skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only 48MB of SRAM on Gaudi 3 per die (96 MB across both) vs 256MB here maybe increases the memory bandwidth needs for Gaudi. Way different power consumption too.
Thanks :-) I use it for all my talks and finally decided I'd better start sharing it a bit. It really is useful to understand the memory cost of things like Pandas operations
You can craft script for ffmpeg using any of the AI chat providers, even a badger can do it. UI is nice, but we have handbrake already.

Do you work for local government?
> Double-entry bookkeeping is very easy to understand once you ditch the ridiculous "credit" and "debit" terminology.

I'm with you so far.

> the goal is to keep the accounting equation true at all times

Perfectly reasonable.

> For example, you sell a lemonade for $5. You add $5 to Sales (Income) and add $5 to Current Account (Assets).

And now you've completely lost me. Money appeared. Lemonade disappeared. I want to see the corresponding +$5 and -$5.

Making it fit the equation (Equity + Income + Liabilities = Assets + Expenses) is not an intellectually satisfying reason for 'Assets' to go up by $5 when I just lost $5 of assets.

What if it worked this way in physics?

I could write

Force * mass = acceleration
1N * 500g lemonade = 0.5 m/s/s

Then I could say: "If we halve the mass of lemonade, then we double the acceleration:"

1N * 1000g lemonade = 1.0 m/s/s

And then you could say "But you didn't halve the mass, you doubled it!" and then I could say "Yes I did, look, the equation still holds."
> happy as a loser

"Loser" is however you want to define it. If you legitimately want certain things (fitness, skills, whatever), then by all means go out and get them.

But don't forget some people are living in a hippie commune, or in a van, by choice. There's lots of these types that are completely broke and "losers" by some definition but they're fulfilled because they can spend more time hiking, painting, or whatever it is they want in life.

This is my long way of saying, don't let social media define what "success" is in your eyes :)

> I need to work on myself before I date or make new friends

Real friends/partners will see you at your worst and stick around. IMO if you think you need to do XYZ first you'll never take the leap to make these connections. The fact that you're working on yourself is what they'll see.. "it's the journey not the destination"
Electron and consistency?? I get Electron being easier to develop for, but it achieves portability by ignoring platform native UI guidelines. There is no consistency at all between electron apps.
They. Them. Not just they, but capital They.

Everyone knows who They(tm) are, especially Them.
Biden 'considering' request to drop Assange charges
You might be in for some learning about how authoritarian regimes work.
Certainly not.

But consider an actual hypothetical cartel that is explicitly defacto and dejure price fixing. Suppose the members of this cartel instead create a new LLC. Suppose that new LLC now performs the role of price-fixing with the condition that not conforming will lead to expulsion from the price feed system. Has this transformation taken a cartel that is explicitly colluding and made it into one that is not colluding?

If so, we now have a mechanism to turn every cartel into a non-cartel via the umbrella LLC. And the latter costs $300 to set up in Delaware. So the anti-cartel law has a $300 bypass. Reasonable, I suppose if you believe that that law has reached the end of its utility.
One day science will figure out which genre actually caused Columbine
Apple users are probably the only crowd that would pay money for a simplistic ffmpeg frontend.
Could it be that people have developed an aversion to buying homes and instead choose to rent? Are the prices of houses rising at the same rate?
Is one central company telling every bank to hold shares and only release them in specific amounts to achieve optimal price? That’s what’s happening with real page, the supply side is being curated across the whole industry so there is no real competition and thus no real price seeking function. Free markets don’t work with that type of collusion.
I suppose it might, there are not a lot of details (what kind of sparsity for example?) about what they mean in terms of INT8 support - it could be MXINT8, or something else.

Glad someone was thinking the same thing I was though!
I had to transcode some files recently. I’m extremely proficient with the ClI, but I would have loved to have a GUI version.
What is worth solving in your opinion?
Should they not make their service more efficient?

