skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll gladly put money on music that a human has poured blood, sweat, tears and emotion into. Streaming has already killed profits from album sales so live gigs is where the money is at and I don't see how AI could replace that.
Mark Zuckerberg turned against the news
And it looks small, but it's 1.6 meters long (over 5 feet) and fully fueled would weigh ~200kg/~500 lbs!!!
Mainly an overview of using CUE from Go, with a little flair of validating the returned JSON of an LLM with CUE.

A while back, I used a CUE-like schema instead of OpenAPI. Most of the time, you can get the model to output JSON/CUE from example objects rather than full schemas, which I have a hunch will be distracting and not reasoned about.

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/blob/_dev/lib/chat/cmd/...
The chicken sandwiches are tastier? This is paid influencer Chinese propaganda.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay_fever_in_Japan
I wouldn’t read too much into it. Most of it is coming from why LLMs even hallucinate.

In the simplest terms I’m just spitting out

Noun noun verb verb noun etc

And so are you

If you try to read into what the actual noun was, you’ll miss the forest for the trees.

People are mostly humming the same tunes as they always have been humming and filling the same roles they have always been filling.

Just take our exchange:

Opinion

Retort

Another Retort

——-
We’re just dancing. You think there’s something unique going on here but there isn’t, hah. It’s a dance and pattern both me and you know from wherever, and we are sorta humming the song out.

Not too different when we try to figure out if there is a real magic to an LLM output.
AI for More Powerful Explosives
Many of the stock market changes are in line with inflation, but yup - we could be in for more pump. We’ll see how it goes.
> Nothing in any of my messages indicates that I'm condoning "burnout"

Actually you literally advocate for burning yourself out, you just use slightly different terminology.

> It's better to be naive and go from one corporate family to another with a caring attitude, attempting to make a difference, committing to hard work, and having your heart broken, ...

Burnout is the cumulative effect of "having your heart broken" over and over again. It's better to make a commitment you can sustain than to work yourself to the bone. It's not cynical to recognize that your employer will not return the favor.

> [Y]ou keep lecturing me...

Respectfully, you can't call me a "sorry bastard" who's "soul is being poisoned," joke about getting the sibling commenter fired for disagreeing with you, and then complain that I am the one being patronizing.

I was being sincere when I encouraged you to ask your coworkers what they thought. I think we're talking past each other and that you're filtering what I'm saying through a combative lens. I think if you heard it from someone you respected, it would make more sense.
yeah, only American companies should be allowed to do that!
I might buy the 16k one despite not supporting finger movements that made that video cool. I already have their Go2 robodog and it's insanely well-made.
It’s common to have 5-10% differences on benchmarks between Linux and Windows on the same hardware. iPadOS is even more different (for example, no swap, and many other similar fundamental optimizations for single-app usage).
Why not just the full 64k. The sliding window trick was of such limited use compared to the headaches it caused. Or maybe 32k as a compromise.

But then they repeated the same mistake with the 286, again!
Thanks, I'll check it out. I'm terminally addicted so even if I were more into Emacs I'd like to have Termux and tmux. Among other things I've got a rig for going from Internet video streams and podcasts to mpv audio that I'd probably wouldn't want to reimplement in elisp.
Why do they need to be "maintained"? Assuming they're set up with good cooling and dust-free air, they just sit there and work. They can perhaps be slightly underclocked and undervolted too at say 85% to run for a longer number of years. Same for the memory clock and power draw of the GPU. If any replacement was needed, it's a small part of someone's job.
At a previous company, we rotated secondary (more portable) devices around the oncall rotation. I think we used a macbook air, and some fancy portable Windows netbook. Now that iPads exist, and they're super portable, I can imagine that they'd be great for oncall. That being said, I wouldn't want my settings, say in the terminal for example, to affect mine. Although MDM is a solution, at the scale of the ~50 person company, we didn't have anything as the such, nor the capabilities, time, or money to figure it out.
The 'Pro' badge on the iPad pro is just there for CEOs, Execs, and other self important people to justify using it for work.
One competent person probably, 'some' possibly, 'plenty' defiantly not. The general advice for tech people in Australia is to move to the US ASAP - the more competent the tech person the stronger the advice. The insidious effect of brain drain is the effect is self reinforcing, i.e. the more it happens the stronger the pull. In tech it's important to work with other competent people. Historically Australians are unusually good programmers, so I am not saying Australians are unskilled, but I am saying their best and brightest leave Australia ASAP.

Plus I would submit the reddit thread 'Biggest CPU for the Bad System' as evidence to my point. How could this person possibly think that 100s of CPU cores are the bottleneck and the solution is more CPU cores - how could the dozens of DBAs not figure it out - the amount of work that can be done in 100s of CPU cores is utterly insane and the fact that they didn't rule out obvious IOWait bottlenecks in their initial posts suggest that none of them know what they're doing. I guess they figured that Azure would take care of all of that.

