skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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How about needing to store your video in a variety of resolutions for users on different levels of connections (or have the CPU capacity available to transcode live for every single simultaneous viewer)? Also, streaming video requires higher bandwidth than text/images; where you may be able to get away with a single server for text/images, you might find a CDN (with the cost & complexity it brings) is more necessary for video delivery.

The client-side player isn't an out-of-the-box thing, either-- solutions like Video.js and MediaElement.js need a myriad of plugins to approach the YouTube player's functionality, and default browser players get nowhere close. But it's the smaller part of the story, imo, because at least it's just JavaScript & CSS to deliver.
The other solution is to get sponsors. In return for paying $50 a month (or whatever), they get to put a representative in front of a group of people for five minutes to pitch heir products. Or maybe they pay for the food at a place where you have a separate sponsor for the venue.

This is much the same way that DevOpsDays and other similar conferences are operated, just on a smaller scale of a few hours instead of a couple of days.
You'd have the second problem of trying to figure out how to relay geometry as a sequence of tokens when surely how you would encode this would affect what things you might reasonably expect an LLM to draw from it.
I use jupyterlab via an SSH tunnel
The IT Industry is a disaster (2018)
My conclusion from your story is that you needed to cut your losses earlier.

Put them in a situation where they need to produce a result, give them support, but if they need hand holding give them that feedback: you need to be independent on this or you will not be retained.

It sucks, but one or two experiences writing code for a junior dev and then seeing they do not even move on from there was enough. You can have the same kind of issues with crappy “senior” colleagues too, though…

Of course, if you don’t have the right kind of task for an “advanced beginner” (so to speak), that is a problem on the management end.

Bringing up junior colleagues is a fraught business, but when it succeeds you get a LOT of results out of it.

In the end, I try to keep in mind that it is all about money and time. From an individual project point of view, though, it can be very satisfying.
> Many of these people claim to have a "system" which will enable them to win. I've talked with some of them. None of them I've spoken to had money. Coincidence?

The original thread was about how statistics education will not cause people of gambling. Of course people almost always lose money gambling, except for very rare exceptions, but that doesn't really have anything to do with my point that people spending meaningful amounts of money on gambling are addicted. Addicts aren't going to just tell you that they gamble, because they are addicted(maybe some will but not in general).

> Personally, I've gambled a few times. Lost money. I don't like losing money, it is not entertaining to me in the slightest.

Some people could probably say the same thing about video games, but nobody disputes that some people enjoy video games.
Yes. The purpose of Mozilla Org, from the perspective of the people paying for it (Google), was to kill Firefox. Mitchell Baker got rewarded because she did her job.
Replace “Irish” with “British” and you have a winner.
Shipping a 1366 by potato screen phone with an outdated version of Android, and an app store that was missing most apps.

AT&T could only push that pile of crap so far, they really did have their sales teams push it hard though. Very hard to convince a customer to get a Fire phone rather than a Galaxy S4, or even an S3.
The Death of Dick Day (2021)
Remember how electronic synthetizers ended musicians?

Any idiot could "play" guitar without even knowing how to hold it.
It’s crazy that maps.google doesn’t exist, but sheets.new and docs.new both work.
Mongodb and dynamodb are completely different dbs. One is unlimited scale KV but very expensive , another is document nosql db that sells you idea “it just works” for lots of features , indexes on anything , aggregation , time series . Vector DB, sharding , replicas etc . It’s a very powerful db for sure.
Getting redirected to maintenance.icann.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20240205121324if_/https://www.ic...
> it seems quite reasonable that there are some geometric aspects that define their capabilities and performance.

Sure but this doesn't mean terribly much when you can relate either concept to virtually any other concept. "Reasonable" would imply one specific term implies another specific term and you haven't filled in those blanks yet.
Mainly to control the resource usage of the root servers, I believe.

DNS is hierarchical, and I don't think devolving into a semi-flat namespace is a good idea at all.
Yup, that's what "modern" means to me in this context.

Thought it was totally clear.

It looks like and acts like it was built for Sonoma, not for Sierra.
Ah yeah, but NVIDIA have been pushing Slang as a solution for a bit. It’ll be interesting to see if there will be any takers for production use.

Even within NVIDIA, they seem to have a constant battle between MDL, Slang and MaterialX.
Does Pongo work with mongoose? I would guess most mongo users are using mongoose and supporting that library would drive more adoption.
Is there any reason that would be a problem? My main beef with Brave is that it's not really contributing to browser diversity.
Uhhh.... no?

They both came out approximately at the same time, 2014-2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Echo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Dash
I run a dance practice 2x a month and there's more.

You need to make sure it's on the same day on cadence (we have 2nd and 4th sundays).

And we also spam out fb event invite (use what you want here, email etc) about 1 week prior to "remind" people it's coming.

