skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's expensive, but that's because 72 GB200s are faster than 144 networked M2 Ultras. You're tackling bigger workloads with better-standardized software, genuine first-party support and proprietary integration that goes even further than Apple's memory coherency. Datacenter customers aren't drooling over the advantages of Apple Silicon because most of them are table-stakes at their scale; Apple has to go the extra mile to stand out, specifically for these customers.

I won't deny, Nvidia charges the sort of margins that would make Apple blush. But they do that (and are successful) because they're scaling the workloads Apple won't. Apple turned their back on Nvidia, gave up funding Kronos' alternative to CUDA, and now wants a piece of the pie they've spent the past 15 years trying to avoid. It just doesn't seem like they're capable of winning here; their strategy is to dominate or die, and domination isn't an option.
> > local

> For now.

Like everyone's music and movie collections.
Return-to-office mandate is backfiring on a key federal agency
Discussed in many places. This is the original video.
no, because other bigger companies will pay manufacturers more money than "people" ever possibly could

this is the same logic that told me that my smartphone will never really be mine as in "my phone will work for me first of all".

as an iphone user I know and understand that my wishes and intentions come second, Apple is the real owner of "my" device
I believe that 'tptacek's point could be summarized as "the facts are, in a real sense, not material to this conversation, as we are operating entirely with the domain of realpolitik rather than morality".

Biden, in _theory_, could say to Israel that "continued arms supplies are contingent on surrendering Netanyahu and Gallant to The Hague immediately", but a) it's not at all clear that that would work, b) in the near term it probably causes Israel to make the situation on the ground in Gaza even worse, and c) it would come with serious domestic political repercussions in an election year.

I hate all of that too, and it doesn't speak well of us as a society or species, but what _should_ happen and what _would_ happen are two very different things.
Even if it is “only” the 40% lower end, that is a gargantuan savings. So many groups are compute constrained, every bit helps.
Not yet; my tools and processes are not ready for animation. But I plan to work on it eventually.
> Yes, that is what I am saying. Cutting off arms sales to Israel will not prevent a supply blockade of Gaza or a Rafah invasion

It would if Israel has any sense of self preservation at all. They need the support of the American government more than they need Gazan land.
Interesting name! At first I assumed it's a pun on "Chang" (which looks like a romanized Chinese word) and English "Change". Instead:

>the spacecraft is named after the Chinese Moon goddess Chang'e[1]

What a great name for a Chinese Lunar spacecraft!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e
There is a lot of concern about AI just building code, or creating music, or creating art, writing articles for you. I agree with this concern but to balance ...On the writing side, most people in my circle don't like how AI writes. It's clear how AI writes is not how we would say things. It lacks original insight. This is where humans come in.

To the developer who likes to come up with creative solutions to problems, if your solution has not been done before and it has not been done many times over the AI is not going to invent your idea. At least not today's AI! :-)
My M.D. father, family practice in the army, later a pathologist, would do what he had learned from other doctors: Put some dye in toothpaste, put it on the wart(s), bandage it, talk about what a miracle cure it was etc. He said it worked the few times he tried it. His M.D. son (my brother), partner in a pediatrics group, points out that placebos are ethically troublesome for doctors.
"Solar thermal trapping at 1,000°C and above" (2024)
https://www.cell.com/device/fulltext/S2666-9986(24)00235-7 :

> Summary: Common semi-transparent materials like quartz and water feature spectral optical properties characterized by low attenuation of visible radiation and strong absorption of infrared (IR) radiation emitted by hot surfaces. This leads to the thermal trap effect, exploitable in solar-concentrating applications to attain higher absorber temperatures and thermal efficiencies. Here, we demonstrate this effect at high temperatures with a quartz rod attached to an opaque absorber plate reaching 1,050°C when exposed to 135 suns of concentration, while the quartz front face remains at 450°C. A 3D heat transfer model, validated against the experimental data, is applied to determine the performance map of solar receivers exploiting thermal trapping. These are shown to achieve the target temperature with higher efficiency and/or needing a lower concentration than the reference unshielded absorber. Solar process heat at above 1,000°C can decarbonize key industrial applications such as cement manufacturing and metallurgical extraction.
At some point the claim of jurisdiction has to be adjudicated, as it states here:

"The Chamber provided a legal answer
based on the strict interpretation of the Rome Statute. It emphasised that the issue of the territorial jurisdiction of the Court would have
to be further examined when the Prosecutor submits an application for the issuance of a warrant of arrest or summons to appear. The
Chamber declined to address the arguments regarding the Oslo Accords in the context of the present proceedings and indicated that
these issues may be raised at a later stage of the proceedings."

https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/itemsDocuments/p...

Did the legal government of Palestine do the initial request in 2015? That would have been Hamas, since Hamas was the last elected government of Palestine. I would be surprised if Hamas acceded to the ICC's jurisdiction.

Can a non-state actor be accorded the same rights as a state under the Rome accords? Is the "government of Palestine" an actual entity?

If an entity other than the authorized government accepts jurisdiction of the ICC, does that count?

I mean, this isn't even getting the actual meat of the case and it's already a mess.
They have surely just looked at the price of an iPad Magic Keyboard + Apple Pencil and thought, “yeah we can probably get away with that too”.

Not sure how well that will go given that even the most ardent Apple fans will concede that a keyboard case costing approximately the same as one whole entry-level iPad is a bit much.
This add-on has user-blocking, but the UI could use improvements (have clickable blocking instead of copy&paste, and make the rest of the UI non-visible).

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hackernews-us...
Personal experience trying to get hired as a US citizen in a US territory. Most companies simply reject without any sort of interview and when I ask (and get a reply) it's always because of location.
The goal was to showcase a task where Groq's speed would be useful while showing what current LLMs can and can't do with a task like book generation. That's why the placeholder content is mentioned in the limitations section. The end books are definitely not perfect, but I am impressed by the generations nonetheless, especially since the majority of the content is generated using Llama3b-8b.

I don't think a publishable-quality book can currently be generated this way. I do think it is a helpful tool for generating an entire book on any nonfiction topic you want to learn more about, no matter how specific.
> Their "copilot" brand is so weird and... muddled.

It’s Watson.

Ha ha, only serious. You’re right. It feels like an umbrella brand they’re just tossing around, because AI — and Copilot in particular — is hot in Redmond.

I find the new Copilot key funny, because it feels like a pantomime of the Windows 95 keys[0], but with Logitech characteristics.

[*] Okay, it’s been 30 years. I haven’t used a Windows computer in almost as long, and so I ask. Do people who use Windows actually use any of those keys? It always seemed weird that you’d need the start menu at a single button press, and the right click menu at a keyboard press felt even weirder. I think I only used the Windows key as a meta under Linux, and I don’t think I ever hit the context menu key out of anything but curiosity.
Indonesia having over 2000 earthquakes a year is wild!
Apollo 6 was a partial failure due to engine failure of the 2nd stage.

Also they blew up tons of F1 engines during testing. They never got the POGO issues fixed.

I really don't understand why people make these arguments. SpaceX is explicitly saying they dont want to spend money proving everything works the first time.
Memorizing the words is one thing, but as the article mentions it's a lot more strategy involved. Rack management, memorizing the right hooks, knowing when to use the right hooks, closing up the board for your opponent etc.
As someone who has worked in compliance testing for tightly controlled software platforms, things like this piss me off. These problems have known solutions.
Postgres is the only RDBMS that is not backing companies into corners because so many products are forks of it or "speak" Postgres. You can completely swap out your database without changing any of your code. There is no other database that lets you shop around (or upgrade to a more specialized product) like that.
NASA launches new aircraft modeling software
The Sky voice sounded nothing like Scarlet Johansson.

I'm worried that in the future somebody might try to create their own voice to regain it as an accessibility tool after a medical event, and they're going to have their voice literally stolen from them under the fact that it might sound like another famous person 90% of the time.

