skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Analog keyboards are already a thing. The Razer Huntsman for example. The PS2 (and 3) had analog face buttons despite having pretty shit travel (far far less than most mech boards). For the handful of games that put serious effort into using it, they sort of worked. I don't think it would be super great for controlling speed of movement but it might be pretty good for double actions mapped to the same key like Metal Gear Solid 2 did back on the PS2. Playing modern versions without it feels a bit less natural.
Bit of an embarrassing typo, they do later qualify it as 3.7TB/s
There also appears to be some sort of market failure or structural inefficiency in the hotel industry. AirBnB is clearly meeting a demand for larger units to accommodate groups or families travelling together. But in many areas the only hotel room options are a single room with 1 king size or 2 queen size beds. You can't get a suite or even guaranteed connecting rooms at any price! Could someone explain why the hotel industry often doesn't even try to compete?
https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_05_201803/p... to read it in context. It appeared in the "All-CP/M Issue!" of Dr. Dobbs
> slight densification

I don't think this is seeing the issue the right way. Building sufficient housing to reduce the pure free-market price of temporary / hotel stays to a level where housing is still accessible to locals is likely to permanently change the character of many locations. Perhaps from a quiet mountain town to Disney World. IMO, the residents of such towns, and other potentially attractive locations, have the right to keep their community the way it is rather than be swamped by tourists and high-rises to house them.

It is likely better to regulate the short-term housing volume instead, such that the free-market price of that housing goes high enough to reduce the demand to a level that the community feels is consistent with maintaining its character.
The US has a huge rail system with tons of capacity. It uses it for moving cargo, which makes much of the US economy possible. If cargo is moved off of the rail system to make room for passenger service, that cargo will go on trucks on the roads. Heavy cargo on trucks driving over roads is not a good outcome.

That said, trains are a nice way of seeing the country. Because the rail system is mainly for cargo, passenger service in most places is not good for time sensitive travel. It is great for sightseeing. This route being overnight is disappointing as it takes away the sightseeing but maybe they've found some available slots during the night between cargo loads.

Anyone who has a chance to travel between Portland and Vancouver by train should take it. You get views of the coast not available by road. Just be sure to get a seat on the side of the train that faces the ocean or you're going to have to enjoy seeing lots and lots of trees.
I don't share this sentiment. I always appreciated how stable and "just works" they were, even on Linux. Since (IIRC) Sandy Bridge they were usable even for light gaming, I remember playing Mafia II on Sandy Bridge laptop just fine.
Show HN: Video Captions – Free, No Sign-Up, Straight from the Browser
I have created “yet another captions” project. But it may still have a lot to do with and be helpful.

Here is list of features:

No watermarks
No registration
Free export
Unlimited projects
Unlimited duration
Support 4K
25+ Templates
35+ Languages
Work locally in browser
Different layouts (By punctuation, time)
80+ Fonts
Animations

Right now it working only for Chromium based browsers on desktop, anyway I think it can be useful.

Feel free to share your feedback and suggestions.
Thanks!
they also tended to live in poverty and die horribly. this occasionally led them to rise up and kill their lords; the medieval social contract was constantly in flux. but make no mistake it led to absolutism.
They don't on the east coast. For example depending on the timing you can do NYC - DC or NYC - Boston for like $15 one way on Amtrak. There are 50+ trains a day, and they all go full. SF - LA is only slightly longer, and there's no reason for it to cost hundreds.
> the only MLPerf-benchmarked alternative for LLMs on the market

I hope to work on this for AMD MI300x soon. My company just got added to the MLCommons organization.
> Projects which increase economic activity

Do you know if there's any way we could really track this?Deficit spending increases the money supply which itself will increase economic activity. I'm not sure how we could know whether an increase in economic activity is due to broadband access or the new cash, especially when the project would likely take years.
> Twenty-four 200 gigabit (Gb) Ethernet ports are integrated into every Intel Gaudi 3 accelerator

WHAT‽ It's basically got the equivalent of a 24-port, 200-gigabit switch built into it. How does that make sense? Can you imaging stringing 24 Cat 8 cables between servers in a single rack? Wait: How do you even decide where those cables go? Do you buy 24 Gaudi 3 accelerators and run cables directly between every single one of them so they can all talk 200-gigabit ethernet to each other?

Also: If you've got that many Cat 8 cables coming out the back of the thing how do you even access it? You'll have to unplug half of them (better keep track of which was connected to what port!) just to be able to grab the shell of the device in the rack. 24 ports is usually enough to take up the majority of horizontal space in the rack so maybe this thing requires a minimum of 2-4U just to use it? That would make more sense but not help in the density department.