These things tend to be incredibly effective.

Also when dealing with a venue offering to book out the whole year will get you some leeway with things as you are taking away a LOT of scheduling time for them; which matters.

I would highly recommend trying out a spot for a few months first before committing.
> Another Youtube thing that made my computer screams is "theater mode", eating so much CPU for eye candy on so many devices ought to be at least declared.

Do you mean ambient mode, that adds the faded light around the video (which looks awful, but is supposed to mimic behind-screen synced backlighting)? Theater mode mainly just makes the video bigger and moves other stuff lower down on the page, so I can't imagine how it "eats CPU" any more than simply making the window bigger would.
There are many within our community which share this viewpoint, and any time we do serious technical research the general sentiment is to move that onto our forums or wiki, specifically to make it discoverable.

I personally don't socialize on the forums though. My unfiltered thought process doesn't need to be searchable for the next century. It's okay for some communication to be ephemeral.
> For division, anyway

Did you not see the neighbor comment where I made it extra clear I'm talking about times tables in particular?

There are tons of math tricks! But the multiplication table of the numbers between 1 and 10 is mostly rote.
Unfortunately, the School education system has decided that only a certain interpretation is correct.and sometimes that is not even interpretation of the books author
You can even poke holes in it using their own terminology. Obscurity is equivalent to minimizing attack surface area. The less adversaries know about your system the smaller of a target it is.
Notably lacking in examples.
> my impression is current math clubs and competitions have been taken over by kids just wanting credit for college

I work directly with students in this field and my experience is that most are involved for the interest, challenge, or social aspect.

If you are involved with “pay to play” programs like AoPS, you probably see more resume-grooming.

Nobody I know would continue to donate their time if they perceived it was primarily fluff.
You might want to check the CDC website about excess WEEKLY deaths during COVID. That was WITH all of the extra precautions, lock downs, etc. I haven’t seen a flu season that looked like that.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
>Working backwards, customer centricity, etc. etc. from their principles and they couldn’t figure out this was going to be a dud?

As someone who worked inside Amazon, the LPs and particular "customer obsession" are quite a lot more malleable than they might appear. For example, a PM might pitch "ads by default in Prime Video" as quote-unquote customer obsessed because ads inform customers about products that they could use.

Just a hypothetical scenario of course.
> Build things that support AI, or orchestrate it.

Is that your job? What will you do when AI does it better, faster, and cheaper than you can do it?
> Rust was literally invented to solve the security and concurrency issues inherent in using C/C++ for a browser engine.

Are most browser vulnerabilities not still found in engines like V8? Rust can help with something like last year's buffer overflow in libwebp (although that's overkill when a project like https://github.com/google/wuffs exists), but I'm unclear on how it gets you a better JIT.
"how does it compare?" "yes"

Are you sure you replied to the right comment?
MSRP was $96k. Dealers would charge extra because... they forcefully injected and monopolized their position as being the only entity that can actually sell you the car.
For a more thorough description of OTP see https://cryptosmith.com/2007/06/09/one-time-pads/
I still remember the day that AT&T came out and discounted all Fire phones to 99 cents on a zero-term contract for postpaid customers.

The phone had only been out for a few weeks at the point, the sales and return numbers must have been awful.

AT&T tried really hard to push that product like they did with the Nokia Lumias, but with specs worse than a Samsung Galaxy S3, a crummy app store, ancient Android, and going head to head against the Galaxy S4 with a 1366 by potato screen it was a fools errand to launch that product.
You're technically correct, it would add up to be equivalent with enough scale. However, given the stats I've seen from solar panel owners about how much electricity their computers/phones actually use compared to charging up their car (with the former basically being a surprisingly tiny drop in the bucket compared to the latter), the number you're looking for to make a comparison might still be at least an order of magnitude higher than you expect.
People who doubt the decline of the arts should reflect on the idea that the best composers of our generation are writing film scores and video game music if not straight up ad jingles. sure you could argue that art has always been commercial, that everyone needed a patron, and that working for the pope or whatever is not that different from working for Hollywood. but I suspect even people that make that argument today don’t really believe it.

Now take this story and extend it to anything you like. The dying publishing industry forcing authors to bring an audience with them minimizes risk for flops but with that goes away any point for the industry to exist, and any incentive for originality, etc.

Nothing was ever perfect but it also seems disingenuous to say that nothing is worse. Some may feel it doesn’t matter which is a different topic, but the decline of art and culture is certainly real
In fairness to Amazon, my understanding is that existing Dash buttons haven't been sunset, they just stopped selling them. The one consumer device that I do know that they bricked was the Dash Wand, which was like a handheld Dash Button but you ordered with voice (like Alexa) or barcode. I think very few people actually had one, though.
As an Indian I definitely find corn out of place in our cuisine. But the others are pretty essential.
And the optimal uptime of b2b saas is not 100% or even 99.999% and yet...
https://www.imdb.com/chart/top

This is the IMDB top 250 list, which I take as a reference for "best of all times" movies. 30 of them are from this decade. Some of them may drop off (there is a slight bias towards recent movies), so let's keep 25 of them, so 1/10, the list is over 100 years, so we are about average.

