skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also I'm not going to respect the mental health assessments - which you continue to persist in - and which I call gas lighting - of some ableist who thinks that subclinical pathology is a bad thing or relevant to this conversation. What you are engaging in is character assassination and ad hominem reasoning, while addressing my arguments with gross mischaracterization. You're approaching with an immoral and disgusting approach to business, where if I don't exploit the cheapest poorest labor in a way that won't lift them up, then I'm evil. I find you creepy and disturbing.

But I'm not scared of you.

How could we chat voice to voice? I'm curious to see how your abusive unethics, illogic, and harassment tactics will unfold in a voice chat. The benefit is that it will help me harden myself against counter-revolutionaries and pro-capitalists. Considered doing me the honor!
I bought a Quest 3 last week. I have no interest in VR avatars but the games are mindblowing. And I'm getting a serious workout playing them. I don't think VR is the future of social interaction, but it's the future of exercise.

Absolutely 100% would buy again. I can't believe the amount of technology packed into the small box strapped to my face.
>There's also a good chance I could turn 500K into 5M-20M in 10 years with reasonably low risk investments.

Please tell me more about these 25-37% pa low risk 10 year investments.
For me the worst is that everyone copies them and there is not a single one opting for openness as a selling point. Policies that are objectively batshit insane are now accepted as 'the norm' because they are 'good for shareholders' (but this only works for google + apple)
Dan's the man: Why Chinese women are looking to ChatGPT for love?
excited about turning daily operational knowledge into business outcomes
I wonder if Linus has ever made the connection between this problem and his stance against applying the Unix philosophy to kernels :P
In medicine there is billions of dollars to be made by having studies turning out one way, and millions of dollars to be lost by having them turn out the other way. Wiki has a limited section on medicine on their page [1] on the replication crisis, including:

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In a 2012 paper, C. Glenn Begley, a biotech consultant working at Amgen, and Lee Ellis, a medical researcher at the University of Texas, found that only 11% of 53 pre-clinical cancer studies had replications that could confirm conclusions from the original studies.[79] In late 2021, The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology examined 53 top papers about cancer published between 2010 and 2012 and showed that among studies that provided sufficient information to be redone, the effect sizes were 85% smaller on average than the original findings.

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One of the most interesting things in modern times is that China now has a higher life expectancy than the US, yet working conditions can be difficult, Traditional Chinese Medicine is still widely practiced, there is extremely widespread poverty, and access to modern healthcare is relatively limited. I'm certainly not appealing to that traditional medicine, homeopathy or anything of the like. Rather I'm appealing to some sort of nihilism - that I think we know far less than we think we do.

SSRIs would be the best example of this - as the actual experimental evidence for their efficacy leaves them comparable to placebos, yet people treat them as the bleeding edge of treatment for the plethora of disorders they're proscribed for, to say nothing of their tremendous side effects. When we look back in time at all the stupid things people did, we often forget that those things were also seen as the bleeding edge of expert treatment at the time. No less than JFK's sister [2] was lobotomized as was the latest treatment for psychological issues at the time, with the result one could expect. And that was scarcely ~80 years ago. It seems quite arrogant to imagine people 80 years from now will not be looking back at us with similar bemusement.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#In_medicine

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy
I don't live in California, the startup I work for is remote. I don't fear financial ruin because I don't have money, I fear it because I catastrophize everything. There's no evidence to suggest I would be homeless if I lost my job, but that's just where my brain goes.

But I'd like to point out that in your math, you calculated the cost of a car and a rent, but no other living expenses. Also in what universe does a car cost $1000/month??
> Because who else but an idiot would buy a used car for more than they can buy it retail?

Isn't the wait time to get one pretty significant? I doubt the people buying trucks at these prices are overly concerned with deal-hunting.
> The social aspect of vrchat is what makes it popular. None of what you described has any relevance to that.

I bet chatting with Replika or Character AI is satisfying the same needs as VRChat for many of the people that either appeals to. I think that's what they were getting at.
You don't need an alternative. Let's go back to the time when people were viewed by their work.
Microsoft Build 2024 was just as action-packed and busy as last year’s event, and Syncfusion was honored to attend once again at the luminous Summit building of the Seattle Convention Center.

What makes Build such a special event for us is more than just the opportunity to show off what we’ve been working on over the past year. It’s about connecting with developers, understanding their new problems, and learning how Syncfusion can help.
Interesting, I must have had musl preinstalled from some other package. And I did notice that jemallocator started showing up when I compiled for musl, I figured you must have had a good reason. :P
> Though most people don't need their vault to be robust against simultaneous offline edits from multiple devices.

This is one of those very rare cases with potentially huge negative effect to make it into a mandatory feature.