In the music industry it's actually a known thing that if somebody famous sounds like you, you basically have no real ability to become a star or sell your music without problems. Sure it happens, but it's honestly the same problem many actors that look alike go through but just with sound.

This is pure censorship/money grab, and to make it worse, the voices sounded nothing alike.
At a price of $100m and net income of $8.9m, that would be a P/E of 11 and a dividend yield of 5.34%. Assuming limited net income growth, such as a large corporation such as Coca-Cola (KO), this is a great stock! KO is kind of the poster-child for a stable, terminal business (how much more Coca-Cola / soft drinks can the world drink?), and it has a P/E of 25 and a dividend yield of 3.1 %. But, in fact, Gumroad is likely to grow earnings (and presumably the dividend), so this is an even better deal.
Nethanyahu is survivalist but he faces uphill battle as time passes.

The fact that Hamas attack was so successful under his watch has not disappeared.

His career is full of scandals and corruption. He is still going to have domestic charges in near future.

His war cabinet is going to collapse soon if he continues without any plans for the future of Gaza.
"Starship flight 4 in about 2 weeks"
Kubernetes hasn’t been esoteric for at least five years at this point.
> I invested $1,000 in Gumroad back when they did the public fundraise, and I got back ~$70 so far. At this rate it'll take multiple years to break even, much less earn a multiplier. But oh well, I liked the Gumroad team so I wasn't looking for much of a profit anyway.

It's great that you wanted to fund the company with no expectation of return, but this is a perfect example of what contractors would need to consider when they choose to trade some of their compensation for equity.
iTerm 2 adds ChatGPT integration
Many of them are. I'm not sure what is newsworthy about this one. Maybe it's the largest Caterpillar has done?
Right? I'm baffled how people keep trying to pick one fundamentalism over another when fundamentalism itself is the common enemy.
83% looking to switch jobs with RTO mandates vs. 41% with a few days remote is wild.
Looking at the example near the bottom of the page, they seem to be making the common mistake of thinking that if I want 16px text turning into 32px, then I also want 24px text turning into 48px.

I really really don't. I'm already much shorter of screen space than the designer planned for, and huge headings make that much worse.
Sorry I’m late to respond.

> But by that logic we should let a 20 year old kid start as asbestos mine with hand tools next to a drinking water source, or let them operate heavy machinery on a highway with no training of any kind.

This is a dramatically exaggerated equivalency and you know it. Comparing someone operating lawn equipment to driving heavy equipment without training or mining biohazards next to a waterway would be humorous if you intended it a joke.

> “More jobs" should absolutely NOT be the goal, and anyone that says it is clearly hasn't thought to hard about it.

Oh come on, this is so far from established societal norms that it’s a fringe statement as it is.

It’s a fact of life that someone’s going to need to mow lawns. The externalities are so minor that it makes those in opposite appear borderline petty, but certainly not based.
Doesn't the fact that lots of people use Facebook daily despite the scandals say something?

It's abundantly clear that most people don't care about how their data are used. Here "most" means people outside HN.
I will remember the small town next door that put out a star of david to celebrate Hanukkah and got a pile of death threats for supporting Israel.

Do you remember the teens at a concert for peace for Palestine that died on Oct 7th? IE, people who literally were pushing for Israel to unilaterally get it's hands out of Palestine, the exact thing people are marching all over the world for.

Hamas literally targeted them. Why? Why kill the people doing exactly what you claim to want them to do? Their deaths and rapes were intentional.

I want to make it very clear that I hold no qualms or malice towards people who want a unilateral ceasefire from Israel and damn the consequences of that. Hell, even a lot of Israelis seem to hold that opinion!

But I only want to ask: how many Israeli people have to die before that is obviously not a solution? How many Israeli deaths per year before "okay maybe going to war with Palestine" becomes acceptable?
> Usual order of treatments is topical salicyclic acid +/- occlusion with tape -> cryotherapy / topical imiquimod -> curettage / CO2 laser / pulsed dye laser / DCP immunotherapy

Salicylic acid seems to be the standard of care here, so I'm curious why tape was compared to cryo in this old study. Was that not true at the time?