I assume this helps reduce their server and electricity costs.
At a certain scale these things pay off.
As an example of the pitfalls of IQ science and the weirdos that obsess over it unscientifically, the first comment at the moment is from Richard Hanania who had to apologize for his essays on white supremacist websites including, notably, calling for the sterilisation of black people based on the basis of low IQ.
Same journey here; except using the Calibre Web integration, an absolutely gamechanger. No need to plug-in to sync my own books, they're pulled straight from my Pi. And I love how all that was required was editing a line in the config file on the storage; they seem like fairly open devices.

Also glad to get away from the Amazon proprietary formats.
Um. They are heavily regulated? Isn't that what is being argued for for social media?
Two of Wigderson's major papers mentioned in the announcement are co-authored with Noam Nisan, one of the professors behind the well known on-line course 'From Nand to Tetris'.
homes should not be an investment. no one needs stocks everyone needs a home.
It's a great book!
There is one limitation of the graph visualization that's worth paying attention to: If you add a larger number of transactions to it, the graph will become tangled up and difficult to make sense of: You see which accounts trade with each other, but the order of the trades got lost, because all transactions share the same "account" nodes.

Indeed, if you'd try to also track balances in the graph, you'd end up with the exact same limitations that the original, "mutable" account table had: You can only store a single "current" balance for each account and each time you add another transaction to the graph, the old balances of the accounts involved are lost.

You could fix this shortcoming by redefining the meaning of the "round" nodes in the graph and essentially treating the graph as a ledger: Instead of a round node representing an account, make it represents an account at a specific point in time, i.e. between two transactions. Then new transactions can be added as new nodes and edges to e.g. the right side of the graph and the graph will become a long chain that grows from left to right and represents the exchange of money over time.

(Another constraint has to be added that a transaction must never go "backwards in time", i.e. never go from a node to the right to one on the left and never have an "incoming" and "outgoing" edge pointing to the same round node)

With many accounts and transactions, it might still get difficult to keep track, which transactions are close together in time and which are far apart. This could be made easier by introducing another container, let's call it a block, that groups all transactions together which share at least one "round" node in their "incoming" or "outgoing" edge. Because of the "no going back in time" property, the blocks will be non-overlapping and they will also have at least a partial ordering to them that follows the chronologial ordering of the transactions.

If you want to make the graph extra pretty, pick one transaction in each block and use its timestamp to turn the partial into a total ordering.

If you zoom out, your graph indeed looks like a chain of blocks, going from left to right in the direction of time, with each block containing the transactions that belong to the same slice of time. A blockchain, if you will...
I looked at the book and it's more for graduate-advanced undergrad students.

Can someone recommend a more basic book on the topic of computation for someone with a rusty comp-sci/math undergrad background?
I can’t remember :( the arm is a generic phone holder arm with a spring loaded clamp that pushes down the top and bottom of the device.

The page turner was one of these keyboard smash brands. Searching for “ebook wireless page turner” yields quite a few results.
Ask HN: Time to kill at work; what to do?
I have a lot of time to kill at work and I'm currently reading technical articles/blogs.

I'm also reading a book about a specific language but I'm wondering if there's something you would recommend that I haven't thought about. Maybe this gives ideas to people who stumble upon this thread.

Note that I can't install everything on my (work) computer as I don't have admin rights to it.
China flooding Britain with fake stamps in act of 'economic warfare'
alt-link: https://archive.ph/TBjzF
>smart move morons

Summarized my thoughts while reading the rest of the article though.
you probably dont draw
I suspect the iPad will remain the best option for stuff like RPG books. It's relatively cheap, the screen is large, it's fast and responsive, etc. It's not pleasant for reading in a dark room, but otherwise it's close to the ideal.
I don't think ffmpeg is actually _extremely_ complex. A lot of the complexity (all the flags) you feel belonging to ffmpeg actually belongs to encoders (libx264, libx265, aomenc, libvpx, all the hardware encoders from each vendor). They each have various options meaning different things. ffmpeg is just an interface for them.
I think you are really not understanding the issue. Unless you have crazy supply of apartments this software can have dramatic effect on prices. You are vastly underestimating the impact of this price fixing. Example from my own building: we have an apartment that has been sitting idle since last 6+ months. Price of it has been going up!!!
Thanks for that. Lemme probe a bit deeper.

