skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://github.com/kusumi/openbsd_hammer2

A developer was making active progress, but hasn't made any commits since Dec
It's just your typical "gold standard conspiracy" boogyman.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE98G07F/
Flan-T5 is actually not a bad model, even today (for fine-tuning)
In the article it says they proved his innocence by reaching out to his dad and doing a DNA test.
Those don’t expose semantics and state in the same way that well coded GUIs do.
A product for the NHS that never got used.

The software for an exascale EU Horizon 2020 supercomputer that never got built.
2023 news:
original paper : https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2201445
It was clear they were trying to do more consumer grade things, just look at the N64. Couldn't get more mainstream than that. Seeing how the graphics market ended up, it looks obvious from here but in the mid 90's it was still the wild west and everybody was throwing mud at the wall seeing what would stick.

I have never really said that they where "taken by surprise", but a part of it felt like (from the outside) that management had been a little blinded by their pass success and the profit margins from their workstations combined with no clear path forwards for the whole industry. Nvidia could have very easily been just a curiosity of the past but they managed to strike it lucky standing on the shoulders of others.

If SGI had always been a company that could provide graphics workstations the worked with x86/Windows PC's early for example - maybe they would have fared better. Would have gone with the flow of technology at the time rather than fighting uphill no matter the potential technical brilliance. But being saddled to their MIPS processors and custom OS meant that once people left, they almost never came back. One can have the best tech and still fail.
Multimodal LLMs can take images and describe them as text, which I imagine could be useful in some cases, for the vision impaired.
In my experience whenever prices were calculated that way there would still be unexpected expenses.
My mental model is “telling a LLM to not make any mistakes is like telling a depressed person to stop feeling bad”.
I had to check what roku tv was, it seems it's just a cheap (android?) tv box.
The one you understand.
I'm sure everyone who read the title immediately thought of the fastest programming language in the world.
If you consider it from the Cloudflare author's POV, it's likely an implied "at scale" in that statement.
Hmm - searching for one of my favorite Doonesbury cartoons about John Gotti matches "forgotting" and has no hits for "Gotti" itself. But straight Google points me to the one I was thinking about https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1987/10/29 even though it is just in the transcript - Gotti is mentioned by name on 10/27.

Do agree that comics search is something that could be greatly improved.
Excellent article. But why spend money on bourbon when you can buy the cheapest whiskey on the shelf, mix a bunch of light molasses in, and have a drink that's at least as good?

Joking aside, I'm looking forward to reading the Irish Whisky guide linked there.
A little context: this dive into Fortran is part of the excellent work George has been doing on WebR, to get R running in the browser. The R sources contain a fair bit of Fortran code, and I believe WebR originally used f2c to compile the Fortran to C first, before compiling that to wasm.

With the patches to LLVM Flang, WebR can be built with a real Fortran compiler.

I think George didn't want to say it directly in the blog post, but he has said that he's hoping that Flang would take his patches or implement better ones. That would be a win-win -- these patches wouldn't need to be maintained separately, and since unmodified Flang would be able to compile to wasm, it would benefit other projects out there that use Fortran.

https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/
Zimbabwe is kind of like Argentina.

New government is attacking fiscal deficit and they have turned off the printers since they took over in December.

For context, Argentina was printing so much money that they had to pay other countries to print money for them.
From my reading SGI was already dead and falling apart by that time. If you look at 3D, SGI had two graphics architectures in the 90s: RealityEngine from 1992 and InfiniteReality from 1996. They never managed to release a follow-up to IR. Similarly everything that came after about 1996-97 was a refresh of a prior product with only marginal changes. And then they went bankrupt in the early 2000s. So SGI had really only a very brief productive period that was over by the second half of the 1990s.

SGI also never had a presence in business critical applications which gave some of the other vendors more momentum (HP-UX/PA-RISC, VMS/Alpha, Solaris/SPARC).
Article is new but paper mentioned within is from 2019, predating LLM revolution. From abstract:

>We show here, using quantitative methods on a large cross-linguistic corpus of 17 languages, that the coupling between language-level (information per syllable) and speaker-level (speech rate) properties results in languages encoding similar information rates (~39 bits/s) despite wide differences in each property individually: Languages are more similar in information rates than in Shannon information or speech rate.

Quite interesting result. Curious how constructed language Ithkuil, designed to convey information in highly compressed manner, compares.
How, if both your acceleration and your top speed is worse?
a personal pet peeve (brace yourselves, it's pedantry):

Technically speaking, we're talking about four dimensional space. It doesn't really make sense to call such a space "The Fourth Dimension", any more than real life space is "The Third Dimension", or a tabletop is "The Second Dimension". This sometimes trips people up into arguing over whether The Fourth Dimension "is" time, or whatever. For that matter, maybe the first dimension is time, and the second, third, and fourth dimensions are space. These things aren't ordered, and in fact you can't really distinguish between the three familiar spatial dimensions: imagine trying to point along dimension one, whatever that means.

