skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Oh well -- so much for competition! Time to enjoy ;)

Some people reacts like this. And some react by doubling down and doing whatever it takes (even cheating, lying and harming competitors) to win. When I played soccer in a local league I meet a worrying amount of people that thought that dangerously kicking a better oponent, for example tackling to the knee, was perfectly reasonable. Elbowing someone in the face was OK it the referee didn't get you. My coach once warned me that I didn't have a proper rate of yellow cards for my playing position, so I should play harder for the sake of it. I fed up and left the sport at 23-25 y.o.

A lot of people is unable of competing with themselves ("I want to do X better than myself from the past year, so I need to practice"), and as long as they don't know about someone who is better they don't care to get better at something.
Might be also morality clause for those playing CS for terrorists too. /s
Lama3-V project from a Stanford team plagiarized a lot from MiniCPM-Llama3-v2.5
“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.”

— Aleister Crowley
Couldn't find anything online to play a simple tic tac toe game with my friends that didn't require signing in or was ad-free, so I made one :)
Why would you want to do this? It seems to me like cutting yourself.
This and flexbox froggy are great to dive into css layouts in a fun way.
It is mind boggling for 13kb. After a few minutes I didn't even feel the difference. Just perfect.
Well, you've almost convinced me.

One quick question though, what was the "powder" used on, say, the Apollo missions?

I've always heard the Saturn V launch had a J-2 liquid propellant rocket engine that used used liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen.
Yes, but the whole value proposition of Circle is rewriting existing C++ libraries in safe C++. Because if not, you could "just" use Rust and call them from there. And without an open source compiler that won't happen, even if it would be free as in beer.
I don’t know man. Since the invention of pens/pencils, language has gravitated towards not lifting the pencil. It looks like I can write that in cursive in about 2 seconds. In other words, in the same amount of time it takes for me to draw a really shitty triangle, I can have written an entire word.
This is a bizarre way to look at a private transaction for a luxury good.

Nobody needs a Tesla.

If a wealthy person pays $100k for a car, it’s because they think it’s worth $100k.

If the price later drops to $80k, that’s not money out of the first persons pocket. They were willing to trade $100k for a car they wanted.

And by this very logic, lowering the price of goods over time is bad. What a insane world we’d live in if that were true.
> it's probably not as bad as it looks, because AFAIK the actual executable only gets loaded once and then reused

The actual foot executable is 427kb. RAM consumption win in the server setup is the shared glyph cache, which is most of the usage at startup.

> alacritty is only using <2MB total on my box

That would be less than the image it’s drawing on screen, the glyph cache, or alacritty’s 11Mb executable. How are you measuring?
Well, you can use an approach like CosmicOS [1] to bootstrap a functional computer to the alien hardware and then write a JavaScript interpreter and display in that bootstrapped language. In fact autonomous agents might be needed in general due to the long round-trip time of such interstellar messages.

[1] https://cosmicos.github.io/
This happens to people who read more than they talk. I never hold it against them.
Bulletin concerning failure of auto throttle on a Boeing 737-8K5 on takeoff
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/665092d816cf3...

"...The manufacturer described the A/T system on the 737NG as having a long history of
nuisance disconnects during takeoff mode engagements. When the fault history of the A/T
is checked they often show fault messages for the autothrottle servo motor (ASM) for either
throttle lever 1 or 2. Usually, subsequent functionality checks on the system find no faults.
Investigations by the aircraft manufacturer together with the manufacturer of the ASM found
that an earlier model of the motor was more susceptible to power on or power transfer
events which can cause the ASM to shut down internally..."
I wanted to like Joplin but it's not very fast. It takes like 5 seconds just to start.

So now I use: https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes
As usual, there are exceptions as well. For example some streets in Berlin use a "horseshoe" numbering system. I tend to look for the house numbers of opposing houses when I enter a street I don't know to check if it is horseshoe or even-odd numbering.
You can't blame the game for your own discipline.
Think chromium compile is widely used
Then you see their feed one time and cry cause there’s no way to copy it to your account.
Interactive Sky Map
Super cool article. My grandmother is from Spain and it’s fascinating to learn more about history from this time period. A cousin once took me to the military Maritime museum in Madrid and there’s a lot to mull over regarding the scientific/technology priorities of like, 600 to 1000 years ago.

