skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because of the location of the sensor it can cool faster as a side effect, just by having the compressor run longer before it cycles.
'It's worth noting' or 'please note that' actually adds information. Especially if you ask a question and there is an answer that needs extra notes such as caveats or things one should know to understand it better.

Following code performs the task: <some code>

Please note that
* the code can only work when using 64 bit architecture.
* the variables a and b are to be provided and can't exceed 100.
I don't think this really demonstrates UEFI bloat. A tcp/ip stack from boot services is handy and useful for 'legitimate' network booting, not really bloat IMHO; pxe and undi is similar in a bios environment but ddoesn't necessarily come from the motherboard firmware. Access to input devices, such as keyboard and mouse is reasonable too. Graphical output seems reasonable too.

And then everything else is stuff the author did or linked in. Where's the firmeware bloat?
Why, in God's given in your language name, are you putting together such a wild zoo of animals from ancient times and different planets? It's like cramming together in one cage a dinosaur with a lion and a predator. Of course the predator will always win, don't you know already?
oh, promising.

can you upload benchmarks on the readme file with FAISS, pg_vector, and the like?
I have a 32GB M3 and... Mixtral 8x7B likes to completely crash the machine haha
Sounds like a lot of excuses.

> He certainly isn't representing Microsoft in the bug post

Your coworker chose to bring Microsoft into the conversation, he even cited his work as a blocker.

Every company I've worked for as a manager or as an engineer tells me not to post on behalf of the company or my work on the company, unless approved. Because it will look like representing the company. Because it is representing the company.

You take the money, you take the responsibility.
Gen-AI training data revenue split
We have just received a contract from a training data provider that wants 50% of our gross profit. Which is absurd, of course.

Does anyone have an idea of what this typically is in industry? Of course it depends on exactly what you do, but after this, I'd just like to get a feeling for what is normal.
Yes but Infuse over your whatever VPN back to your NAS/source is the issue. That's where transcoding at source shines. Infuse is great for LAN though.
> predating LLM revolution

So? It's not about LLMs?
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Blind software development at 450 words per minute (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21898537 - Dec 2019 (53 comments)

Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918980 - April 2020 (473 comments)
Has anyone tried training a neural net to distinguish between photographed vs AI generated images?

Of course, you will need to remove exifs or other metadata, but this sounds like the kind of domain that NNs are good at.
Possibly-related:

* 8sleep blog about the study: https://www.eightsleep.com/blog/research-paper-reveals-the-e...

* "Sleep and subjective age: protect your sleep if you want to feel young" https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.017...
> Random link. Can't vouch for it

Seems about right to me, Android dominates the mobile World by sheer numbers.

But what is the value that they can derive from user data? A million Bangladeshi's texts from food delivery is probably a lot less valuable than say a Singaporean using Numbers on Mac OS to layout the next lucrative investment and the data they;d get from the correspondence of say 100 high net worth individuals hidden behind iOS (Pegasus MITM attack notwithstanding).

Again, the name of the game is to derive signal from noise from data, bulk collection is primitive when training models and often incredibly difficult to work around once it is in. I seriously think Gemini had this problem, along with QA/QC issues, rather it going from so-so Bard to total 'woke' Gemini. I may be wrong, but I think this is what happens when you go down the bulk collection and unfiltered/un-curated data route.
love it. vector dbs are so bloated and unnecessarily expensive/complicated for very little return.
Load on Mac browser, Airplay to AppleTV. Same idea with Windows and *cast.
Them: We need this iOS app. The government of XYZ wants it.

Me (2 months later): Here it is.

Them:
It's a thread about someone being mean on Twitter for no particularly good reason.

Is a framework solely responsible for YouTube's performance? Seems like the application using the framework might also be a factor?
Why so much focus on climate? Sure, it affects humanity directly, but we're not the only species on Earth.

What about the ecological impact of deep sea mining? What about the cascade through connected ecosystems, which we know so little about? Yes, it eventually will indirectly affect humanity too.

This kind of anthropocentrism is exactly the problem. We should be equally concerned about the fauna and flora with which we share our planet.
Wait, so the IR chart shows that italian with all its bippity-boppity conveys less bits of information per second than languages with silent final e like french and english?

nuvola, nuage, clowde
You confuse ACLs and xattrs. SAMBA uses Extended Attributes to store thinks like Hidden and System flags on files, so that Windows clients can manipulate them. NT ACLs, too.
The problem is that printing money isn't even necessarily a bad thing. It can be used like a carrot on a stick, except you can just pull that stick carrot out of thin air.

When used wisely this leads to a multiplicative effect, where you use one carrot to coax a farmer into growing 10 carrots. This is what most functional economies do, and why the US has been able to continually print money since forever.