The familiar three-dimensional space as we know it is three dimensional because you can put three straight lines to meet at right angles to each other, and no more. And you can label those lines x, y, and z if you like and pick their orientation. Four dimensional space allows you to cram another in. Two dimensional space only allows two, and one dimensional space is just a single line.
Do you have a concrete example of something you're afraid of loosing access to? The examples that come to my mind are such that cutting people off from them would degrade the relevance of the AI that's trained on them, but maybe I'm overlooking something.

Like, if you prevent access to research in order to protect the moat around your AI product, you'll harm the research community that would otherwise be your users. So now they're looking for other jobs and you have no users.
Would you pay $10 for the best sandwich in the world? It's just a sandwich, but it's the best in the world. Would you pay $10 for the best search engine in the world? It's just a search engine, but the best in the world.
What to do when everyone else is wrong
When I registered on Reddit, I chose a username DefenestrationPraha, because I thought at that time that no one in the Anglosphere would be aware of those obscure pastimes of our ancestors.

Little did I know that defenestrations of Prague are one of the few things Czech that the Internet really cares about.
The Benefits of Low-Dose Lithium Supplementation
> It could be an interesting experiment to live on only these two.

And a painful death, most likely...

Anyway, there is plenty of good food in America. How much you'll find depends on which stores you go to and where they're located, as the cheaper stuff tends to be absolute garbage, but I've found crappy cheap junk foods in European store as well. The worst wine I've ever had by far was in Greece. (I was young, and it was a 1 euro for a bottle, IIRC.)
Interesting project! Many people face the problem and look up for general advice. Copilot seems to be the best interface, in my opinion, to get started investing and gradually dive deeper into it.
compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941783

History repeats
Of course, it has to do so
Nobody listened
Link where you can hear the audio samples: https://boingboing.net/2017/08/28/this-blind-software-develo...
> “Why”? What kind of question is “why”?

This is the spirit I come to HN for. Thank you for sharing.

> The most frightening realization hit me: there wasn't any reason behind what I'd done. I mean, I knew why I'd done it - I just did it because it would be fun. But I knew they would ask, "Why the hell did you do this?" and if I didn't have a good enough reason, they would probably throw me into a mental institution." -- Boyd Rice
GitHub is not the only place to host a git repo. After the fiasco, Lasse Collin reestablished a standalone repo at https://git.tukaani.org/.
How much take time to launch this app in india
They probably should, but they generally won’t.
Article notes that info transmission is roughly the same for all languages. I wonder if this is the case for all subgroups? Do New Yorkers convey information more quickly than Vermonters?
If a 3D object casts a 2D shadow, then as 3D objects what are we the shadow of?

What dimension is thought in?

I propose that thought is the fourth dimension and we are the shadows of our thoughts.
A not-so-fun fact about the production of bourbon/whisky is the fungus it feeds in regions with distilleries, due to the evaporation of alcohol from barrels (the "angel's share"). I thought that the article might end up mentioning that, but it didn't.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-whiskey-fungus

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/us/whiskey-fungus-jack-da...
I'm surprised that you're surprised. It's no further "outside science" than climate denial, which is one of the most prominent planks in the party platform.
I agree with the general thrust of your argument but it's oversimplifying the causes. A real university would not be able to run with just professors and secretaries, that's ludicrous. You need some administration to handle compliance, organization, finance, etc. You can both acknowledge the objective reality that a university is a complex organization that needs administration and that most universities today have 3-4x more administrators than they need.
this, same for what is the programming language to build your startup
Plexamp is the one thing that keeps me on Plex.

I have Jellyfin setup in parallel for the day Plex enters an「enshittification」phase, but the lifetime membership I paid for in 2012 has served me well.
Oh I thought this was gonna be that like the entire product / company / idea was useless, not just like a small number of weeks' worth of work.

I've probably created a hundred or more proofs of concept for things that turned out to be a bad idea. Say these averaged out to a week or so of work each, and that's about two full years of useless work.

And that's ok! Most stuff you work on will get thrown away before you leave a company, and the rest will get thrown away not long after that.

This doesn't really bum me out, but I can certainly understand why people experience it that way.

Honestly though, I think it's worse when things I've created do persist for a long time. They're never nearly good enough and I hate to think that they still exist nonetheless.

I guess my point is: try not to sweat this stuff; it will drive you crazy.
FAR Part 105 https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...

In USPA there are a lot of "recommended", but most of the larger dropzones enforcing recommended to required, for a long time. But yes, if we are taking about Lodi, they aren't USPA dropzone. So the only thing they follow are FAR Part 105 and manufacture requirements for Sigma rigs (tandems), which are pretty strict. There is another question why they don't follow those requirements, and why the government is not stricter about it.

