skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things are popular when they are only or first option that get automatically installed. Defaults over power things most of the time. This can explain lot of choices that happen.
>I use supplements for B12 which is missing from vegetable foods.

Just in case you're looking for an inexpensive vegan whole food source, seaweed sheets (like those used in sushi) have a relatively high amount of B12. I took a look at the brand in my pantry and it has 60% RDA per sheet.
Although, it should be noted that the standardization of measurements themselves was mostly done by the founding of the country. Authority of the government to "fix the Standard of Weights and Measures" is in the constitution.

From its founding, the US had one of the largest contiguously agreed upon measurement system in the world, sidestepping the problems of European measurement systems which changed border to border - even predating the official adoption of the Metric system in France. And it's largely why it's stuck around until today.
I'm pretty sure a non-technical user can use Ubuntu or something, from start to finish, without ever touching a terminal.

To me, the main issue is that many preferred softwares are not offered on Linux because of its small market share. The market share doesn't grow because preferred softwares aren't there. It's a circular problem.

That issue is improving all the time though as new softwares tend to target Linux natively (ex. Discord, Zoom, Slack). Furthermore, the compatibility layers are getting better for non-native programs (ex. Steam deck).

I really don't see a universe where Linux stops taking over the world, including the desktop. Adobe and Excel probably can't hold Windows up forever.
Note that the comment is flagged dead now which normally implies multiple readers flagged it. This means if one doesn't have show dead or isn't logged on it is invisible to other users.

This basically is exactly what happens to all such comments because they are nearly universally regarded as undesirable on forums. People come here to engage with actual people. Commenters here would rather hear your opinion rather than chatGPTs.
And dark mode! And tabs! I love notepad.exe of the future. What a time to be alive
How about just make a good product? That tends to work.
There's a lot of fascinating discussion around Star Trek's Stardate and its seemingly universal metric calendar and times referenced as decimal units of day: How does it adjust for relativity? Why did they choose the epoch they seemingly chose? (Not that many days before Enterprise's 5-Year-Mission, and seemingly still years into Starfleet's existence.) How do you account for the various obvious real world facts that many episodes just picked numbers that sounded cool or random and didn't pay attention if they were in the right order in the season or overall timeline? (Is that relativistic problems creeping in?) They are called Stardates implying the base unit is a Day, but it is an Earth-like 24 hour day or was it something else, perhaps in a compromise with other Federation planets?

From the TNG era onward the various Writer's Bibles took an approach of 10,000 days per season to make the math easy if a script was given a Stardate in the right season and plenty of room for all the scripts in a season to have their own Stardates. If the Stardate day is a 24 hour Earth day equivalent then seasons were expected to take roughly 3 earth years. Or was that a sign that the Stardate day was about a third shorter than an Earth day and "five-year mission" did still just refer to Earth standard years?

There are all kinds of fan theories. Some weird things in canon. Some weirder things in the books and other bits of Beta and Gamma "canon".

(I did a bit too deep of a dive into Stardates recently as an offshoot of getting the idea to try to display a Stardate-like calendar and date stamps in the configurable calendar system of the Fantasy Grounds TTRPG hosting application.)
Saw the stipple just last week on a (presumably) failed startup of an airplane's seat back entertainment system. Not the X cursor but the normal X11 arrow. Recognized it immediately and was, in my own way, entertained.
Are you saying that's too high? aren't the stakes massive on something like this?
Only because there's an agreement between propellant vendors and NAR/Tripoli who want to police what you do (commercial organizations) - no statute exists prohibiting these activities (besides possibly ITAR and friends - which don't prohibit most domestic applications of this tech.)

Motors and batteries are available from a very large number of suppliers and used for many other applications - no such single chokepoint exists to control drone users/manufacturers.
+1 for adding citations to verify it's not hallucinating.