The problem is when you forget that those "stick carrots" aren't real carrots until you harvest the real ones from the ground, and treat them as if they are the same. They are not. Stick carrots are regular carrots borrowed from the future, and must be paid back.
https://docs.zfsbootmenu.org/en/v2.3.x/general/tailscale.htm... . Connect to your bootloader via your Tailscale network, select your ZFS boot environment and kexec in to it, all through a 'pretty' TUI !
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

A cancer trial’s unexpected result: Remission in every patient - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630679 - June 2022 (232 comments)
This is mission critical.
Insurance and maintenance are costs of shelter, though. That's an exchange for the benefit of enjoying a roof over your head -- it shouldn't be considered a financial loss from an investment perspective. If you were renting out the property instead of living there, the renter would be paying those costs through their rent.
Musk has zero credibility left. I will believe Reuters said the truth, though of course plans can change.
I make the distinction between what are my opinions. This is a feature of comprehension that you lack and it's why I don't engage in [your] bad faith arguments since it underlines that your objective is not to present facts or opinions for discussion but rather to convey that what you think and feel as factual information - when it is not and you've provided no evidence to suggest that it is.

I'm hope this makes it clear for you. Since I don't see any value in conversations where people can't stand behind their personal ideas.
Computers, printing press, cars, electric tools, chainsaws…
I think we'll soon see a ChatGPT embedded in UEFI, and it will be solving boot issues on its own.
Basically Wasm is a virtual machine, is is very similar to JVM that is portable, but the key difference is that Wasm does not have any std nor expose any IO function, so you can build your own host (the VM) that expose functions that can be imported from the Wasm binary, that means that the Wasm binary can have access to the external world only through these functions.

Also I would say an advantage is that the binary format is not proprietary and there's a spec, so anyone could implement their own Wasm VM.

But right now is not in a good place yet, is too early and there are a lot of new functionality that is being standardized by a group (similar to W3C) and the process is very slow.
Weird synchronicity, I just had a long conversation about this book a couple days ago, because the subject of jungle gyms came up. I was also wondering wondering whether Hinton had any freemason connections, since I learned about him from From Hell, and a lot of that book seems to draw on masonic references.
I meant the PFAS people
> why do we need a word for throwing someone out a window?

Well, "defenestration" is a sort of inflexion of a common word (in Latin or German, which was a common language in Prague in 1618).

Wikipedia has quite a few examples, so having a specific word might be useful in the end: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration
Meanwhile I just host locally a Minidlna.

Ripped from DVD the night before, Make snacks, scroll down list of filenames, series and watch.

Never understood why I've needed a whole Netflix interface when I just want to watch a movie.
Wasn't the model 3 supposed to be $30k? Why would they only make another vehicle only 5k less than the other one?
They are https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PD-1_and_PD-L1_inhibitors

The hint is the -mab naming.
Ask HN: Looking for a Talk on Software Optimization
There was some academic research mentioned, I don't know exactly when, on HN related to software optimization. I can't seem to track down the source and need some help. From what I can remember, the gist is this:

- How do you know your optimization is useful?

- It could be fragile, dependent on compilers, etc.

- Modelling in this research was done by modifying a concept of time. Something like assuming some subsystem ran faster using some sort of novel technique I can't recall.

- Instrumentation within this framework gave data that pointed to subsystems where optimization would be fruitful and avoid fragility.

I can't be sure if any of the details of the above points are misremembered. Sorry. Hopefully someone can help.
John Carmack on implausibility of fast AGI takeoff
I once worked on an in-house ERP system which had been developed over about 15 years by various developers. It was the engine of the entire company, everything passed through it. The CFO and some senior leadership erroneously blamed it for their shortcomings/used it as a scapegoat. When new management took charge, an initiative was started to replace the system with an industry standard solution. Both myself and the CTO (my boss) made it clear that we strongly felt this would not only go way over budget, but ultimately fail as a project.

Having no understanding as to the technicalities involved, the project was given the go ahead by the directors after several meetings with a vendor. After the CTO and I expressed our concerns about the scale of the project and the sheer amount of functionality involved, the vendor gleefully assured us that they were experienced with "migrations of this scale" and were more than prepared, which was music to the ears of the CFO.

Daily 2-3 hour meetings followed (for many months) to define the scope of the project. Within each meeting I sort of zoned out because it became very obvious that no only did the vendor not understand the scale of the work involved, but had started cutting corners everywhere/leaving out crucial functionality, and this was just the scoping stage, no development had even started yet.

