skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These models are marketed as being able to guide the blind or tutoring children using direct camera access.

Promoting those use cases and models failing in these ways is irresponsible. So, yeah, maybe the models are not embarrasing but the hype definitely is.
To be fair, there were specific temperature ranges in which the shuttle was supposed to be capable of launching, and the temperature range did not go as low as you might expect because the Shuttle was going to launch in Florida (and, maybe someday, California) - iirc, the minimum temperature was 40 def F or something like that.

Of course, the Thiokol engineers weren't sure that 40 was sufficient (they were worried about anything below 52 degrees), but in defense of the people that chose the o-ring material, Challenger launched outside of the design spec for the Space Shuttle.
Can you share an example where you non-temporarily add braces around a code block but then keep the indentation the same level as before the block? What do your collaborators think of it?
Learn Smalltalk with ProfStef in the browser (amber-lang.net)
Same experience for me but with west africa.
I gave it a fair try

Cons:

- spawning nodejs whenever you edit JSON files seems overkill, i'd prefer they use something native and more lightweight, or a way to completely disable it

- text still looks a bit blurry on low DPI screens

- doesn't support LSP properly, completion items are missing some data

- Rust for plugins.. this is painful, compare it to Sublime Text's python API, it's night and day..

Pros:

- Fast and responsive

- UI is simple yet effective

- drag&drop layouting, something i wish Sublime Text had..

- built-in terminal

- built-in Debugger (not yet ready)

Few more months of developments, and i'll certainly switch from Sublime Text, i'll be a little sad because i wrote plenty of plugins for it

I however worry about their business model, i have 0 interests in their AI/collaboration stuff, i'll probably maintain a fork to get rid of all that crap, they should setup something as a back up plan, a small paid license, just for support, i'll be happy to buy one
Amateur Larry is being awfully quiet...
Cool to see a new editor in the arena with a lot of resources behind it, but I'm trying to find the selling point besides "it's really quick".

Great feature but there's a lot more stuff I need for a truly outstanding editor, what are the novel pieces?

The bar is ridiculously for editors (vim & emacs configurability, vscode just works, jetbrains can do it all) - what will/does it bring to the table to compete?
Had to call it quits after year 3 to get back to work
Known carcinogen is showing up in wildfire ash, researchers are worried (2023)
Counterpoint: a cynical take posted deep in a comment thread in a random corner of the internet may not accurately reflect the values of an entire industry.
What's new with AHK?
I wonder how well Alpha Geometry would do on this
!!

Honestly they should be banned from posting here.

They have been hiring a Senior Windows app developer for 3 years straight. LMAO.

Stop wasting everyone's time.
They have never slowed down “old phones”. Anyone still spreading this is doing so maliciously by this point.

They slowed individual handsets with degraded batteries to prevent resets. They still do. Replacing the battery brought the device back to full speed.

They got flak for not telling the user, so they alert now. All new iPhones have this feature.

Ironically this was actually to extend the life of the device - many people who would have upgraded if their phone was resetting under high load just carried on using it throttled (my wife included).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batterygate
Don't use Terraform? If you want to create individual resources one by one, go for it. Use something like CDK which abstracts a lot of the boilerplate away.
I use Helix and feel the same way. The pickers/fuzzy finder particularly have no equal for speed in any editor I’ve found. (Zed seems pretty fast but I didn’t get on well enough with it to find out how it performs with more serious use.)

fwiw I’ve also found the configuration overhead much lower with Helix than for pretty much any other editor I’ve seriously used.
For the last few months it has been available on Linux to build from source.
Of all the communities to try to pull a scam like this in, the Apple community is not a very good one. Close knit and passionate are not attributes for scamming success.
so you feel offended by this
Spotify is no longer just a streaming app, it's a social network
Sorry, I should have been more specific and said FOSS. VSCode is still encumbered by the weight of a mega corp. It's like saying Chrome is open source. Sure it is, but it still exists to serve the corporation that owns it.
all fucked up

shortened from snafu: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAFU
Church

I can understand that that's not everyone's thing. But no matter how many times I have moved or how different the community is, I have always been able to find a group of people to bond with.

And because it's not someone limited to your specific school or job or interest, you would be surprised at the breadth of people you can run into. I've met everyone from the head of a well-regarded neurobiology department to a recent Russian refugee. Janitors to CEOs. You know it's a good church when none of that matters.

It's pretty much the only institution left that regularly creates adult friendships among strangers.
Multi-Level Quickening: Ten Years Later
Wow 14 years ago!
Thats great!