But great work so far.
Thought I was reading my own comment from the future. Very similar situation, layoff + great severance starting around mid-year then wedding. Took some time to veg out, other to figure out what I need to improve, etc.
I only have a few data points (~6, 2 in flight) as I ramp up but there’s definitely a split in responses. It’s either a fast response and productive conversations with a recruiter or just a black box that emits a canned email response anywhere from 48 hours to 2 months later.
Im sorry i similar things on my sbcl, and i cannot see the output you are seeing.

CL-USER> (defun fx-add (x y)

(declare (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0) (debug 0))

(type fixnum x y))

(+ x y))

[OUT]: FX-ADD

CL-USER> (disassemble #'fx-add)

; disassembly for FX-ADD

; Size: 27 bytes. Origin: #x55498736 ; FX-
ADD

; 36: 48D1FA SAR RDX, 1

; 39: 48D1FF SAR RDI, 1

; 3C: 4801FA ADD RDX, RDI

; 3F: 48D1E2 SHL RDX, 1

; 42: 710A JNO L0

; 44: 48D1DA RCR RDX, 1

; 47: FF1425E8070050 CALL [#x500007E8] ;
#x54602570: ALLOC-SIGNED-BIGNUM-IN-RDX

; 4E: L0: C9 LEAVE

; 4F: F8 CLC

; 50: C3 RET

[OUT]: NIL

```
it looks inefficient but i think it can still be optimized better.
SBCL is mediocre at best at optimizations but most people do say that. I have not heard anyone calling it as fast as or faster than C/C++.
I think sbcl being mediocre has more to do with how the compiler and its optimizations are structured rather than some inherent inefficiency of common lisp.

I agree with you that lisps have a terrible UX problem. But that is slowly changing. Alive for VSCode is a nice tool if you want to try it out. I personally use neovim for my CL development. fits me well enough.

The biggest reason why someone might choose CL for performance would be the abiliy to simply hack in the compiler as it is running to make custom optimization passes, memory allocations and structuring, very minute GC and allocator control, custom instructions and ability to tell sbcl how to use them WITHOUT RELOADING SBCL.

Those are just the basics in my opinion. Performance has nothing to do with the language...except ig the start times?
Beyond that its a game of memory management[which, im pretty sure you can hack too in CL]

all this low level power while still being able to write soo much abstraction that you can slap a whole ass language in CL like APL!
She was also great in 3 Women (and other Altman movies).
Looking at this chart Apple just destroys the competition:

https://browser.geekbench.com/mobile-benchmarks

Also Apple's mobile devices destroy the competition in this chart as well if you sort by thread:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/CPU_mega_page.html
"Did your blood pressure raise looking at that?

Mine did." HOLY **!

My blood pressure rose, my hands started shaking, and my feet went cold. After someone let out the happy smoke out of a monitor, I would always triple check everything... everything... and then adjust... then change the monitor with the fiberglass screwdriver... you are SCARING ME! but ... the GDM-1907 really did work at 1280x1025, with a front porch in phase.
Nope, they could pay me ten million a year and I'd say no. OK but fine, everyone has their price. If they paid me a billion a year I might say yes, then just work for a month or two and then donate most of it to charity.

While I do appreciate some of their products (React which I use, Quest which I don't have), I think by and large their revenue makers (Facebook, Instagram, I don't know what else they have) are a net negative to society. The commodification of community for profit was a bad move and will eventually result, IMO, in the worldwide downfall of democracies. I think our kids will have it pretty rough in no small part because of Meta, but hey, at least we got to share vacation photos and cat videos.
> Native remote dev using tmux is so nice. Can anyone persuade me otherwise?

I sure as hell can't. SSH + Tmux has consistently been the only good pair-programming solution I've used in the past decade.
Scientists Debunk 4 Popular Myths About the Safety of Intermittent Fasting
> What kind of key are you using?

I want this because right now I use camera cards to boot. The key needs to be wired directly to the processor and be the first and only entry point. Instantaneous boot is what I want, not resuming from hibernation but "instant on" of the full system.

> What are you booting?

I am booting Linux, BSD, custom systems, lightweight bootstrap programs that do a specific task like diagnostics.

> On which architecture / machine?

Agnostic / various. For instance, instantaneously booting / running only on GPU(s).
NPM "install it" – a Portlandia style skit [video]
Germany to phase out Huawei, ZTE components from its 5G core network
