skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL, but I believe that under US law you are allowed to pay bribes to get someone to do their job in places where that is customary. You just aren't allowed to pay bribes to get someone to do something that they aren't supposed to do.
>I'm not saying they're wrong. I am saying I've never once seen a situation where adding more managers would improve velocity.

Not everything is about velocity, you also need focus in the right areas.
The error is in the texts in one of the images. Observing that someone doesn’t appear to be familiar with the thing they’re writing about isn’t a logical fallacy.
You'll be pleased to know that you got at least one sale from this post. I've struggled a bit to go from knowing Phoenix reasonably well to grokking LiveView. Looking forward to finding some time to dive into your course.
I mean the article basically clarifies, they're killing it through in-action, it's basically stagnant and postgresql is eating it for lunch by basically every metric.
I’ll still respect Valve for clearly CARING so much about what they do, in a world full of garbage people selling out beloved properties for a quick dirty buck. I’m not super hopeful I’ll ever get what would have been the amazing follow up to Alyx (really, episode 2), as yeah, VR didn’t explode. I never expected Alyx in the first place though so… maybe will be surprised in 10 years! I’m super happy for them about the Steam Deck success, this thing is legitimately awesome.
Can’t even have toilet paper without the logging industry. Housing would be pretty savage if we had to build everything out of rocks and mud. I strongly believe that any currently old growth forests should be protected but everything else really is just a crop.
Looking to get rid of a few?....
> It would be interesting to see if this is used for the AI OS that they are inviting researchers to validate for security purposes.

That would imply either:

1. Bare-metal Linux AI OS runs on Apple Silicon. Apple could contribute Apple Silicon firmware/hardware support to Asahi and mainline Linux.

2. Virtualized Linux AI OS runs on Apple Silicon Hypervisor. Apple could contribute mainline Linux guest support for Apple Hypervisor. They could also support Linux VMs on MacOS and iPadOS which run on Apple Hypervisor, for M2+ devices with hardware support for nested virtualization.
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> Their work on folding and ai could very well be a business worth in the hundreds of billions and they know it as well as many other bets.

And we'll be writing case studies of how they squandered billions of R&D to help found other companies (kinda like Xerox Parc)

Almost every interesting paper after transformers has had it's authors leave to commercialize their own companies.
Honestly I’d disagree. I was a bit confused at first but moment I realized I could resize the grid, the answer strikes me as obvious and clear. Yes, in some theoretic sense you can argue a 3 x 3 grid answer is fine, but shows this to 100 different humans and majority would agree that resizing the grid is the obvious and more natural solution.
> Since we did not have time to change the cooling infrastructure, we had to remain in an air-cooled environment. The mechanical and thermal designs had to change to accommodate this, and that triggered a validation cycle to support a large-scale deployment.

> All of these hardware-related changes were challenging because we had to find a solution that fit within the existing resource constraints, with a very small degree of freedom to change and meet a tight schedule.

Seems like the time constraints put into the team impacted the overall quality of the model.
We’ve all got to pull together on this one
The experience has been good overall, with the only challenges being the lack of documentation and optimization that comes with a new project. It is not optimized for performance, which they have acknowledged. It looks like they're making significant changes and will likely address this soon.

I chose iced primarily because it kept popping up when I searched for libraries to use, and System76 is using it for their CosmicDE (although I'm sure they've added a ton to the version they're using). The Elm architecture is new to me, but coming from React, I could wrap my head around it pretty easily.
> The NVIDIA firmware blob and drivers could run on RISC-V right now

They actually do... Nvidia GSP runs RISC-V: https://www.techpowerup.com/291088/nvidia-unlocks-gpu-system... which furthers prove your point
csv file with emails + python thing to send them using postmark

it took an hour every time I had to do anything, and I ended up with a collection of python scripts that solved random problems that were already solved somewhere else, which grew and grew

I tried a few programmable shared inbox tools and they were all clunky and meh. tried lighter things like supabase + some golang list manager, also meh.

postmark has a CRM they acquired, iirc it was too expensive

zoho seems reasonable on price, but did not try it

but to be clear, even if I paid up for something dumb like hubspot, my life would have been simpler and better

zapier is a good place to shop for these
if we're talking custom silicon, Google acquired Motorola in 2011, and Apple acquired PA semi in 2008.