Not many in the top spots though, the best being Parasite (2019), #33, which I expect to stay high, and Dune: part 2 (2024) at #35, but I expect it to drop a bit as it is a current year movie.

Anyways, it is neither a particularly good nor a particularly bad time for movies.
> The majority of taxes collected in Portugal come from VAT and not income taxes.

That's a bold face lie, unless by majority you mean less that 50%.

https://info.portaldasfinancas.gov.pt/pt/dgci/divulgacao/est...

For 2020, IRS+IRC 13B+4B IVA 16B.

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30% of working people don't pay income tax because they are on the first income bracket (minimum wage or less), but they still pay VAT, 23% in the highest rate. The deductions don't come into play if you don't pay tax at all.

The injustice is simple: "digital nomad" earning pays VAT and minimum income tax, but leeches off roads, socialized healthcare, our nice climate. A citizen earning the same wages for the same job pays VAT and income tax, subsidizing the tax leech. Meanwhile, the immigrants with low wages are treated like criminals, but they don't even get that special tax rate, because they don't pay income tax!

Why should a poor country like Portugal subsidize immigrants from rich countries, but punish those from poor countries? The Americans that want socialized medicine and maintained roads can spend the money on their own country, our pay their fair share like other people living here.
> Of course, if caught, they go to prison for a long time.

I can’t imagine how that would work, I could be in a foreign country or international waters. Who would have your jurisdiction? I don’t think it’s forbidden to send radio waves into space
MongoDB had "strong consistency" back in 2013 when I studied it for my thesis. The problem is that consistency is a lot bigger space than being on or off, and MongoDB inhabited the lower classes of consistency for a long time while calling it strong consistency which lost a lot of developer trust. Postgres has a range of options, but the default is typically consistent enough to make most use-cases safe, whereas Mongo's default wasn't anywhere close.

They also had a big problem trading performance and consistency, to the point that for a long time (v1-2?) they ran in default-inconsistent mode to meet the numbers marketing was putting out. Postgres has never done this, partly because it doesn't have a marketing team, but again this lost a lot trust.

Lastly, even with the stronger end of their consistency guarantees, and as they have increased their guarantees, problems have been found again and again. It's common knowledge that it's better to find your own bugs than have your customers tell you about them, but in database consistency this is more true than normal. This is why FoundationDB are famous for having built a database testing setup before a database (somewhat true). It's clear from history that MongoDB don't have a sufficiently rigorous testing procedure.

All of these factors come down to trust: the community lacks trust in MongoDB because of repeated issues across a number of areas. As a result, just shipping "strong consistency" or something doesn't actually solve the root problem, that people don't want to use the product.
It would be, if it wasn't just a "plastic bird-feeder cover" as the article suggests
Ask HN: Is it worth doing a reputable virtual MBA at 46?
Friend of mine is struggling with the decision of whether to purse an virtual MBA. He is a mid level manager in tech and I think he could be 46-47 years of age. Anyone in the same boat, what are the advantages and disadvantages?
How to write good docs
Racist Robots: Ethical Questions in AI
RDNA2 is a software issue, not hardware. Simply put, the driver is very unusual in that it uses floating point, which is generally not used in the kernel or other drivers. Supporting it is a simple matter of having the kernel save and restore FPU state for kernel code, not only when switching between user programs.

This was first done by Rene Rebe in July 2021, and it is upstream in mainline Linux 6.10.

https://www.hackster.io/news/rene-rebe-patches-the-linux-ker...

The HiFive Unmatched has been around since early 2021, is fully documented, supported by many OSes, does not have a proprietary GPU, has a PCIe x16 connector with 8 lanes active, was $665 but is now $299, which is under your $300.

https://mou.sr/3Xxcrb9

I'm sure they will appreciate your order.

The StarFive quad core JH7110 and SpacemiT octa core K1/M1 SoCs also support PCIe (though not as many lanes). Most of the boards bring this out as M.2, which you can add an adaptor to a standard PCIe socket to, but the Pine64 Star64 ($89.99 with 8 GB RAM, JH7110, 16 GB SPI flash, connector for eMMC module) and Milk-V Jupiter (SpacemiT K1/M1, from $59.90 with 4 GB RAM, $115 with 16 GB) have an standard PCIe connector.

https://pine64.com/product/star64-model-a-8gb-single-board-c...

https://arace.tech/products/milk-v-jupiter-spacemit-m1-k1-oc...
A knee-jerk aversion to anything halfway adjacent to "security by obscurity" is flawed, but this reaction to that aversion is also flawed.