> Dumb file storage

Which still suffers from inefficient incremental updates. Curious whether those other managers deal with that (do they split your vault into parts)?

> What kind of documents would I put in a password file?

Whatever documents you want to securely share with others, various scanned docs, so it's not just a few megs, (e.g., Bitwarden offers up to 1G encrypted file attachments)
(though don't use this either, mine is just a few megs)
I understand that the team at BlueSky is tiny and that they were firstly prioritizing getting a stable, core featureset out, but I firmly believe that keeping posts private to non account holders followed by the iron grip on signups during Twitter's implosion era last year was an enormous strategic blunder that they'll never recover from.

Which is a shame, because I really want them to succeed. But the amount of dead accounts I see made by people with followings on twitter, who were lucky enough to get an invite is telling. A total collapse of momentum.
Wakelocks and allocation of physically contiguous memory allocations (ashmem, dumped now in favor of dmabuff). All upstreamed now.

At this point, Androids kernel is only a fork of upstream Linux kernel because Google employs so many kernel devs that some features are developed downstream first, then upstreamed once kinks are worked out after shipping in devices on tighter deadlines than upstream.
energy independence != energy price isolation

we still have to police the red sea despite producing enough oil for ourselves
>So basically every corporation operating in the US has to follow US law at all times, regardless of the economic/legal circumstances in other countries?

wait - was the argument that the laws of these other countries they were operating in required them to fund paramilitary death squads? I must have missed that part.

I'm thinking the slope is not as slippery as feared here.

on edit: Ok I read your Mexican cartel example, slipperiness still not apparent to me how one slides from we hired death squads that killed people to we hired a cartel for protection but the money we paid was put in a big pile of money that cartel used to also fund bad stuff the cartel did that hurt people who were not trying to damage our company.

at any rate the amount of money paid out here having people killed is the usual cost of doing business slap on the wrist considering Chiquita's size and doesn't actually affect them. The negative publicity is worse.
More so Android and ChromeOS both use Linux as the kernel. They actually have a lot in common in terms of tech stack.
Reminds me. I saw a bizarre fungus growing on an old Airport audio speaker left in storage. The speaker was a 5 foot high metallic tower. And this 4 inch high alien looking thing was growing on it. It had attached itself via a beautiful root like system of tenticles to the metal surface. Some one tried to kick it off and it was so tightly fused to the metal it broke the stem but the root system stayed fused. So they then scraped it off with like a chisel and there was a hole in the metal underneath. It looked like it was eating the metal. These were ancient speakers so that metalic frame was quite thick and heavy and it was really freaky to see how it had been sort of dissolved away. That storage unit hadnt been opened in 2 months. So the growth couldnt have been very old either. Left us all wondering what things would have looked like if no one had bothered to open the unit.
I'm not talking going to a different class car I'm talking when the given model inflates in size with a new generation. Some people still drive trucks from the 70s and 80s in california. They are remarkably tiny compared to trucks today, like a 1970s F150 seems smaller than a modern light truck like a tacoma, definitely lifted a lot less too based on a couple examples I've seen I assume to be relatively stock specs given the similarity.
You're literally ignoring the elephant in the room. ActivityPub based services are definitely not a ghost town. You should give mastodon a try.
TPU v5p is ~2 times slower than H100 at larg(ish)-scale training (order of 10k chips) [1]. And they already have v6 [2]. I think it's safe to say that they are fairly close to Nvidia in terms of performance.

[1] https://mlcommons.org/benchmarks/training/

[2] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-t...
I'd argue there are far more low hanging fruits in VR than AI right now. But you'd need more of a creative mind to see them than a technical one.
> If it was actually compassion, we'd be advocating for the government to provide adequate services to all homeless, paid for by taxes with progressive taxation so the rich also pay into the solution.

I think that is the solution which pretty much everyone who has compassion for the squatters is advocating for. I'm comfortable saying that almost nobody thinks squatting is a good solution to this problem.

The problem is, providing adequate services to all homeless, paid for by taxes with progressive taxation so the rich also pay into the solution, has to happen first, before you get rid of squatting protections. Because otherwise you're just taking away the bad solution and leaving no solution, for the people most harmed by the current situation. And mysteriously once the squatting protections are gone and property owners' problem is solved, homelessness stops being a conversation until the next time it causes a problem for a rich person.

You're noticeably vague on what you think "adequate services" means. I refuse to be that vague. There is one, and only one, solution to homelessness: homes. Not shelters, homes. Not mental health services (though that would be good, too), homes. Homes: places where you can have privacy and security and pets and the right to decide who gets to enter the space. Services that do not result in homeless people being in homes are not adequate.

