skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're a spook for an authoritarian government, it's probably better for your work to be somewhat visible to keep the serfs in line.
Yeah I would want to better understand how they arrived at that statement.

When I was in Xinjiang there were like 5-10 cameras at every intersection. Surely NYC isn't at that level?
Based on how Chipotle has been the last couple years though, I foresee them going down the route of Red Lobster within the next 10 years. That kind of valuation goes against how bad the food has gotten.
Why should anyone care about the wellbeing of a company? This sounds like an exercise in anthropomorphism.
I think this is naive. When (for example) a private equity fund buys a casual dining chain, they will go through how the business is run in painstaking detail and try to understand exactly what makes the experience 'work' and what changes are possible or advisable.

If the olives in the salad don't taste as good or there are fewer breadsticks or the lighting makes it feel more relaxed or the greeters have more time or the menu gets shorter or the desserts arrive quicker or the pasta is less salty, that's because someone involved in that decision decided it was worth paying more for or not worth paying what they were currently paying, taking into account what factors will make people change their mind about eating there. There isn't just a random dude who sits in a room somewhere and says "let's make the food worse" based on his own whim.

If the food gets worse and it just doesn't have that same vibe anymore and you don't want to go there next time, it's because an expert in marketing or restaurant management or food design made an error in their judgement about what they could cut, what they should improve, and what they needed to keep the same. That, or the change which turned you off attracted more customers or more desirable customers who have different preferences to you.

Your restaurant changed because its corporate policy changed. But the capital structure is totally relevant in understanding why that changed.
Electron. /thread

Seriously, even John Carmack would probably use Electron because it provides the most value to customer per unit of effort input.
GDPR is 4% and technically EEA rather than EU. DMA is 10%.
I'm not aware of any UB that can 1) be caused by unique pointer violations from Box and 2) are undetectable by Miri (assuming good code coverage), but I might be wrong about this.
These are not trained singers. They're off-rhythm, and off-key in ways that sheet music would not be able to convey.

"This is what ancient Greek music sounds like" is kind of like recording a restaurant version of happy birthday and saying that's what "modern Western music sounds like"
Yes, we arent using mobile gaming as an indicator of GPU growth/performance.

This seems like some way to be like 'Well tecknicaklly', to justify some absurd argument that doesnt matter to anyone.
I thought masks protect others not the wearer. Guess I'm just not up-to-date with the science.
> The 4% rule accounts for inflation

"Accounts" wrongly, though? 4% inflation for the next half-century seems like complete fantasy. How do you imagine it possibly being sufficient to address the ballooning debt?
you're supposed to touch a few nerves. that means you're showing something different to the comfort of most. something really different. two most common reactions to this is irritation and laughter.

not much is novel nowadays. great job!
JetBrains have their tweaks to the JRE available: https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime

The major problems begin when you want to leverage the GPU or multimedia components in which case you would want something else.
Sorry - that's exactly what I meant. The automatic conversion from <T> to <dyn Trait>.
I have a DVD of Apollo 13 (from 1998 I believe) that won't play at all for no discernible reason (no coloration, no scratches). That's the only one I've ever had a problem with. Then again, I haven't gone through all my DVDs, well, ever. Maybe something to try when I'm really bored.
They don't sound like professionals, especially the singers. Fair enough, this is quite a niche research project, they are probably all academics that do this as a hobby.

Although I really enjoyed this part: https://youtu.be/4hOK7bU0S1Y?si=4ImysYmjramsxsKX&t=498
It reads like literal "pre-crime."
I disagree. They might be "better" from the point of view of the developer, but from the user's perspective, web apps are often much worse.

- Needlessly ties the app to the web / Internet connectivity in order to work (a disadvantage unless the application's purpose involves queries over the Internet).

- The application can change on you without warning and without you taking a deliberate step to update, including adding unwanted functionality and removing wanted functionality.

- You can be denied access to the application remotely (this is also true for native applications that require an account to work).

- Look and feel inconsistent with the rest of your applications / operating system.

- Performance tends to be worse for web apps.
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This startled me too in the beginning. I was expecting something built in, pre-wired to one of the commercial cdn/reverse proxy offerings (like cloudfront or Azure CDN).

But honestly I think the big cloud providers don’t want their kubernetes offerings to be too easy to use, they try to nudge inexperienced people to use their proprietary serverless products. Kubernetes does make switching to another cloud provider far too easy ;)
One reason for recruiting from 'high end' unis is the kind of social networks those graduates are more likely to belong to. They are also more likely to have access to more candidates that you would like to evaluate and possibly give an offer, compared to 'lower end' unis.

