skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the answer. Same thing happened in the early-to-mid 90s. The corporate web site money didn’t come from the IT budget, it came from marketing. The money for the Leased Line Internet connection too, for all but the most R&D focussed companies in the UK. Corporate email for employees and (shudder) actual Internet access for them, often only came later.
Don't forget Microsoft.

Windows 11 kernel will soon be booting with Rust inside (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35738829)

Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39240205)
I'd rather die than become that. And there were plenty of Googlers there just chilling making good money. It's the mid level managers that were making around 500k eyeing up the 1MM comp packages that were the problem.
I can't speak to the US but in Australia rentals are also heavily regulated.

Just because they didn't invent something doesn't mean they aren't also abusing the system.
Option 2 has high risk of making enemies. People don’t like to be shown that they are idiots even if true.

There is a reason Socratic method is used primarily in a class room setting
Winter and wars are why.
I worked there. It doesn't surprise me at all!
Nice!

Is this loading the same webpage whatever JupyterLab is serving or did you write the JavaScript machinery for cell management etc yourself?

If the latter, are interactive plotly graphs or IPython widgets on your radar?
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Discontinuing a product is different from making an already-sold product unusable. It isn't entirely honest to pretend they're the same thing.
You can take it a step further, LLMs can already "execute" arbitrary non-existent languages, with non-existent data. Here are a couple of examples using a tool I wrote[1]:

% echo "nums 1 10 | filter even | to_words | map uppercase" | refab imagine
TWO
FOUR
SIX
EIGHT
TEN

% echo "with file '/tmp/top-ten-most-populous-cities.txt' do; cities = read; cities.each { |city| (city.name, city.utc_offset) }" | refab imagine
Tokyo, 9
Delhi, 5.5
Shanghai, 8
São Paulo, -3
Mumbai, 5.5
Mexico City, -6
Beijing, 8
Osaka, 9
Cairo, 2
New York, -5

For what it's worth, the tool isn't specialized for this, 'imagine' is just one of many prompts it can execute.

Of course the execution is non deterministic and at the moment only works for simple things, but you can imagine as LLMs get more capable and more integrated with tools this will matter less and less.

[1] https://github.com/lgastako/refab
https://web.archive.org/web/20240702210034/https://unit.soft...
Huh?

It is directly addressed.

Excess solar power pulls excess co2 from atmosphere, and puts it into methane, which is stored.

It can then be sequestered (carbon captured), or burned (carbon neutral energy storage).
The first work on using fluids to implement logic gates can be traced back to the late 1950s/early 1960s

The GM Hydramatic automatic transmission, introduced in 1939, used a "computer" based on spool valves. Perhaps the designers didn't explicitly think of the term "logic gate" but the task of deciding which bands and clutches to apply for a given gear is done by a hydraulic circuit that effectively computes boolean expressions. This was the norm until the late 70s/early 80s when computer controlled transmissions started appearing.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing! I've been working on this for the last year.
If that were true, Apple wouldn’t care to poke the bear.

If you were honest, you would read Apple’s SEC filing, which show that (globally) about 43% of Apple’s profits come from Services, while 57% comes from hardware. You could just admit that you don’t understand the difference between revenue and profit. I’m sure you’ll move the goalposts and claim that’s “significantly” more.

The EU wants to zero out Services revenue, while simultaneously removing Apple’s brand value (a curated “walled garden”, where app developers can’t take too much advantage of customers).

The alt stores in the EU will be a race to the bottom of which one allows developers to abuse customers the most. Why would any app stay on Apple’s store when alt stores allow more invasive privacy violations? And then when the app ecosystem on iOS looks like Android, what possible reason could you have to buy an iPhone?

So, yes, the EU very much wants Apple to be a non-profit.
Project B veteran reporting! Everyone I worked with on Fire Phone knew it was doomed.
A follow-up comment after having studied the paper a bit more, since you asked about where the geometry comes into play.

