skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because their customers use Windows, and at some point, even when their app is multi-platform, they need to work on the platform their customers are using.

Amateurs can do as they like, but professionals need to follow the money, and sometimes, Windows is where the money is.

Edit:

Windows has a few strong points, I particularly like the Visual Studio debugger and there is no equivalent on Linux (my platform of choice) that I am aware of. But really, since you specially mentioned professionals, the answer is simple: money.
I'm the founder of Launch School and I have been thinking about ISAs, coding bootcamps, and software ed for over a decade. I've tried to insert my thoughts here and there, for example:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30782967
- https://x.com/cglee/status/1232512904953335808

Always happy to chat about ISAs and how to best deploy them. Or, find better alternatives.
What exactly keeps happening? Nobody got struck by the object in this specific case.
Perhaps Microsoft should work with OpenWRT to get the linux version of ntttcp incorporated and built for routers as a package. I use iperf2/iperf3 because it is provided by opkg.
Signal Relays
probably meant "ip" or URLs
Titan Airways Airbus A321Neo Aircraft Multiple Cabin Windows Go Missing Mid-Air
Chariot (YC S22) – Stripe/Visa for Nonprofits – Is Hiring a Senior Back End Eng
So much for "Apple stands for their users" kind of speech.
Show HN: Jonline – decentralized social media and event platform, by a solo dev
GitHub: https://github.com/JonLatane/jonline
Protocol Docs: https://jonline.io/docs/protocol or https://github.com/JonLatane/jonline/blob/main/docs/protocol...
My Profile: https://jonline.io/jon

Built with Postgres, Diesel (Rust ORM), Tonic (Rust gRPC), Rocket (Rust HTTP), React, Tamagui (TypeScript/React UI toolkit), and Flutter (native apps/alternative client at https://jonline.io/flutter). Hosted on DigitalOcean, with CloudFlare as the HTTP CDN (a backburner project is to move gRPC traffic behind CloudFlare as well).

The instance linked (https://jonline.io) is federated with two other instances, https://bullcity.social and https://oakcity.social, that are oriented respectively towards events/discussion in Durham and Raleigh, NC (where I live). If you live here, feel free to add some of the events listed to your own calendar :)

Assuming HN doesn't hug me to death immediately (because my gRPC port isn't behind CloudFlare and this is just a single second-cheapest DigitalOcean box hosting 3 domains + 3 DBs + 3 MinIO instances), please feel free to sign up and create groups/posts/events/replies! You don't need an account to star/unstar posts and events - they are anonymous, and data about who stars/unstars posts/events is not tracked.
Are you anthropomorphising companies now? Google the company can't be "out of touch" or "self-important". The engineers maybe, but they don't make PR decisions like this.

In this case the original source is an announcement on a "inside-google" blog, and starts with "Hi Googlers", so the target are clearly mostly Google engineers. It ended up on HN because it was repeated by arstechnica, a respected and well-known portal. And here we are discussing it. So maybe people in fact do care about this?
Given the goal is benchmarking and there are native options available, having emulation/thunking (WSL1) or virtualization (WSL2) in the pipeline would defeat the purpose unless you very specifically want such things.
Gosh, you're right.

Assuming:

- 5,250 can stand front to back

- 3,500 side-by-side

- 750 on top of each other

That's more than 13 billion humans you could fit in said cube.
some americans find it easy too!
What? You’re either speaking from the perspective of an American, or a non-American.
It was probably kept apart while Google was deciding if Pixel was going to survive and to not antagonize 3rd party Android phone OEMs. But all that is more locked-in now.
Haha.. yes.. missed this candidate.
Aaah, Gruber, _that_ apologist shill. He’ll contort in any way necessary to fit Apple’s narrative that day, because that’s easy when you lack a spine.
> The reason why coding pays so well is because it's IQ-gated in a way that plumbing isn't.