The initial step would be to bring that computer in house and design that computer around the problem - Azure is not going to be open and honest about their bottlenecks. Last I checked Azure was big on their Network Attached Storage and Managed Disks which add quite a lot of latency and throughput bottlenecks compared to a PCIe 5.0 Enterprise SSD.
Brutalist Plants
It's a big company. Their office is in the Empire State Building. My friend worked there and it was so cool to go to their floor which is one of a few that have a terrace.
One of the medieval time measurements were standard prayers - a Pater Noster is about the same amount of time each time, and a decade of a rosary for a given person will be pretty consistent.
One thing is having a bunch of computers. Another thing is to get the working efficiently on the same problem.

While I'm not sure exascale was something like the sound barrier, I do know a lot of hard work has been done to be able to efficiently utilize such large clusters.

Especially the interconnects and network topology can make a huge difference in efficiency[1] and Cray's Slingshot interconnect[2], used in Aurora[3], is an important part of that[4].

[1]: https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/07/15/super-connecting-the-supe...

[2]: https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/01/31/crays-slingshot-inte...

[3]: https://www.alcf.anl.gov/aurora

[4]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08886
How does your phone work as a fitness tracker with HRM ?
> features aren’t free to add or maintain.

The argument is that is is free because the feature already exists and is being maintained. You just aren't allowed to have it.
Oh yeah that was the first thing that came to my mind
The complaint about branding is Google has Chromecast, Google TV, Android TV, YouTube TV and it’s really not obvious which does what from the names. IMO if they swapped YouTube TV for YouTube Cable TV then suddenly it’s more obvious what’s going on even if the name’s dumb.

Similarly Chrome is their web browser so why call the physical device Chromecast? It kind of works because on of its less popular features also uses Chrome so that reinforces the name for anyone who uses it this way, but that’s a real stretch now days.
This was from 2017, and nothing came out of it.

Every month or so someone (usually a security company that wants to sell something) find a domesday exploit for android that is unpatchable, and then it gets patched or turns out to be a non issue.
Comcast to Launch Streaming Bundle of Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+
I wonder how many joules were used just for that conversation.
Because conceding the one data point that you present but doubling down on the conclusion screams confirmation bias. There have been numerous articles debunking this narrative. If you google "how many homes in america are owned by corporations" you get a slew of them[1][2]. There is no data to support this claim because it is not true. According to Freddie Mac[3] Institutional Buyers peaked something like 2.5% market share last year. And that is just of houses sold.

In order to fall for a claim as outlandish as "2 out of 5 houses are owned by private equity" you'd either need to be incredibly bad at numbers or looking for confirmation of an existing belief.

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/2/21-going-after-co...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/housing-cr...

[3] https://www.housingwire.com/articles/no-wall-street-investor...
Disclaimer: I don't own an iPad so cannot test this.

Isn't UTM working on iPad? Looks like it according to UTM web pages. What prevents anyone to run MacOS or any Linux distro as a fullscreen VM on iPadOS like it was a regular laptop?
HN is only able to bet be profitable because it is backed by a company that is. And if you combine "posted notices of things relevant to the community" with a commercial intent, that is basically the definition of ads.

Also, when you say relevant to the community, what exactly is the definition of that? A job posting on "who is hiring" is likely to be relevant to maybe 0.001% of HN readers. If Apple put a big banner on the site saying "HN users get $100 off a MBP," I bet a much higher percentage of users would click on that (I would). But nobody would ever deny that is an ad. So I don't think community relevance is a great way to determine it. That community relevance factor is exactly what advertisers pay so much to targeted ad companies for anyway.

I do find ads annoying myself and use ad blockers to get rid of them. But I take exception to the idea that they are this cancerous destroying force. Published media has been an advertising platform since well before the internet and I just don't see a feasible way that business model can be replaced just because the medium is now the internet. Yes, there is subscription revenue, but even newspapers back in the day had ads on every page.
Eh, looking at your go library vs shell script, I'd choose shell script anytime. Here are major reasons:

- Debugging. I can prefix any shell script with "bash -x" and I'll get an step-by-step output of every command executed, including the arguments. I can copy-paste any part of script into interactive shell so I can run it over and over until I get things right.

- Error reporting: as long as you use shell's best practices, shell script automatically stops at a first error, and in most case there will be a clear error message printed. In golang, this is all manual, and it is pretty easy to ignore errors. (python really helps here)

(note your library seems even worse than that: not only it starts with go's error reporting handicap, you also designed it so "we just won't see any output from this program if the server returns an error response.", _and_ you actively mix stdout and stderr... this basically means any programs using your library will be nightmare to debug)

- Performance: "sort" is an external process, but it is designed to be able to sort even the data which does not fit into memory (it has spill-to-disk code). "grep" actually uses extreme optimization and things like Boyer-Moore algorithm - does your code do that?

