skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you've been stuck for 80 years, any improvement at all seems like a big deal.

But more importantly, a new idea like this often points the way to variations that may also create improvement. Therefore as other researchers pile on, we may see this bound come down further.

So yes, it is like a wall in a maze was breached, and there is the opportunity to go further. And it is fair to call that a breakthrough. Of course you're still charging into a maze, and further progress is far from guaranteed.
>Cryptography is a tool for turning a whole swathe of problems into key management problems. Key management problems are way harder than (virtually all) cryptographers think.

As someone who has issues remembering where they left their house keys at times, I want this on a bloody coffee cup/t-shirt.

Further, every practicing cryptographer everywhere should be forced to keep one on their person at all times, and be required to present it to do normal tasks as a reminder to them of the suffering their work creates for others implementing their cryptosystems. They probably won't care. But it'd make me feel better if they were as annoyed in the everyday as much as I am wrangling this kind of nonsense.
Who said I was comparing multithreaded loads? AMD will hit that on just one core with those boost clocks.
“Have you any idea how it feels to be a Fembot living in a Manbot's Manputer's world?”
4090 Founders Edition has listed Tensor TOPS at 1321 - assuming that it is actually a comparable metric
But did it have someone's face on it? Was it ever a Doge's?
Especially when permit fees and taxes are fixed and ~30% of the cost to build (in cities like Vancouver: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-housing-government...)

It could cost $250k to legally build a sandcastle in Vancouver.
Can mean believing things will be OK, or events will somehow spare you, whatever the reason. Whether it's because of religious conviction, you've grown a lucky beard, had a happy dream the night before, etc. Even while being somewhat conscious of the irrationality of such beliefs they sometimes can be of help I feel. Also when music inspires / motivates you I feel like it stirs up a similar effects to a strong magical belief.
We've been largely remote so far. I'm international myself.
Fair enough man. I've done hobbyist game development, independent game development, and applied to some shops myself early on. But eventually, you get a job and your path diverges, etc, etc. Like, I'm not anywhere I'd imagine I'd be when I was in school.

I think at least half of all programmers got into it because of video games. They know it's desirable, so they can filter almost as hard as they want.

Like, the industry is just way more jacked up than general software development. I understand your pain.

Although, if you're currently between jobs right now, you could crank out a prototype of something and see where it takes you while job hunting. Because you will always feel like you could use just a bit more time. Sometimes you just gotta do it.
I would rather take it at face value, as a perhaps surprising but nevertheless fitting display of magnanimity and mercy.

Theoden has been restored to his right mind and character. The whole thrust of the his character plot (in the books) is that he ends his reign as noble as any of his forbears; freed from the influence of the lies of Saruman, he becomes an exemplary king. And one kingly virtue that Tolkien presents again and again is that of magnanimity to defeated foes: Bilbo doesn't kill Gollum (which Gandalf explicitly praises), the Rohirrim don't kill the Dunlendings, Gandalf doesn't kill Saruman.

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment."
Well, you could still build a lot with it, but the issue is it would be very expensive to have something that was able to do LLM inferencing.
For Decades, Officials Knew a School Sat on Former Dump; Did Little to Clean Up
Elon is now alleged to have engaged in insider trading (selling off a bunch of his shares), only to turn around two years later and extort the shareholders by stopping non-auto initiatives at Tesla unless they grant him more shares (among other demands in the voting)
The biggest difference AFAICT is that the funnel for junior positions used to go through Universities. Companies posted junior positions at Universities so people who weren't new grads were screwed. For example if you graduated in 2002 and didn't get a job because of the tech recession and then tried to get a job in 2004 as a junior with no experience you were screwed because you didn't have access to University job postings.

Now of course all job postings are on the Internet.
I'll add to it that there's a wide range of documented cases of humans experiencing all sorts of weird phenomena when their brains are being physically poked at. A drug chemically circuit-bending your brain therefore seems much more likely explanation than opening it to perceive an extra dimension of reality.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_bending
> A way to suppress wages and job mobility for SWE. Who wants to switch jobs when it means studying for a month or two?

If what Google search tells me is true the average SWE tenure is only a couple of years or so.

I might need a month or two of study (or more!) to be able to handle the harder Leetcode problems, but if I was expecting to have to do this every couple of years or so I'd consider taking some steps to maintain that knowledge between jobs.

That would probably be considerably less overall effort than forgetting it and having to cram for months every couple of years.
I have had dreams where I listen to songs and marvel at the incredible skill of the songwriter, and sadly accept that I could never have 1/10th of that skill. It was a surprise for me to reflect back on the dream and realise that of course because it was my dream I was in fact the song writer too, somehow also able to listen to it with no idea what would come next. The mind is a fascinating thing.
> The wide variance in the pronunciation of words even in English is also due to our dogshit orthography (largely imposed by the French), which often fails to give a decent hint for how to say something.