Pretty rich by someone with a comment history littered with AI delusions:

> AI will largely replace software developers very soon, along with most professions.*

That doesn't strike me as a very intelligent take.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39822358
Tangent Train: The Red Pill Community
> It's an actual joke that this is what modern automotive engineering has become.

I mean, there've always been cars with crap electrics; Jaguar used to be notorious, say (because of these people, a case-study in how to screw up competition regulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Industries).
> The 1.6lb (0.7kg) metal object tore through two layers of ceiling

I'm ok with "landing" preceded by "crash".
And if you took each atom of all the humans alive and stacked them in a line (assuming 1 angstrom per atom and 7E17 atoms in a human), it would be roughly 60 light years long.
In the case of toolbars though, I think flat buttons were OK given that the toolbar itself can easily be identified as a toolbar and you know that toolbars always contain buttons, so there is no need to identify each individual button as a button. Of course, when other widgets start getting added to the toolbar it's not as clear anymore.
What are the main differences between Thunderbird and SeaMonkey’s e-mail client?
Yes. This makes the debate futile haha.
Discourse hijacks your CTRL+F because not all posts are loaded to the DOM
The pre-Internet media landscape flourished for a century with "dumb" ads. Surveillance capitalism is not inevitable; we allowed it to happen. (Sorry, I ninja-edited what you quoted to be clearer.)
Sorry for deviating from OP subject -any pointers to a good (https/ssl) traffic analysis guide?
AI now surpasses humans in almost all performance benchmarks
Everything I 3D printed over the last year
You won't get tracked if you block ports 80/433/8443, that's a fact.
I think this is the key problem with their recommendation - it presumes that I'm running Windows on both sides of the test. iperf is neat because it runs on just about anything which allows you to run a binary which is really handy in datacenter troubleshooting situations.
That seems to be the general experience. Maybe 8B are just too few parameters to achieve higher level reasoning.
I see the source is in the tar.zst file and there is documentation for uncompressing it.

Only I spent minutes looking for the git repo link... There is none?
Lava Tube in Saudi Arabia Has Been a Human Refuge for 7k Years
It's maltodextrin and designed to be digestible by babies. You can buy it in a fine powder marketed as "Caloreen" from Nestlé.

Our pediatrician pushed us to use it in supplement to breast-feeding because the baby was below the expected curve. For what it's worth (not much), our baby that was fed Caloreen has no sugar addiction, quite the contrary.

Knowing our pediatrician, I am 99.9% sure that he didn't have any incentive from Nestlé and was just having the baby interest in mind. I am rather blaming the weight curves that are more designed for bottle-fed babies than breast-fed ones, combined with the human tendency to focus on the indicators rather than what they represent.
A Quick Guide to Ruby's Time and DateTime Classes
I think I agree with you. I signed up for Perplexity Pro ($20/month) many months ago thinking I would experiment with it a month and cancel. Even though I only make about a dozen interactions a week, I can’t imagine not having it available.

That said, Google’s Gemini integration with Google Workplace apps is useful right now, and seems to be getting better. For some strange reason Google does not have Gemini integration with Google Calendar and asking the GMail integration what is on my schedule is only accurate if information is in emails.

I don’t intend to dump on Google, I liked working there and I use their paid for products like GCP, YouTube Plus, etc., but I don’t use their search all that often. I am paying for their $20/month LLM+Google One bundle, and I hope that evolves into a paid for high quality, no ad service.
SSO Got an Upgrade: OpenID Connect and SCIM for Cross-Domain Identity Management
I think most other companies have not such a high amount of redundant teams to merge them all the time. So while merging happens occasionally in other companies, we usually only hear about them in context of one company buying out another one.
Do we expect corporations to take on other governments for us?

It’s not unethical to comply with the law in foreign countries and, while I obviously don’t agree with China’s censorship, they can point out lots of poor human rights abuses on our end yet Chinese companies are expected to follow our laws here too.