I'm imagining a lot of orders for "a gradient" of colors of cables so the data center folks wiring the things can keep track of which cable is supposed to go where.
I remember when Pentium used to be the Intel Core i9-- sorry, Core Ultra 9 of yestercentury.

You know, part of me wouldn't have minded the Core rebranding as much if they used Pentium for their high-end line instead of Ultra (eg: Core Pentium 7); nostalgia is a powerful beast.
> an overnight Amtrack that’ll inevitably get delayed like Amtrack always is

If they strike an agreement with the track owner, I don’t see why that would be. Amtrak failed because nobody enforces the part of the law that gives passenger trains primacy.
Reminder that this was forked from nginx because the author was angry that F5 (company that sells the commercial version of nginx) disclosed security vulnerabilities.
AMD MI300x is 192GB.
It's not a "foreign entity." Switzerland has signed a treaty in which they recognize that court. The trial was brought by Swiss people.

> When will India/China act?

First, China has made promises, and have acted a bit. But we, the people, don't hold leverage over China nor India, so it will be on their citizens to achieve any progress, or on international powers to apply sanctions. But international politics is extremely slow and change averse, so probably the 2C limit will have become unavoidable by the time that happens.

But above all: this decision does not depend on China nor India. It's totally irrelevant to object to it by appealing to those countries.
Rankrushd.gg, Letterboxd higher or lower game
I'm all for regional train systems where it makes sense. I don't know enough about the travel habits of the west coast, but here in the North East, the Amtrak NE Regional is pretty handy sometimes. Going between Boston and New York is great and if you buy at the right time, you can get tickets for less than $40 each way.

It's convenient and depending on your distance to an airport, only slightly longer, but much more convenient. I'm a big fan.

That said, having successful train systems in the US is hard. The US is a huge country with a lot of empty space. If it's a regional train in dense areas, it can make sense (like the NE regional). Maybe the traffic of LA <-> SF makes sense, and if it does and it can be done cost effectively, then it'll work out.

My assumption is that after building all the infrastructure into place, the cost of the tickets plus the additional travel time will not be worth it to most who are making this trip. I would love to be wrong, but I'm not counting on it.

I love the experience of taking a train, and I take them a good bit here in the North East. That said, they're not the best solution in the US currently, it's it's hard to see a world where they become the best for travel outside commuter rails (the MBTA commuter rail is also fantastic) and dense areas (again, like the NE regional).

Trains are not a catch all solution in the US. I hope for them to grow in popularity when they're appropriate, but I see a ton of online discourse (granted, it's likely from a vocal minority) about how trains are always better. They're not, and you can't compare US rail logistics to many regions to Europe.
I miss bash.org.
Monitoring PFAS pollutants in king penguins
https://web.archive.org/web/20240408181527/https://www.chemi...
Consider that USSR was always a capitalist country, we didn't really have socialism in a lot of places, we mostly had Marxist-Leninist state capitalist states that nationalize means of production, still leaving for example the wage work relation intact.
Younger people do not own real estate to sell. At most they own their own dwelling. Unless you're looking at outliers.
I used to mine bitcoin on my VPCEC right after GPU support was available. I had bought it specifically to have a portable 1080p screen while in college for CS. Until just a few months ago, it was my Plex server. (It still works)
Anyone have experience and suggestions for an AI accelerator?

Think prototype consumer product with total cost preferably < $500, definitely less than $1000.
Made Code Gemma 7b 2.4x faster and use 68% less VRAM with Unsloth if anyone wants to finetune it! :) Have a Tesla T4 Colab notebook with ChatML: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/19lwcRk_ZQ_ZtX-qzFP3...
Diesel, like the vast majority of trains in the US. Even if the US performed electrification of trains, this would be a low-priority to electrify because it's not a major shipping route.
There are people who do care about that, but it’s astonishingly rare. Just consider it abandoned knowledge. Most of the people who continue to care about these things do so in open source contributions far away from their employment.

As a proof occasionally somebody will post something on HN about performance (asking for guidance, showing off a refactor, claiming performance is a critical must, whatever). I show them how to achieve load times of less than 100ms on a OS like GUI with full state restoration and the feedback is always the same. Either they can’t hire anybody who is capable of following that guidance or the juice isn’t worth the squeeze. Nothing in the guidance is challenging. It’s just not framework bullshit.
I think it’s a heck of a lot more than that. 30 million seems puny compared to the revenue their services businesses generates. Though to be fair much of it probably doesn’t run on public clouds.
That's not what I wrote. New housing tends to be nicer than older housing, and right now the option for people working in these place is often to commute in over long distances or basically 'hot bunk' in some cramped housing. Things are bad right now and more housing, especially housing dedicated to people living and working in an area, would help some people. At least it's an option they have rather than just getting priced out completely.
LogQL is honestly fine, it's not SQL, but it's fine
In other words, you just don’t want to see all the other asshole tourists like you when you go on vacation.
Beyond the Code: Determine Your Destination
What makes you think he wasn't born with it?