Instead of trying to suggest "security by obscurity is fine, actually, and don't worry about it", it's time for us to just stop being pithy and start being precise: your cryptosystem should be secure even if your adversaries understand everything about it. If that is true, then you can (and, in the real world, almost certainly should) add defense in depth by adding layers of obscurity, but not before.
Yeah, I've watched much of the remastered TNG version. The sets aren't shoddy AFAICT. There is one famous scene in the pilot episode where a patch of carpet under Data's seat is plainly visible, but that was because the frame size is larger: in the TV days, TV sets had a rounded-off picture and that part wasn't visible. The people filming back then never thought that their film would be scanned in 4K and the full frame would be visible to viewers.

The biggest problem visible on the TNG sets is the black cardboard pieces on the consoles in the rear of the bridge, used to block reflections from the lights. Those weren't visible after conversion to NTSC, but in HD they're noticeable. I'm not a director, but I wouldn't call this a problem with a shoddy set, but rather too many assumptions made at the time about how the video would be viewed. Surely, if they were filming a theatrical movie at the time instead of a TV show, they would have simply filmed it a different way, or rigged the lighting differently to avoid this problem.
> and nobody seems to be leaving

I don't think you're right about that
I've never bitten into a bar of soap so I can't say.
The "corrupt public sector" has been focus of complaints at least since the 19th century, across three regimes, but the number of children living on their parents' homes increased after the foreigners with laptops bought the damn houses, either directly, or through real estate funds.
Scie jump – self-contained interpreted executable launcher
Yeah I subscribe and save to melatonin gummies and I got an email in May saying they’ve “paused” my subscription until October because they’re afraid that the gummies will melt during shipment. Like how is that not a predictable problem? Summer is hot.
They just stopped buying more stuff from Google? All the products that people use are ones that have existed for years.
> hard to train older spies on new technology

It’s even harder to train new people in Old technology. Just write a code base in Fortran And see how hard it is to find a developer.

I’m quite confident you could send messages all day using the methods of Ancient Rome without being ever detected.
Not sure how much or if this had influence from Guava at all, but I wanted to share the link since we've been around about 3 years and Guava is both free to track and seemingly a superset, except for explicit streak tracking: guavahealth.com

Streak tracking seemed more of a vanity non-health-related aspect so we've left it out so far.

Computing statistical insights based on arbitrary pairings of lifestyle habits is a big feature for many people
No I'm not talking about a fork. There are many things the team at Moco just has no time to work on and will happily welcome contributions.
Reminds me of n@ai ﹣ Goes to someone named Ian.

∴dig ai MX

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> ai MX
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40166
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ai. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ai. 3600 IN MX 10 mail.offshore.ai.

;; Query time: 5 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Jul 07 17:19:47 PDT 2024
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 63
I was behind a wall, so:

https://archive.is/QEkZQ
They do happen, but that happens when I work with humans as well.

I won't blindly trust either partner, and at least ChatGPT isn't insulted when I check if it is right :)
Yes, Dubai figured their infrastructure so well, their airport was closed for days when it rained.

Singapure is a dictatorship fuled by Chinese money, should a NATO country be supported by them? Will the US invade if we sold them the abandoned American base in the Azores?
They need to happen again for networking reasons. I feel a lot of businesses are starting to look at tech costs as a burden rather than an investment these programming meetups help keep discussions open. I suggest if a business plans to start a tech front they should come to these and learn.
I think text based programming languages are a local minima that's it's hard climb out of. Partly because most languages aren't designed around being represented by structured data. And no one has any morden experience with that.

But do imagine a world were changing the name of a field in a struct results in a single diff message, 'struct foo field bar changed to baz'. And where a change set to to a library can be mechanically applied to to code that depends on it and it just works.
They link to Amazon and it's whopping $8.99.
Why do you believe that a monthly donation will help against Google influence on the web more than dedicated feature work? That seems backward to me.
Yes there are google and many other public stun servers.
Yes. It matters how they are now. It matters what problems there are with that state and what we can do to change them. It matters what's worked before and why and in what context, because it's a source of information we can use to inform our decisions. If you're going to talk to me like you think I'm a baby, I ask you to at least say something vaguely useful, instead of prattling about "realism" that makes no substantive claims except that every facet of our current reality is inevitable. As someone who makes money by doing work in the current world, I would like for fewer decisions to be made by people who hold capital instead of doing work, and think there are concrete steps we could take to rescue the important human endeavor of research from the influence of such people, not the least of which being restructuring how governments fund such institutions, prioritizing their independence rather than their hijacked function as yet another ill-conceived social mobility hack (actual social mobility comes from removing obstacles, not creating new ones and then conditionally subsidizing them)