Others have already corrected your other misunderstandings, but this is also false. Spanish has at least as much variance in pronunciation as English and has an orthography that is extremely regular. Brazilian Portuguese and Portugal Portuguese likewise have the same, highly regular orthography and are barely mutually intelligible.

To the best of my knowledge you actually have the causality mostly reversed: English's orthography is useless largely because the pronunciation changed but the spelling didn't, and English has a variety of pronunciations because the pronunciations changed differently in different regions. English has a messier orthography than other languages because of our complicated history of borrowing words, but the evidence shows that even people who start with a highly consistent orthography don't use it to keep their pronunciation static and shared.
> I'd love to see LadyBird become a real contender in the browser market.

Definitely Ladybird, but I'd also love to see Servo and Netsurf being developed.
Very appealing until I see 3xAA batteries. Maybe this bothers me more than it should, but 2 or 4 batteries are just better.
Most people doing the interviews are not qualified to do interviews. At least most of the time in my experience.

It doesn't help that so many companies think they have slick ways to root out better qualified people when most are just a waste of time.
You can always get a job as another executive, so I doubt its the "best job she will ever have". But I agree, she was most likely pressured.
> Say you got the same salary working in an ethical company than in a FAANG, would you go for the FAANG?

Very much a tangent, but what do you mean by a company being "ethical"?

I have a few concerns about how that term is often used in these discussions:

(1) it's treated as a binary quality, rather than some kind of continuum, and

(2) there's rarely a recognition that different persons have different conceptions of what's ethical, let alone a justification for what the writer's preferred definition is uniquely superior.
A Mitfreude of Anime and Manga's Relationship with Anglophone Science Fiction
You can see the underlying grid in this image https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/examples/hats.png from this page https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/
May I suggest a decade of red state hunger-level poverty? My kids and I did it. Three years out of it, I get excited paying utilities on time.
I would consider YC a pretty clear representative of "little tech", albeit little tech with startup/hyperscale ambitions. So, IMO it's not out of touch, it's very on-point.
Yes, it is very easy. I wrote something similar back in 2020 iirc. It only took a few hours. The idea was to have an app that you dumped all your work pdfs into to make them searchable within. It would pull the text and then you could search by keywords and open the pdf at the associated page number. For PDFs that were scanned in from paper, I had to use tesseract OCR. I didn't pursue it further at the time, because the quality of output with OCR was often poor. The OCR would produce large chunks of gibberish mixed into the output text. Now one could do much better. Incorporating the tokenizing for RAG with the OCR output would probably improve the quality drastically, as the small tokens produced during tokenizing would help "filter out" much of the OCR produced gibberish while preserving much more of the actual text and contextual/semantic meaning.
Just to add to the nuance, you're comparing a country with 6MM people to one with 370MM people. What dynamics do you think that difference of scale has on the overall healthcare outcome?
Yes, a dumbphone. If I can actually find one, anyway. I am very skeptical that I can (the "dumbphones" I've found so far are all smartphones with very limited capabilities), so I'll go with the least capable phone I can locate.
Technically, humans are also 3d printers....we just are super slow at assembly of large structures.... However we are able to design and build and "print" more complicated structures as we work in 3 dimensions and are only limited by our strength.

Side note: 3d printing is awesome tech. While its not exactly super eco friendly, its a big help for rapid prototyping. I currently have an ender 3 pro which I upgraded with a touch sensor. Its not working due to issues I can't figure out....but I think it has a motor or alignment issue....but the 2 prints I have successfully done were amazing.
The one use case he mentions could also be satisfied by a $50 trail camera with video capability, better photo quality, better low light performance and better motion sensing.

I'm really struggling to figure out why people are excited about this. Do they not know trail cameras exist?
The starter kit contains the Hailo-8 (26 TOPS), whereas the Pi AI kit contains the Hailo-8L (13 TOPS), so the pricing of the two seems more or less in line with each other at least
"Maybe startups should be a young man's game."

No. Anybody of any age should be able to take part in labor, otherwise you're arguing for ageism.
Ah I see; initially I didn’t understand what you were using Anki for in relation to anime. It’s to learn Japanese; got it
> What benefit does encryption at rest solve for something which is never intended to actually rest?

That's the point of the article, luckily enough. "Disk Encryption is important for disk disposal and mitigating hardware theft, not preventing data leakage to online attackers."

> So what benefit does encryption at rest bring? Won't a hacker be attempting to take data when it's online (and therefore not resting)?