The idea is obvious to everybody in the industry, it's a question of money and motivation.
It depends on how open the particular drivers are implemented. E.g. over the last couple of years the Nvidia driver situation for cards from the last 3 generations has changed across pretty much all 3 major levels:

1. Originally you had to use the proprietary binary driver to get anything useful to happen with your card at all. Updating the kernel without updating this would more or less lead to having an expensive brick in your PC. Some Wi-Fi adapters fall into the "can't really be updated" category as well. A _LOT_ of ARM shit is like this.

2. nvidia-open came along (still beta for desktop cards at the moment) and it puts enough in the kernel that you can update the kernel without needing an updated binary driver for your card to function

3. nouveau/nvk have very recently started to come to a decently usable state (i.e. they have reclocking via GSP and somewhat usable graphics API coverage/efficiency) for an even more open driver stack which tracks system updates even better.

If your binary blobs fall into 1/2 then long term upgrades can be anywhere from impossible to unreliable. If they fall into 2/3 they can be anywhere from somewhat reliable to "will be working longer than any sane person would still be trying to update the kernel on that device". E.g. the AMD 7750 is 12 years old but can run OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan via the latest AMDGPU driver in mainline mesa/kernel.

LTS distros solve this by using LTS kernels and security patching them rather than requiring "actual" underlying OS updates during the version lifecycle.
https://archive.ph/XcACh
> I think that in Anglo-American culture it's also usually a faux-pas to confront a 'phony' in casual conversation.

I think it's typically a faux-pas to call out someone's bullshit/faults/shortcomings in mixed company in most situations. It's also not very likely to result in anything constructive or make you look good. Sometimes the truth just needs to be said, but generally you're better off telling people that truth in private or (when it really matters) raising concerns with someone who can do something about it.

Calling someone out in public is high risk with little benefit. Rolling your eyes, biting your tongue, and letting someone dig themselves into a deeper hole is usually a smarter move.
Poetry isn't really a package manager as much as packaging management (as in packaging and publishing your specific package) and dependency management.
I would like to know what they were right about regarding chapstick usage...
It sounds like they are a lot bigger than I would have expected. This isn't an email you write to 5 people. Perhaps that is a sign of the problem.

I worry that VRChat has worked its way into a local optimum that may be hard to get out of. They've appealed very strongly to niches - people with alternative lifestyles who enjoy the freedom to express themselves in unique and interesting ways. I think it's wonderful but it actively inhibits me from wanting to use VRChat because I don't identify with that. So how do they grow to 10x their current user base without alienating their existing loyal users? This is going to be a classic business dilemma for them I think.
smart money has a diversified portfolio and isn't betting on any one winner and has invested in all of them, and then some.
The idea that something can be seen from space, using modern satellite imaging, isn’t very impressive.

I can see my single car, sitting in my driveway, “from space” via Google Maps. Does this mean I have too many cars?
That includes the Vietnam and Korean wars - lots of pilots got shot down
That's discussed in length in the article.

> Other than a photo lineup, the detective did no other investigation...he relied on [face recognition], believing it must be right. That’s the automation bias this has been referenced in these sessions.

