skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pack before the web most places doing ads had them al, in house, salesmen (mostly male) design and so on., large byers (mcdonalds) might hire an agency to talk to all the little newspapers, but even the little ones did this in house.
The price was $3500. With pretty much zero killer applications.

I do agree that it's a failed product, but I also don't think they had any plan for "success" with it.
I'm comfortable disagreeing here. Watches are, by and large, a fashion piece. Even without getting custom bands. To the point that it is not at all uncommon for people to have a watch on that is dead.

Happy to see data proving otherwise. I'm also more than willing to believe a lot of people will use some of the asserted benefits as a reason to justify getting the fashion item. But even the enthusiasts I know that get some of the health tracking rings and such drop off after a hilariously short honeymoon with the devices.

The only exception I have seen to this, so far, are active users that are more likely to have a garmin.
Their implementation outperforms not only the recent version of OpenBLAS but also MKL on their machine (these are DEFAULT BLAS libraries shipped with numpy). What's the point of compairing against BLIS if numpy doesn't use it by default? The authors explicitly say: "We compare against NumPy". They use matrix sizes up to M=N=K=5000. So the ffi overhead is, in fact, neglectable.
Because he was condemned to do it.

Perhaps what all those Greek epics taught me, is that once someone condemns you to a destiny, then that’s it. No other destiny can open up.
> And I seem to recall there are some theoretical lower bounds on even lossy compression.

I'm not sure what your math is coming from and it seems trivially wrong. A single black pixel is a very lossy compression of every image on the internet. A picture of the Facebook logo is a slightly-less-lossy compression of every picture on the internet (the Facebook logo shows up on a lot of websites). I would believe that you can get a bound on lossy compression of a given quality (whatever quality means) only if you assume that there is some balance of the images in the compressed representation. There are a lot of assumptions there, and we know for a fact that the text fed to the GPTs to train them was presented in an unbalanced way.

In fact, if you look at the paper "textbooks are all you need" (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.11644) you can see that presenting a very limited set of information to an LLM gets a decent result. The remaining 6 trillion tokens in the training set are sort of icing on the cake.
But you're saying that you want a single model to handle all NPCs and the whole world. Of course this isn't possible currently. But using a separate model with separate context for each character is. Also, if you use ChatGPT for programming, try Claude 3.5 Sonnet - it's really better than GPT-4o for programming.
What, and do nothing for eternity instead?
First of all, most women studying mathematics in undergrad are actually studying to become math teachers. This is a much more people-oriented job. This is why there's a big drop between the share of women undergraduate math majors, and women math PhDs. The latter is 25%, roughly on par with computer science. Lots of women exit academima and start teaching after a master's or a bachelor's degree, thus depressing the representation in later degrees.

My sister majored in biology, and after graduation she worked on managing clinical research trials. She'd visit people testing new medications and interview them about their experience with improved symptoms and any side effects. I'm not sure how representative this is of biology as a whole, but personally I can easily see why biology would be more people oriented than software development.
Hi and thanks for the effort. Is there a roadmap for supporting GUI applications?
My first thought is that children born in the 70s named "Harrison" owe their names to Harrison Ford, at that time wildly popular for Star Wars and Indiana Jones. "Mabel" may owe some popularity thanks to Selena Gomez's character in "Only Murders In The Building."
Scale, Complexity, Job Specialization, Organizational or Business needs blah blah.

Let me explain.

Imagine you have a team that grows from say 4 to 40 over time. All the initial programmers, business managers etc. have left. One fine day, you get a call from the client saying "The feed has not arrived today, fix it in the next 2 hours or we are going elsewhere (or can you please please please fix it ASAP) ..."

What do you do?
How do you prevent this from happening in the first place?
What procedures / software do you need to have in place to even know what went wrong etc.

Now let me give examples that these tools help you handle.

1. You need to view all the jobs that run on a daily basis across 400 of your servers.
2. You want to make sure that no changes to anything in production can happen without at least 1 more programmer and 1 more business person signing off on it.
3. A job / script fails partially, how do you assess the impact and move forward (you are not even aware of the existence of this script).
4. You have a backup script / job that needs to run on demand. You want to let your support folks run it or even the business folks, without any programmer intervention (you don't want to get a call every time someone in Japan wants to run this report).

Coming to CI/CD systems, some of their goals are

A. Codify the knowledge into scripts / configs and do not rely in tribal knowledge.
B. Ensure that your code is always in a "buildable" state with the new changes (i.e. don't even let bad code in)
C. When a build fails, notify the programmers who introduced the bug immediately
D. Once a build is complete, send it to other systems for stress testing.
...