Yes (again, illustrated in the article).
Maps that show how Americans speak English differently across the US (2016)
Yeah, it was rarely that silly. Usual thing I'm thinking of are the designs where folks think they can make something like facebook messenger with 200ms latency in the system. You know, "by design." (Of course... I swear that was an interview question I was given once.)

What you wind up with is someone designing a giant system from parts they have read about that, honestly would probably work. However, it would also require retouching pretty much every system in the company to get things aligned. Which, isn't likely to ever happen.

Put a different way, the longer a project spends in design phase, the higher the chance it will not get completed. And all too often people will spend a ton of time in design looking for ways to make sure what they are building will scale to success level loads.
Came here to say the same thing. Is he suggesting that when enough plumbing and electricity problems accumulate, the future non handy folk will just order a new home?
> better photo quality and better motion sensing

Would you have some specific model in mind, and what aspects of photo quality & motion sensing are better ?

For sure, I never seen a so nicely managed battery life.
I watched a warehouse go up over the last few months. Everything above the floor was pre-cast concrete shipped in on flatbed trunks. For the size of the warehouse it was fascinating to watch just how fast it got built. The big time sink wasn't even the warehouse superstructure. Majority of the project time was leveling, compacting, and foundation.

When I see 3D printing construction compared to precast modules I simply don't see a future where printing a whole building is price or labor saving.
They need to start forcing the manufacturers of these chips to add to the power grid, wherever they are sold in the world.
I found it kind of humorous this was done at the Esalen Institute, ground zero for a lot of the new age woo, considering Feynman's no-nonsense public persona and being the origin of the phrase 'cargo cult.' Maybe it had other draws.
Leetcode is mostly small time snippets, that tests how intelligently you can write nested for loops and if statements. That's mostly it.

If you are looking to hire people to write < 50 line snippets, it works fine. Pretty much useless for everything else.
> None of those really exist at the level where these metrics are collected, and myocarditis is a general medical condition that one would get treatment for.

That sounds reasonable. Although I've read that many cases of vaccine related myocarditis are sub clinical (you don't find it until you proactively look for it, which there is only so much appetite to do).

> There's no grand conspiracy

I think you're typecasting me to some character in your head. I'm not claiming anything about conspiracies. I am pointing at the social and professional stigma around saying anything less than positive about anything related to vaccines. Is it some grand conspiracy to say that exists?

Your response is sort of proof of this: I said something less than positive about vaccines and now you think I'm a conspiracy theorist.
The author of the post is Terence Tao that is the best live mathematician. If he says it's a "breakthrough", it's a breakthrough. (Anyway, I agree that if you are not in this research area, it's still an internal result that you can safetly ignore.)

Also, in the last years he was leading a few project to crowsource improvements after breakthroughs in other conjetures. I'm too far from this area to be sure, but if he sees there is a chance to improve this, I expect him to launch a new one.

From the article:

> but they do a number of clever and unexpected maneuvers

If he post something like that about me, I'd frame it an hang it in the wall.
No doubt, but then all we have to make sure is we have a benevolent dictator...forever. That pretty much pushes the long-term probability to zero.
> I've actually had people cheat on live coding sessions.

What tipped you off?

Also, I'm curious: do you think having them discuss their solution in depth would have been a good countermeasure?
I'm surprised Microsoft still had people working in Mixed Reality. That department had massive layoffs last year.
Yes. Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_lira
Maybe they should also call it "curve fitting" instead of "AI" so they don't need to call a "poor fit" a "hallucination"
It doesn’t because a lot of low wattage silicon doesn’t support HT/SMT anyway.

The difference is that now low wattage doesn’t have to mean low performance, and getting back that performance is better suited to E cores than introducing HT.
Real life case study:
We armed our servers (VPSes) to the teeth. Then an attacker gained access to our hosting provider's administration panel. They used that to download our hard disk content.

Encryption at rest protects against this.
I feel what we're all saying is that the security risks of amassing all this data are very unlikely to offset the small benefit of being able to remember something you did last week.

Given that the benefits are few, there's no better time to shout it down.

But long term, Recall is platform that MS will build on, offer more access to, synchronise, offer to 3rd parties. Imagine your insurance company demanding access, or potential employer?

