skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 was awarded for the discovery of the therapeutic value of lobotomies, which is the most controversial of all the scientific Nobel Prizes awarded (the Peace Prize and Literature Prizes routinely court controversy for rather obvious reasons).
I see no good reason why this was downvoted.
Yup, it's where my user handle comes from.

It was a weird symbol counting scheme that was easily twarted. It was also completely client side validated so it was very possible to just intercept the checksum and force a match.
They had me at ‘Skywriter Reality Engine’. I’d used vaxen at Uni in the 80s, then got into industry using Symbolics Lisp machines, then had several dark years programming on DOS boxes. The return to a truly innovative workstation blew my mind
These blocks are often huge and you feel like an ant standing next to them. I don't think that the word dominate is misplaced. They have a weight to them that most older residential buildings (pre-1950) simply don't.

Do skyscrapers dominate American cities? Well, yes, regardless of whether you like them or no.
With only less than 5% of value went to Chinese firms why should the Chinese let their money siphoned overseas?
Pity no write-up of the expansion, Mysteries of the Sith. The single-player campaign was mediocre, but the multiplayer improvements were phenomenal.

So many hours of my youth spent doing lightsaber duels on Cloud City Gantry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfTGOlyKqKk
It would be an interesting experience to dcc somebody RU [0], run it from ram, and guide that person through diagnostics.

[0] https://ruexe.blogspot.com/
a lot of work requires being "present" but not really being at a desk.

my 1-on-1s with my team dont require me or them to be at a desk. i take a notepad upstairs and do dishes while on those calls.

during COVID my boss used to get on calls with me and it was clear he was at the grocery store because i could hear the self-checkout sounds in the background.

as long as items are communicated, remembered, and acted on -- who cares what is happening?
We've talked before about our respective molecular graphics background.

I started with Unix on a Personal IRIS as an undergrad working in a physics lab which used it for imaging capture and analysis. I was the nominal sys admin, with one semester of Minix under my belt and just enough to be dangerous. (I once removed /bin/cc because I thought it was possible to undelete, like on DOS. I had to ask around the meteorology department for a restore tape.)

The summer before grad school I got a job at the local supercomputing center to work on a parallelization of CHARMm, using PVM. I developed it on that PI, and on a NeXT. That's also when I learned about people at my future grad school working on VR for molecular visualization, in a 1992 CACM article. So when I started looking for an advisor, that's the lab I chose, and I became the junior co-author and eventual lead developer of VMD.

With a Crimson as my desktop machine, a lab full of SGIs and NeXTs, and the CAVE VR setup elsewhere in the building. Heady times.

I visited SGI in 1995 or so, on holiday, thinking that would be a great place to work. They even had an Inventor plugin for molecular visualization, so I thought it would be a good lead. I emailed and got an invited to visit, where the host kindly told me that they were not going to do more in molecular visualization because they wanted to provide the hardware everyone uses, and not compete in that software space.

In the early 1990s SGIs dominated molecular modeling (replacing Evans & Sutherland), so naturally the related tools, like molecular dynamics codes, also ran on them. But we started migrating to distributed computing, where it didn't make sense to have 16 expensive SGIs, leaving them more as the head .. which as you pointed out, was soon able to run just fine on a Linux machine.
That and Media Player Classic
I'd argue Nvidia is ex-SGI, and so is ex-ATI. It's all their crew in the beginnings.
is this legit? idk if I can see this be fully implemented into industry any time soon.
You can buy a cheap Mac and easily write programs for it. You don't have to spend $40k on a computer, you don't have to buy a support contract, you don't have to buy developer tools.
It might not be everywhere, just by happenstance in the region that contains our observable universe.
Seems risky to start running commands on your machine that a hallucinating AI spit out at you without understanding them, but I guess they can at least let you know what to look up so you can double check what the command will do.
I made it clear that these were the ads, not the direct videos.

That said, the COVID vaccines are safe and saying otherwise is kind of intellectually dishonest. Just because you can find one video where they "analyzed the vaccine contents" doesn't discount all the research and sampling data that has been taken.