One of the references the paper provide is to this[1] paper, which shows how the non-linear layers in modern deep neural networks partitions the input into regions and applies region-dependent affine mappings[2] to generate the output. It also mentions how that connects to vector quantization and k-means clustering.

So, the geometric perspective isn't referring to your typical high-school geometry, but more abstract concepts like vector spaces[3] and combinatiorial computational geometry[4].

The submitted paper shows that this partitioning is directly linked to the approximation power of the neural network. They then show how increasing the approximation power results in better answers to math word problems, and hence that the approximation power correlated to the reasoning ability of LLMs.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06576v2

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine_transformation

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_space

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_geometry#Combina...
This is still too reductive, IMO. The kinda dumb colleague who has memorized all the literature is not just auto-complete. When I ask about some statistical technique that I didn't know the name of, being able to connect my description to the correct methods in the literature isn't 'just auto-complete.'

They just have a particular set of strengths and weaknesses, same as any tool. Figuring out their strengths and limitations is how you use them well. And dismissing them for not fully solving AGI is short-sighted.
Can we get python with sane async, parallelism, map/reduce and scoping instead?
While it doesn't directly say it, their acquisition announcement for Anonym (an ad/tracking company) comes about as close as you can by saying Anonym believes it (and implicitly they support the viewpoint)[0]:

> Anonym was founded with two core beliefs: First, that people have a fundamental right to privacy in online interactions and second, that digital advertising is critical for the sustainability of free content, services and experiences. Mozilla and Anonym share the belief that advanced technologies can enable relevant and measurable advertising while still preserving user privacy.

Which completely ignores non-profit uses of the web, which is interesting since they're a non-profit and all.

They've made similar statements in the past[1]:

> Advertisements pay for all those “free” services you love, as well as many of the products you use on a daily basis — including Firefox. There’s nothing inherently wrong with advertising

Which is of course true because they don't accept donations to fund Firefox despite people complaining that they want to be able to make such donations for years.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-t...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/the-future-of-ads-and-pr...
You do not seem credible. Here is why:

1. You can get rid of OneDrive by uninstalling it.

2. You seem to be implying that MS will get rid of its desktop applications. This seems unlikely give that the desktop applications work well and are popular. Do you have any proof that they will be replaced.

3. You also claim that releasing a new version of Outlook somehow is equivalent to canceling it or ruining it. I switched to the new version and it worked fine. I actually liked how the user interface was simplified.

It's fine to prefer other products. That being said, spreading FUD is really not helpful.

Do you have any proof about MS Office desktop apps being cancelled? I have not heard about that. Also, the new Outlook works fine.
I can’t think of any Indian dishes that use corn.
So destroy demand for uses that are discretionary instead of non discretionary. Vacation travel accommodations aren’t a right, and tourists aren’t part of the local electorate.

Airbnb isn’t going to magically put more supply on the market, only cause existing supply to be used for short term rentals. The benefit of a ban need not be extraordinary to justify, only a net positive.
How is “please don’t use that photo of me” unreasonable? It’s a simple request that is trivially easy to respect.
Skype for Business has very little to do with Skype the consumer application. Skype for Business used to be called Lync. It's a messaging, and communication application for business users. It was replaced by MS Teams.
Honestly, the weird whitespace annoyance doesn't bother me half as much as needing parentheses for print.
Finding them isn't the issue, relative levels are.

When your instruments can almost count atoms you can find metals and radioisotopes in the purest mountain streams as these literally leach out from the very stuff of mountains.
Yeah vscode also finds the virtualenv from the current project automatically whihc is probably the biggest thing for me that stops me for using this, alongside copilot support
I think it says they aspire to being a global power, not just a regional power. They want the ability to project power anywhere, just like the USA.
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Yes, I knew the meaning in the context. I was just doing wordplay, but thanks.
The mean concentration of metals found in this study was 120ng/g, or 0.000012%. That is a very small amount of anything. These metals occur naturally in the environment and are impossible to completely avoid. Organic cotton tampons didn't have significantly different overall levels of metals to non-organic or synthetic tampons, which corresponds with the findings of studies on clothing.