(that said, shell scripts rapidly become unreadable after some complexity threshold.. my personal rule is "if you ever feel tempted to create common library of shell functions, it means your script become too complicated and it's time to rewrite it in real language ASAP". But until you hit that complexity limit, the shell scripts are very nice)
> I’m becoming more of the mind that humans communicate more like birds or whales. There’s a general sound or frequency that everyone is humming.

sorry to um actually here... but neither whales nor birds all have a "general sound" the way you're describing. Both whales and birds actually have strict regional differences and grammars in their singing and communication patterns.
Related:

Precursor (Andrew "bunnie" Huang's smartphone-sized FPGA / RISC-V open hardware development kit):

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24527846

Implementing LTE on FPGAs:

https://www.eetimes.com/implementing-lte-on-fpgas/

Deploying 5G NR Wireless Communications on FPGAs: A Complete MATLAB and Simulink Workflow:

https://www.mathworks.com/campaigns/offers/deploying-5g-nr-o...

Google Search, "FPGA Smartphone":

https://www.google.com/search?q=FPGA+smartphone
On the other hand, programming and software engineering data is almost certainly over-represented on the internet compared to information from most professional disciplines. It also seems to be getting dramatically more focus than other disciplines from model developers. For those models that disclose their training data, I've been seeing decent sized double-digit percentages of the training corpus being just code. Finally, tools like copilot seem ideally positioned to get real-world data about model performance.
3. Tile doesn't (or at least didn't as of when I replaced my last one with an AirTag). I don't put much weight in the TOS bit; I'm sure it's against Apple's, too.

5. If Apple launched an AirTag Pro at twice the price with these controls but otherwise identical hardware, I'd be all over it. They're leaving money on the table.
Linode is a good small cloud too in my experience. Personally, I would steer clear of Hetzner and OVH, but that still leaves various low-cost small clouds on the table. In my experience, Hetzner disables accounts without warning if you run at 100% for too long. OVH is good for alpha software that is okay with a week-long unannounced downtime and full data loss.

Due to inflation, the cost equation is rapidly changing to where lowering cloud expenses is vital.
Sounds like your a non tech co founder?
On the visual note, 3Blue1Brown math visualizations are amazing.

It’s like going after a runner’s high though. It takes work to reach that point where you make connections and feel that neurotransmitter rush.
> Apple is struggling to be profitable

Genuinely curious, how does one come to the necessary conclusions that then lead to making statements like this?

What supports the notion that Apple is struggling to be profitable?
One trick I've found in Word specifically: press Ctrl+v to paste, then hit Ctrl, then hit 't' -- this is the key sequence for paste->open paste options->use plaintext.

You can do the same thing by pasting, then click on the little box that pops up next to your pasted text, then clicking the text option.
Sweden. We have 'owner families' dominating our economy and politics, and things have been rotting fast over the past thirty years or so. I'm unlikely to relocate though, at least not until the NATO membership pulls us into open conflict.

It's a decent place to run a company though.
Also was my question.
The Surface would be quite tempting if Windows 11 weren't so overtly user-hostile.
Probably not. They bleed you dry and ToS are likely on their side anyways.
Most languages with linked lists as an important part (lisps mostly) all have well optimized linked lists that end up with a lot better memory locality.
I heard this at university from my professors, and I hated it so much, not just because I hate writing by hand, but because it never had any benefit for me.

In fact, writing by hand prevented me from paying attention, because I was writing nonstop with no pause to think. Instead, I didnt write anything, and got photocopies, improving my learning and grades.
It still happens, but it’s getting more challenging due to outsourcing of manufacturing.
It's well known that LLMs don't reason. That's not what they are for. It's a throw away comment to say that a product can't do what it explicitly is unable to do. Reasoning will require different architectures. Even with that LLMs are incredibly useful.
A talk about the six futures of Russia by Stephen Kotkin (after he wrote this FA piece, with a bonus future)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzmRJ9JOtS4
The old Boss Keys making a comeback: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key
Google doesn't have any actual support. I had an issue with my Google account where I was flagged as a minor by Google's automated systems, even tough my age was verified with an ID. I spent months trying to get in touch with someone who could do anything. Everyone just kept sending me completely irrelevant copy-pasted troubleshooting instructions. I also had similar issues with other Google products, that could only be resolved on their end, and there was nothing I could do. Google just doesn't care.

And it's not just Google, Microsoft is currently blocking downloads from one of my websites in Edge. I tried appealing multiple times, and nothing.