If you haven't gotten the COVID vaccine, you probably should.
>So it's probably always going to be completely undiscoverable. It really needs a GUI to be usable, but that's a project in itself (I guess the project is Handbrake).

I don't buy this. A TUI is completely possible, e.g. LazyGit, Htop, etc, countless tools indicate you can get pane-based UIs going in the terminal; the FFmpeg team has simply never made such a thing a priority.

But even without a TUI, the most basic use-cases are well-known after over 15+ years of existence, simple prompt-based wizards, i.e. "git add -p", should be offered; again, a matter of priority rather than being intractable.

A year ago or so someone posted a subscription service they made for composing the pipeline graph visually
Yes so what happens when Uniqlo or H&M starts dictating which items you can wear together or on what days you can wear them?

You're entirely missing the point. Tech companies don't get to dictate what we can do with their products. I don't know why that is so hard to understand. You think that going to a competitor is the answer but the competitor is doing the same thing and so would every company over time because it gives the companies so much power and profit, at the cost to user freedom. This is particularly dangerous in a market that is basically an oligopoly.

The "free market" is great but it doesn't solve every problem or abuse. Users and customers have rights that need to be protected. Why you thing giving up your natural rights to corporations is a good idea I'll never know.
>Almost a year before Elon Musk made his company naming easy for people who can’t write or spell, a group of engineers, architects, programmers, and biz dev folks from AMD, Qualcomm, Intel, ATI Technologies, Dell, and others were working

Forget about why would Dell matters here for a minute, but ATI Technologies....... I mean I do miss the good old days of S3 Verge, 3Dfx Voodoo and ATI All in Wonder or Rage 3D. But they were acquired by AMD in 2006, that is coming close to 20 years.
Ask HN: Coworker does not work, at all. What to do?
My remote coworker has not done any work for nearly two years. Every day, seemingly either through obfuscation or exaggeration, they find a reason to get nothing done.

Sometimes the dog is sick, sometimes it's a contractor doing work on their home, sometimes it's insane Rube Goldberg machines like "it's raining and my wife has astigmatism so I have to drive her around town so she can do her errands"

Now, I know commits are a terrible proxy for programmer productivity, but... we're talking about 8 commits over the course of ~650 days, 7 of which are README updates from this person. Sounds hyperbolic, but it's the truth.

Normally I wouldn't care about a bum coworker. There's a lot of them out there, unavoidable. They're usually harmless. But this person is above me in pay and title and has recently come to the helm of the project that I am working on. This person's apathy and laziness is really starting to affect my ability to do good work. The rest of my team under this individual feels similarly.

What's a person to do? This is not some mega-corp where do-nothing types can fly under the radar. It's glaringly obvious to boots-on-the-ground engineers that this person is a net negative. I think even our manager is at least acutely aware that this person is a bit of a bum, but they seem to take on a cognitive dissonance towards it, pretending to be aloof about the situation, to the point of allowing this person to run projects and lead teams.

I've spoken with this person individually and let them know how they're affecting the rest of the team, but they took it as a personal attack of character, so that just lead to this person seeing me as a threat.

I really love everything about my current gig and would hate to have to move teams or even find an entirely new job, but I feel I am running out of more civil options. Any suggestions from folks who've dealt with a similar situation?
Sources? What Christ was offered in his birth was myrrh (by one of the Magi) and his body was wrapped in myrrh after his death (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrrh#In_the_New_Testament). Myrrh and Lavender seem to be very different. Is there some popular association of the two (like yams with sweet potatoes)?
Or ffdshow
I remember to thank SGI every time I format an XFS filesystem.
I wish we could just go back to doing the work and going home. The workplace is increasingly a substitute for almost every aspect of your life, from socializing to morality. I don't want to start my own company just to avoid the mental baggage and cult-like environment, but it seems that is becoming the only option. Sorry for the cynicism, I really tried to be positive for most of my career but it's all very tiresome.
Ha - I love your optimism that they are even considering GDPR
Whenever this topic comes up there are always comments saying that SGI was taken by surprise by cheap hardware and if only they had seen it coming they could have prepared for it and managed it.