I can see in own kids that each one is built differently, with different inmate propensities despite similar environment.
Additionally, trying to buy any of the land in between, let alone get environmental damage clearances for building all those tunnels and bridges is probably borderline impossible. Most US rail was built in the era where we were actively taking the land by force and just demolishing nature in the pursuit of progress. It's not clear to me that we could build something like the highway system or a major new rail system in a way that wouldn't be massively detrimental to the environment or the communities along the routes without also making it insanely expensive/inefficient.
… while I too would probably also take the plane, the door-to-door isn't an hour. For one, even the flight time alone is about 90 minutes, but you're going to be adding at least — and I'm being extremely generous here — another 90 minutes for boarding/unboarding, ticketing, security, and delays combined. It's no less than 3 hours, and I'm probably being way too generous even then.
It sounds like this comes from a misunderstanding of probability and how it applies to physics. Can you explain what you mean?
I replied before the OP edited the comment substantially.
Show HN: Gundam EVOLUTION revived only 4 months past EOS – Side 7 Project
In the video game industry, it is becoming increasingly important to recognize the anti-consumer practice of live-service games. Consumers pay full price for the game or for in-game content, only for a game to be shut down not even a year later. The publisher is able to take the consumer's money and run and leaving them with nothing as the game is completely unplayable.

Gundam Evolution was released September 20th, 2022 and saw its end of service on November 29th, 2023, hardly a year later.
Side 7 is a community project that aimed to continue the game's legacy as a private server project. As of March 29th, 2024, Side 7 has entered a public alpha with a miraculous 4 month turnaround.

As it turns out, leaving the entirety of the server code in the game client is a great way to expedite such projects.
Interesting. Will be following this tool.

There is a CLI tool with the same name that does something similar - https://github.com/johanhaleby/kubetail
I've done front-end web development on-and-off for about 20 years.

One thing I've observed in the past few years is that Chromium (Open-source base of Chrome,) has come to dominate the browser platform: HTML has turned into a boondoggle where everyone's pet use case is integrated into the browser; and curiously, everything works first on Chromium. This makes it prohibitively difficult for competing browsers, (Mozilla, Safari,) to keep up with the evolving web standard.

As a developer, it "smells" like the Windows monopoly all over again; except this time, because Chromium is open-source, and there are plenty of Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, and Chrome,), it's less obvious.
Helping people on Reddit with tough problems and getting tipped. They would send me whole bitcoins (long ago). I lost the hard drive with the wallet which had several bitcoins. No backups. So, I guess that doesn't count.
The amount of power that will use up is massive, they should've gone for some fiber instead
Ha I train with Lumpinee winners! Point taken they do hit plenty hard and traditionally were pretty scrawny. I would argue though that their power is attained in spite of their weight and strength disadvantage. Panpayak comes to mind as a current scrawny yet powerful kicker.

Nong O told a friend he was frustrated that he only got access to modern training habits and nutrition so late into his career - he spent most his training just doing press ups for S&C

Compare that with fighters like Superbon who now do all kinds of explosive training.

The Saenchai kick off with Wonderboy was interesting - Saenchai's kick was beautiful there was almost no telegraph and it didn't look like he gave it his all but he was "only" kicking at about 47k whereas Wonderboy was maxed around 93k and Sensei Seth hit over 100k.

And that belies the physics of power - that its both technique and mass. I doubt Wonderboy or Seth's technique can hold a candle to Saenchai's.

Put it this way - would you rather eat a leg kick from Saenchai or Rico Verhoeven? Would you rather get punched by Naoya Inoue or Anthony Joshua?

Anyway comparing physiques - look at 100m sprinters vs 10k sprinters.

Justin Gatlin and Usain Bolt vs Mo Farah. That fast twitch explosive muscle tends to be bulkier... And footballers def run more like a sprinter than a long distance runner
How to Reform Your Business with Effective Time Management Skills
> NYC - Boston for like $15 one way

Bullshit.

I went to school in Boston. To get a one way like that I'd have to book weeks in advanced and it would be in the middle of the night.

I'm on the Amtrak website right now and if I book a one way trip from South Station (boston) to Penn Station (NYC) for today, it is $250 (tbf, it would be a last minute booking). If I book one for weeks in advance, it's still at $40-100.
Okay so it is in effect completely meaningless. Because roughly 40% of households get money withheld from their paycheck and they file a tax return. In that tax return they will receive a refund equal to or greater than what they had withheld. So it is not the average paid by each taxpayer it is a number that they invented based upon total collections before refunds and credits divided by the total number of people who filed.