> I’m not current now, but I did hold a USPA C license for a long time

It is nice that you have experience, and some understanding. I am with 1,500 jumps. I feel like new in a sport, still learning from people with 10,000+ jumps. Unfortunately, all of those licenses don't really matter much, the same as pilot instructors are usually private pilots with only 200 hours of flight, considering that you can get your license after 40 hours.

> and had my share of close calls

Definitely, I have seen with my eyes not once close calls, not once I have seen people being injured, and unfortunately witnessed a few fatalities. But I see that also while I am getting outside the house.

And BASE jumping is not a skydiving related sport. Those are two different sports. There is also paragliding, speed flying, and a lot more, and yes, they use fabric over the head, but those are not the same sports.
Wine 9.6 Adds Support for Advanced AVX Features in Register Contexts
You could say the same for the army of 1000 mechanical Turks they were using before.
It's possible, of course, it just doesn't sound likely.
How many companies out there make TV-sized LED panels? There's a market for dumb TVs obviously. Feels like you could buy the panels, put them in a case with minimal controls, and ship. If you market it as some sort of "pro videophile grade display" you can charge the true material cost + a healthy markup without relying on the recurring ad revenue from smart TV software.

You could leave OFF common features like motion smoothing, saving you money, and it would honestly be a more "pro" TV.
Yeah generally security sensitive orgs don’t want mixing anyway. They want a work only device and provide one.
Amazing how they will install spyware to wipe the device but not to back up the device
Mu-Ency: the encyclopedia of the Mandelbrot set
> - Why would college tuition decrease?

in theory, because of a few factors

1) more kids doing online, or community college, degrees

2) more people opting to go into the trades, as AI eats knowledge workers and the cost-benefit doesn't make sense; or else skipping and going straight to certifications for things like IT

3) legal or structural changes impacting how many international and out-of-state students are allowed. many public universities operate at a loss for locals, but subsidize those costs with higher fees for out of state and international students.

4) the gub'mnt finally gets around to rejecting or capping a lot of student loan applications

Been seeing a lot of chat about #1 and #2, but until the last two get changed I don't think anything will drastically improve
The resulting certifications would be worth approximately the same amount as the existing online-only degrees. Basically ticking the box for "college educated", but be passed over on any further scrutiny than that.

Because the selling point of prestigious schools is the filtering and networking.
> In 1971, President Nixon terminated the convertibility of the U.S. dollar to gold.

Gold-backed currency seems suboptimal for a country unless you have enough trust in the government to honor the "backed by gold" guarantee.
I've no idea if you'll like it, but that's what it's morphed into. A weekly newsletter focussed on Network Engineering types
That really was not the takeaway.

…The paper found that, in terms of sheer number of syllables spoken per second, the fastest languages of the 17 studied were Japanese, Spanish, and Basque. The slowest were Cantonese, Vietnamese, and Thai.
…
What Pellegrino found is that, essentially, all languages convey information at roughly the same speed when all the factors are taken into account: around 39 bits per second. The higher the syllable-per-second rate, the lower the information density, which creates a trade-off that makes all languages around the same in terms of information rate.

So if you wanted to communicate the most quickly, you should rapidly speak in a more dense language like Cantonese or Vietnamese.
Yep and it’s one of the rare parts of the earth that has been relatively undisturbed, so bringing industrial operations there is obviously (if you’re paying attention) going to have unforeseen adverse effects. The entire planet’s biological origin started there and it’s a region we don’t yet thoroughly understand. Mass scraping of the surface for cobalt and nickel nodules is the very definition of fuck around and find out.
"japanese man with white female friend" -> Success

"japanese man with white female wife" -> Fail, the wife is always Asian

"japanese woman with white male friend" -> Success

"japanese woman with white male husband" -> Success
It looks like the audio samples have disappeared since 2017, but they're available on the Wayback Machine for those who want to listen: https://web.archive.org/web/20170831162900/https://www.vinci...
Was that a while ago? Because upscale supermarkets have really caught on in the last ~10 years or so, and you might be surprised at how good a lot of the stuff is.

My local supermarket - totally agree - is on average worse than average European fare. But if you travel a few towns away and go to the more premium ones like Mariano's or Whole Foods, it's a lot better.

Other places I shop for really good food are definitely somewhat more foreign to be fair: Seafood City, Mitsuwa, H-Mart, Brookhaven. (That last one is my favorite, and is heavy on eastern European foods like tea, dried fish, wine, cheese, beer, etc.)

Other honorable mentions: Harris Teeter, Trader Joe's, Wegman's, Fresh Market.
Show HN: Fastest vector database made in NumPy
What is some of the outright lying?