I eventually departed the company but kept in contact with the CTO and learned that after 5 years (project was scoped for 2), the migration was abandoned costing multiple millions of dollars with nothing to show for it.
will do now
https://www.tcracs.org/tcrwp/1origin-of-cisco/
> Why would Ruby play a role in it? Azure definitely does though. (ex azure employee here )

Oh yeah. If someone says C++ has poor memory safety than Rust then no one is triggered. But say something about Ruby (the language on a secular decline - https://www.dice.com/binaries/content/gallery/dice/insights/...) and the pitchforks are out.
Jellyfin has handled the default Picard output format just fine for me.

I don't see the expectation of a standard naming format as unreasonable, given that it's open source and they're fairly short on developers
Ideally you would express the precondition that a and b are mutually exclusive like this:

void x(int a, int b) {
if(! (a != b))
abort();

int * p;
p = malloc(1);

if(a) {
free(p);
}
if(b) {
free(p);
}
}

And the program would be accepted. I'm on my phone and can't verify it though.

Great stuff anyway!

Edit: is the algorithm documented anyway? And there is any reason why you guys are not implementing it as a clang/GCC plugin and using the new C and C++ annotation syntax?
that's almost true, theatre some policies that employer can force that are device wide, like forcing pin unlock or disabling developer settings
I'm sure you are right on that.

I'm going to have to plead ignorance on this. Which will likely not surprise you.

I'll have more than the cursory read through the article in an attempt to educate myself.
Agreed that it’s hard to parse, but “GPTs” is what OpenAI calls custom versions of ChatGPT.

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts
Everyone has been reading that book since the late 90es.

I remember a talk by Clayton Christensen talking specifically about Intel and how they setup the Celeron division to compete with themselves (based on his advice).

A key property of tech in economics lingo is that it is “natural monopolies” - all fixed cost and no variable cost.

This creates these winner takes all games. In this case both Intel, SGI plus others knew the rules and it just ended up with Intel taking the prize and it all becoming Wintel for a decade or so - basically until the smart phone allowed enough capital to be accrued to challenge the old monopoly.
I liked this article, and the discussion in these comments. I don’t understand why it was flagged. Is there a way to find out? Perhaps @dang summons an explanation?
Not a project, and a second hand story that I'm sure a lot of people can recognize.

But I knew a sysadmin at a large european educational institution whose only job it was to hit up-arrow and enter a few times a day when a server crashed.

They knew how to fix this too, they just didn't care. And nobody else had enough experience to understand.
The Model 3 is $36k in China, $38k in the USA. They've missed the mark a bit, so a $25k vehicle might be welcome, especially in developing economies.
Wow, thank you so much! I made these using HTML canvases and TypeScript. I’m drawing everything in code, including the pixel art (which is defined in the source).

The animations are made using a small animation system that I made for this post. This system has two useful properties:

1. It allows me to animate whatever property of the object I’m interested in (alpha, frame, etc).

2. It allows me to set up other work to be triggered when the animation has reached a certain completion threshold, which lets the animations flow into each other. This is how (for example) the grid lines ‘cascade’ in after each other.

The 3D animations are also primarily HTML canvases, and I used Three.js to place them as textures in a 3D scene. I have some logic to map the coordinate system of the canvases to the 3D scene, so that I can draw the connective tissue between the canvases and run animations that operate on objects both on the 2D canvases and the 3D scene.
Exactly. If anything, I think homeless encampments are proof of this. It's not like homeless people are generally eager to cluster together; as both cause and effect, the level of mental illness and general dysfunction among the homeless is off the charts. In my neighborhood, the homeless are pretty well distributed, one or two people here and there. But I'd expect that in cities with more of an anti-homeless bias, there's a strong incentive to collect in places that are out of the way for cops.
Good to know I'm not the only one...
They aren't useless at all, I see them used all the time when they double park somewhere.
Tuition could decrease because of the growing sense that college is not 'worth it'.

> A poll published in 2022 asked parents if they would rather their child attended a four-year college or a three-year apprenticeship that would train them for a job and pay them while they learned. Nearly half of parents whose child had graduated from college chose the apprenticeship. [1]

> Nearly half of parents say they would prefer not to send their children to a four-year college after high school, even if there were no obstacles, financial or otherwise. Two-thirds of high-school students think they will be just fine without a college degree. [1]

When there is a large change in the demand for a product, the price often drops.

1: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/why-americans-have-los...
Another hot tip.

The weak ones don’t prepare you for the strong ones.

I’ve been rocking and rolling in So Cal for decades. I’ve felt most of the major quakes that have made the news. I’ve seen stuff fall from my walls, transformers short out and explode. Felt rollers, thumpers, shakers.

We’ve had four of note at my house this year alone so far. One of them felt like it picked the house up and dropped it several inches.

Each time, they were never severe enough to get me to dive for anything. It’s just like that dinner scene in LA Story, where they just grab their glasses and carry on.