We need laws that require companies to provide actual, meaningful support.
same conclusions from me, lean into what makes the tool different than a regular printer, lean into it's imperfection ( improper inkflow, misregistration if using more than one color/pass, ink bleed, how it reacts to a semi-rough surface ). It is also a very performative tool, I've seen some artists using them in that way as well. Using both cartesian and polar style hanging plotters on gallery wall or glass window. Also hanging polar style plotters as a very cost effective way to create very large works.
Well, there are definitely serious third party apps for serious users to create music, draw etc. It's just the OS and Apple's apps that are holding it back...
Related:

Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40301490
And Apple wants all families to behave like yours, to grab more money.
I think this view is only of the hacker subculture of SV in the 1970s.

I don't think it was shared by the semiconductor industry which gave SV it name, nor the defense industry which was also there.
if you find this interesting you'll also find the publications of J.P Cruthfield interesting, he seem to have worked in this same institute up to 2004 before moving to UC Davis. he has 20+ years worth of papers on the topic, I keep procrastinating reading them esp the ones about what he calls epsilon machines.

I don't really understand this topic, but find the premise interesting enough.

here's a paper about

the intrinsic cost of modularity
https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.8.031...

Anatomy of a Bit: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2988

Modes of Information Flow
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06723

stuff related to Landauer's bound
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11241
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06650
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350794561_Refining_...
>Easy, my bank account is still full.

That one is probably not valid.

My bank app is sht, The 2FA is EMBEDED in the app; in the beggining it was a separate app. It also needs Google Play Services. And I live in a third world country with little accountabilty. On top of all that, most people use very cheap chinese phones which never get any update.

Still, bank accounts have never been depleted through hacking of phones.
I wonder why Facebook doesn't just turn off these recommendations until they fix it?
I have several friends who are or were imagineers.

The question you ask is very wide unfortunately because it is such a wide job.

Imagineers cover everything from software engineers working on robotics, to machine learning, computer vision, or data management. There’s hardware engineers, rendering engineers, people responsible for traditional costume design with fabric etc, animators, civil engineers etc…

Like any other job, there’s no real secret to getting in though. You just need to know what roles are there and see what fits you. Coming from an entertainment background certainly helps (games, feature animation, visual effects) but isn’t a hard requirement either.

There are Imagineering documentaries and behind the scenes on YouTube and Disney+ that give you an insight into what goes into it.
Disney is about to patent falling with style if they haven't already.

And it involves FLUDD's hover mode.

Sometimes the universe just seems committed to making you smile.
FWIW, most of my recent knowledge on this topic comes from [0].

The programming-language-specific parts are more focused on C than C++ (which is my main focus), but I've still found it quite helpful.

I haven't looked at the other sources people are mentioning though, so no idea how it compares.

[0] https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/perfb...
Spotify have started pushing artists and podcast to the 'front page' some years ago.

Your own playlist are hidden compared to how they used to be.

When you click on an artist you are fed 'recommended' artist and merch before the songs.

Podcasts take space from music.

Etc. A lot of antipatterns to push BS I don't want and wastes my time and focus.
bre had such a good run with makerbot .. what could possibly go wrong?...
Generally because the versions of SSL/TLS are outdated on those devices and so either need modern cryptographic libraries installed on them or they just cannot connect to ansy modern server.
So I've got the tools to cut that thick bike chain but I somehow can't pull device inside the handlebars out or destroy it? It looks like their special tool is just a star security bit.

And also, would it really hold up to just being cut with whatever tools the thief used to cut your bike chain?
We recently launched Middleware(https://github.com/middlewarehq/middleware) - Open Source Software for Engineering Analytics. We made an architectural change first of splitting the product into core and non-core features. We put core in one repo and non-core in other repos.

We made the core part open source and our paid offering takes up the rest of the product as addons! So, we maintain only one codebase and avoid the hassle of drifts.

Happy to offer more insight.
Exactly how a planet can inflate so much is a question that no existing theory of planetary formation can yet answer.

Is there a reason to limit theories to natural formation? An alien race could have built it as a hydrogen storage tank or something.
Ask HN: Anyone getting responses/feedback from the co-founding platform?
I've reached out/submitted invites to people on the co-founding platform for some time now, and received no response or update.

Anyone experiencing the same? or maybe i'm being ignored :)
The idea of a planet 1.5x the size of Jupiter, but 1/7th the mass...is very unintuitive from a gravitational perspective. Maybe it's spinning so ungodly fast that centrifugal forces are keeping it puffed out?
AI Powered FFmpeg
This code is Open Source: https://github.com/MittaAI/mitta-community/tree/main/service...
Then maybe I’m using the wrong animal(s) here. I guess any animal group that uses group sounds (dolphins, etc). I mean think about it, why do some animals spread a message out via broadcast?

Why would humans spread so much of the same data (spam in this case) via broadcast?

I don’t know, but I don’t think it’s as simple as a means for warning. I think this is one of the ways we communicate. It sounds weird to say because, of course we communicate like that, we send emails, group messages …

But to hear that we might communicate like Dolphins is the hot take I guess