skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an uncharitable interpretation of the facts.

The thing about climate change in prehistory is that it drives changes to human life. Archaeologists put glacial maxima on their timelines because it's such an important factor when trying to understanding human migration, the spread of new technologies that do better in drier or wetter climates, the shift to different food sources, and so on. This predates the current climate-aware political landscape.

If 90% of a species is killed off by climate change, and if for hundreds of thousands of years that species survived glacial maxima in reservoir populations in areas that are now populated by starving humans who kill the remaining 10%, was it the climate or the humans who wiped out the species? The changing climate killed more, but the humans were the differentiating factor, so which one do you point the finger at?

I don't think it's right to call that denialism.
Are you on the B-list, as in: billionaire ?
They changed the return policy on some items to 90 days. Electronics comes to mind.
In the case of the United States, it's not appropriate to equate the country with the current regime, since the party in power (Democrat / Republican) changes every few years, and although you may disagree, I do not view the two parties as equivalent or as forming one party.

In the case of Russia, it is completely appropriate to refer to the regime by country name, since Putin has been in power forever.

Anyway, this is a useless tangent. It should by now be clear to you and anyone else reading what I mean, even if it was not initially clear.
IndiGo plane lands as Air India aircraft takes off from same runway
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40675577
I paid two grand for my V-star. I'm phenomenally happy with it, and it's probably the best stress relief I've ever experienced.
Seems to work.

I think my son's learning Japanese by watching Anime on Crunchyroll.
Why don't modern smart phones have FM tuners is the real question.
Okay I can buy that and the IIHS report seems to back it up with “27% of the fatally injured motorcyclists in 2022 were younger than 30, compared with 80% in 1975.”

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/motor...

I think the stats I was thinking of might be the NHTSA crash stats, and they have a section on age correlations. If younger riders are getting safer, that would lead to higher percent of older riders having trouble.

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
What’s hilarious is several years later, they gave themselves a headache with military hardware in a commercial, a Harrier.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc.
> how darn computationally intensive it is to compress.

which i think is fine, as most decompression is on user side, but compression is on server side (and mostly only ever done once!).
SVT-AV1 2.1 Released with yet More Performance Improvements
22 years ago, Microsoft was pushing “.net my services”, also known as Hailstorm - but after announcement and initial push it was suspended[1]. But looking back at it - many of the services they were describing have been reemerging (if not just copied). I’m sure there will be parts of Recall AI that will survive, just maybe not with Microsoft driving.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/business/technology-micro...
Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments
> a way for those who are suffering to abscond themselves of the burden to change their behaviour.

Much as you've absconded yourself of the burden of using words correctly.

"Abscond" means "to depart secretly and hide oneself" - it makes little sense in the above context.
None of which has much to do with learning language.
That seems kind of extreme. While I wouldn't take this paper as proof that the sun is causing pandemics, the correlation is an interesting bit of trivia.
Cite for numbers?
The R35 was borne from the popularity of folks in the early 2000s playing Gran Turismo and the Fast and Furious movies. And also Carlos Ghosn.

All those things might be aging out (especially Carlos Ghosn, who had to escape from Japanese prison inside a box)
I think short bullet points are great. That way the audience can take them in quickly (I highlight one at a time to prevent them from reading ahead/behind) without being distracted for more than a fraction of a second. It also helps people to see how many items are being discussed (e.g., "there are three reasons that language X is better than language Y"). For me at least, that makes it easier to remember the reasons, since it functions as a checksum.
> Proof is left as an exercise.

Rather conclusive one already established in the ML field.
Artists are probably not the best example of happy people, but I understand your intent
it's much slower, gets things wrong, and insists on things that ain't so.
So my main motivation is not so much to have the lowest cost, but to have the most predictable cost.

Knowing up front this is my fixed ML budget gives me peace of mind and gives me room to try stupid ideas without worrying about it.

Whereas doing it in the cloud you can a) get slammed with some crazy bill by accident, b) have to think more about what resources testing an idea will take, or conversely c) getting GPU FOMO and thinking “if just upgrade a level all my problems will be solved”.

It works for me, everybody mileage varies but personally I like to budget; spend; and then totally focus on my goals and not my cloud spend.

I’m also from the pre-cloud era, so doing stuff on my own bare metal is second nature.
I didn't work at Sun, and I have no inside knowledge. But I lived through it;

1) Sun made expensive gear. Nice stuff to be sure, but too expensive for home use. Target market was therefore "business".

2) Intel improved quickly. So every couple years Intel machines basically doubled in performance. When your hook is "fastest" you need to iterate very fast to stay ahead.

3) every time Intel got faster, some part of the market got lost. Which means convincing existing customers their hardware is obsolete and time to buy again. Folk are being sold really expensive gear and then told its obsolete barely a few years later.