Those variable names are madness though haha.
Or a single letter class is also pretty wild.
They claim to not use anyone's private code, but I wouldn't trust the psychopathic C-suite at M$ not to murder kittens and human babies if it made the line go up a quarter of a percentage point, yet alone something like this.
Why is the blog post wildly wrong? He states the seal joints were poorly designed, similar to your statement. His statements seem reasonable and in agreement with Feynman's and others' (Boisjoly) account, which tell a story of corrupt NASA and Thiokol management, who pushed for flying outside the safe temperature window.
> should i expect the exercise window and % ownership be mentioned on the offer

In my experience it's unfortunately somewhat common to not provide this information up front, and more so when it's not favorable. If you're looking for language to request the information, you might ask something like "I expect to consult counsel about the offer, as I'm sure you understand, so I'd appreciate if you could please give me a copy of all the documents you'd expect me to sign as part of employment, including the employment agreement, any NDA[0], IP[1] assignment, and equity grant, and anything else I'd need to evaluate the offer like what percentage my options would represent (fully diluted), and exercise window and tax status (ISO vs NSO, etc)."

[0] non-disclosure agreement

[1] intellectual property
If you look at the share of people holding on to their phones, more people are holding on for 3+ years. It’s not a comparison between 14 and 15, but rather 11/12 and 15. Those differences are not marginal.
I really enjoy the AI assistant it has. One of the simplest easiest ways for me to interact with chatgpt/claude apis. Write prompt, copy, paste code.
> women are still systemically under-compensated, under-levelled, and encouraged to move into less prestigious roles

Do you have actual data to support this claim?

> into coordinating work, managing people

So promoted into management. Are you saying managers are systemically making less than the engineers they manage? Which would be interesting, as management is generally seen as a more prestigious role than individual contributor.
Per-core heaps. Count, sizes and proportions of generational heaps can also be scaled dynamically according to allocation rate, target % CPU time spent in GC and collection efficiency, like .NET's GC does.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/put-a-dpad-on-that-gc/

https://maoni0.medium.com/dynamically-adapting-to-applicatio...
That's still an amazing level of persistence.

What motivated you to push through so much failure?
> Curious, is there any theory what mechanism is behind this?

They eat the food that falls through the net, and the food is designed. To maximize growth.

It also includes artificial colour, the farmed salmon really has white flesh.
This colour also affects the fish living beneath the fish farm.
Nvidia also spends a metric shit ton of money to make sure professors use and teach on their platform.

I don’t remember any alternatives in uni. Maybe OpenCL but only lightly mentioned
Look awesome! Everyone has such nice sites, we need to catch up.
> This is probably because women are expected to have a high degree of self doubt and there is no assumption that they are defective if they admit to it.

A simpler explanation is that there is a perceived need to increase the number of women in management positions.
Yes, Strflow supports end-to-end encryption (E2EE) if you enable iCloud’s Advanced Data Protection[^1]. For more details, please check our privacy policy[^2].

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Just as a counter-example, my workflow works very quickly for me:

On mobile, my launcher has four pinned favorites on the homepage - one of which is a shortcut to go straight to the new note activity in my notes app. From typing up this comment I can swipe up to home and touch that button in (probably?) under 500ms and type in a new note.

(launcher = KISS Launcher, notes app = Joplin. though I'm sure similar things work with other launchers and note apps.)

It is unfortunately an electron app on desktop, but I'm invested enough that I never close it, and can start a new note just as quickly (super + 1 to launch it from my task bar, ctrl+n to start a new nearly plaintext note). This is the same on my windows and Linux computers. MacOS (as it is with most things) is somewhat more annoying: I keep a Space dedicated to Joplin and never collapse to the icon, which allows me to similarly go two chords - ctrl+9, cmd+n - to a new note.

Joplin doesn't need sync to complete before opening a new note.
Let's all take a moment of silence for our fellow developer who fell for duck duck go's fake hiring posts.

(ps check the other comments on this thread if U don't know what I'm talking about).
This means we need to add management features without removing any of the above.
> This is not an acceptable way to install anything on Linux

You might want to tell the rest of the software world how unnacceptable it is, because a huge amount of software, and especially dev tooling, is installed in this exact way.

It's especially hard for young or fast moving projects, most distro packaging just isn't very compatible with this velocity.

I'm personally on NixOS , which usually makes it easy to always get the latest and greatest, but eg would I really want to add a third party apt repository for Zed, which introduces complications and also can make changes to my whole system, rather than just having zed install itself in a local user-owned directory? I don't want to end up with 15 different third party apt repositories... adding those actually provides a higher amount of trust than shell scripts that only run with user permissions.

And there are similar considerations for most other distros. Arch is probably the only other one, next to nix, where it's quite easy to stay up to date.

(zed is already an official Arch package, btw, and before that it already was in aur, and of course it is in nixpkgs already)

It's not ideal, but whenever some pattern propagates across the ecosystem, there are probably valid reasons why.
I wrote this post, and TB changed my life, even though I'm not an engineer. They hired me almost literally off the street, and now I'm...well, running an attempt at a successor. Not a bad six years.