...not just a problem in law enforcement. Pilots may rely too heavily on a planes' gauges, for ex.
I would hardly say the platform is dead. Apple just launched the Vision Pro. That's not a silver bullet but I'm sure they are looking for more apps and games. I hardly think VR is going away.
> Household energy usage is lower in the warmer states, and higher in the colder states.

that's quite the assertion, what makes you believe it to be true?
I didn’t hear about the tweets. What are they about?
The question wasn't "should" but "can". Don't write inflammatory posts that don't answer the question.
the world would love to buy time on your idle H100's if you're selling.
"you're an owner" is very much Amazon's "heads I win, tails you lose"
Python SDK +1
For a second I thought we had a breakthrough in getting custom firmware for printers, namely HP. But yes CUPs is awesome!
While I like them

1, companies are not our friends

2, they ruined gaming foerever with lootboxes pioneered by TF2 and enabled the whole illegal digital gambling system with CSGO which is going for more than a decade
now. They could shut it
down but they don’t because they also benefit from it and the ship has now sailed. And it’s a billion dollar unregulated black market.

3, they ruined gaming forever with the whole battlepass system pioneered by Dota 2
> But that's what it is doing by turning your likes into a reshare. Every like you make becomes part of the flood.

NACK. They're not. Likes are just likes, they're a lower indicator. Reshares are a much stronger endorsement, are intended for rebroadcast, as it says that on the tin. Trying to conflate the two to argue that we should stop making likes available is misdirection & dishonest construction. NACK.

It's obnoxious arguing with people obsessed with themselves. Your welcome to your own opinions & how you want to social, strongly though I disagree with them and find them sad and scared and bad for humanity. But imposing your limited low-information view on others & denying those who would allow this aspect of our socialness, because you claim it doesn't suit you, is egocentric & poor policymaking.
That's not what it says at all though.
Not at all saying it's dead! Just a vastly smaller market space than say, doing crud stuff or ML in the year of our Lord 2024. I'm a huge VR enjoyer and I hope the medium flourishes.
Had they gone the route of open development, modder would have, and had been, developing a lot of functionality for the platform for free. Instead, they slapped Easy Anti-Cheat and killed the modding community.

Close walled platforms will always wither sooner or later. They had massive potential back in 2021, when VRChat felt like the start of a new internet. Instead of letting the communities flourish, they were tempted by VCs and their unsustainable business model.
I'm shocked no one has mentioned Close.com

I've been using it for close to ten years and can't imagine using another CRM.

I believe they were an early YC company as well.
I’d love a book of cool Greek insults.
If you consider concrete and cement to be rocks and mud, no, outside of NA, most of the world uses stones and mud just fine.

~~atleast an angry drunk can't punch through my wall~~
This assumes that you can linearly scale up the number of TPUs to get equal performance to Nvidia cards for less cost. Like most things distributed, this is unlikely to be the case.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/05/x...
I think the focus here is "volume of unsold inventory".

Comparing with your car in your driveway is completely irrelevant to the article and strawmanning.
AI allows people to 'express themselves in unique and interesting ways' far more than VR does. Text and image generation allow people to create worlds completely tailored to themselves, this time unlimited by the need for other people to play along.

So AI competes with VR both for users (The type willing to pay for cutting edge consumer tech experiences) and investment (AI is the big thing, VR is so 2022), and labour (How many researchers want to work in VR over AI?)
He’s flipped it.
>Close walled platforms will always wither sooner or later.

There are just so, so many cases where this hasn't happened, and where walled gardens have thrived. And also many examples to the contrary, in which open platforms have failed.
I'll take the opportunity for a shameless plug on LiveView Native. In addition to mobile apps we can also build for desktop, watch, TV, and even Apple Vision Pro. All using LiveView concepts, performance, and ease of development.
What makes you think they are bringing over Android's display stack?
> This starts to matter quite a bit at the millions/billions of rows scale.

Only if you have no other data in the database? Our UTF8 encoded strings easily beat all the UUID’s in terms of storage size.
Velocity is a vector: it includes a direction component. Management is putatively good at getting everyone to go in the same direction so that the sum of the IC vectors don't cancel out. That wasn't one of the problems in the email, though. The CEO failed to choose that direction, or to recognize that they were lacking one and that they needed to hire someone to help them find it.
Nice idea and nicely packaged.