Apple is just doing what any rational actor would, obeying the laws of recognized governments, and I don’t think it’s fair to expect them to do more. If the American people care that much about the free speech of Chinese citizens it’s a matter for our government, not our corporations.
Suppliers struggle as military embraces small satellites – SpaceNews
You can certainly play a number of popular and/or high quality games on Linux, but it's hardly ubiquitous. If you're interested in a given specific game I would say your odds of it having a viable Linux experience are worse than 50/50 yet, and if it's a AAA title I'd say it's closer to 10-25% IME.

If not for Valve/SteamDeck this would be even more dire, and many of those experiences are still emulation-based i.e. Proton.

If you want to be able to play any given computer game being sold this year, that's only reasonably certain on Windows. Gaming is the only reason I still have a Win10 install.
Three Important things I overlooked during code reviews
> They intentionally dropped frequencies from the audio signal so that they wouldn't have to carry the data contained at those frequencies. This is why nobody ever sounded like themselves over the phone.

I remember switching from early GSM phone to a landline because I like to hear my love breathe
> Isn't overfitting the usual result of training a model for a long time?

Overfitting stops when your model includes everything 8)
I am sure you are right, and a little convo here isn't going to do the topic justice. So many aspects to how people understand and learn things.

And I know picking on your example isn't in the league of a general solution.

But if 2x (which is x + x) is two apples in a box, and 3x (which is x+x+x) is three apples in another box, then you put those two boxes in a bigger box (another +), people already intuitively can see the distributed property of scalar multiplication vs. addition of some unit, they just didn't have a name for it.

Likewise, a 3x4 square of paper next to a 7x4 piece of paper can be easily seen to be a 10x4 piece of paper. Multiplication of numbers over added numbers.

So one way to introduce distribution is to start by showing examples of several places where people already understand the concept of multiplication distributing, and use it every day, but just didn't know it was one concept with a name.

Once people can recognize distribution as an already familiar relationship in everyday life, then the symbols can be visited as the way we write down the already known and useful concept so we can be very clear and general about it.

Anyway, that's just a reaction to one example, which may not mean much.
Pocketbase v0.20.5 fork for implementing PostgreSQL interface
That's a neat way of thinking about it.

Thanks for an awesome product. Please also never get bought or make plans to in the future, or if you really, really, really have to then please not by google.
Researchers envision sci-fi worlds involving changes to atmospheric water cycle
Great read - I learned quite a bit about this. The only quibble I had is at the end, and it's a very general layperson's view:

> But what’s even more impressive - extremely impressive - is that the system decided that the body would go up before going back down between these two poses! (Which is why it’s having trouble with the right arm in the first place! A feature matching system wouldn’t have this problem, because it wouldn’t realize that in the middle position, the body would go up, and the right arm would have to be somewhere. Struggling with things not visible in either input keyframe is a good problem to have - it’s evidence of knowing these things exist, which demonstrates quite the capabilities!).... This system clearly learned a lot about three-dimensional real-world movement behind the 2D images it’s asked to interpolate between.

I think that's an awfully strong conclusion to draw from this paper - the authors certainly don't make that claim. The "null hypothesis" should be that most generative video models have a ton of yoga instruction videos shot very similarly to the example shown, and here the AI is simply repeating similar frames from similar videos. Since this most likely wouldn't generalize to yoga videos shot at a skew angle, it's hard to conclude that the system learned anything about 3D real-world movement. Maybe it did! But the study authors didn't come to that conclusion, and since their technique is actually model-independent, they wouldn't be in a good position to check for data contamination / overfitting / etc. The authors seem to think the value of their work is that generative video AI is by default past->future but you can do future->past without changing the underlying model, and use that to smooth out issues in interpolation. I just don't think there's any rational basis for generalizing this to understanding 3D space itself.

This isn't a criticism of the paper - the work seems clever but the paper is not very detailed and they haven't released the code yet. And my complaint is only a minor editorial comment on an otherwise excellent writeup. But I am wondering if the author might have been bedazzled by a few impressive results.
Hard disagree. Society is clearly getting better; and we fight over bad moves faster.