I'm not saying that I think this order of things is jolly good, but from the perspective of this kind of business sector it makes sense. Personally I avoid finance related sectors, a stint at a casino operator to get some experience on the CV was enough for me.
It's the Human Connection, Stupid
Totally! I've come to deeply dislike thumbs up/down UXes, so I'm collecting that by recording clicks on results!
I've been wanting to do an AskHN for this, but seeing as the Snapdragon855 is directly related to my question, I'm hoping someone here has some insights that could point me in the right direction. I'm currently developing a specialized UAV, and I've gotten to the point where I've got MCU-based FC hardware almost running that is based off of open source Pixhawk designs. But the long term plan is to introduce a variety of tasks that rely on computer vision and/or machine learning, and so the general approach is to go with a companion computer. It seems the default choice for things like this in the prototype stage is a raspberry Pi or Jetson module, but I would really like to develop the entire system as a single module with an eye toward serial production, which means I'm looking at embedding an SOC, as opposed to wiring up an external module. And that has led me to look at the Snapdragon SOCs, in large part due to the GPU capabilities. But now I'm getting into unfamiliar territory, because I can't do ordering/research via digikey like I have done with everything else up until now.

When we're talking about new development, what are the expectations that I should have for direct procurement of higher end components (this goes for Sony/Samsung camera sensors too)? Are there typically very large minimum purchase quantities? Do I have to already have a large production output before I can even talk to them about it? Is it possible to get datasheets even if I'm not at that stage yet?

I get the feeling I'm stuck with the Jetson + Off-the-shelf camera approach until I can demonstrate the ability to mass produce and sell my existing designs, but it would be nice if I could find out more about how that is supposed to play out.
Also apparently Verbatim are selling fake M Discs

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/cmxnECtgAv
That would be an exceedingly poor choice. Libraries have even started to drop NS2.0 target as it is too limiting or requires if-defs and extra maintenance effort for obsolete targets.
I should have taken more time on that and miswrote. Converting MyBox<T> to MyBox<dyn Trait> for arbitrary traits is only possible on nightly.
I think it depends on if the targeted application is essential to your companies core buisness/product.

As an example, say if you're a small cloud vendor, you should probably write your own machine OS imaging automation, but probably not your own chat client.
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compare talcum powder and baby powder? what, if anything, is lojban's mechanism for naming mathematical structures?
For my poor friends the whole 'emergency pizza' thing was amazing marketing. Every other company is actively screwing them, increasing rates to unaffordable, shrinking sizes. Domino's not only stayed affordable, but said, hey, times are though, if you get in a crunch, here's an emergency pizza to fill the gap. Friggen' overdraft protection on food for their kids. The amount of good will that corporate marketing campaign brought in that group I can't even tell you. I'm talking about the single dad's working two jobs, moved back home with their parents segment. They now feel like Dominoes is the only company that hasn't f'd them. They actively talk about Dominoes randomly (we guys don't have much to talk about but still it doesn't normally fall to discount pizza discussion).
Oh man I FEEL this deeply.

I was just wondering if it's just me feeling like everything is on a highway to terrible.

- Prices in my city, just this year, have felt like they've jumped 10 or 15 percent.

- I've been working in tech for a decade now and for the first time a new company simply refused to negotiate salary.

- I feel financially worse off than 5 years ago making a third of what I make now.

- Housing prices have exploded. I worry I will never own a home.

- Denmark has started deleting public holidays to save our social welfare state.

- Health care is the worst it's ever been. You can not get basic health diagnostics for most things in Denmark without screaming.

- Europe has a literal war at our doorstep.

- Public transit prices have jumped in the last year.

- Good quality grocery stores have closed and been replaced with discount chains. The quality of the produce is terrible.

- Democracy feels increasingly shittier and hijacked by two extremist poles of very-online meme-thought.

- Gen Z is looking like the most garbage generation of the last two centuries with more mental illness than any generation in history.

- Everything has become a political lightning rod.

I feel exploited by invisible forces I can't see or touch or name. I feel as if I have no mastery over my own life. I no longer know why I continue to contribute to a society that does not give anything back to me for my labor and exploits the best years of my life for taxes that do not improve my lot in life.

Can someone tell me everything is going to get better?
Hailing from a country where the population peaked in the late 90s, housing developers build what they want, where they want and where prices still increased in lockstep with the rest of the world, I can attest to that.

There's no reason an apartment in a 80s commie block in eastern Europe should go for €4k per square metre. You're not getting your money's worth for that.
Well, they work on the compiler, so that's one reason I guess. Also the fact that it's magic is no secret and this is not the only way in which it is (the most important is probably the DerefMove behaviour that's mentioned in the article, too). There's been many discussions around this in the past
AWB&H alone is a Fortune 500 company
It’s not limited to these big chains at all — the vast, vast majority of restaurants in the States are at the mercy of Sysco. The restaurant industry is absolutely brutal right now. They are barely profitable and the best restaurants survive from underpaid family labor or under-the-table undocumented immigrants. Rent costs are insanely high, labor isn’t there and is bottom of the barrel, and non Sysco food costs too much. The average person still expects a $8 burger and fries when the cost to make it is $10 minimum.