It'll be a scary "new normal" when your computer OS records everything you do, as standard, and everyone else expects that to be the case.
Thank you! This looks very interesting and promising. I had issues running it locally on my Mac with pandas problems. But I switched to collab and it run well there. I guess you would use "requests" to get and post data to the backend ?
Surely you'd only ever have an issue if your name collided? If you never have a router.local using mDNS the existence of a DHCP-registered hostname in that form won't matter? And if it did collide you just might not get what you expected?
It's all very simple, eh?
For one, this looks like a client/server model instead of one program directly controlling another.
I, without looking at the comments here, immediately returned to homepage to unvote after seeing this on the homepage. Weird flex by creator; ironic that the OS community will happily ignore his creative intentions to use as needed if the value prop fits.
I get that Dave is a boss of a dev/designer, and the product isn't unimpressive in its own ways. I'd like to see data on how 'mac only' products do out there in the wild.
Thanks for this.

Not as advanced as your script (with dithering, etc), but I've always just used this script, which accepts the input video, and a custom dimension (optional):

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# https://superuser.com/a/1049820/19800

IN=$1

W=$(ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams $IN | jq '.streams[0].width')

H=$(ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams $IN | jq '.streams[0].height')

WH="${W}x${H}"

DIM=${2:-$WH}

echo "video resolution is $DIM"

PAL="$IN.palette.png"

if [[ -f "$PAL" ]]; then

echo "skipping palette"

else

ffmpeg -y -i "$IN" -vf palettegen "$PAL"

fi

ffmpeg -y -i "$IN" -i "$PAL" -filter_complex paletteuse -r 15 -s $DIM "$IN.gif"

# TODO https://cassidy.codes/blog/2017/04/25/ffmpeg-frames-to-gif-o...
Very nice! Have you seen Simon Tatham’s articles on Penrose tiles, Hats, and Spectres? https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/aperi... https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/aperi...
Cool though they are, like everyone else, I think 3D printed houses are solving the wrong problem.

I can get an empty shell built for €100k, double that if you want the interior finished, add another €200k around here minimum for land and connecting utilities.

The physical structure of houses themselves are already pretty cheap, it's everything else related to them that makes them expensive.
Run Llama-3 (and Other LLMs) in AWS Lambda
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40010047
Is there a reason that Darktable wouldn’t fit this category?
This plus added stress, likely poor nutrition, missed exercise, a whole lot of things happening to new fathers that can lower measured serum testosterone. Whether or not it matters is an entirely different matter. Headline bloodwork numbers don't mean much out of context, and most of the outcomes you'd actually care about (athletic performance, muscle retention, general feeling of wellbeing and energy level) are all impacted by the same things whether or not testosterone is lowered. The one thing that might matter separately is sperm production, but if you care about being maximally able to get your wife pregnant again immediately after she gives birth, you can get that tested separately.
Sure, they can just disable the feature. I’m just responding to the person who is pointing at Cinebench as a reason to enable it, but in real world use cases it actually ends up being a detriment.
I read it as "fubs were small partitions, but now with the latch boundaries dissolved between fubs, the partitions are bigger (containing flops from many fubs)".
Encryption at rest is something your cloud provider does to pass SOC audits. End of sentence. If you have stronger security concerns, then you need to turn to other tools in your toolbox.
This is very cool, but as others have mentioned this article was not a deep dive. The general idea of "disrupting" housing by innovating to reduce build cost does seem exciting to me. Empowering people to have a place to live for cheap and therefore make them more resilient seems like it could be a general good. I dunno if 3d printed stationary homes is the way, but creativity around making homes, mobile housing, living off the grid, etc though often maligned seems like it might be a fruitful thing to explore
I wonder what the accountants get on the leetcode questions
> It's interesting to see that modern processor optimization still revolves around balancing hardware for specific tasks

Asking sincerely: what’s specifically so interesting about that? That is what I would naively expect.
Thanks, I appreciate the answer example!
Yes, I'm incompetent and consistently fail code screens.
All the risk vectors you list yourself are about physically being able to get the disk. The author states that "growing legs and walk out" (understood as people being able to physical access to the disk) is already mitigated by disk encryption.

So not only are you not adding anything to the article. You actively try to dismiss that the author has thought the cases you bring up through (and calling them out as narrow minded on false grounds).

I think we all would love to see a risk that is mitigated by encryption at rest and is not already being mitigated by disk encryption.
> they can ignore the pain,

Just to note that on pain specifically, belief that one has been administered a drug can cause the body to synthesise painkillers. This has been most rigorously demonstrated by the fact that these painkilling effects are suppressed by naloxone (an opioid antagonist).
Winter here is 4 to 5 months out of the year. When it snows, everyone goes about their day normally, just at a slower pace. The authorities have no problem with that, and having drivers on the road does not affect plowing in any meaningful manner.

I'm not sure why you are trying to justify such a large shortcoming - for most people having your car be randomly unusable for 1/3 of the year would be a big deal.
> and hire the best one

Or rather: the best fit. You don't need a Turing Award winner to clean up your website.
Joseph Cox's "Dark Wire"