I was there around 97 (?) and remember everyone in the company being asked to read the book "The Innovator's Dilemma", which described exactly this situation - a high end company being overtaken by worse but cheaper competitors that improved year by year until they take the entire market. The point being that the company was extremely aware of what was happening. It was not taken by surprise. But in spite of that, it was still unable to respond.
> I can't think of any other plausible explanation of why he was arrested with $500 in his hand at a specific place

Maybe he had an ex that wanted to make life hell for him. Create a new e-mail account using the guys name, use that to create a Craigslist account, do the whole bit. Come back "to pick something up", plant some child porn on his computer; or maybe the "child porn" on the computer wasn't really that childish (either just normal porn, or maybe porn alleging to be 17-year-olds or something). Arrange with the "uncle" (whom you know are the cops) to meet at a place you know he frequents regularly: maybe he just carries $500 with him as a habit; maybe he always stops at the Dunkin Donuts after visiting the payday check casher -- an ex would know that kind of thing. Or maybe come up with some other excuse to get him there with the requisite cash. Or, play then Craigslist game the other way, and arrange for him to be there with the cash -- maybe he thought he was buying a used car, or maybe he actually thought he was buying a used instrument from Craigslist, being sold by a 12-year-old girl!

There absolutely are vindictive people like that in the world; and my guess is there are a lot more vindictive people like that than complete idiots who would ask a complete stranger on Craigslist, out of the blue, to arrange sex with someone under 11. (And then come on Hacker News decades years later to protest his innocence?) "I was framed" certainly seems implausible, but slightly less implausible than the accusation.

EDIT: From the link above:

> Wistocki observed a vehicle approach the parking lot, and an individual exited the vehicle. The individual walked over to Detective Anthony Cimilluca (who was portraying Kelsey's uncle Greco). The individual introduced himself as Joshua Smith, and Cimilluca introduced himself as Greco. Inside the Dunkin' Donuts, Smith gave Cimilluca $500 and asked to meet Kelsey. Cimilluca told Smith that she was waiting outside in a van. The pair exited Dunkin' Donuts and Smith was arrested. Upon his arrest, Smith was identified as the defendant.

Somewhat harder to explain why you introduced yourself as "Smith", and gave $500 to a guy you thought was named "Greco".
Loved that game, and playing 'rocket ping pong' against my brother, where we were allowed only rocket launchers and force push.
Steve Jobs on Silicon Graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQKm7ifJpVE
LinkedIn built a whole platform inside their platform for doing exactly this. I think you get a badge or something on your profile claiming your an expert on something if you write a couple paragraphs on a topic using the provided prompt.

They're very clear its going into an AI generated article on the topic but you better believe that is also now core training data.
I mean, we have, what, 15+ years of StackOverflow posts to tell us what the common use cases are, e.g. "how do I make a GIF from this short screen cap?"; surely FFmpeg could offer prompt-based wizards for that kind of low hanging fruit.
On the other hand, per byte the word is more expensive
> ...and crackpot ideas without needing to ask.

The trouble with crackpot ideas is that they're closer to 5/95 splits, so only useful to the extent they tell you who's likely to spread other crackpot ideas.

It is a good point with regard to 50/50 splits (maybe even 40/60 if they correlate with the gerrymander?), but the issue you correctly point out is that these are all well known, as they've been adequately researched and publicised by the the indigenous political parties.

I've heard that some fast food franchises don't even bother doing their own market research: if there's a McDo on a corner, they'll try to get one of the remaining three locations.

Following domestic faults would be a similar high-payoff/incredibly-low-effort strategy.

EDIT: compare "On Trolling": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23830829

(come to think of it, I wonder if the "posit the not-quite-controversial" troll strategy mentioned there could function like dithering for posterised images?)
Related:

What is the Fourth Dimension? (1884) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27329211 - May 2021 (45 comments)
Part of the fun was imagining a canon of episodes 7+ and how great the movies will be when they get around to filming Heir to the Empire.