And let's not consider optimistic goals as lying, can you show examples of actual lying where he knew the opposite was true?
Well, obviously nobody is going to mine undersea for the sake of mining undersea. If someone is going to go to the bother there must be some advantage that compensates for the difficulty. Maybe the ores are richer, or you don't have to dig as deep.
Because duo sales got the nontechnical admin to sign a contract. You really can’t run from that phenomenon unless you run your own business.
They would not. One man's "usurious" debt is another's "wtf why do rich people get interest rates under 1% of payday loan offerings" (not in those terms).
2FA app? Nah.
MDM? Yes.
I think it's a classic example of landing in that space of being a feature vs a product. I know from my part, I'm really fatigued on the SaaS model of spinning up so many different products from so many different providers for one freakin' project. So Partykit, while interesting tech, may have just struggled as independent infrastructure.

Partykit is actually powered by Cloudflare Workers, so it's a compatible acquisition that adds realtime to the workers platform. Plus like you said they had recently and unfortunately "stripped PartyKit way back" with some layoffs, so I'd imagine the acquisition was fairly cheap for Cloudflare.
I feel like both will have the same kind of consequences. Pilots will lose their pilot license, skydivers can lose USPA member license (and could FAA certifications if they have any, like drone piloting, rigging, etc). But I am not sure, I have only 14 hours of piloting lessons.

My guess both will be pursued only if there is a lawsuit.
that's a whole quarter + a month where you didn't have a body and stuff didn't get done. maybe they'd be slow at first and a burden until they're up to speed, but that means you start that process sooner.

they either needed the exact, perfect candidate, or else they wasted a lot of time
Manifestation always works whether you know it or not :)
Perhaps. This is why specifications should be unambiguous.
Yikes, I thought HDMI was encrypted similar to DVD's "illegal number".

Here's bunnie talking about dealing with HCDP when building out the netv.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZeCvEa7OqI [starts around 14:30]

I see in the article they mention a more passive monitoring identifying "when there are pauses", but how could that hold up to any scrutiny?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content...

https://github.com/bunnie/netv-fpga

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
> Anyway, there is plenty of good food in America.

How much of it can be achieved without being "unhealthy" for you?

For example, I can think of some good barbecue or burgers or steaks. How many people don't have "portions too big" covered in too many unhealthy sauces/cheeses/etc.?

Say something basic is 600 calories. To make it good with mayonnaise, butter, cream, cheese, etc. you can quickly double the entire caloric intake for the meal.

You are either going to make a dish "good" through its texture (meat typically), spices, or savoriness/richness from fat of some sort, no?
> in the context of an FFmpeg ticket it seems quite clear what “this” is: the FFmpeg ticket.

It can be. It can also be the person submitting it noting that it's high priority to them or their org. That can be useful information, but it's not necessarily a demand.

> When you communicate as employee of company X, you represent company X, especially when you specifically namedrop company X.

That's both obviously true and obviously doesn't matter in some instances. If some intern at a company starts throwing a company name around, the complaints should be seen by the company, but if it's obvious it's an intern then it's also obvious it's not something it's possible to ever entirely prevent, and in some cases it's expected it will happen and it's just a matter of how they respond internally to prevent it (Microsoft has something like 220k employees. Employees misrepresenting the company will happen).

The more power a person has at the company the less we should expect this is okay and the more criticism they should get. It scales from the intern to the CEO. I think this is fairly obvious.

If the person in question is in a senior position and was actually demanding something on behalf of Microsoft, then I agree they individually and to some degree Microsoft should be criticized for this, but I'm not sure that's what happened here, so I'll reserve my criticism.

> In addition, they didn’t “immediately publish once [sic] side of a grievance”, the ticket happened quite a long time ago and was only brought up in light of the xz fiasco.

Okay, so not immediate, which is my mistake, but it is one side of the argument with little clarification of the claims made other than the support request ticket, which doesn't go into details about the negotiations for support at all.

Consider that someone from MS could just as easily have posted something to twitter referencing that ticket and saying "We tried to work with an open source project to get a bug fixed, and even offered them money to fix it, and instead they tried to get us on a long term support before it was fixed. Unacceptable." We'd have just as much information about the specifics of what happened behind the scenes, which is none, and all it does it leave people to use their per-existing biases to fill in the missing information and choose who to believe. Better, IMO, to reserve judgement pending additional info.
The number of brick buildings in St. Louis (and St. Charles, etc.) is remarkable. I did not, until today, know of St. Louis's (storied) history with bricks but it was clearly evident to me when passing through or spending any time in the area.

They are fortunate to still have so many old buildings/houses compared to most of the rest of the Midwaste where I see the older places quickly disappearing, being torn down and replaced by modern structures.

Also, the discussion of the Indians reminded me too that just next door to St. Louis are the remnants of the Cahokia mounds, a UNESCO World Heritage site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia

(Also, couldn't help but be reminded of Settlers of Catan reading about their brick empire, ha ha.)