If you spend $X on sheep, you credit $X where? Debit it from where? You put "$X worth of sheep" on what account? When the sheep die, do you credit some account with "$X worth of dead sheep?" (Where presumably they remain as dead-sheep forever.)

(I'm sorry, I know that sounds dumb.)

How is that "$X worth of dead sheep" different from "$X worth of security guarding" that you supposedly received?
thanks for doing the hard work for everybody :p
IMO Kobo is absolutely built to be a "better managed library experience" than kindle - but as you say other platforms are better if you have a large non-drm'ed library. Unless you plan to buy books from publishers / use the overdrive (now Libby) system, I do think a more user-focused offering like Pocketbook will be better.
> UK GDP is $3tn :D

Most of which is England

> I don't think you made a very compelling argument

Fair enough.

"Four countries is one country" has the same level of abstraction; "50 states is one country" (or in reverse, the EU can be seen as "27 countries one state" if you squint and are a bit vague with definitions) is different kinds of abstraction.

Pizza is a possible pizza topping, but it's also weird.
The complaint that Chrome eats all your RAM is because it starts a new process for each tab, with all the overhead that entails. You’re not using multiple tabs in an Electron app.
I think its hilarious you think reddit mods hold sway over society when the rest of us who don't use reddit consider it to be 4chan with login

one good examples are city subreddits. they are almost always toxic and negative. lately they cleaned it up but I remember subreddits like r/vancouver were a cesspool of angry white locals who were convinced the CCP laundering money was why they couldn't afford homes
The water that was in your clothes and evaporated over 12 hours at night naturally is the same water that evaporates in 1 hour in the powered dryer.

If you have working ventillation you're fine either way. If not - you're not. In fact I'd expect worse problems if you evaporate that same water quicker, because there's less time for it to escape outside.
Does no one at the organization know what a GoTek FlashFloppy is?

Sounds like they are using the floppy as an excuse to push for an upgrade that has nothing to do with the floppy drives.
Also not as fun or educational.
Westfield's basically the only company left making money on malls, because they made a crucial observation: The anchor store is dead. Sears, Macy's, etc., they're in direct competition with Amazon, and they're losing their shirts. Most malls had made huge concessions to these anchor stores, operating under the assumption that they were why anybody goes to the mall, but Westfield pushed the opposite: People go to the mall when they want attainable luxury. People going to the mall in the 21st century aren't going there because they need something specific. People go to the mall to see a wide assortment of luxuries, recreational activities, and food options, so that they can treat themselves a little. Board game shops, brand-specific retailers like Doc Martin or Abercombie, Lego stores, jewelers.

And it works. Walking around Valley Fair (Westfield's flagship location in San Jose) is fun. You can wander the place for a good long time, being presented with a seemingly never ending array of frivolous luxuries, and even if you don't end up buying any clothes or jewels or whatever, you can swing by the food vendors for some fancy ice cream at Salt 'N Straw.
I would love to buy a home, but cannot due to the extreme cost, therefore I rent. This is definitely not unique to me.
> It's really hard to call - see how much push back you also get from fighters when the ref calls it too early and so much stakes are on the line.

What would make sense would just be to disallow head strikes. Hit your opponent in the head and forfeit.

Or you could go in the other direction, and let fights be to the death.