4) dot com bust floods the market with cheap everything, including cheap Sun hardware.

5) network effects (software availability, using the same computer at work, at home, at school, experience at prior wotkplaces) all work against Sun. (In another thread I see an ex-Sun person referring to windoze- if all else fails, try shaming the client into making "better choices".)

Java (write once, run anywhere) was a play to improve software availability, but folks selling Java software weren't really interested in supporting niche platforms (so yeah, it probably runs on Sun, but we don't have one so we don't support that). Plus Java became "write once, debug everywhere".

In short Sun lost because Wintel was everywhere, and Sun was too expensive, and ultimately had no edge. In a market with network effects there are winners and everyone else fails.
imho. (!)

indirect:

because we live in "capitalism"? eg. companies are "in it" for the money / the profit!?

* if i sell you a car, i want to sell you the most expensive car you are willing to buy, because that increases my profit.

cars are products, which you buy once every xx years, not every week, not 2 or 3 at once etc. so as a company i have to "make out of this single sale" as much as possible in terms of money.

i call this the "SUV effect": make everything just a little bit "bigger" with every iteration of the product to justify a price-hike ... accompanied by ads, which tell you, why you need this & that additional feature ... repeat!! ;))

just my 0.02€
It can never be demonstrated that speech could do harm, that's the point. It's entirely up to the receiving end
Tremendous work. I've spoken elsewhere about the massive benefits 12 years and counting of Anki has had on my intellectual growth, and how introducing it to my wife was the secret sauce that let her retake her high school math exams and get into a great university with a major in computer science - I'm fully on board with exposing children to this wonderful, powerful, free tool as early as possible.

It puts knowledge acquisition itself under statistical process control. I can think of nothing more which my child self wanted.
Alternative that pops in my mind is that there is more older riders. That might be due to variance in disposable income. Or change in habits. I wonder how does this correlate with ownership. So is there more over 30 owners and by how much.
This isn’t another Electron app, is it?
Meh, those are spicy but not that spicy...
The biggest boost for the platform, however, came from the standoff between India’s ruling party and X. The latter was caught in a tough spot in early 2021, when it refused to give in to the government’s requests to remove certain posts and accounts that were critical of the Modi government.

Ahhh
Not disagreeing with the overall point here, but there definitely were some high schools with computers and programming classes by then---my mom was teaching programming (FORTRAN) in a Chicago high school starting in 1967. I think she was one of the first dozen or so high school programming teachers in the country but I don't think she was _the_ first.
https://archive.md/jts4M
> Imagine you're spinning a globe with your finger. Obviously not much would happen if you poked outside the globe.

And this is why arcball is not a good solution. I'm not putting my finger on a global. I'm spinning a world, terrain, airplane, etc. There's no "ball" so arc"ball" doesn't fit.

It gets worse. What if there is a ball but it's say 4 cm across on my screen. When I rotate with "arcball" am I touch that ball or some imaginary ball much larger than the visible ball. This problem exists all over depending on the thing I'm trying to rotate, arcball won't match.
I was skeptical when I read the title "yeah, Raycast already does that" but when I visit the site and saw your copy, I am sold. Great work.
Related:

SF startup bosses illegally peddled $100M in Adderall, Feds say
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40677059
Dates, et al, all line up.

To make it easier for others to find: https://wololo.net/2024/04/03/playstation-portal-theflow-con...
Voyager is my favorite science story, its like a Homerian epic.
I have a Lenovo ideapad with the Pentium Silver 6000 chip ($150 on sale at Costco) and it does everything I need with 4gb RAM running Devuan; someday I will upgrade it to 12gb by installing 8gb in it.
No one put you in charge of policing the reading tastes of other people.

Just sayin'.

> Even professors and supposedly educated people read less and less books

"Fewer", not "less". "Book" is a countable noun, not a mass noun.
Technically speaking, how do they accomplish this? Given the amount of advertisers they have, the amount of ads that each advertiser is showing, and the amount of variations of those ads that they’re showing (5s, 15s, etc), I think we can safely rule out the possibly that they’re just splicing together an infinite amount of permutations of ads and videos and saving them to disk.

They must be doing some sort of on-the-fly streaming of these ads? It cannot be the case that they’re trying to actually transcode / edit all those different ad possibilities together.
I found that reading easily and quickly left me more hours in the day to work at skills that are not easily conveyed via literacy.

I could easily be biased though: much of my adult life has involved reading large quantities of material and writing much shorter quantities afterwards; if my life were not text-centric I might've viewed the early start and subsequent advantage as a waste?
This sounds less disruptive to try :0
No need to make them cofounders. Take a loan for N months and pay them (or someone more skilled). Recover the amount when you fund raise. If you get to a decent prototype state, recovering cost of employing 1-2 devs is not too complicated.
Discussion yesterday 45 points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40676221
I'm certain this is the case with humans as well.