So now that Disney has created a canon that invalidates it, the old material just reminds you of how great you used to wish the new material would be. Asking, "wouldn't it have been great?" isn't exactly as fun.
What does that have to do with the fact that map iterates over a data structure?
Well, for SGI that's like saying the world "chose wrong" that long distance travel is not done by Saturn 5 rockets.

The Saturn 5 was clearly a technical marvel better than any plane, and it'd get you anywhere much faster.

If you spare no expense, you get a better product. Sure. I'm also not surprised that a $100k BMW is more comfortable than a Renault Clio.
It is common for atheists (I was one) to ignore the fact that the society they live in achieves it's balance based on one faith or another. Good on Dawkins for acknowledging it.
Ask HN: Should employers pay for employees' phones if 2FA apps are required?
Which is why its useful that you don't have personal assets.
Agreed! Grew up in Illinois. Live in CT now. Miss those summer thunderstorms in the midwest.
>words together

Thats basically chunking or at least how it starts. I was impressed by the ability to add and subtract the individual word vector embeddings and get meaningful results. Chunking a larger block blends this whole process so you can do the same thing but in conseptual space the so take a baseline method like sentence embedding and that becomes your working block for comparison.
MoS didn't seem to sell well. The game servers were always empty.

DF2, on the other hand, always had about 20+ active games
Digital application for Icelandic citizenship – Ísland.is
I graduated undergrad in 1998 and can confirm that SGI was the company to go to. I felt so jealous of those few guys who had SGI offers, where I had to settle for a more generic PC graphics company. History is what it is but the SGI really had that luster that only a handful of companies ever boasted.
This would be even better if it were a chat interface to ChatGPT so you could ask it troubleshooting questions next time your machine won't boot into OS.
> I played with SGI machines in college and they felt like.. the future.

I had a couple of Indigos that I supported while an undergraduate (I had a student job with the University's Unix group in their computing center), and the SGIs felt to me exactly like the Amiga- Really cool, but kind of lopsided. I tended to do most of my work on the SPARCstations and ignore the SGIs unless I specifically wanted to play with the graphics stuff.

I actually still have an Indigo XS24 that I collected at one point over the years. Tried to get it to boot a bit ago but it's dead, unfortunately.
Low-key iconic machines, Hollywood kept putting them in movies.

http://www.sgistuff.net/funstuff/index.html

https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computers.html#SGI
IEnumerator is how Unity implements coroutines.
HandBrake suffers from the same problems as FFmpeg to a lesser extent. I have no idea what options I should be selecting to get the max quality, smallest file size for a conversion.

The presets are useful but when I'm converting an old WMV or some other ancient format I want to know that I'm not leaving anything behind.
Soon interoffice emails will be written by AI, only to be summarized by AI, and finally replied to by more AI.
Onshore trusts are simple to set up and administer. Google "trust accountant" and you should find someone in your area.
Acts of God as the insurance industry calls them!
It's always a small detail that gets you... You only have to fail once for your OPSEC to crumble into nothing.
Since it says they tangled I don't think your case #1 could be relevant.

I have never skydived and have no interest in doing so but from reading the other comments it seems like there's another possible scenario:

Main deploys badly. They jettison the chute which deploys the reserve--but the jettisoned chute is hung up on something, doesn't actually jettison.
So like, the Nor'easter is a cryo-cyclone and the regular hurricanes are pyro-cyclones!
With some hard work and 15,000 lines of code. I've written it both in C++ (model) and QML (view). I plan to write a blog post about it upon releasing the app.
Never heard of H2O, but llama has a restrictive license.
Granted it’s like “as long as you have fewer than 70M users” or something crazy like that.