What's the benefit of the middle ground? If you want to see what works in a fight, it's crippling the other guy. If you don't want people to be crippled, you probably shouldn't allow crippling them in the future either.
They government let him name his kids that? I remember a story a long time ago about a couple that tried to name their kid
"Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116" which is about as meaningful as "X AE A-12", but was blocked by naming laws
Thanks, I wish there is one talking about the technical details, but not as technical as the specification documents.
I also recommend reading this comment about him, the fourth paragraph to be precise: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813625

Makes me doubt he wasn't involved :>
> What is it about public transit in the US that it is so... bad?

Massive money and entrenched behind preserving a car-based life.

Car companies, auto workers unions, railroads can siphon off funds from promised improvements to cover deferred maintenance and give themselves bonuses for being so clever… Hell, AAA which one might expect to spend its income on serving its members instead diverts money to proactively lobbying against improvements in public transit in an ongoing display of cynical self-preservation

It’s basically hopeless.
I don’t think people in East Asia work harder at all. It’s mostly sitting around and taking two hour lunches. I regularly worked 80-100 hours for most of my 20s and early 30s. It’s not sustainable at all and 95% of the population do not even have the physical and mental stamina to do it for more than a couple of weeks out of the year. Out of all the places I’ve experienced, East Coast (and particularly NYC) has the hardest working culture. It’s not even close.
> Chinese products are beating everyone else

I don't think this is true? And the trend seems to be down. Looking around me, my car, phone, home appliances, and most of my furniture were not made in China. My Macbook probably was, but I just read that Apple is moving some production to other countries (like Vietnam).

A lot of random things I own like hand tools were made in China, but they tend to be relatively low-technology products commonly manufactured in many places.

I could be an outlier; certainly there are many electronics items (screens, gaming devices, phones, etc) made in China. But it's not obvious that they're "beating" the competition. Would love to see meaningful statistics.
the problem is they are making more money by having a few units empty while renting the rest at higher rents.

the landlord is making more money, people are being squeezed for all they got, and less people have homes.

this is a huge drag on the economy and adversely affects every single person in a region except the rent seeking landlords. Even if you own it is a negative as your CoL is going to go up as stores need to charge more to pay employees more so they can afford homes.
I would love to buy a place, my rent is well above what I could expect to pay for a mortgage in the same area (for likely a nicer place).

But rent around here being so high stands in the way of saving enough for a decent downpayment.

I do know some people who prefer to rent for the flexibility, but I don't think its enough for this.
That seems to be apocryphal, with "sources" just copying other repeaters of the story.

The story also doesn't seem to make sense as told.
(Ironic considering the neighbor comment about source attribution.)

Why would saying different words make someone willing to give up their arms?

You can't "what's a dikfore" someone into surrendering.
I don't think that is actually a concern. The article is written in a way to imply that it is, but I doubt the people who are running the system actually think that is the risk.

I am sure they have copies of the floppy disk, and likely have images on other machines that can be used to create a new floppy even if all the copies are lost.

I feel like the SFMTA is mainly using the existence of the floppy disks as a marketing point for their desire to get funding to update the system. It is something that the average person will be able to look at and know it is out of date in a visceral way.

The reporter seems to read this as if we are one bad floppy away from failure, but that is not the actual case.
Weird. We pushed a BPM assist feature last night that may have unforeseen consequences for genres we didn't test (we tried pop, edm, classic rock). I'll turn it off by default for now. Try checking the instrumental box too.
The type of roofs over one's head is hugely elastic. At low cost there is shared rental housing far from where someone might find ideal. At high cost you can build a custom stand-alone structure made of the finest materials on an acre of land.
I have a Boox Ultra Tab C (color) and while true I don't find it problematic in the slightest. I went down the rabbit hole of watcing video comparison etc. but in practical terms once I started using it I never once felt that I wanted a brighter/lighter screen. YMMV.
I'm going to miss adapter by macroplant the day it stops working
Horrible, horrible, horrible analogy. There is so much to say about this but the bottom line is that stocks do not follow price fixing it is more a market equilibrium. This on the other hand is pure price fixing.
That would be too sensible.