Yeah large businesses can have very intricate and complex needs. They rely on generic and configurable software (proven and tested by other large organizations) to meet their operational needs. Also, given that you can hire people that are proficient in these tools, you can focus on the business needs rather then reinventing these tools.
Antitrust just isn't a thing anymore.
Yah. That's a new one to me. Lol
> And I haven't learned how to use them because I can't come up with problem scenarios where they are a possible solution

Well, you have a problem:

> I have no good answer for them because I haven't really learned how to use them

So if getting a job where that skills is important, learn is your goal.
> There were a handful of shops that catered for foreigners. All transactions had to be in Euros as possession of local currency by foreigners was forbidden. A lot of the items were imported from China and from time to time, local fresh produce would make a rare appearance. Meat was always in short supply.
Look up these pieces for some of the why’s of the last decade or two:

“Cattle not pets”

“Html,css,javascript for dinosaurs”

“Hypermedia systems”

Kleppmann’s Data Intensive Apps, and a good Postgres book. Data is the big focus today.
I mean it's a non-obvious-to-me interesting finding though that people understood "loop expressed as tail-end recursion" as easily loop expressed as loop though! Like it's not obvious to me that their semantic equivalence would be obvious to a beginner!

I don't remember finding tail-recursion easier to learn than embedded recursion -- I do recall it being very confusing for me to learn at first either way, but I can't recall exactly what was in my head then, or how it was taught to me! It was a long time ago. But I remember finding it tough to understand.
Better be vim or emacs or that kid is not going very far I tell ya
An Apple 15" Macbook Air runs $1300. An Apple 27" Studio Display with stand runs $2000.

I'm amused that Apple fans are not willing to spend $3500 for a computer with a 3000+" display that you don't have to hold on your lap or desk.

What would they pay for a 15" Macbook Air with two fold-out screens?

I can't help but feel that somebody is going to get things just right and disrupt computing as we've known it. Even if it takes several "failed" experiments like Glass or AVP to find the sweet spot.
That’s ALSO a George Lucas thing. Not having the directors name in the opening of Empire got him kicked out of the director’s guild

https://screenrant.com/star-wars-george-lucas-quit-dga-empir...
Very useful for reverse engineering and security auditing of internal APIs. Particularly on Android a lot of apps pin CA certs or use their own trust store, so you have to do a little RE on them to insert your own cert... Or do it this way.
SAB solves the problem of having a small number of dedicated workers that efficiently handle specific well constrained data processing tasks.

I must question whether the problem of random sites wanting to spin up a whole ton of cores that consume arbitrary amounts of compute and memory really needs to be solved.
Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess
Sorry but what relevance is this to the article?
Most programming languages today don't have dynamic scoping. Here's something you could do in a language that had it.

print_x() {
print(x);
}

foo(msg) {
let x = msg;
print_x();
}

main() {
let x = "Hello!";
print_x();
foo("Goodbye!");
print_x();
}

In a language with dynamic scoping, this would print:

Hello!
Goodbye!
Hello!

With lexical scoping, most dynamically scoped code would either be a compilation error, or it wouldn't work. In this case, the language would complain that x wasn't defined in the scope of "print_x()". With lexical scope, you'd have to make x a global variable, and then the function foo() would just be equivalent to calling print_x().
Very well said.
These tools help businesses move forward without having to involve a programmer for every little change.
Also there are quite a few analytically strong and talented folks out there, who do not know programming. Given the right set of tools, they can make quite an impact.
We support networking via Tailscale, we wrote a detailed blog post some time ago: https://labs.leaningtech.com/blog/webvm-virtual-machine-with...
The Most Dangerous Drugs? Alcohol, Heroin and Crack – In That Order (2010)
OK, so let's do some napkin math... I'm guessing something like this is the information you might want to log:

user ID: 128bits

timestamp: 96bits

ip address: 32bits

coin type: idk 32bits? how many fake internet money types can there be?

price: 32bits

quantity: 32bits

So total we have 352bits. Now let's double it for teh lulz so 704bits wtf not. You know what fuck it let's just round up to 1024bits. Each trade is 128bytes why not, that's a nice number.

That means 200Pb--2e17 bytes mind you--is enough to store 1.5625e16 trades. If all the traders are doing 1e9 trades/day, and we assume this dataset is 13mo of data, that means there are 38772 HFT traders all simultaneously making 11574 trades per second.. That seems like a lot..

In other words, that means Binance is processing 448.75 million orders per second.. Are they though?

EDIT: No, indeed some googling indicates they claim they can process something like 1.4 million TPS. But I'd hazard a guess the actual figure on average is less..