That further solidifies that the entire article is just something they made up to push their specific agenda rather than supplying data that can support their agenda. Cnsidering that the agenda they seem to be pushing is increased social programs for the 40% who are not paying any taxes or paying a negative tax rate there is a reason why they chose that methodology.

We used to be founded on the principles of no taxation without representation. Now it seems to be representation without taxation. The ability to have 40% of the population convince 11% to give them more money without providing any benefit. We talk about unsustainable models this is definitely an unsustainable societal model.

I'm not in favor of wars around the world but I'm also not in favor of ignoring problems in other countries or aggression against other countries until the point it gets to a world war. Much better to intervene with our dollars before we have to shift our entire economy because we didn't deal with military aggression when it was small and in someone else's land.
Sounds like a “nobody goes there any more, it’s too crowded” kind of problem.
Replies are less likely to be downvoted when they aren't judgmental against those with dissimilar views as the poster.
I agree. I even like to silence notifications on different messaging apps depending on my focus mode on iOS/macOS.
Definitely quite readable! This is a very "practical" book for the time. Most everything is provided in the form of a "rule-of-thumb" which is intended to get someone "close enough" as long as they were doing something fairly typical for that time period. It omits a lot of calculus/integrals/thermodynamics, having already distilled those down by constraining the physics to a single particular use-case (extracting mechanical energy from steam using one of 10 models of similar steam engines).

Nothing is "wrong" that I can find, and the rules of thumb all seem quite reasonable. It just surprises me not to see any references/naming of the root concepts which would help interested learners find additional in-depth reading material. But unless they start using steam that isn't around 50 psi, or creating their own steam engines from scratch, the numbers and equations in this book would serve someone well enough who was installing one of these 10 models of steam engines.

There's a lot more to dive into for a curious engineer, such as Carnot's heat engine efficiency limit being regurgitated on page 20 without ceremony. Or why is it that "A good working velocity of flow for water in the is pipes 200 feet per minute" (see Crane's Technical Paper 410 [0]). It could be useful to understand how to use thermodynamic equations along with the provided steam tables to derive variations on the Admiralty rule-of-thumb for non-standard steam pressures.

0: https://annas-archive.org/md5/cc494379619ba5eef13cf59c0237cc...
In the analytical lab we had been using dinitrophenylhydrazine, in very low concentrations, in the determination of trace aldehydes. When the previous bottle was almost empty, I found out it could not be reordered from our established supplier. One chemist showed me how little there was left, he had been banging the bottle against the bench to get the last gram out. I was about in shock, apparently less so than the compound itself, and advised don't do that again because it's like a cross between TNT and rocket fuel.

Then found out the DNPH was no longer available in dry form, packed under water now under a different part number and with a revised SDS.
This isn't really a drop-in replacement; they don't offer transforms out of the box.

Admittedly some of the transforms proposed in this article are a little simple & don't represent the full space of feature eng requirements for all large orgs
Cuba's El Paquete Semanal: The Politics and Poetics of a Pirating Ecosystem
Not just blocking but most of the Web<insert some device technology here> "standards" Google champions have little actual utility outside of better fingerprinting. Everything attached to the computer the browser can enumerate will be used to fingerprint individuals no matter their cookie settings or tab sandboxing.
I've said this before, but Automattic's catalogue of products reads like an elephant graveyard of past internet fads.

I view an acquisition like this as a relative death knell, but only insofar as we have seen unified messaging attempted time and again only to fail due to combinations of social pressures and anticompetitive technical choices. Beeper will be absorbed into another also-ran messaging platform that won't be able to compete with whatever communities already have critical mass.

However, as far as exits go, it sort of seems like the best possible outcome for the folks at Beeper, so congrats.
> the cost of the tickets plus the additional travel time will not be worth it to most who are making this trip

If they get the beds and service right, it would be because it’s convenient and comfortable. Like, have a Michelin-class meal, good wine, reliable service that knows the regulars and comfortable beds and good shock absorbers and you’re trumping planes as the first-class option.

It doesn’t have to beat flying in all cases to be successful. Price always seemed like a weird niche for passenger rail to aim for—planes don’t have to maintain track!
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cant-argue-with-that-technica...
Hot take: Americans don't love flying either.

Airplanes are just the most cost-effective, reliable, and fastest method to get around for long-distance travel in the US. Train service is often so bad that people would rather drive their cars and sit in traffic for long periods of time, because train travel is still worse.

Make train travel cheaper, reliable, comfortable, and to places that people actually want to go, and people will take them. Of course some of these problems are much harder to fix than others.
robustness, perhaps?
Congrats! Matt and the team at Automattic are a good group of folks. It seems like a great fit, and I'm excited to see what you guys do together.