Growing up, I had a tight-knit group of four friends in a lower middle-class townhouse community. I think the enthusiasm we all brought to our childhood and embracing our diversity (all four of us were completely different races) helped us all excel as adults. It's been 15-20 years since college, but I remember how socially underdeveloped many of my peers were. Almost two decades since then, it's not a surprise to anyone that the more socially and emotionally in-tune people climb their industries faster.
I answered the financial thinking in another reply, but another factor is I need to know if the model today is exactly the same as tomorrow for reliable scientific benchmarking.

I need to tell if I change I made was impactful, but if the model just magically gets smarter or dumber at my tasks with no warning then I can’t tell if I made an improvement or a regression.

Whereas the model on my GPU doesn’t change unless I change it. So it’s one less variable and LLM are black box to start with.

I may be wrong for Gemini, but my impression is all the companies are constantly tweaking the big models. I know GPT on Monday is not always the same GPT on Thursday for example.
In the United States your address is uniquely identified by an 11 digit number. This is your zip code, the +4 extension, and the last 2 digits of your house number.

If you live on 123 Main Street, Schenectady, NY 12345-6789, then your address can be uniquely represented by 12345678923.

The post office also uses this system for sorting. That way the mail in the truck is in the correct order automatically.
My technical presentations are pretty popular and non-technical people pass my slides around the company, despite having no interest in the topic…

- Having a story is the bread and butter. A presentation will not be interesting without a story

- I regularly comb through my slides as I’m building the presentation to make sure the story flows

- As you watch my presentation, a ton of information will never just appear on the screen. I use the PowerPoint timeline so slides slowly form as I speak, almost as if I was using a whiteboard. No one likes being confronted with a wall of text on a slide advance

- I don’t avoid text only slides but I rarely have them because they are rarely the best way to tell my story or the concept

- I also regularly read through my presentation as I’m building it to make sure it never gets too technical (aka boring) or too non-technical (aka boring). There is a fine balance and if you suddenly have to get too technical, you have to pull back in the next few slides and vice versa

- Despite having very little text, you can actually print out my slides and they still make sense and tell you everything that you need to know because I use a lot of hand drawn visualizations that exactly describe the concept

Lastly, I have to say that it doesn’t matter what app you use to make presentations. A bad artist blames his tools. I personally use PowerPoint because it has both iPad Pencil support and also a full blown animation timeline so are basically making a movie if you know how to use it, although I mostly use it to split slides into smaller parts.
This is exactly how I taught myself to read at age 3, and by age 5 my reading comprehension was collegiate, so I don't really understand what you mean. Language is literally communication through patterns. Patterns of speech, patterns of thoughts, archetypes, it's all patterns.
He was interpreting it generously, which is a pretty good way to keep discussions civil. The site guidelines say to "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says", and I think that has happened pretty well here.
Well skydiving is a lot closer to playing the Russian roulette "for enjoyment" and face an immediate and gruesome death than drinking a couple glasses of wine and possibly get cirrhosis in 50 years.
They shouldn’t have become scientists, then, if they bring morals with them when studying animals.
This url was part of my inheritance from my grand-grandfather, who got it from his grand-grandfather, who got it from his... and so on. A piece of pergament with this address has been a family heirloom for millennias, and my grand-grandson should inherit it from me. Its true meaning has been unknown until just a few years ago.
> prefabricated housing hasn’t had to look like a boring box in decades.

Arguably all the way back to Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion house, nearly a hundred years ago.
In what way is it interesting? And how is it trivia?
Kids today aren't into cars as much as the previous generations were, so the generations of car enthusiast with bedroom posters dreaming of Ferraris and Lamborghinis, of tuning and drifting JDMs, are ageing out along with the cast of Fast and Furious.

Other than some oligarchs, stockbrokers, techbros, and middle aged divorced dads with money, nobody cares that your car is fancy and exclusive.

Same with motorsports who's popularity is aslo dying. The new generation doesn't care about things that go vroom.
Generally, it's a distinction without a meaningful difference. The people you're complaining about don't really care whether or not it's government or civil action. They care that these people are getting away with murder and mass extortion and the only penalty they face is a meager chunk of the profits.

I'm glad that some victims are getting some recompense, but frankly, justice has not really been served.
Nissan has been saying this for years while constantly releasing a new "final special edition" of the R35 just to increase prices and milk more money from fans.
Perhaps this as well: https://youtu.be/hwRNWQ2FwvQ?si=aLE4F7VCmo5cEJNd
You would be surprised how many people can tolerate rain but not extreme heat or cold. Mild climate means our average temperature is 55 and deviates by 10 degrees either way.
Useful and Overlooked Skills
VP8, VP9, and AV1 are all wonderful and unencumbered. However, as awful as the licensing of H.264 is, it does yield reasonable quality even on hardware that is over a decade old.