Sarcasm aside, they probably were hoping to convert the brand name twitter has to 'x', but failed to realize how sticky the name was/is.
Indeed. While dr==cr gets you far towards being able to calculate account balances and an entity's aggregate financial position, it's also fairly foundational that you are able calculate the company's position with different counterparties. So knowing that Alice purchased the book from Foo Booksellers, but maybe hasn't settled with FooBooks yet is super relevant.

The company's accountant may care about balances and reconciling them back to things like the existence of said book, a receipt for payment or a bank transaction indicating settlement happened. At a big enough company, the accounts payables nerds may come along and be focused on making sure the full process procuring and paying has happened correctly, including record-keeping, tax compliance, and the actual movement of funds.

When you start to scale how all of these processes are executed and recorded, it's dense enough that it still surprises me many years later.
Also its at 90 watts vs 900 watts for gaudi 3, the flops/mem bw per watt is much more comparable.
I'd like to see a breakdown of that "hundreds of millions of dollars" and which companies provided the quotes, plus who owns the companies and who are their husbands/wives/uncles/nephews/nieces/etc.
Musk’s true talent is hype, fundraising, and getting buy-in from a crowd of people who Want To Believe. He does an incredible job of this, attracting capital investment on absurdly favorable terms.

(Delivery on his wild promises, well, sometimes the true believers he hires make that happen, sometimes not.)
Society's singular focus on shareholder returns is strangling everything. It feels like no good can be done in this world unless it makes the holy line go up. It's maddening.
Strava Meets the Fediverse: How to Go Beyond Proof of Concepts?
I've noticed several enthusiasts dabbling with decentralized versions of Strava, sparking an idea to push these concepts further. I'm looking to ignite a conversation and connect with motivated individuals interested in launching an open-source project centered around a decentralized sports network. To kick things off, I've developed a proof of concept to showcase our potential starting point. If this piques your interest and you're eager to contribute your ideas, skills, or feedback, please drop a comment below. Let's connect and explore how we can turn this vision into reality together.
My town, north of Dayton, OH was recently overflown by a group of fighters (I believe F-18's). I was surprised that they didn't appear on the ADS-B tracker site I ran inside and looked at. I guess it makes sense.

I'm just a couple of miles from DAY and see a lot of traffic every day. It would be interesting to know how military aircraft like that coordinate with civilian air traffic control.

(I like to listen to Dayton approach while watching an ADS-B tracker site. I enjoy seeing the traffic fly over my neighborhood. I find it oddly amusing to look up at a plane I just heard getting clearance to land knowing that I just heard the voice of somebody up there thru my speakers. I don't know why it's so pleasing...)
we are talking about housing, not a stock. two totally, extremely, incredibly different asset classes.
Yeah, but a range of 80 to 116 requires some contortions for something just out of range. I think if you had 125 bpm quarter notes, it's hard to get that to fit (other than just slowing it down a bit)

I'm too young to internalize the speed gains for 33 rpm LPs on the 45 setting. (Is it just 33:45?) Maybe you can make things work by claiming that and claiming half or eighth notes are the beat.

Like no, my 120 bpm record was really 60 bpm half notes, and you were playing it on 33, but it was meant for 45, so 60 / 33 * 45 = 82ish, so all is well?
The article picture is of a 3.5" floppy, but the article says they are using 5.25"
Government is the only reason that companies use less slavery now in the past.
I don't think this is true - for one, housing in the US isn't all that scarce (~14M vacant units) [1], and housing doesn't behave like most markets vis a vis supply / demand - there are too many confounding factors and it's not exactly a liquid market.

This would also make sense given that this algorithmic pricing platform is used by so many clients. If just enough real estate firms can maximize their profits in this way, they can afford to buy out anyone who might compete on price.

1 - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EVACANTUSQ176N
Drying in freezing temperatures actually works just fine, wet environments are really a problem though.
No instead I run 50 standalone browsers with one tab each on my machine ...
Would consider taking this seriously if it wasn’t greenpeace