If you want one reason I wanted to start this company in particular, it's that it seemed like a good idea to try to make something everyone wants to see exist.
This is always an idiotic response to issues of govt or corporate corruption.

First, no one cares that you "called it".

Second, these are specific details that are interesting and surprising whether they fit an overall pattern or not.

For example, I know Putin likes to kill civilians, but it's interesting when/how Putin actually does it and for what reason. It's not something to wave away with a "OK so Putin kills people, what's the news?"

Your comment isn't one that adds to discussion. It's just evidence that you misunderstand our interest in this story, you think we're clutching pearls, and you want to be smug about it.
This. Those same banks also own all the credit lines, card merchant services, and other financial instruments attached to every smaller, adjacent business (restaurants, dry cleaners, gyms, convenience stores, etc.) with clientele in those offices. Companies with a big footprint in one place also typically get tax breaks for bringing their workforce to that city, with the expectation that the economic activity will generate other tax revenue. When big employers don't force their people to be in a certain building for a minimum amount of time, all of that deflates.

Big banks, in particular, want to make a big, public show that "we're all going back to the office" in order to, at a minimum, delay the inevitable collapse of commercial real estate concentrated in major cities. On the inside, they're willing to quietly make exceptions if you fit the right profile (key talent, DEI quotas, political buddies, etc.). If you're a regular, high performing employee with no reason to be in an office, go pound sand.

Source: I'm that person. We lost a LOT of good people because of this over the last few years.
Anyone got this working in WSL? Using WSLg perhaps?
If only this ad-hoc government board had done its job, China and Russia, two globally projecting military powers with double digit billion dollar CNE budgets, would never have been able to exploit software vulnerabilities in readily-available off-the-shelf commercial software.
Opencl is horrible compared to cuda
>There are two schools of thought. One strives for correctness, even if that requires extra effort. Another is "anything goes as long as it somehow kind of works more than it doesn't."

...

The world en masse is generally preferring the latter (picking the easiest solutions, no matter how shitty they are - that's how we ended up with what we have today), but among the engineers there are a significant number of people who believe that's how things should be.*

I often have trouble articulating this at work. I will steal this and use something like it when advocating for correctness as opposed to shitty short sighted solutions. Thanks
I was hoping that someone in the comments talking the paper down would have published a paper or have had relevant publications of their own to point to. You know, meet the lads halfway sort of thing.

So what I’m left with to judge instead is anonymous online commenters vs. the publication of 2 prestigious universities. Whose word do I take on this? Decisions, decisions.

You can swap LM out with Web3 out with NFT out with Crypto in this case.
Yes, there is a cold start penalty but once the data is cached, it is equivalent to disk backed indices. There is also active work being done to improve the performance, example https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/issues/1380...
Works really well even for breaking news which for perplexity I needed to tell it it was breaking news to go out and get the latest, I suspect that is how pplx keep costs lower than google which serper.dev uses.

When LLM apps like voice assistants aggressively condense I usually have to tell it to expand where detail is necessary.

If you add type="search" to the html input field people can add it to their browser's right click > "search with this engine" feature. so long as https://justtheanswer.vercel.app/?s="who-is-president-of-fra... also works on load
Mismatched Motivations, Part 2: Publishers
I've been working with another parent, writing articles for families at our school, but figured it would be worth sharing them with the wider world!

This week I'm writing about my experience in the game industry, and how the motivations of app publishers doesn't generally coincide with positive outcomes for kids.
The Core Duos were 32-bit, they only sold them for about 6 months before refreshing everything to the Core 2 Duo (64-bit). They were supported for 5 years though, not less than 3. 10.7 was the release that dropped 32-bit Intel support and that was released in 2011. 10.6 still got updates for a few more years though, it didn't die in 2011.
Not only are they capable of understanding images(the kind people might actually feed into such a system - photographs), but they're pretty good at it.

A modern robot would struggle to fold socks and put them in a drawer, but they're great at making cars.
GTA V is a sandboxed game, the purpose of which is to largely to wreak havoc in a virtual world where nothing can go wrong.

LLMs are a powerful and little-understood real-world tool that the public has been given access to en masse. Tools which powerful and credible people have consistently warned have the ability to cause massive harm. And tools whose creators face intense scrutiny up to and including existential legal and PR threats, because (for better or for worse) the public holds them accountable for any stupid things people do with them.

I also find it disappointing that everything is so neutered, but it's hard to see this having gone any other way. Especially given how imprecise and difficult to train LLMs are.
Wow, he didn't even say what security, so I'm going to assume financial security.
That's not why they were banned in Europe!
Yes. They should be banned from posting on hackernews honestly.

It's rediculous.

PS check the other comments on this thread about this behavior from them.
Its not really different. Except that bld seems to only support Java 17+,
whereass 1JPM support Java 8+ and there is still a lot of Java 8 projects out there I guess.