It’s a “use can use this as long as you not a threat and/or you’re an acquisition target” type license.
AI Accelerator Utilization with NAPU
Latency numbers every programmer should know - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39657675 - March 2024 (128 comments)
"When we constantly pull everything apart trying to see how it works, we may end up with only an understanding of how to destroy something. We can have piles of spokes, rims and axles, but the beauty only happens when we see the wheel rolling." - Nick Sand
Mind-Blowing Story of How a Top Israeli Spy Chief Blew His Cover
> Google maps and Waze does not allow for setting vehicle height

As a side note, OsmAnd supports setting vehicle height* and has support for multiple vehicles/routing profiles: https://osmand.net

*: and weight, width, and length
Thank you for the notes. I am well aware of the levels and Pack uses custom configuration to match its inner design.
Maybe more level come, or maybe not. But to be clear, Pack supports any valid Zstandard content, and this levels we are discussing are about Pack CLI chosen for better user experience. Any other client can produce and store any valid content for chose level or configuration, and other clients can read it.
a couple of east coast people on my team (NYC) felt it this morning. they were pretty excited about it haha
Okay, I'll bite.

You tell me how to fix it.

And I'll tell you how a bad actor will abuse your fix.
Simple bug report: an empty SGR (CSI m, [m) doesn’t do anything, but should be equivalent to 0, reset all.
A bit of trivia, SGI used to host the C++ STL documentation based on HP libraries, pre-adoption into the standard.
I miss SGI for many reasons, but their industrial design (and that of pre-HPE Cray) is one of the big ones. The 19" rack form factor is the shipping container of the computing world - practical, standardised, sensible... and dull.

The variety in enclosures matched the novelty in architectures of the period. Exciting times to be part of.
Good way of removing any trapped air!
I love SQL on it's own there. Where would Prolog, DataLog & Lisp fall?
Even better than guidelines!

Grammars perfectly restrict LLM token output. They’re hard grammar rules.
> But everyday users are right to distrust software downloaded from the Internet.

They're right to distrust apps that run in their browsers too, but that hasn't stopped anybody. These days everyone is scared to death of an .exe but will happily execute whatever random code a stranger on the internet comes up with if they only have to click on a link to run it on their devices. Warnings that WASM is a malware author's dream weren't enough (https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/ecriminals-increasingly-use...) and browser sandbox escapes happen all the time but nobody seems to care. I can't even just pick on WASM, JS isn't much better and even CSS/HTML alone is getting complex enough that it can be used maliciously.
> I wonder what video fidelity I would gain moving to something more modern.

At the very least, 1080p instead of 720p.
> Who expects that?

https://www.cognition-labs.com/introducing-devin

SA: “Coding is probably the single area from a productivity gain we’re most excited about today"

Nvidia CEO: "Don't learn to code"

The whole group of companies working on it are all pushing that it will make programming redundant, but they don't even make a Ti-83 redundant.
Yes, Irix is one of the few UNIX based OSes that I actually find cool.
I think either would be an improvement over the current situation. I'd be happy with regulations that put a cap on the fees, similar to what the EU has.

I want payment methods to compete by offering better service for lower fees, not by bribing consumers with rewards (and explicitly charging the businesses higher fees to pay for those bribes).
Think it is a miss to have F-Languages not mention F#
I think the term you may be seeking is 'seismic event'
I feel like Swift falls into the G camp since that's where Rust & Go are and Swift is of a similar evolutionary branch.
Jellyfin wasn't happy with my music library either until I realised wanted the ReleaseGroup field to be set. I set Picard to work and an hour later it imported perfectly.
Old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39927010
"It's come to my attention that x has only committed 8 times in the past ~2 years. I'm not aware of other substantial work that they've accomplished. Should I be slowing things down? I love this company and feel like my accomplishments speak for themselves, but I don't want to risk burnout if I'm working so far beyond the level that is actually expected. My understanding is that this concern is shared by my peers."
FavorOnline Perfectly Plain Collection Box Matches (Pack of 50), 12
https://a.co/d/fHM7ClM
I take this as the boldest soft reveal of the discovery of SETI ever.

Most of the soft reveals we've seen so far have been "ingredients of life found in $X", where X has values like "Mars sedimentary rock", "Titan atmosphere", "Ice volcanoes on Io", "atmosphere of exoplanet imaged by JWST".
Academics reckon Apple's default apps have privacy pitfalls