Paper referenced by article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-024-01009-4
> You can still have logs. What I'm suggesting is that vast amounts of unstructured logs, are worse than useless

Until you need them, the you'd trade anything to get them. Logs are like backups, you don't need them most of the times, but when you need them, you really need them.

On the flip side, the tendency is to over-log "just in case". A good compromise is to allocate a per-project storage budget for logs with log expiration, and let the ones close to the coal-face figure out how they use their allocation.
> FlashAttention-3 is optimized for Hopper GPUs (e.g. H100).

How does FA3 fare for consumer GPUs such as 3090 and 4090?
No, my cancer was a sarcoma in my left shoulder.
Neither elevators nor fire codes have a damn thing to do with housing costs.

>A basic four-stop elevator costs about $158,000 in New York City

Oh wow that's a lot. What's the final sticker price for a four-stop building in NYC? What percentage of that price is the elevator?

Just the LAND for a garbage soulless Fast Casual over-1 at 150 Meserole Street cost $7.5 million: https://newyorkyimby.com/category/150-meserole-street

So the elevator's only ~2.5% of that cost and we haven't even demolished or built anything yet.

My favorite is when people (these people, the Center for Building in North America) claim that the US's 2nd stairwell requirement is "killing affordable housing" and then I point out that the square footage of the 2nd stairwell is not enough to add an additional bedroom.

It's all just property developers agitating to cheap out on their buildings while making one bedroom very slightly larger or adding a walk-in closet thus making it "premium" and allowing them to charge more.
Welcome (Back) Network Utility – new free Mac app
A spiritual successor to Apple’s Network Utility, which was removed from macOS after 10.15 (a.k.a. Catalina, c. 2019).

You can download Neo Network Utility from https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/freeware
It's the other way around: while a day passes on Earth, a day plus 58.721 microseconds passes on the Moon. The Moon clock gradually gets ahead of the Earth clock.

In an Earth-centered inertial frame, the Moon is moving faster than the Earth, but it is also at a very high altitude, and the altitude effect, which speeds up the Moon clock relative to Earth, is much larger than the speed effect, which slows it down.

(Note that the above only takes into account the effects of the Earth's gravity. The paper also takes into account the effects of the Moon's gravity, which don't change the above answer qualitatively but do add small corrections numerically, so the 58.721 microseconds per day is not the actual value the paper ends up with.)
Since your comments are deviating in the bad faith direction with you trying to score gotchas off of interpretations of various words in my comments, instead of sticking to the chips comparison topic at hand, I will have to stop replying to you as we can't have an objective and sane debate at this point. Peace.
> You didn't have to guess, you just had to read the specs in the manual that didn't come with your equipment.

Hey you missed a word so I added it in for you. Most consumer PC equipment definitely did not come with any documentation covering the sort of stuff X's config file was asking about.

When that documentation was available it was something you could only get by contacting the manufacturer about. But you couldn't mention the word "Linux" because the CS rep would give a blanket "we don't support Linux" and you'd get nothing.
>It wasn't until empires and mass manufacturing that the need for "standardized" measurements.

You have the cause and effect backwards.
Mass manufacturing didn't create a need for standardized measurements. Standardized measurements allowed the existence of mass manufacturing. Mass manufacturing wasn't even close to a possibility before that. Measurements weren't created for a need that didn't even exist yet. You can read on the history of the various systems of measurements and their motivations that they weren't exactly concerned with ideas of "mass production".

>In 1669, Jean Picard, a French astronomer, was the first person to measure the Earth accurately. In a survey spanning one degree of latitude, he erred by only 0.44%

1669! that's long before any attempt at building mechanization of labor.

It's like how a lot of math was seemingly useless and existed just for its own sake until people found real applications for certain algorithms.

The obsession of a handful of people towards precision measurement is what allowed the industrial civilization to truly emerge.
AppImage is the best invention ever. If someone funded GearLever we would be in great shape.
Amount of exposed PCI-E lines, I guess.
AI Web Agent Benchmarking in Live Environment