I think they could open the firmware and make plenty of sales from tinkerers, and 'secondary tinkerers' ie people buying the clock to use a particular mod to show the tides, moon phase, stock quotes, or whatever.
So the beginning of the middle.
And yet TSLA is up ~10% right now, obviously some of that is probably due to the Feds announcement today but that is a pretty strong movement despite this glut of additional inventory.
The Bid Picture Podcast
I still believe that a VR future is coming once the technology commoditises i.e. costs come down 10x and we have 3090 level GPUs in the headset. At that point we will have photo-realistic experiences like concerts etc that anyone can afford.

And at that point having a lot of LLM based avatars that can help "fill in the space" will be valuable.
what a title...
The Pixel 8 is promised 7, which I believe is the highest of any phone.
Agreed, have fond memories of the game! Just pure FUN for the sake of it! Really cool to read about the tech behind it so many years later, this is very well presented
Sketch (https://www.sketch.com/) they have brought back stand alone license without subscription hell.

Handbrake - Video conversion

Eagle (https://eagle.cool/) collecte and organize all design//visual inspiration at one place(this is also my default screengrab app)

Monodraw - Flowchart, ASCII, Visual thinking app
Seriously, the pass Valve gets from allowing a gambling empire to piggyback on their API and profit from the lootboxes that fuel it is crazy to me. "Yeah they might have a pseudo-monopoly but their product is good, I think the 30% cut is fine." would be laughed at in most other sectors. They barely even try for their market position, people just rejected competition and scream it's not Steam because "I don't want multiple launchers"
I worked on this project:

https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/research/aslam-kerf-news/a...

which had a machine learning component that automatically helped refine syslog SQL queries to find anomolies. More info here:

https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/research/project/kerf/inde...

Before LLM's.
Pretty sure he meant chop.
My guess about roaming between different domestic and international regions: A handshake with the tower tells the phone what is the network type, then software (firmware) controls what frequencies to use. I just cannot believe in 2024 that this problem has not been solved many times over. What exactly is you qualm / concern?
The Elixir REPL is world-class, and I agree that it's a truly killer feature of the language. I miss it terribly when I write stuff in other languages (i.e. any time I'm coding, you know, for money).

Having a good REPL just removes so much of the friction you normally have to contend with in programming. You can build up ideas piecewise and test things as you go, instead of having to make guesses and run the whole damn app just to poke some troublesome piece of code. The Elixir standard library is great, and it's extremely easy to access the docs via the REPL, which I find really helps me stay in the flow. When I'm coding in Elixir, popping over to a browser window to search small questions is pretty rare, because I can usually find the answer without leaving the REPL. This also encourages me to write good docstrings for my own code!

But it gets even better, because you can run the REPL while also running your code. I mentioned above having to "run the whole app to poke a piece of code" - when you find yourself needing to run the app, you're welcome to, and you can manipulate live data (in dev, of course ;) ) and inspect what's going on in ways that you either can't do or need a debugger for in other stacks. And now, with the introduction of some typing facilities, I expect the tools to get even better.

Then there's all the fun and power of the functional paradigm while still having extremely robust ways to deal with mutability and state, and not having to deal with the syntax of LISP (sorry LISP). It's a language that just hits every note for me, I'm a huge fan.
Not to mention the amazing design work of the designers republic: https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/wipeout
I'm not saying it was cocaine but it was probably cocaine.

seriously though, these kinds of closures seem to occur because management is shit rather than the business itself.
Brings a whole new meaning to bus factor
I feel like the US government has a legitimate interest in making sure US corporations don't pay paramilitary death squads for drug traffickers, especially ones that the US had designated as terrorist organizations at the time.

I don't think it's really that controversial to prevent US companies from doing this.

But to be clear they had already pled guilty to doing that crime in 2007 (and they also prosecuted the AUC, many AUC leaders were extradited to the US in 2008).