The whole industry is on the verge of collapse, and we’ve had a ton of restaurant closures over in my neck of the woods since Covid. These aren’t Red Lobsters closing but beloved local places.

Anyone that has worked food in the last couple years knows how bad it really is.
Absolutely not. The people implementing know, and the people designing know. This represents intentionality.
I think theres mounting evidence that covid can have dramatic long term effects on people without them fully realising. More obviously, the long covid epidemic is much more significant than people really realise and more work needs to be done to bring this into the spotlight
Great feedback, I'll look into reducing the size of that image, especially for the post headers. Thanks for checking out the site!
Who is still waiting for Cryptography II course on Coursera? :)))
This is why I firmly argue (and pretend) that references are not pointers. "References are pointers" results in the belief that references will behave like C pointers and results in things like this article.

At best they are a cousin of pointers.

I consider the fact that they are pointers an implementation detail, just like Box is a value with 'static samantics.
Any chance of getting this in a .gguf format?
I don't have any disabilities so I don't know if espeak-ng is better on the pure accessibility axis. But given that MacOS tends to be received quite well by the accessibility crowd & it's definitely a focus from what I observed internally, given that MacOS has much higher realism & naturalness out of the box, I'm going to posit that it's not the linear tradeoff argument you've made & that espeak-ng defaults aren't tuned well out of the box.
I wonder how vinyl records compare to CDs in terms of durability and longevity, ignoring capacity and practicality. Any insights?
Inflation. At the rate it went up the last couple of years, a 20% price increase to put them back on the right side of profits is more than probable.
Seeds are more than just a program. They are more an embryo than a cell.
3,000 Americans dying every day would be an anomaly. Deaths are closer to 10k a day on average and only going up.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/uni...
Should Node.js be built with ClangCL under Windows?
And fixing payments would have required incredible connections, the founders that chose recipe sites knew that fixing payments would have been a decade long ordeal requiring networks they did not have access to.

In some problems, the hard part isn't programming, it's everything else. At least with technical problems you can implement the recipe or streaming site and you're done. But payments was a human problem, requiring people to deal with government, regulation, accounting, etc.
https://archive.is/V8kjc
scary accurate
You mentioned that spRAG uses OpenAI for embeddings, Claude 3 Haiku for AutoContext, and Cohere for reranking. Can you explain why & how did you make those choices?
I knew a guy that wanted to break into health(tech). He made an app where you upload a photo of a poop and rate it on specific parameters so that a physician could make diagnoses.

I hope that counts.

He made bunch of other features but that one was standing out.

Unfortunately making startup in health care takes more than implementing some rules, so guy did not end up running the company - but I have funny story to tell about.
Does this mean something like f-droid is now possible in the eu? Free open source app distribution unrestricted by App Store rules?
when cops and DAs use parallel construction to build a case, "integrity" is a mere technicality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Sigh. The problem with fast hardware is it enables ever worse software development techniques. Perhaps we need 80286-level hardware performance levels again and then unlimited performance for 6 months once every decade.
You're not thinking it through. Lets say that vaccine ends up killing thousands of people.

That event will then be used in a way that is wildly out of context as fodder by all the anti-vaxxers out there to scare people into not getting vaccinated later when the vaccine is safer.

For the next 50 years anti-vaxxers and scammers will be using that event to scare people about vaccines.

It is not worth the risk because of the potential outcomes.
Or, the hardnosed focus on economical value over sentimentality is freeing resources to be used more productively elsewhere.

Schumpeter tells us the market operates by creative destruction. Properly killing companies is just as important as properly starting them.
Île Longue exists.
This is wonderful. I would use this!
In America we get the worst of both worlds: police won’t admit to domestic spying so they can’t use to solve day to day crimes. But they still spy on us, Constitution be damned.

As a result the US has a higher crime rate than many other countries including China. If you don’t trust China’s numbers look at Singapore, which has a population density similar to NYC with an order of magnitude less crime. Singapore is safer at night than NYC is during the day. Why? Cameras. If you commit an offense, you will be caught, without question.
Good lord. I can't imagine a less empathetic way to fire people than by using something like this. I find this legitimately repulsive.
I wonder what happened with those TSRs after DOS got kicked out of memory. Was it able to reset the interrupt vectors somehow?
If you intentionally want to see bizarre AI generated images, I can highly recommend the Cursed AI group on Facebook.*

It is amazing and often inspiring to see the group's unhinged creations.