EDIT: err sorry, shoulda been 100Pb. Divide all those numbers by two. Still two orders of magnitude worth of absurd.
But people like to watch sports together, not alone
Well-fitting bikes are nice, but 95% of people that buy custom frames have fit coordinates that can be easily achieved on stock geometry.
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Laid off last August. Still actively looking. I have about 4 years of experience.

No notable company names on my resume so I suspect that's why I'm still having a hard time.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/costco-wholesale-to-li...
Yes, we are working on it right now. The immediate priority is booting a complete desktop environment. Next steps will include 3D graphics.
Look, it's indeed a resonable comparison. They use matrix sizes up to M=N=K=5000, so the ffi overhead is neglectable. What's the point of compairing NumPy with BLAS if NumPy does use BLAS under the hood?
BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cger582weplo
Charging $49.99 for each wrist band was a huge misstep in this regard. Yes, Apple does like charging high prices but the cognitive dissonance around the 'Apple Tax' is usually softened when people feel like they're getting a higher quality product than the competition. But with those wrist bands, I really don't feel like I'm getting a unique and special product for that price. If the bands were $19.99 I would have bought at least a few others. I just can't justify buying some silicone for $49.99.
I'm somewhat cheating in what I mean here, though. I was thinking of stuff like https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/vita.html, where his CV is so basic in layout that it is kind of shocking. If I remember the CV of most high level faculty I got the chance to look at, none of them were that concerned with columns or typeface. They were, simply, lists of data.
I want to take this opportunity to recommend the talk "NTFS isn't that bad"
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbKGw8MQ0i8).
NTFS prefers a different access pattern than most usual file systems.
I remember that a part of the talk was about speed-ups on Linux as well. So even if it doesn't sway your opinion it should enhance your perspective on how file systems work.
Ask HN: How much did you make from affiliate marketing?
Everyone in the 21st century is doing affiliate marketing, so my question is: how much did you make from affiliate marketing? and what your niche is/was?
> Maybe not to places like North Korea (which we don't have a presence in anyways)

Sure they don't ;)
Exercise may be the single most potent medical intervention ever known
Interview of cardiologist Dr. Euan Ashley by cardiologist Dr. Eric Topol
NSAIDs tend to be taxing on the kidneys.
Vision collector: the man who used dreams and premonitions to predict the future
Ads are a paid transaction and Ad Companies absolutely need to be held liable for the money that they take because of who they take it from voluntarily. Google should be ashamed at all the money they are making from scammers and criminals and other evils. They should have a terrible score at every agency remotely like the Better Business Bureau. They should be tarred and feathered in public opinion. The brand name should already be tarnished by all this Evil across too many years of negligence. Same goes for Meta/Facebook, though they do have some of the tarnish already, more than Google has managed to get to stick. (I think too many people still want to believe the "Do No Evil" lie and its lasting brand propaganda.) Other companies should be wary of working with Google because of that bad reputation. ("No, we won't be using GCP because Google does too much business with criminals.")

Yes, it is hard to scale Terms of Service enforcement. Yes it is a hard problem to solve finding bad actors at scale. That shouldn't be a free pass to just not do it at all. Especially when money is changing hands. If someone is paying you to be a bad actor they are either paying you to look the other way (called a "bribe" in most jurisdictions, and illegal in some of them) or you aren't doing due diligence before accepting bad money (called things like "laundering" and "embezzlement" at scale). "It's hard to scale" doesn't sound like a good excuse to do financial crimes, last I checked with banking regulators and is in fact the opposite (a larger crime); why should Google or Meta get a free pass in advertising because they don't want to put the work in and take the revenue hit?
You might want to try the Wim Hof Method. I don't believe in everthing Wim Hof attributes to his method but when it comes to immune response, there is scientific evidence that it does indeed result in an increase of IL-10, which is anti inflammatory.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4034215/
Inspecting what apps are sending out when they don't want you to see
I assume that a large number of people in video game and movie credits just did part time work or a short project and they weren’t exclusive with this particular project

Like when you list the accountants, is it that those accountants were working ONLY on this project or was this one of a dozen things they were handling at the time?
There are a few others

VMs

https://copy.sh/v86/

https://bellard.org/jslinux/

https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ (https://github.com/jsdf/pce)

https://www.pcjs.org/ (lots of hardware and OSes) (https://github.com/jeffpar/pcjs)

Mac OS

https://infinitemac.org/ (https://blog.persistent.info/2023/03/infinitemac-dot-org.htm...)

https://jamesfriend.com.au/projects/basiliskii/BasiliskII-wo...

https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/pce-js-apps/
It is now Fixed.
I have always looked for something basic, mobile friendy that would support TypeScript types on hover.