I used to be a big swimmer and due to some carelessness with footwear in the gym shower I ended up with a wart on the bottom of my foot some years ago. I tried acid alone, which seemed to be working (albeit slowly), so I added duct tape over top which seemed to speed things up a bit.

I didn't expect the tape was "doing" anything beyond keeping everything in place and then ensuring that I was exfoliating fully between applications, but who knows?
We use:

- LLMs to make support team more efficient

- Github Copilot to make writing code easier

- A slew of SaaS products that themselves are using LLMs to deliver current and future features
Please elaborate! I'm genuinely curious.
There's a physical structure which exists for the purpose of supporting the infrastructure and electronics necessary to collect tolls from the people who drive under it, right? That's a tollbooth.

As far as the rest, I wasn't trying to even make an argument, let alone win it. Just an observation that few people register their rental cars with out-of-state toll web sites. You sound like a very organized person, kudos, many people would like to run their lives as efficiently as you do. I certainly can't get from this page https://www.paturnpike.com/e-zpass/rental-vehicles to a completed, registered account in 30 seconds - it often takes me that long just to find my wallet and pull out the necessary credit card, let alone type it in.
Ask HN: Are major clouds similar enough for learning purposes?
I have associate/foundations certs in AWS, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, VMWare, etc (I work on a legacy application but learn new stuff for fun:). At that level, terminology differs but principles/capabilities/architecture, and even a lot of details, are fundamentally analogous and broadly similar.

I have opportunity and incentive to dig into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for free (courses+exams) and possibly get some hands-on experience.

How much of that knowledge and experience might be translatable to other clouds? Is it like learning AIX and moving to Solaris or even RedHat to Ubuntu - yes some re-learning, but very little knowledge actually wasted? Or do the clouds deeply diverge at some level of depth and I'd be wasting my (limited!) energy, time and effort on an obscure weird cloud?
We launched the first Voyager in the 70s. 50 years on do we have anything catching up to it?
Team Foundation Server -> Visual Studio Team Services -> Azure DevOps
HN rules/ethos don’t agree but the lack of ‘politeness’ in these posts is refreshing. ‘Manners’ have long been a way to reinforce power imbalances and avoid scrutiny. Us plebs shouldn’t shy away from calling out corporate scumbaggery for what it is - what is more damaging, impolite prose or what this company is doing to our society?
> for math graduates in particular

I don't think it's ironic at all. The vast majority of math graduates don't do pure math research after graduation. And modern pure mathematicians dramatically undercut how much of their research was, in relatively recent history, driven mainly by practical value.
We've had Kotlin Multiplatform for a while now, so a developer writing an Android app in Kotlin could bring it over to iOS and desktop platforms today with reduced effort. Compose Multiplatform aims to take this a step further by allowing UI code sharing instead of just business logic.

The future is not that far off where you can write a 100% native Android app and, minus any Android OS-specific functionality, port it over as-is to iOS and desktop.
> You know what is giving China soft power? Funding projects around all of Africa.

I don't disagree.

Are you suggesting that China will be satisfied with merely the amount of soft power that they are gaining from funding infrastructure projects in Africa and will not seek additional soft power through other routes?

I would assert that between the amount of soft power gained, and more, the amount of soft power lost by their rivals (the US), if China had the capability to create a moon base it would be entirely worthwhile for them to do so.

Thus, if the US wishes to prevent that loss of its own soft power, then it needs to beat China to the moon base.
I also would be interested about this. Because I somehow expect that this screen logging feature is ripe for a security disaster. This is not just your browser history. Imagine a video of everything you ever did on your PC ending up in the internet.
It's a real shame as well since the Surface line of PCs started as such a clean break and has devolved into a confusing mess.
Scientist convinced by 3M executives to ignore the dangers of PFAs?
We're looking at picking up an entire building in Smalltown, Oregon and commuting to meetings from BC to San Mateo. Glad the country has been farting around instead of building high-speed rail...