Writing this on a sailboat right now, with gps and internet, crazy how quickly things change but also stay the same

Edit: it’s also so fascinating how the unit was altered over time and re-enscribed/calibrated. Hardware updates! Reminds me of some posts recently about imaging ancient scrolls and reading the original but erased text/script
> How do politically motivated troll armies influence an election in a reality where people don't use social media as their primary news source? Answer: They don't.

To what degree do they "influence" an election in our "reality"? (And, how many people can even genuinely and substantially wonder what the truth of the matter is after growing up in countries subject to Western "influence"?)
These are decent GPUs for anything other than heavy gaming. I'm driving two 4k screens with it, and even for some light gaming (such as factorio) it's completely fine.
Utopian Language by Thomas More
Ah yes, thanks for the clarification. So, two mishaps are needed for this to work: a site needs to be hacked and the user database stolen, and, a person needs to use the same user/password for all sites. Takeaway: never use the same password twice. Got it.
Huge improvement over my 5k series processor.
(Re: Osborne effect) It's going to be released in 2 years. Rarely can businesses wait that long, they're going to be ordering the MI300 now.
It's not especially hot but definitely a problem if broken to pieces and scattered, like might happen if a tinkerer gets their hands on it and doesn't know what it is. Like most of the people at the swap shop I imagine.
Above I'm answering to the propose explanation that basically "Europeans don't buy them because they can't afford them", so my comment should be read as:

"nah, it's not that, as people with higher disposable incomes *in the EU* don't buy such trucks either".

I just left out the "in the EU" there, to be implied by the context I was replying to.

That said, I didn't mean to imply that "buying a truck was people status signalling that they were affluent" in the US.

Just that they think (or made to think) they need it, and that they culturally like the extravaganza - same way many in the US think they need bigger cars and sneer at European sized cars.
>> Turns out that deplatforming works and has overall positive results.

Did you read this?

"Horta Ribeiro et al. (2021) assessed the impact of deplatforming across multiple platforms, concentrating on the migration of users from banned subreddits to newly established platforms. Their findings indicated a significant decline in user activity on the new platforms. However, they also found a subset of users who increased their toxicity and radicalization."

They specifically call out that departed users in past studies end up MORE Radicalized. So the people who leave get worse in some cases.

This study looks at those that remain on redit and found that:

"Our results reveal that 15.6% of the affected users abandoned Reddit after the ban and that those who remained reduced their toxicity by 6.6% on average. Despite this modest toxicity reduction, 5% of users increased their toxicity by more than 70% of their pre-ban level. The presence of such resentful users was widespread across the analyzed subreddits. However, these users likely had little impact on the platform given that only 16% of users increased both toxicity and activity. Likewise, only 21% users increased toxicity and also obtained positive engagement from the community."

Your calling that effective? It's hardly a dent in reddit, and further more the people who left likely went off and got worse.

I referenced 1984 for a reason:

"Other promising avenues of future research are the development of predictive models for the outcome of moderation interventions. These would allow to estimate the likely effects of an intervention in advance of its application, enhancing the possibility to plan the strategic enforcement of moderation actions."

This should never be a thing in our word. EVER. the fundamental assumption that it will only be used by the right people is the very thing Orwell was raging against in 1984...
I meant to reply to GP about partial updates rather than parent post about keeping connection open.
The Internet Is for Porn.

People are hypocritical. There are a lot of religion fanatics, prude morality fighters and others activists fighting against "sins". But in the end of day they all come home and watch porn. And many pay for it directly or indirectly.

And markets with most prude societies are usually ones with highest porn consumption. Humanity.
Indeed for me that's the only standout from this release, 48gb not too overpriced.
If you curate your feed, TikTok offers plenty of useful content, way beyond what you could find on 2000's cable tv, or anywhere else even today.