Then, you see videos of “real quakes”. Stuff out of movies. File cabinets sliding across the floor. Bookcases falling. Heavy things tossed like they weigh nothing, not to mention the larger damage.

Having been through my series of quakes, I can see they’re nothing like a major one. But, right now, my gumption when one shows up is wait and see. Perhaps not the best habit. But when you’re in bed at night, and a small roller hits and it feels like you just dropped a quarter in the slot to turn your bed on, hard to get motivated to get up and out and duck and cover.

Better just to roll over, say “it’s ok honey” to my wife, and go back to sleep.
What are the Important Problems in our Field?
Inspired by Hamming's "You and your Research" https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

> important problem' must be phrased carefully. The three outstanding problems in physics, in a certain sense, were never worked on while I was at Bell Labs. By important I mean guaranteed a Nobel Prize and any sum of money you want to mention. We didn't work on (1) time travel, (2) teleportation, and (3) antigravity. They are not important problems because we do not have an attack. It's not the consequence that makes a problem important, it is that you have a reasonable attack. That is what makes a problem important. When I say that most scientists don't work on important problems, I mean it in that sense.
Hey didn't realize I was answering to a contributor!

So, I started creating an issue in the repo, and as I was creating a side-by-side-by-side comparison of A=orig, B=guetzli, C=jpegli ... I realize that wait-a-minute, Jpegli is actually doing a better job at preserving the original image :D

The B/guetzli version is actually too smoothed, obviating a couple gradient anomalies observable in A/orig. Conversely, C/jpegli actually better "preserves" these imperfections, by not smoothening the broader area into a gradient that is "smoother" but loses some detail.

So, not creating an issue :D. If you wish to see the image and do the A/B/C comparison yourself, it is screenshot 14 of videogame [1], direct link [2]. The area where I noticed differences in gradients is the top / top-right area with black arches and blue fog.

Thanks for Jpegli and Guetzli.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1671480/ABRISS__build_to_...

[2] https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/1671480/ss...
You can get a Mac Mini for $600-ish. Never get the base model though. (FYI, macOS is Unix.)
> I like it less and less

Would you mind eloborating?
> Whatsapp chats are encrypted

While they claim E2E encryption, I seriously doubt they would offer this service entirely for free with having some backdoor or potential MITM breach that they likely tucked away in the ToS given the wide use of it it most of the World who pay for SMS/text messages: it just seems so incredibly unlikely to be entirely encrypted from a company that willing gave DMs to Netflix, used Cambridge Analytica etc... But even if it is encrypted, the meta data generated can tell you a lot too--as was the case with Pokemon GO--that may not directly benefit LLMs, but could help with creating dark patterns that make your AI companion (under the guise of an LLM) the 'must own' when deciding who to buy tokens/compute from.

Speculative for sure, but just look at the Twitter file leaks revealing how social media platforms willing work alongside intelligence agencies.
As the sibling poster said, you can and should configure `yt-dlp`. Here are the contents of my config file:

--restrict-filenames
--output '%(title)s.%(ext)s'
--ignore-errors
--embed-subs
--all-subs
--sub-langs all,-live_chat
--compat-options no-live-chat
--convert-subs srt
--format 'vcodec=av01/bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best'
--convert-thumbnails jpg
--embed-thumbnail
--audio-quality 0
--add-metadata
--xattrs
--xattr-set-filesize
--prefer-free-formats
--geo-bypass
--no-mark-watched
--console-title
--no-warnings
--sponsorblock-remove all
--compat-options embed-thumbnail-atomicparsley

You can look them up on the README. It's quite a bit of work, granted, but to me it was very worth it.
Well,

Most Hollywood effects were all done on SGI systems before the slow migration to Linux. Renderman, Maya, were all SGI first-party programs.

Also SGI made huge advances in NUMA and machines with dozens of CPUs/processors before most other companies ventured into this space.

But not business critical like IBM CICS or Java.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMAlink

2. https://www.cs.ucr.edu/~bhuyan/CS213/2004/numalink.pdf

3. https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/fa12/cse260-b/Lectures/Lec17...
When a company hides their skeevy practices in 30-page social media term consent form, I blame them a lot more than the normal person with limited time or the literal child. I’d prefer such people didn’t “get played” by multinational corporations, even if they potentially could have prevented it.
Yeah I call them wide ptrs or just capabilities.

I haven’t looked at what GCC has in a while because I don’t want to get gpl tainted. :-/
Apple now allows classic game emulators on the App Store
Thank you EU
If you want economy and to save the planet, a Prius is probably the way to go for a long time.

But electric mode all the time is nice from a fun perspective. I think EVs are just great drives.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Google: Angular and Wiz Are Merging - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39777267 - March 2024 (169 comments)