For better or worse, it is hard to dispute that AI generated imagery is making real advances in surrealism, and lowering the bar for people to make their own surreal horrors. At the same time, it's clear the more dedicated a human artist is, the more zany and unhinged their AI generations will be. The work of someone who has put thousands of hours into AI art is just miles ahead of people who just write a prompt and hit generate.

Thus I propose Cursed AI is a counterexample to AI spam - an AI generated community where you go if you WANT to see totally bonkers AI imagery!

If Facebook died tomorrow, I would want the Cursed AI group to continue existing!

*(Full disclosure: I love cursed imagery. For example, I celebrate the goatse image as one of the most iconic and important cursed images ever - use that disclosure to judge whether you accept my taste in images.)
Ongoing discussion [0] (257 points, 20 hours ago, 364 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40230790
Up to 30 of us carry staph variants in our noses.

https://now.uiowa.edu/news/2013/06/be-gone-bacteria
You just write an &T version and let everyone coerce their smart pointer into a reference on call?

Worst case you write your generic asref function and then immediately delegate to the &T version
The private equity fund who makes the decisions about what to do is buying the company with other people's money. They get a % of the other peoples money they manage as revenue and slice of the profits on success.

Also they often engineer things so the money the fund put into the deal comes back very fast. In this case they sold the companies real estate which got a big chunk of their initial investment back ASAP.

the simplified view - red lobster they bought it for $2.1b - they sold off the real estate for $1.5b and 25% of the equity for $575m - so the PE fund has $25m of their original investment in the deal. They borrowed a bunch of money and then paid out dividends on that $25m that were multiples times that amount.
I don't disagree with Myth #3, but I had a hard time getting to it after reading Myth #2:

The scientific method assumes naturalism/materialism/atheism... This is false. The scientific method contains no assumptions whatsoever. The scientific method is simply that: a method.

I don't think that's a good way to put it. There is an assumption that this method is a valid, useful, good thing to do. A souffle recipe presupposes that you want a souffle, or you wouldn't be reading it.

The scientific method hints ambiguously at epistemological commitments, and that ambiguity is not a point in its favor. Different people make those assumptions tacitly and don't realize that they disagree with each other, and don't even apply them consistently to themselves.

I also happen to agree that the scientific method has some kind of epistemic benefit, especially as compared to the potential alternatives. But those benefits prove maddeningly difficult to nail down. The epistemic commitments always turn out to be too loose (admitting pseudosciences) or too strict (rejecting sciences that resist the kinds of experiments you'd like to do).
The people in PE don't concern themselves with the wellbeing of a company in any sort of moral or sentimental sense. The company's future is dependent on what turns the highest profit on their time and investment. Sometimes the most money is made in value extraction and crippling the company long term. They are the vampires and vultures of the economy.

In fact you could argue that Red Lobster has suffered from a long term decline due to poor positioning in the marketplace, and the PE shops are accelerating what was likely to happen anyway.
Which effected almost no one, yet here you are talking about it. Imagine if an early covid vaccine had killed thousands. That would have had a massive chilling effect on vaccine uptake.
I'm sorry for your loss
I call this metric fetishism
So it's like a service health check periodically run by the load balancer :-D
My cofounder and I are looking at using a YC company called Kite: https://kite.video
That only really holds if you assume criminal behavior is evenly distributed among the bell curve of IQ, which is is a fairly large assumption!
Omegle for parrots would be called parrot-dice right?
Super interesting post, and appreciate him talking about the various decisions like his handling of memory (and the issues he ran into with raylib). As someone who's finally diving into part 2 of crafting interpreters (and using it to refresh myself on C) being reminded of what C does well is great.
I've used wxwidgets in the past, both from C and from Python. It's appeal is in its simplicity.
It seems their thinking is part of what led them to JS in the first place, which is a bit of negative and maybe they had some ideas reinforced there. But I also think they were some of the more extreme ones to begin with. They obviously didn't internalize JS's concerns about risk at all lol.
Not to say that I believe it happened, but there is a difference between actual cause of death and reported cause of death. As in, just because it was written down that pneumonia and stroke were involved doesn't necessarily make it true.

Again, I do not believe this happened, but that's probably how you'd do it.
It's not a standalone program, it's usually a set of pixel shaders that can be integrated into another program.

I once made an image viewer that would apply the effect, but it's not publicly released.

There is an extremely roundabout way to see the effect in action on a Linux system using a package you can apt-get. It involves installing RetroArch, starting the "Image Viewer" core, loading an image, loading the shader preset named "super-xbr-2p.glslp", changing the number of shaders from 3 to 2 to exclude the "custom Jinc resharper" step and selecting Apply, then scaling the window to be exactly 2x the size of the original image. You probably don't want to do this.

But if you really want a standalone program, I could build a Windows .NET program that will apply the shader to images you paste in from the clipboard.