Piggy backing to comment on:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40559854

How can tech people misunderstand social media ML algorithms so badly....gee, I wonder what could cause that.
This is huge, this was my only gripe with cudf!
At provincial grade school, I was top of most classes with very little effort. It made me lazy. But in higher education I finally met people who were significantly more capable than me (at least in my chosen specialism). I had to raise my game, and it still wasn’t enough to be top again. In postgraduate study, I met one person who I swear had superhuman powers. I check in on him occasionally to see what he’s become president of.

Throughout my working career I’ve spotted this pattern time and time again: the jobs where everybody thinks you’re great are the ones where you’re learning the least.
For most instructions, both Intel and AMD CPUs with AVX-512 support are able to do two 512-bit instructions per clock cycle. There is no difference between Intel and AMD Zen 4 for most 512-bit AVX-512 instructions.

I expect that this will remain true for Zen 5 and the next Intel CPUs.

The only important differences in throughput between Intel and AMD were for the 512-bit load and store instructions from the L1 cache and for the 512-bit fused multiply-add instructions, where Intel had double throughput in its more expensive models of server CPUs.

I interpret AMD's announcement that now Zen 5 has a double transfer throughput between the 512-bit registers and the L1 cache and also a double 512-bit FP multiplier, so now it matches the Intel AVX-512 throughput per clock cycle in all important instructions.
Dealing with leap seconds is very expensive. What happens if countries like China, Russia or Iran just decide to ignore leap seconds? We will have a clusterfuck of time zones divergent by a few seconds!

I am really into astronomy. But dealing with this, just so stars pass local meridian exactly at 00:00:00.000 is simply not worth it!

And one funny note, astronomers still use use Julian calendar (one made by Ceasar without Gregorian corrections in 16th century) to avoid similar issues. They avoid their own inventions!
https://looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...

:D
Perhaps China, but Russia is entirely dependent on them.

Russia isn't the USSR anymore for a long time, where it's GDP was the same as the US.
I can relate. I am now on a small team of half a dozen (2 front, two back, 2 devops). We've been smashing it for the last year, replaced a hodgepodge of systems with a configurable framework and a modular integration layer with third-party systems. As a reward our work the management are bringing in a consultancy we are supposed to train to replace us. That will be a very expensive and inefficient exercise. How do I know? Our small team was created to deliver what the previous consultancy could not do in 5+ years. That experience taught me once again that management in large organisations have no idea what they want to build, how to build it, how to maintain it, and that's where large consultancies come in, milk the client for all they can and leave a massive mess behind them.
Here is a set of lecture slides on the changing form of Maxwell's equations including the component form (which was apparently Maxwell's very first version), the quaternion form which came second and then Heaviside's version[1]

Fun fact about Heaviside (that noone asked for) - he's also the guy who invented the "cover up" method of doing partial fraction decomposition quickly.[2]

[1] https://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/gravitation/mitarbeiter/hehl/Ma...

[2] https://math.mit.edu/~jorloff/suppnotes/suppnotes03/h.pdf
Basic training isn't supposed to be a healthy work environment. It's about breaking the recruits down and reforming them into perfect, interchangeable cogs that won't interfere with the operation of the machine.

Recruits leave with a sense of pride and belonging, and they fit seamlessly wherever they end up, doing their required work with minimal hassle. They address problems at the lowest possible level (e.g., a supervisor handles the discipline--no need to run it up to management unless the ramifications are severe.)

Notionally, anyway.
Model-Based RL (1/?)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-s-latest...

Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/BB1nr5UA
This may be totally dumb, but if the variation is attributed to the tides, is it possible that global warming affected it? With the ice cap melting, there is more sea water sloshing around instead of just floating at the top.
Looks really nice !
This reminds me of a HN post way back, there was an article about Min versions of websites. With images and large media filtered out, so it's the bare minimum, usually just text.
The title is kinda odd. "Lowering resource usage of foot with systemd" sounds more appropriate.