Getting out of metropolitan areas to look at old brick buildings reminds me of Hunters Point right before the dotcom boom. Floorspace equals freedom and opportunity, and it's all really cheap if you can plan ahead and swing a hammer.
Israel administers multiple territories, some of them democratically (e.g. Israel proper, where Arabs are citizens with equal legal rights), and some of them undemocratically (e.g. the West Bank).

In other words, if by "Israel" you mean only within the borders of its sovereign territory, yes it's a democracy. If by "Israel" you mean all territory controlled by the State of Israel, it's clearly not.

So, they at best get partial credit for being "a democracy". If they wanted to get full credit, they would have to either relinquish control over the West Bank (and Gaza for that matter), or grant the people living there equal citizenship and voting rights.

> In addition, why doesn't the ICC look into Egypt's conduct of refusing to allow civilians to flee from this conflict?

Nobody has to let foreigners into their country if they don't want to. Israel has every right to limit what goes over their border with Gaza, too. What bothers me is that they also restrict Gaza's territorial waters and airspace (and have been doing so since long before Oct. 7th), which AFAIK Egypt isn't involved in.
Hold shift (new window) or control (new tab) when you click.
Don't worry, until someone on the list finds the peel, you're in the clear. Just never turn on location services.
The US signature was shaky to begin with (it was never really ratified through the proper channels) and I doubt they would've kept their signatures with the impending invasions following 9/11.

With the so-dubbed "The Hague Invasion Act" I'd say the US has not only withdrawn its signature, it actively threatens anyone trying to hold their citizens accountable to things like war crimes. Officially, they're an observer these days, but practically, I think they're only there to see their enemies get convicted, and nothing else.
> Like you would any other crime.

The criminal model does not work for war. This is a war.

> each time you bomb an area with innocents, you may or may not kill your target, but you definitely just turned all the friends, family, and so on of the innocents killed into new "real" enemies.

So when Hamas fires rockets into Israel, killing innocents, or sends a terror squad into Israel, killing innocents (and kidnapping others), it makes more Hamas enemies. Yes, indeed.
*> Even if you have nothing but everything hosted on a bunch of VMs, it can take years and millions of dollars to migrate.

I'd assume it takes fewer millions to migrate your own tech stack from AWS to somewhere else than it takes to migrate from AWS proprietary solutions. Is that reasonable?
Selling something so simple for an incredible markup to ameliorate a problem of your own creation is just good business.
Have you actually tried? Personally I have evaluated and then abandonded clang-format (for reasons including but not limited to the interplay between macros and indentation), and most tool's support for tab-indentation + space-alignments is flaky to non-existent. I wouldn't want to constrain my setup to one that integrates clang-format just for a needlessly complicated requirement when I could just abandon tabs altogether.
FWIW, I remember the games I was really into fairly well. I'm not sure if I'll ever forget the Red Dead Redemption 2 main quest line. Games like Halo 3 are a bit harder for me though, because it's a lot of the same grinding over and over.
I think it is rhetorical question, more to the point of domestic production itself.

Consider that manufacture something in a foreign country, transport it 21,000 km by sea and it is still cheaper than doing it in-house. This may sound awesome.

But digging deeper, a nation that favors import before domestic production, drawn to its extremes, can put itself at economic and geopolitical risk.
> "Just stop shooting at Palestinians" will certainly end the suffering of Palestinians, but is objectively trading 30k Palestinians dead now with a few Israelis dead every year.

There's shooting and there's shooting. 30k Palestinians in Gaza Strip are in the war zone so in a way it's not a much surprise they're dying, but there are Palestiniani on the West Bank, who are being murdered by Israeli (settlers backed by IDF). Last I checked the death toll is around 500 (https://apnews.com/article/settler-attack-palestinians-west-...), which puts it within the ballpark of 7 October Hamas' strike.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_tag_attack_policy

This is absolutely "Just stop shooting at Palestinians", and I think they have every right to resist such occupation.