Obviously as a society we should avoid releasing heavy metals into the environment, regulators should be vigilant about egregious levels of contamination in products (e.g. lead paint on toys), but as consumers I really don't think there's much point in worrying about it.
> Honestly don’t bother with canned O2. It is not 100% pure, which is an absolute necessity, and they don’t deliver nearly the quantity you need to knock out a cluster

They definitely don't knock out the cluster, but do seem to slightly lessen the pain in minutes. I wish triptans helped, but no luck yet with any we've tried.

Thanks for the help with O2 :)
I think a big part of it is also the data are poor and people don't know how to take advantage of their walled garden. For example, uber recently added advertisements into their app. You may not know this, because they are only seen when you are riding in your ride already, but you get an ad for Tim Hortons because the car is within a half mile of one.

On paper this looks good for the marketer. Why yes, we can take our captured population and send them ads to local partners who now get these customers patronizing their business. Seems like it would be a great lucrative deal for both parties, right?

Of course logic says it doesn't work like that. Like I said, no one sits there looking at uber ads the entire ride. No one tells the uber driver "hey wait, I know I was trying to get where I was going but all the sudden I am surprisingly hungry, lets divert a half mile and potentially 20 minutes so I could get a $4 bacon egg and cheese." It just doesn't happen.

But the dance must continue of course. Maybe the uber people responsible for this feature don't even care at all that it works, only that their shareholders think it works and their advertising partners also think it works. That is incentive enough to keep up the farce even with no supporting data because the money, in the end, is very real. After all, everyone on earth knows about coke thats sold in every store on earth, but the ads still need to be purchased because the purchase itself is a more important metric than the end result.
counter examples: FAR 91, FAR 101, building codes for fire and electrical.

almost every one of these regulations exist because somebody/company screwed up. yes, there are abuses like regulatory capture, but generally somebody messed up.

need further convincing? look into the history of housing over the past 1000 years, London fires and Cholera epidemics from public wells come to mind.
Textmode on pretty much every laptop since the beginning of time uses a GPU to draw characters in textmode. GPU doesn't mean NVidia, it means graphics accelerator, and they've been used since the 1970s or earlier to turn ASCII characters into glyphs onscreen.

The earliest IBM PCs and compatibles used hardware acceleration for textmode, and those ancient BIOS interfaces and successors are still used to draw characters, not pixel by pixel, but with hardware acceleration.

So whether or not you like it, whether or not you understand how your laptop actually works, you're almost certainly using a GPU to render textmode.
Because the point of a subscription is to receive it on a schedule. If you can’t fulfill that subscription, don’t offer it.
Yeah, I've lost my passion for most things. Part of this is probably due to certain previous jobs having way too inconsistent a workload to keep me interested (sometimes it'd be non stop work, and other times it'd be literally whole days with nothing assigned), part of this is the slow collapse of said job altogether, and part of this is general depression as a whole.

I used to enjoy working on side projects (whether software engineering related or otherwise), but now it's just going through the motions there too.

It just all feels so pointless now, and my motivation is shot to pieces as a result of that.
We use a self-hosted JupyterLab. I would love to have an external tool though our existing workflow isn’t too bad.
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Why do you need to regulate it at all? If you allow land to be used for hotels or housing equally, and don't slap huge taxes on hotel rooms just to pay for sports stadiums, then the market will sort things out and it won't be cheaper to stay in an AirBnB instead of a hotel. It works fine here in Japan: AirBnB isn't a big thing here except maybe in rural places not well served by hotels.
We found out that the battleship had become obsolete because of a world war. We aren't going to know for sure whether the carrier is obsolete till the next major naval war.
Because it is the right of the local citizens and community to choose to do so if they deem the action to be appropriate. They do not need to justify the bans to anyone outside of their community or voting boundaries.