This isn't about enforcement at all, this is them being found liable in a civil class action lawsuit, one brought by families of folks the AUC murdered.
Time is money. You might be a lab with long queues to train, leaving expensive staff twiddling their thumbs.
Laughable response when you actually look at the quality of the algorithms being produced by Google. They’re so behind it’s embarrassing.
Neither example is meant to be implied as the only possible way of for forming that kind of distrust rather examples of logic used and types of conclusions reached. I could just have easily said "people who think lizard people want to hold us back from discovering advanced math" as a reason some deeply distrust all formal math and your response would be focusing on how there are other ways (besides lizard people) to deeply distrust all existing math - completely sidestepping the actual point point around the absurdity and unfalsifiability of the type of conclusion about deep distrust of all of math itself vs the types of conclusions normal distrust reaches (e.g. "I know not everything in a maths textbook will always be right but I can try to think about each consideration independent of a central conspiracy on all of math".

Put another way without specific example or analogy: if there is some organization as large as a nation's government (thousands upon thousands of organizations, possibly millions of people) and you can't weigh things done by said government without always invoking a single nefarious/secretive plot or group being behind it every time then you've left the realm of standard or reasonable distrust and entered the realm of unfalsifiable, unhinged thinking the article is meaning by deep distrust. Even the worst governments in our world's history aren't reasonably measured that way. The alternative to this is not blind trust, it's normal distrust GP was arguing for.
It's on revenue not profit.
Hard to say but the "up to" may be only the limit the framework company wants to stock and sell.

With regards to the memory I went looking and the framework has 2 ddr5 laptop dimm slots. The largest I was able to find were 48 gb modules so the physical limit may be 96gb.

And as a closing note, this was the first time I really looked at the framework laptop page. And while I am still not sure about the build quality or the usefulness of the "ports". the number of guides and photos of laptops under surgery sold me, I think I found my next machine.
Loops of fury is a banger… this whole time was great for music!
There is also no incentive for the human in the loop to question the computer. If the computer was right and a human thinks it's a false positive, then the human will be blamed later.

Whereas if you just rubber stamp what the computer said, then you're in the clear no matter what.
"10 years of updates" for Google products is a bold claim. Will ChromeOS even exist in 2034, let alone run on 2024 hardware?
US is primarily English speaking and is not common law based. I assume the same is true for many Carribbean and Pacific island nations.
Linux offers no stable driver API; they claim that submitting your drivers into the kernel tree is a good substitute, but they have strict requirements on what kind of code they will accept and also decline contributions out of basically organisational politics reasons. So in practice you're locked out from any old or obscure hardware unless you have a lot of time to spend playing kernel politics, keeping up with their API changes, or both.
Maintaining large-scale AI capacity at Meta
For anyone interested:

The famous Knuckleball pitcher Tim Wakefield of the Sox recently passed from cancer last year, his wife Stacy also passed from cancer only 5 months after.

The Impossible Career Of Tim Wakefield - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpZfKftTEIQ

Tim was part of the 2004 Red Sox that broke the 86 year long curse. The entire series is on Youtube and possibly one of the greatest baseball series of all time. Here's game one, enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rLWrD1ipi0

https://www.mlb.com/video/red-sox-pay-tribute-to-tim-wakefie...

Something I liked - "If you laugh, you think, and you cry that's a full day."

A guy threw a knuckle in tribute to Wakefield as an opening pitch this season, sorry I can't find it tonight but if someone could find it that'd be nice. Good on 'em.
When I look at the horse in the main photo, the way one of its ears sticks out makes it look like a unicorn.
Yes, there may be a large amount of undescribed fungal species diversity, but most of it doesn't take the form of distinctive, visibly novel macroscopic structures. A lot of new species descriptions are of cryptic species, species only distinguishable to an expert eye, entirely microbial species, unremarkable little brown things, species only known from sequences in enviromental samples, and so on. I have spent years rambling around tropical forests and have only had a handful of "what the hell is that?" moments that turned out to be truly unusual.