Not knowing that foot is a terminal emulator, I assumed that foot is some kind of improved resource manager that allows for a general lesser resource usage.
You can look at the Geekbench 6 component.

https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench6-benchmark-internals... (page 18)
Well put. This notion of "ignorabimus"[1] which he opposes would seem to have gathered a great deal of evidence in the meantime. What I wish was more widely understood today was the cost of attempting to use models that are effective in the natural sciences in domains where they seem to be consistently ineffective. The replication crisis [2] , where in some cases less than 40% of key studies in psychology and the social sciences could be replicated, is often chalked up to improper statistical analysis or lack of integrity on the part of the authors. But it seems more likely to be the result of relentlessly applying linear mathematics and statistical methods to a domain where things simply do not work the way they works in physics or the natural sciences. To be sure - there is some baby in that bathwater, but the social "sciences" have thus far failed to articulate the domains that are baby and the domains that are bathwater. The amount of human effort and time that is wasted because "We must know" and "We will know" - trying to fit a square peg in a round hole - seems immense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignoramus_et_ignorabimus
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Here's a fun thought: As humans dig heavy materials out of the earth and build taller buildings, we increase the moment of inertia of the planet. This theoretically slows the rotation of the earth.

Of course, given the huge mass of the earth, the effect so far would be negligible. But maybe it would be noticed in the distant future if it were done on a much much greater scale than it is today.

As more food for thought, we are also changing the moment of inertia by putting so many planes in the sky, and by sending mass to space. If every plane were to land, the earth should rotate slightly faster.
I find it extraordinarily disappointing and not in the spirit of 'Show Hacker News' when a service is posted that does not have a free tier to sample.

Perhaps I'm wrong in this case but the minimum payment to sample this service is $95.
Can you help me understand what is the point of this project? :)
I don’t think it’s fair to diminish sports because you personally suffered injuries or long term damage, there are only a handful of sports that carry risks of that severity, where most people will probably get hurt after some time.

Sitting down all day wrecks everyones body indiscriminately unless they are undoing the damage every day.
Because 99.9% of twitch problems, and bad press, from the last few years are focused on people using Twitch as an onlyfan funnel. I would cut them out asap.
Developers build software whereas programmers merely flick the switches on an Altair 8800 /s
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/lung-cancer-was-a-dea...

Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/BB1ntKbB
I wish it had AVX512 Fp16.
That quote has been attributed to many different people in similar forms over the last year or two.
Here's GB6: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/6339005?baselin...

Note: M3 Max is a 40w CPU maximum, while 7950x is a 230w CPU maximum. The stated 170w max is usually deceptive from AMD.

Source for 7950x power consumption: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17641/lighter-touch-cpu-power....

Note that the M3 Max leads in ST in Cinebench 2024 and 2-3x better in perf/watt. It does lose in MT in Cinebench 2024 but wins in GB6 MT.

Cinebench is usually x86 favored as it favors AVX over NEON as well as having extremely long dependency chains, bottlenecked by caches and partly memory. This is why you get a huge SMT yield from it and why it scales very highly if you throw lots of "weak" cores at it.

This is why Cinebench is a poor CPU benchmark in general as the vast majority of applications do not behave like Cinebench.

Geekbench and SPEC are more predictive of CPU speed.
I just added tags that can help to filter out: https://cybersectools.com/tags/. Not all tags are super accurate but will improve on that as well
Leap seconds are in the process of being abolished. The ITU-R confirmed their part of the agreement at the world radiocommunication conference last year (the ITU-R’s triennial treaty update); the next stage is the CGPM in 2026 (the BIPM’s triennial treaty update).
I compiled a few previously. Sorry for the formatting:

ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024)

Processor: Intel Core Ultra 9 185

Memory: 32GB

Cargo Build: 31.85 seconds

Cargo Build --Release: 1 minute 4 seconds

ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024)

Processor: AMD Ryzen 8945HS / Radeon 780M

Memory: 32GB

Cargo Build: 29.48 seconds

Cargo Build --Release: 34.78 seconds

ASUS ROG Strix Scar 18 (2024)