Until I see a real solution to homelessness implemented I'm really not interested in solving the problems homelessness causes for better-off people. Solve homelessness, and those problems will likely go away on their own; if not we can talk about it then. But until then, I'm quite okay with society dealing with the ugly consequences of its ugly failure to provide homes for its people.
Waiting for promotions at X is like waiting for another song on the Titanic.
What purpose does it actually serve for you? Just filling a <microblogging social media> hole in your attentional complex?

The alternative is to do literally anything else.
So it's a brittle proof
To make these “unique and interesting ways” somewhat more explicit:

AI isn’t going to let you hang out with your friend who is presenting as a nine foot tall naked dragon lady made of gummy candy, and experience getting pulled into one of her orifices and digested. It’s not going to let you pretend to be turned into her horny parts, either. With or without the experience being enhanced by various Bluetooth-connected toys. And AI’s not going to hang out with you in the flesh at a convention later on based on the good times you had in VR and make a lifelong connection, either.
Were ARM Mali GPU drivers upstream?
I grew up with people having vans or wagons instead of SUVs as well. It seemed like that went on even until 2008 screwed up most automakers lineups. It's hard to rule chicken or egg here: demand drying up or options drying up and therefore demand having nowhere to go but suvs and such. Seems to me its pretty obvious that options dried up before demand considering its hard to imagine selling 0 cars of a given model. Then once you go to say 10 different models of cars down to 3 or 4, what do you know, those 3 or 4 are selling more than ever for lack of other choice. Further justifying the decision to pare down the lineup. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy at a certain point.
ChromeOS updates are actual feature updates - for the 10 years of support, your device will be tip-of-tree and have all the features (except a few which are flagged-off, usually for business or performance reasons)
Betteridge's law of headlines: no
If you still work at Twitter, you can’t act surprised tbh.

Twitter and Elon Musk: Never paid bonuses, kept firing people randomly, didn’t respect the severance terms, clawed back executive pay that was legally required to be paid out at acquisition, didn’t pay the rent on the office building, kept hanging the promise of “equity” to the employees who stayed without actually handing it out for an extended period of time, shut down a data center on Christmas Eve to make employees work on Christmas and so much more.

Twitter Employees who still stick around, when promotions are delayed: surprised Pikachu face
Not related to the soundtrack, but has anyone else experienced Wipeout with the NeGcon controller? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeGcon

It worked so well for Wipeout...
Google is old like MetLife, relative to each's respective industry. Both are carrying too much baggage and are top heavy. As a result, I personally don't think Google will be able to keep pace with OpenAI in the long run.
Maybe it's just my circles but Mastodon is/feels pretty active. I certainly would not call it a ghost town.
Apple’s first in-house designed chip was the A4 in 2010.
> Another joked that perhaps Sakurada was simply engaged in his own kind of cybersecurity.

> "If a hacker targets this Minister Sakurada, they wouldn’t be able to steal any information. Indeed it might be the strongest kind of security!"

I love this comment from your article.
And even if platform starts to make blurry transitions for ads, adjust volume/brightness, or even overlay ad text over existing video like a watermark, client can just download the same video multiple times and remove unique frames/pixels.
I actually don't understand the point they are trying to make at all, even from this lens. They say that by not using "vanilla Linux" there is a more well-defined seperation between kernel and user space development, when actually the exact opposite is true. By not using the vanilla Linux kernel, the kernel with Android pacthes is actually more coupled to the Android user space than other user spaces that traditionally run on Linux, like GNU or Alpine.
Weirdly, that once existed for Windows: https://web.archive.org/web/20150323075241/https://www.howto... was basically Chrome OS as a Windows 8 app, but you'd launch it and it went fullscreen and gave you basically a Chrome OS interface. It was weird but I seem to recall it working okay.
My wife and I frequented Alamo before COVID. It was already going to shit. Fewer food options. Worse food. Worse/slower service (due to staffing). Pushing subscriptions (Victory Pass). Less creative no talking/texting warning cards.

My bet is that Alamo slowly becomes something like what happens to Moviehouse and Eatery (Texas theater chain) after Cinepolis (my guess on the LATAM buyer; they're based out of Mexico) took it over: AMC, but quirkier.
Most H-1Bs are out. You don’t have the luxury to tolerate that kind of uncertainty where you can get fired any time and have only 60 days to find the next job.
Developers' reality check, more work, 'boring' tech, and less promotions
Are you doing gaming or something really sensitive to input lag? I've never really had an issue with Samsung Dex, and I have used that quite often over the years. My use cases have been pretty basic though - basically just programming and chatting.
Computer says yes.
The Sins of the Educated Class
I'm not following; what will take work / what ideas? I'm describing existing software that ships and works today.
> why wouldn't Google be selling shovels

They do sell them - but through their struggling cloud business. Either way, Nvidia's margin is google's opportunity to lower costs.