Authors don't take into account multiple other viewpoints. Climate change for example, no mention at all in the article? My political opponents clearly believe climate change is a doomsday scenario for humanity.

Here in Canada we have a regressive carbon tax which is causing huge problems. It has come to the point that the premiers who ideologically should be in favour or on the same side as our Prime Minister are calling him out and demanding to stop that asap.

This is not the kind of society who is headed toward demise.
It's not nearly as momentous as removing Andy Rubin. Android has evolved a lot. From an OS technology PoV it's less distinctive and more about competitive parity with iOS. Kind of boring.
I'm torn. On one hand, yes, companies need to obey the law where they operate. On the other hand laws in China and laws in the US are very different things. Look at how many hurdles there are in the US to write a bill that may result in a ban of TikTok. In China, the communist party waves their hand and it's gone. Calling that "law" is a perversion.
Google CEO: Building for our AI future
Why do people buy^1 these things.

Truly, "buy" is not the correct term. Maybe something like "license" or "support Musk's folly". It's seems like a donation to a WIP, like some overblown Kickstarter project.
I totally forgot about the HSPACE attribute. What a blast from the past! :-)
There are a number of forms of regularization used, obviously L1/L2 and also dropout. It's not as effective as scaling/perturbing patches in the image space.
The Life and Death of Hollywood: Film and TV writers face an existential threat
"But ultimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics. This is too important a moment as a company for us to be distracted."
with enough effort you can get win 10 (and maybe win 11) to look and function at least a bit like win98

I always stick with whatever pc I get at work until they require me to hand it back after so many years then I spend some headache to get it looking and working like a pc of yesteryear...
"Go search for “iPerf3 on Windows” on the web. Go ahead, open a tab, and use your search engine of choice. Which I am certain is Bing with Copilot."

For many people it won't be by choice, it'll be because Windows' plethora of dark patterns and anti-consumer features have tricked you into using it, or taken away your previous explicit choice.
This is hilarious. Do you genuinely think this little of politicians? No, seriously. I know politicians are easy to dunk on, but do you genuinely think that this is the explanation? That this is even a likely explanation? They weren’t just, you know, having a laugh? This is out of touch, even for HN.
USDT Comes to TON
I believe it is totally the opposite. Every single one of the voters has read the bill and agreed unanimously on passing it through, because it makes a lot of sense. Modern psychology is a little better than astrology back in the day.
Psychology is yet to become a proper science, once it accepts proper scientific methods and discards the voodoo of past days.

Until then, hereby I vote for them to wear wizard hats in public!
Is profit and a Chinese market really as important for apple to make it succumb to these orders? Genuinely wondering if there is more to it than sheer desire to preserve market share and profits.
Why were people protesting Google doing business with a democracy, and nobody is protesting Apple obeying to a dictatorship?
I though he was some 19th century journalist in the early days of newspaper industry.
The universe may be dominated by tachyons, new paper suggests
It's only short-term, for example the USB permission code got reworked (#permissive-usb-passtrough flag) and I couldn't pass my USB serial adapter to the Linux environment (crostini) anymore. Or there where minor issues when the terminal got reworked (#terminal-alternative-emulator).

So I had to disable that flag until the bug got fixed and the fix deployed.

But there are more flags too that I have changed long-term:

#top-chrome-touch-ui - disabled

#focus-follows-cursor - enabled

#crostini-qt-ime-support - enabled

#crostini-virtual-keyboard-support - enabled
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40084935
Turns out that the prospect of a career change is a large problem and a threat to your mortgage, but not existential.
Old phone signals (Plain old telephone service or POTS) cut off frequencies above 4 khz. You cannot hear the difference between f and s, as these are higher frequency sounds at around 8 to 12 khz. You'd have to say f like in Fred or s like in Steve? Cause you literally could not hear the difference.

