people called it 4K, not engineers.
That old oil industry FUD line again? Seriously it seems like a switcy was flipped and now people who claim to care about the environment spout oil industry myths.
Why frogs are so good
You cannot pay Uber by crypto?
I don't think so, because third party app store isn't going to lift an iOS restriction on JIT.
Could you theoretically use an analog modem (or worst case an acoustic coupler) over IMS (VoLTE etc., which should all have at least some QoS), or are the jitter rates and codecs too bad for that (like they often are for Fax over VoIP on fixed lines)?

I wonder if some of the networks that are continuing to offer GSM (usually via some core network emulations, as far as I understand, to make it more compatible with modern core networks) have already broken CSD for similar reasons.
True. But that's the same article, with 0-ish comments - so no value here.
Indeed that’s a very good game. Thanks.
The social media complaints are probably Astro turfing by the existing car washes that don’t want any more competition.
From a few months ago and not related to the open source release.

It is also not a good attempt at satire. Bringing yourself to Elon's level of humor only hurts yourself.
Why not use ligatures to help resolve some of the cox ambiguities?
One approach I've made work a couple of times is to pull all of the data going in and out of a system for a time period, and rerun it after the refactor. This gave me a lot more confidence than unit tests.
I think they're popular because they create induced demand. Most people only seek out car washes once they reach a certain dirtiness threshold but if the car wash is on the way home or at their favorite gas station, they tend to wash their cars much more frequently. There's four car washes within a half mile radius of my house that have been around for years but each of them is on a different artery connecting to the freeway so they cater to different markets so to speak. The area could probably support few more if the real estate weren't so competitive.

IMO that's also why they all have monthly memberships with unlimited washes. The vast majority of their customers are regulars driving by on their way to work so the subscription makes sense for everyone.
Agree, this stuff is fun to imagine. Check out the many species that landed (and then kept evolving in isolation) in Hawaii. Seals, many birds, etc.
I wonder what prompted the researchers to try caffeine as a catalyst. Perhaps they spilled coffee on the lab bench and got a good reading :)
I'm surprised this hasn't been done before. Good luck to the author, it's a noble project!
Good for you.

I’ve had literally zero of any of those issues in my past 4 years of using Ubuntu.

I had a hell of a lot in the past, so I trust I can judge when it’s reached “better than windows” level.
Self-storage facilities, car washes, all sold on the grail of near-passive income.

With a dying manufacturing base, at least it's better than selling hamburgers to each other.

God I love this country.
Gotta love doing a ton of due diligence for the privilege of (checks notes) buying an off-the-shelf product at full price?
The data pipeline isn't included in this release, and we already know it is a pretty simple RAG pipeline using qdrant, https://twitter.com/qdrant_engine/status/1721097971830260030.

Nothing about using data in "real time" predicates that the model parameters need to be this large, and is likely quite inefficient for their "non-woke" instructional use-case.
Thanks, but no thanks! I will stick to beef and pork, you eat bugs and reptiles if it suits you well!
We tested Amazon's new shopping chatbot. It's not good
> What do you reasonably expect?

the argument i hear quite a lot is: No real world business would be allowed to continue operation if it repeatedly did little or nothing to address—or worse allowed the patrons to flaunt—illegal activities on premises. If any business had solid and precise evidence that a specific person was committing crimes and they did nothing, it would likely lose its business license.

there are obviously good arguments to be made for and against this, but its not something that many want to interrogate.
Can the turntables hold two cars at a time?