Monaco would be okay, if not for mobile..
Thing I remember thinking 25 years ago when businessmen would talk about 'their factory in China' It's not your factory, it's the CCP's factory. And you've converted your business from a valuable manufacturing business to a less important marketing and distribution one. If you're a dumb MBA nepobaby you'll see that as a win because the latter requires less competence to run.

So Chinese businessmen build factories in Mexico is a win win win. The US and the west see less dependence on China and the CCP. Mexico gets manufacturing. And the Chinese owners get out from under the thumb of the CCP.
Given it already requires a battery tether, I can’t believe they didn’t put everything they could in the pack.

The front facing display also seems absolutely needless.
We never intended to have children, ended up with two boys.

The first was named by his mother's choice: First name after her father (a perfectly reasonable "Edward"), the middle name after my dad ("Leonard," which we never call him.)

The second was even more of a surprise than the first, but that meant it was my turn: "Jonathan," after a favorite character from a novel. The middle name was chosen by his big brother, to give a little sense of ownership or participation: "Adam."
World will miss target of tripling renewable electricity generation by 2030: IEA
Your example makes sense, the distance for light to arrive makes it impossible (also, the distance for the light from the craft to reach the telescope in step 4, it's a round trip).

Going further than this is way above my skillset :D Thanks for the time to indulge my curiosity, I'll study more and try to develop a better intuition.
He never has that realization, for he is arbitrarily strong not particularly bright.
From the README:

> Korvus is an all-in-one, open-source RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline...
Makes sense. The only VR market up till now has been the gaming market, and the AVP is a locked down device that's incompatible with the preeminent gaming platform. This is probably why Apple has marketed it as an AR device, but although AVP is a nice step forward towards that vision, AR experiences will have a gigantic technology gap for the foreseeable future due to battery life issue. That's all without considering the show-stopping price for AVP.
But the discussion has mostly centered around whether Anthropic have properly scrubbed benchmark data out of their training corpus before training. So it seems to me that even if they did it properly (maybe especially so), the presence of the canary string in Claude's output is likely if it saw it in a secondary source (e.g. a blog post), which should then be fair game, no?
> Perhaps the only way to make this inevitable tide of pressure and debate work for us is first to recognise it as a collective issue, then to push for a system which does not actively punish women for having children: affordable childcare so that we do not face a career cliff edge; affordable housing so that settling down seems even remotely possible.

There it is - Gen Z simply can't afford to have children. Student loans make it quite difficult to pay for daycare and childcare - especially for infants. Add in the pressure for launching and establishing careers and the whole "baby thing" is being pushed off until the ladies are in their 30s. By that time, they may also be too entrenched in their bachelorette lifestyle to actually get married and have kids.

BUT - is this a bad thing, really? As we automate more and more and push more and more people permanently out of the job market - and thus not mess up our ever-rosy unemployment numbers - do we really need these people? Isn't this just a case of the market reacting to the ever-weakening demand for flesh-and-blood human beings? It feels a bit distasteful to state things in those terms, but truth be told, isn't that what is happening?
His fellow travelers say this was impossible, the “recording” was fake, and the timestamps are at a time when he wasn’t even in the hotel. Why would you assume n. Korea is being honest here?
elon musk is trolling.
Depends on what you have to pay (and not just in money) to get there.
Seth MacFarlane nailed it https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ji5q3ICKPbY&t=345
Content gating behind login screens. Scraping content behind a login screen could constitute a contract violation and would give rise to a lawsuit independent of copyright.
Why Everyone Hears This TikTok Song Differently [video]
I don't actually because my laptop screen is sufficient :)

I could see what you say being true if I was young, single, and lived alone. I have a wife and kids though and explicitly don't want to be isolated from that.
> The only real way is to stop using it and to endure the mild withdrawal symptoms.

I’m curious - have you ever been addicted to nicotine? If so, how much per day were you consuming?

I have been. I’ve kicked it multiple times and decided consciously to pick it back up because the benefits (focus) outweighed the drawbacks at the time.

When I was consuming nicotine at the level of a “pack a day” smoker, the withdrawal sucked but wasn’t as bad as you might think. The worst lasted a day or so. After three days it wasn’t perceptible if I wasn’t thinking about it.

One thing to consider though is that it’s entirely possible to consume many times the nicotine by vaping that you would by smoking. Severity of withdrawal correlates to the amount you consume.

My approach has been to taper off a bit by consciously deciding to only consume it if I was really craving it - and putting the device in another room afterward to avoid consuming mindlessly. After a week or so of that, my use had dropped to the point that the cravings were only once or twice per day. From there it was trivial to quit - withstanding the early withdrawal symptoms in the evening and going to sleep was enough so that the next morning the worst had passed.

Trying to quit cold turkey while you’re sucking down two Juul pods a day is very, very different than when you’re only using 1-2 per week.