This is the reason broadband internet (ADSL) is called broadband. Because dial up internet used the POTS frequency band below 4 khz, and broadband used the (broad) frequencies above.

It's also the reason you'd have to get a technician out to your house in order to get ADSL. They would install a frequency cutoff filter on the phone line into your house, and hookup the landline to the below 4 khz side and the ADSL modem to the above 4 khz side, so the POTS signal would not interfere with the ADSL signal.
The recent App Store changes prompted by the EU should demonstrate these companies really do need some pressure from governments to improve competition.

I just want to run full Mac OS X on an iPad Air :(
I don't think anyone who hangs out on Hacker News has any chance of succeeding as a post-apocalyptic warlord. Best case scenario they end up like the guy who tried to take over Pine Bluff Arkansas[0,1].

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39802157

[1]https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-man-who-bought-pine-bluff...
we (the founders) control the board
Do we really need to 5x the population? Or would adding a studio apt to the basement of every SFH solve it (not saying this should be the solution, just thinking scope of problem)?

FWIW, I spent a few weeks working remote/vacationing in Cape Canaveral, FL two years ago (the town, not the military base). It has mixed housing - SFHs, duplex, and two-story (~8 unit) apartment blocks - it seemed to work well. It felt like a place I could happily live (other than the heat).
__super__ considered a case for dependency injection
This is a post how I came across the existence of multiple cooperative inheritance and used it to create better testable code.
This is my first post involving code, so I am curious if you have any feedback.
I'd like to know if fellow developer use Multiple Inheritance and for what purpose.
Let me know if you liked the article.
Are we though? We haven't even started training 1.58b models, synesthetic data and "model gyms" are very promising and new architectures have been coming out that offer real benefits over transformers.
Do you compile with bash or vim?
Can you provide a source for this assertion?
Satya isn't doing much good for the world with his products though, look at Windows, Office365, Teams etc... disasters and Azure is technically like "Fischer Price My First Cloud". Meta has done some silly things (VR/metaverse) but they've really done great things for the world in the AI/ML space.
It does to me. I don't know why you think FANGs have any effect on technology I may work on. If the world can maintain access to each other directly over 80 and 443 than people who value narrowcasting over broadcasting can freely ignore the FANGs. ISPs on the other hand can be sneaky.
Improving Facial Expression Synthesis Through GAN-Based Frontalization
> Are you anthropomorphising companies now?

Companies are groups of people, they're maintained by people, all their decisions are made by people and they only ever do things through their people's hands. They are as anthropomorphic as it gets.
MoE models are harder to fine tune, and they don't solve the biggest problem which is GPU memory use.
The problem is the adpocalypse. Everyone stopped paying for ads that weren’t the super-targeted kind.

I was supervising a MS student on a project trying to mess with the moderately-targeted ads of the day. We watched this happen in real time as it wrecked our hopes of ever writing our paper. All of the ads we were studying got replaced overnight with much cheaper generic ads for cars or airlines or big-brand liquor. And then websites started going out of business.
Maybe it's one in a trillion that a particular piece of space junk, not already known to be falling from the sky, will fall and hit a particular person. This seems quite scary since the product of the number of people and the number of pieces of space junk is much more than a trillion.
Way to bury the lede amongst the C-level bullshit
About 20% of all iPhones are sold in China. So yeah, make your own conclusions.
With disclaimer I work at Neon, branching might be a good option here. https://neon.tech/docs/guides/branching-test-queries
Wow, that's extremely impressive in light of GPT being 1800b so a model 25 times smaller is beating it logic wise?

I don't have enough ram to run 70b but i'm very curious about performance on other logic puzzles!
Wait, how do you create a "memory disk"? That seems like an important step.
I didn’t mean to imply that, my entire post should be caveated with “on average”. There are certainly good programmers out there who don’t really enjoy it.
"It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact"

- Terry Pratchett
Xcode is a joke compared to VS or Idea.