Recent big thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40699504
To be fully fair, that's the status quo for Linux on hardware that didn't ship with Linux support as a selling point. I had issues with Intel Wifi 6 hardware compatibility on a Lenovo laptop within the last year or so. On 3 different x86 laptops with fingerprint readers, I've never been able to get any of them to function in Linux. One one of my laptops, the sound works but it's substantially degraded compared to the drivers for Windows on the same hardware. Another supports the USB4 port for data but won't switch to DP alt mode with it, though it works in Windows. On the other hand, my Steam Deck shipped with Linux and everything works great.

Linux not supporting your hardware perfectly is just the nature of the beast. Asahi on Apple hardware meets [very low linux user] expectations.
None of the other comments have anything to do with the article. Here's the context: https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html
Is there any more dissonant way to sign off this weird dystopian "AI are people, too" nightmare fuel blog post than " Sarah Lattice. Because people."?
Oh, this is excellent.

A perfect sort of unwitting confirmation of all the things us GNOME complainers complain about.

Just generally pointless wheel reinvention that would be fine, except that GNOME gets artificially propped up.
There was another post in this thread that basically said, “toughen up buttercup” that I can no longer find. While I agree that this is a dickish thing to say, I can’t help but somewhat agree with the sentiment that tech workers are perhaps a little bit better off than the average person and don’t have a lot of perspective here about how bad it can get. Not saying that it’s ok, rather that when you can easily find another job it’s pretty easy to take a principled stand.

I flew for a living for a long time and was verbally harassed at many jobs by a superior. I remember talking on the radio once during a checkride - “do you have shit in your mouth? Because you sound like it.”

He was just being an asshole to rile me up, but it remains an asshole thing to say, and you have to deal with it because he literally holds your career in his hands. Personally, in that moment I vowed I’d never do that to anyone - but it doesn’t mean it isn’t widespread and it doesn’t mean quitting was an option.

Other times in my career I was expressedly told violate regulations or do legal but wildly unsafe things; because I had massive student loan debt at the time (I paid all that shit off eventually greatest feeling in the world), rent to pay, I had to make a lot of compromises I’m not proud of retrospectively because I did not want to be homeless or laid off looking for a flying job in 2009.

To act as though everyone can quit if their ego gets bruised by some jackass is the height of privilege. Many many other careers do not have that option. Not saying it is right in the least, but I feel a lot of people would really benefit from an understanding that how principled a person can be often practically changed by exterior circumstances.

That’s the thing I want people to take away from all this - a sort of “dialectical materialism” sort of view - that being able to quit without worse consequences than a bruised ego is unto itself a sort of prosperity many many people do not have.
I don't understand what prompted you to bring up the M4 in a meticulously researched deep-dive on the Oryon architecture. The original article doesn't mention it once. Is this just flame bait?
That would still be a step above the Undertale case, where the dialog was in the code. The big problem there is that your localisers now need your source code and (potentially expensive commercial) build system to test that their script doesn’t break anything. Or you end up in an expensive back-and-forth with a contractor compiling it for them.

Just taking localisation strings out of the switch statement doesn’t fully fix this. You can swap out individual lines, but characters are still bound to say the same number of lines in the same order in every language, with player choice happening at the same point. This may work for simple conversations, but it will result in clunky localisations when languages differ in verbosity or sentence structure.
This mandatory harvesting of personal information is atrocious. Inevitably these personal email addresses get stolen, leaked or just sold to everyone that wants it. The user get a deluge of spam and/or targeted scams. Just let the user enter a one-time email if they wish. There is a reason they don't want to give out their 'real' address.

You're part of the problem of the modern internet.