Another difference is also that 1JPM is a single file, which has its advantages and disantwages, checkout the README for more details.
You can use Access advisor to see which service your IAM role/user has accessed and when. You can then prune permissions which haven't been recently used.
GPUI is very cool, they have blogged about it before.

https://zed.dev/blog/videogame

Many UI libraries being built today want to be very forward-focused, so they focus on being as general as possible. This does make some sense, especially considering that, for better or worse, using a web browser engine as a UI has become increasingly popular of a decision. However, in the end this leads to almost all new "greenfield" UI projects trying to develop scalable vector UI rendering engines that need advanced and highly optimized vector rendering libraries like Skia and Pathfinder. Having everything in vector all the way through is elegant, but it's complicated.

The insight with GPUI is that it's not really necessary to be that general, the vast majority of UIs are made up of a relatively small number of different primitives that you can build on to basically do anything. So instead the vast majority of what's going on in GPUI is layers of roundrects. Text rendering is the classic approach of rendering into glyph atlases. I think this is a vastly more sustainable model for a UI library.

I don't know if GPUI is ready to be used on its own, but it does have a spiffy if brief website.

https://www.gpui.rs/

Given that Zed actually has good "UI-feel", it tells me they are focused on the right things. A lot of new greenfield UI frameworks are spending a ton of time on trying to build extremely generic vector graphics systems but the actual widgets feel bad and are missing all kinds of tweaks and nuance. Here's a good litmus test for text editors: what happens if you double click and drag? In most good UI frameworks, this should result in word selection and then expanding that selection left or right. In a lot of smaller greenfield UI libraries, something vastly less useful will happen :(
You too! You bring strong arguments btw ;)
Yeah I get something like that too
> Promoting those use cases and models failing in these ways is irresponsible.

Yes, exactly.
I mean, parking in this lot in Chiyoda is 400JPY for 20 minutes. https://www.parkme.com/en-gb/lot/275008/-tokyo-japan

That's a significantly higher parking rate than I've ever seen charged in the US. And generally in Japan street parking is not permitted in busy areas.
The problem is that many parts of the ecosystem require that
you use the official MS build.

You can't connect to the Marketplace and some extensions outright can't be used with a custom build.
Transformer by hand 5-min tutorial by Anna Rahn
This would only be relevant for shit journals that use authors’ pdfs directly and don’t do their own processing.
I was very excited by switching to USB C for my iphone, but by the time the phone was released it just didn't seem like an upgrade to my iphone 12, and I wasn't going to pay $1K just to get rid of a cable.
> you seem to have very little curiosity into WHY those ratios are so skewed

That's a weird take. How would you know what I'm curious about? Pardon the strawman, but I'm not interested in handwavy explanations which tend to border on bigotry ("$category simply isn't interested in $topic"). I suspect the fundamental reasons are myriad and complex, but that doesn't mean $field wouldn't benefit from more diversity.

> It's impossible to change these distributions without understanding the underlying causes for how they got that way.

Maybe, maybe not. The ratio is certainly a lot less skewed now than when I was a student over 20 years ago. My understanding (or lack thereof) certainly didn't have an impact, but throughout my career I have always tried to be supportive of people who are in some way different from me. Heterogeneity is a good thing. Monocultures result in weakness.
any chance to opensource your foto searching?
That's fair. But I do feel like a Macbook pro workhorse ought to feel like it has similar lifespan as a heavily-used desktop.

Maybe I'm too optimistic, or the wear and tear of portability really has a lot of influence here.
I’m using Nix for development and generally I agree.

The first catch is that I want to be able to update my system on a regular basis, and keep using exactly the same dependencies in my project after an update. Maybe I’m in the middle of working on a change.

The second catch is that sometimes my development environment is really weird, and the packages I need aren’t in Debian. At least, not the versions I want. Nix can handle cross-compilation environments and you can use it for embedded development. You stick your entire development toolchain (arm-none-eabi-gcc, whatever) inside your development environment.

> Why would I want to roll a system back to an (definitely insecure) state of a few months ago?

Periodically, I want to update everything in my development environment to the latest version of everything. Sometimes, something will break. Maybe a new version of GCC reveals previously undiscovered bugs in my code. Maybe a function gets removed from a library (I’ve seen it happen). In Nix, it’s pretty easy to pin my entire development environment to an old version, while I’m still updating the rest of my system. I can also get the same environment on either Linux or macOS with relatively minimal hassle (with the note that I’ve run into several packages that just don’t run on macOS, which required me to make “fixed” versions).

Also keep in mind when I say “Nix”, I’m talking about nixpkgs. I’m not using NixOS and I just don’t care about NixOS.

Nix also has its pain points. I think of it as being like a coarse-grained Bazel with a ton of packages.