It is true that for many purposes we can offload encoding onto servers. However, as someone that frequently deals with live video streaming, AV1 is still out of reach on most hardware I am on and VP9 has only been viable for less than a decade. Yes, VP9 and AV1 are superior in terms of quality, but it is truly remarkable that H.264 runs as well as it does and I wish we had a similar unencumbered lightweight/portable codec (VP8 in my experience is about as heavy as VP9 and offers about the same quality as H.264).

At least for audio we now have Opus and Flac (plus MP3 having had its vile patents expire), so hopefully video is the last frontier and VP9 and AV1 will become the standard over this decade.
I had a collegiate reading level at age 5 and still struggled to read many kinds of fiction books which were rooted in familiarity with the human experience. I could get through the books, but I didn't really comprehend them well until I'd read and watched enough media to piece together a more robust model of the world.
This is a very good piece from bbc [1]. It revise IDF claims and how things are not correct and that the death toll is probably much higher because israel destroyed partially or completely most of functional hospitals where death toll numbers are collected.

I am replying assuming a good faith and that your goal is not justifying killing innocent people because it is horrible.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68387864
All of Andrej Karpathy's stuff on YouTube is absolutely top tier. He's a rare example of a brilliant contributor in his field who is an equally brilliant educator.

Start with his short intro to LLMs, only 1 hour long but is dense with valuable stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g
I'm in my 30s and when I don't sleep enough, my memory is directly affected. I struggle to remember words at times (I speak two languages so I might remember the word in the other language). Then I sleep and everything goes back to normal. It is terrifying every time though: do I have Alzheimer? Comes immediately. But then I sleep and everything is fixed
In many ways I'd agree. Its more economical to compress once on the server and send over the internet as small as possible. Compression is both a science and a dark art to me.....yet I recognize that the more you compress data the more CPU usage is needed to decompress that data.
May be drafted in the Ukraine war?
No creepypasta here. Just a barebones html page full of photographs of children being abused.

I didn’t think it necessary to spell it out loud, but apparently it was.
Strong disagree - you can’t practise too much. Looking robotic comes from being nervous that you’ll forget it, because you haven’t practised enough.

Once you’ve delivered it 1000 times you’ll know it so well that it will appear more natural.
It seems to cut both ways. If words are powerful, restricting words is also powerful. It's not clear why this leads to a pro-censorship stance, any more than to an anti-censorship one.
It is reasonably well established that the government can't ask others to do what it can't legally do.

The First Amendment says that the government can't tell the NYT not to publish stories about the price of tea in China.

How is that different from the First Amendment says that the government can't tell Facebook not to publish stories about the price of tea in China?
HOOOOOONK.
sounds like something genai would be good at
It would be useful in some contexts but I wouldn't want to abandon street names and house numbers for it since they do make things easier when giving directions (something like "Take a left at N47°26'39.4 W122°18'03.8" would get out of hand quickly, especially over the phone) and it'd be strange to display something that long on the outside of your house instead of a 3-4 digits.
I have to force myself to bed at 11 or 1130 because my free time starts between 930 and 10 pm.
Lucky I can wake uo at 730, so if I go to bed at 1030pm I'm well rested
I don’t have Twitter blocked but I can’t see anything on it. 80% of the time I get some generic error and “try again”
yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm works best for me, stored in a text field so it doesn't get converted to that ungodly float-since-1899 format and rendered by reference via =TEXT but can still be sorted and compared alphabetically

it is unforgivable that a program used for timeseries data can't interpret an ISO 8901 without third party macros
Google Photo is opaque and unreliable and keeps degrading and corrupting your photos, and if I'm not misremembering, had data loss issues in a past.

OneDrive doesn't have those problems, but its search is even more unreliable than that in Google Photos.

In both cases, the companies go out of their way to remove any controls over classification, or even user agency in search. Like, how hard would it be to list all of the categories it knows for users to browse, as well as on the photo page for users to know all the buckets the photos land in? They go out of their way to not do that.

Not that there are any better alternatives. For example, Samsung gallery app is just as bad, despite running locally on your phone, and on top of that, has data loss issues that the company refuses to admit or fix. For some reason, tech companies managed to fuck up something as basic as a photo gallery.
It's trivially easy to deal with this on input, for example using https://intl-tel-input.com

> For most phone numbers, you just need to round trip them

That would be a great entry in a book, "myths developers believe about phone numbers".
You are grabbing the minimum, it depends on the person. I need 8.5 hours, but last weekend I slept 10 and 10. It was great for recovery, I just didn't have any free time
Plus one for checklists. Checklists are secret sauce