Processor: Intel Core i9 14900HX

Memory: 64GB

Cargo Build: 21.27 seconds

Cargo Build --Release: 28.69 seconds

Apple MacBook Pro (M3 Pro 11 core)

Processor: M3 Pro 11 core

Cargo Build: 13.70 seconds

Cargo Build --Release: 21.65 seconds

Apple MacBook Pro 16 (M3 Max)

Processor: M3 Max

Cargo Build: 12.70 seconds

Cargo Build --Release: 15.90 seconds

Firefox Mobile build:

M1 Air: 95 seconds
AMD 5900hx: 138 seconds
Source: https://youtu.be/QSPFx9R99-o?si=oG_nuV4oiMxjv4F-&t=505

Javascript builds

Here, Alex compares the M1 Air running Parallels emulating Linux vs native Linux on AMD Zen2 mobile. The M1 is still significantly faster. https://youtu.be/tgS1P5bP7dA?si=Xz2JQmgoYp3IQGCX&t=183

Docker builds

Here, Alex runs Docker ARM64 vs AMD x86 images and the M1 Air built the image 2x faster than an AMD Zen2 mobile. https://youtu.be/sWav0WuNMNs?si=IgxeMoJqpQaZv2nc&t=366

Anyways, Alex has a ton more videos on coding performance between Apple, Intel and AMD.

Lastly, this is not M1 vs Zen2 but it's M2 vs Zen4.

LLVM build test

M2 Max: 377 seconds
Ryzen 9 7940S: 826 seconds
Despite these machines, a person can easily spend an hour or two every day on common household tasks like cleaning the kitchen and doing laundry. That’s time that many people would love to get back.
Intrestingly reading the news first here rather than from a local media as a Chinese.

And after this I try to find news on lcoal media and where I normally get news from, but it's obviously not on any front page or things like that.

It is fun.
As a young guy who was (un)lucky enough to be exposed to punchdown terminals as a field technician for AT&T…

Fuck punchdowns and everyone who said “good enough for me” when deciding to adopt them.

On a brand new install? Sure it works great!

In a box that has been sitting in the rain for a little over a decade? No.
Which language is this writing system meant for? It doesn't seem like a great fit for English due to the vowel system. Based on a quick check, something like 40% of the most common words will require using at least one wovel placeholder. (Either start with a vowel or have two vowels in a row).

Also, you say in the intro that this script is intended to have some unique advantages. What are they? The article doesn't actually mention any.
No, it is referring to the x that is being initialized, and uses uninitialized memory to initialize x. -Wall will even print a helpful reminder. Compare:

int f(int x) {
int x = x; // second x is not argument
return x;
}

and:

int f(int x){
// here second x is argument
return [x=x] { return x; }();
}
This is a key question for real-life use cases. YAML is a markup language so you cannot program and add logic in it.

I think about having a set of hooks that trigger the code logic hosted somewhere. Language-agnostic / serverless, that kind of stuff maybe... Any ideas ?
Go down the simple path to start, and refactor to a more complex solution when it makes sense to do so. If experience tells you the client is definitely going to ask for it later, add a “break condition” that tells you when you need to upgrade. You can put entry points into the code - comments, interfaces - to make it easier to do the upgrade.
Someone knowledgeable should do the math
> they absolutely will not let you sign up for a room monthl

Ours seems to
Can you point me to a comparison site? Didn't find a M3/M2/7950/... comparison site for chromium compile times :-(

(Even phoronix is scares and mostly focuses on laptops - I have no laptop)
I think it's not answered in the slides. Instead they offer two hypotheses for the _characteristic_ of the observation of the declining length-of-day in the last 20 years, with all known effects removed such as the Metonic Cycle: Random walk & Linear.

They present the consequences of adopting one or the other prediction model, but only because one has to be adopted for practical decisions. Not because we necessarily know what's going on.

We can't know now which is the correct model. As always, only time and observation will tell.