Very cool. I see more languages planned in your comment. Are you looking for community help developing SDKs in other languages? After spending an entire Saturday running a RAG pipeline for a POC for a "fun" side project, I definitely would've loved to have been able to use this instead.

I spent too long reading Python docs because I haven't touched the language since 2019. Happy to help develop a Ruby SDK!
After JWST, why build an monolithic mirror? If you only want visible spectrum, you wouldn't need the complexity of the heat shield of JWST. If an 8 meter primary is so much better, why not make it multiple times 8 meters similar to JWST? I understand this was something from 17 years ago, but let's just keep pushing capabilities instead of incrementing them.
I'm in a similar boat with one of many android app updates on Google Play. Over the last couple of weeks I pushed out updates to dozens of app listings with one app review rejected due to failing to disclose data my app absolutely does not collect. Specifically, a user's phone contacts. An app has to disclose on the store listing that type of data if it's transmitted off of the device. So I have this false positive with my initial appeal denied. I'm not sure how to move forward. Concede and change my Data Safety form on the listing? Insist false positive again? I'm in a bit of deadlock.
Exactly! I consider this a mission accomplished scenario. And the lack of funding is the graceful curtain call it deserves. (imagine another curtain call filled with scandal!)

the next generation of female diversification initiatives will be more specialized aka more diversified for age, race, geography, and industry. This is good all around. Edit: And could be carried as a side hustle by existing institutions.
Lots of smaller dishes get you resolution but not sensitivity. You can image the black hole at center of galaxy, but you can't detect the red-shifted radio waves from beginning on universe.

Also, doing interferometry is much harder when the telescopes are moving.
I'm glad to see people recognized for their work, even in such a small way though. As they continue to scroll and you start to see titles like "2nd assistant to the HR Team Lead" I can't help but wonder how much is bloat and how much improved the games might be if the teams were leaner.

I'm also torn on the concept of "production babies" which is basically just acknowledging that some parent was forced to abandon their family and newborn child for weeks-months of crunch because of bullshit arbitrary release schedules
Maybe a crazy take here but it sounds like the Lupus actually made you healthier?

Either way congrats on finding a way towards living a happy and healthy life, props to you.
Several times a day especially if it feels urgent, is unusual. If you see any blood in your stool then visit a doctor as soon as you can.
I'd argue that what you're talking about in fiction is coherence (internal consistency) not factual accuracy (consistency with an externally verifiably ground truth).

I'd also argue that the economic value of coherent bullshit is ... quite high. Many people have made careers out of producing coherent bullshit (some even with incoherent bullshit :-).

Of course, in the long run, factual accuracy has more economic value than bullshit.
There are millions of financial instruments and their price change 100 million times per day.

That's a lot to process, so yes, it matters.
Brendan (the maker of these) is a fascinating, very smart guy. He's a very talented woodworker and wrote a great book on James Krenov. I was lucky to take a class he taught a few years ago, and I enjoy following his Instagram page to see the new projects he has going on.
What is the glitch you are referring to? I’ve done a brief search but can’t find anything.
> How much is the flash attention algorithm tied to the hardware?

The original FA, almost none.

For the latest versions depends on your abstraction, ThunderKittens[0] provides about the same speed up over FA2 (1.3x-2x%) as the article but relatively universal across GPUs. For any new hardware there may be hardware specific features that make it edge out more performance; usually vendors will adopt any new features that seems to beat them, but you do get fragmented API/libraries (which is already true for CUDA).

[0]: https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2024-05-12-tk
Going to bed early and waking up early (relative to my schedule today) is something I _can_ do.

I had to do it for several years.

I felt like absolute shit every morning. I felt sick and couldn't eat before 10.

Every Day.

I don't have that now I can get up later.
Does anyone know of a good offline or at the very least local-first app for keeping track of read books, to read books, and search for books by ism, author, etc.

I don't care about any social features. I'm asking for essentially a glorified crud app with a nice UI and isbn lookup and goodreads scraping.