> I can see Google's custom chips are 15x to 30x slower to train AI

TPUs are designed for inference not training - they're betting that they can serve models to the world at a lower cost structure than their competition. The compute required for inference to serve their billions of customers is far greater than training costs for models - even LLMs. They've been running model inference as a part of production traffic for years.
Google Brain spent oodles of money developing that tech only to watch other people capitalize on the research and potentially make Google Search (one of the stickiest products I've ever seen) obsolete. Freeform, self-directed, open-ended research labs are certainly a great approach from a technology breakthrough PoV, if you have 2010s Google margins.

But it's not obvious to me that approach was even a net win for Google as a business. Did Google Brain invent the technology that killed Google? TBD I think.
Regarding velocity I echo that I've never run into such a situation either and that it is plausible but odd if really the root problem.

Regarding when you chop upper leadership... if a company is run by sitting around waiting to fire someone the instant they do something that causes a loss/underperformance instead of comparing the relative long term expected performance of their options for the role then you're going to fire a lot of amazing employees (of any type) and hire a lot of employees focused on lowering their short term risk instead of maximizing the business's long term growth. A company I work at had to lay off 10% one year despite having the best CEO I've ever run across - things just didn't line up, things fell through, and for the first year we had -10% revenue growth instead of 30+% revenue growth. If they had started with laying off the CEO because of that not only do I think the company would have had a hell of a time in the next 2 years instead of restabilizing its growth I also think myself and a few others would have straight up left as a result. It would have been clear the company had no clue how to properly gauge and set its long term direction by taking such an action in response to the first growth impacting mistakes made by the guy.

Now I don't know VRChat as a company and I certainly don't know anything about Graham. Perhaps he's complete shit at the role and really does need to be fired for more than what's covered in this email. What I do know is I strongly disagree with that kind of generalizing logic about how management must need to go the instant employees are let go the same way as I disagree when upper management gets protected long term from or golden parachuted out of solid reasons to get fired. Upper management isn't a magical layer where you must find people that never fail the same as it isn't a magical layer that should be protected from any negative repercussions. It's just another layer of the business where you need to see how you want to place your best bets for the long term performance of the company.

The main thing from this email that rubs me a bit in the wrong way from is all of the recent over-hires only get 3 months of severance. This could make everyone finding new things a bit tough given the current VR market and need to branch out into other areas. At the same time, I'd much rather someone hire me for 2 years and then find out they need to get rid of me with some semi decent severance and health coverage than someone be afraid to hire me in the first place because some risk model said something like it's a 50/50 what will happen. By taking a job I'm not expecting you are betting your position on me still being there 2-3 years later, just don't be a dick and fire me a few months after hiring me because you wanted to keep the layoffs a secret or some other poor reasoning.
You'll need the following law too,

No clickbaity article is worth reading.
I remember laughing at the lawsuits claiming that Pokemon cards were promoting gambling to children. In retrospect they were right and I wish they'd won.
I'm not stretching this to be any one way or another. I'm just suggesting that its treating a symptom and not a root cause. Chances are if you are so predisposed to look at your phone to your detriment, you might have tendencies to do all sorts of similar actions to your detriment. The issue isn't the phone but the habitual tendency of trying to distract ones self from the (likely boring and mandatory) task at hand. If you tackled that issue directly, you wouldn't need a dumb phone, and you'd solve many other issues in your life beyond mere phone overuse I am sure. To me its a sell a man a fish, or teach a man how to fish and hunt and forage, type of situation.
I haven't seen anyone suggest China wants to re-unify because of chips; I would say US's incentive to guard against reunification is supply-chain sensitive.
Quake is vastly superior because the server actually run the simulation, for Serious Sam the server is basically a dumb relay.
I don’t know enough about news aggregators to evaluate the claim, but presumably that is why parent mentioned both complexity and compute, not just performance.
Not sure what to make of an analysis that amounts to: "To the contrary, Russia does need the Crimea, because natural gas reverses. Although it actually does not need to extract them, it would just be a nice bonus of they could." In any case we're talking about an augmentation of some 180 bcm in the offshore regions of the Crimea it is claiming, on top of Russia's proven reserves of some 40000-50000 depending on whom you ask.

So no, Russia doesn't need the Crimea's resources either. It is however definitely very hurtful to Ukraine to not have access to those resources -- which speaks more to the true intent behind the annexation move.

It is necessary for Russia to invade ...

It isn't necessary for Russia to do anything at this point -- other than pick up its toys and go home.
I don't think it's a feature at all with an undefined threat model.
If you want 512 H100s connected with infiniband: https://lambdalabs.com/service/gpu-cloud/1-click-clusters
It was just a link to nowhere, the merges have mod comments.
...and, IIRC, desparately grasping for generated ammo to pick up while making said retreat.