The evidence is robust that “the market will sort things out” is not accurate. Capital and regulatory evasion will always move faster.
reposted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40900780
I think they've been (slowly) migrating things over--passwords.google and blog.google and a few others exist nowadays
Less than 20% of Apple’s net income comes from what they call “Europe”, which actually includes Africa and the mid-East.

If Apple pulled out of the EU, which isn’t even all of the European continent much less the “Europe” reporting region, they would probably take less than a 10% hit. Significant, but not a showstopper. I don’t know where everyone gets this idea that pulling out of the EU would kill Apple.
> Overall, the lack of detail of the (regulator forced) post-mortem makes it impossible for the public to decide.

Note: the publicly available post-mortem makes it difficult for the public to decide.

Per a news article:

> Xona Partners' findings were contained in the executive summary of the review report,[0] released this month. The CRTC says the full report contains sensitive information and will be released in redacted form at a later, unspecified, date.

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rogers-outage-human-error-s...
They did compare levels to those found in raw dyed fabric (from another study).
It's funny that they can't forcibly sanction property in the form of homes... but they can functionally enslave people and potentially send them to their death (conscription) or take property in the form of money and assets (taxes).
i didnt prune per se, but I did make anything more than about 10 years old a one liner that said where i was, the position, and dates. That shrank the ol resume down from 3 pages, and made it much more readable. Downside, i can't talk about the startup that actually exited successfully.
Berkshire Hathaway is not a consumer brand; Travelers Insurance is. And some consumer brands are willing to spend very large amounts of money to forestall brand confusion, squatting, impersonation, etc. They probably bought their TLDs for the same reason they own travlers.com and many other variations: so no one else can use it either.
For vim users, jupyter-vim [0] coupled with a jupyter QtConsole is hard to beat. The short video [1] is maybe self-explanatory, but in short:

- vim on the left half of the screen, a jupyter QtConsole on the right, showing any plots, possibly interactive.

- the kernel on the jupyter QtConsole can be running on a powerful remote host, e.g., with GPU, but the plots are displayed locally

- Focused window is always vim. From vim editing a .py and without ever leaving vim or touching the mouse, one connects once to the jupyter kernel of the QtConsole. Then one can send a selection of lines, or vim text objects, to be evaluated in the QtConsole with a few keystrokes. Code is shown+evaluated and plots are displayed in the QtConsole as if the code sent from vim had been typed there.

One gets the full power of both vim and jupyter kernels with native plots. No more browser based notebooks or other editors with half-baked vim bindings.

[0]: https://github.com/jupyter-vim/jupyter-vim

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h59cbg4HqpY
This is exactly the same thing they did with the Amazon Glow Projector.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/20/23415167/amazon-glow-sup...
When does he plan to retire? After paying for his MBA what salary jump does he expect? How much will he pay for his degree? These answers will give a sense of worth it from a financial perspective. Admittedly, there could be many non financial motivations as well that made up "worth it".
> Us hearing it is probably the most damaging.

Without a doubt.

> After all, they know only 30 people in the entire US bought the thing

Do you have a source for that?

> number for illustration

What do you mean by that? What is it illustrating?

Is this some post-truth thing where you make up something and then provide a weird disclaimer to let people know that you just made up a thing out of thin air? If so, it ain’t cool.
I mean, there probably should be a 50x difference. I've seen a single dev get done the work of 50 average devs many times. A single excellent engineer can produce immense business value.

It always baffles me how many places only pay sr engineers 3-5x more.
It's ironic that most preppers are actually improperly prepared. Lone wolf preppers hiding MREs in the walls of their condos in the middle of a city is total futility. They should be 1. establishing self-sustaining homestead-farms using organic and natural methods eliminating external dependencies, 2. stockpiling valuable agricultural and food processing machinery, 3. learning how to defend themselves and their property, and 4. networking and aligning with other families to surround themselves with others for mutual cooperation and defense. Or, be a billionaire, buy some or all of an island and keep supplies only long enough for 5 years... but then what?

Like the fall of the Roman republic, it will slip away gradually punctuated by sudden shifts. Food will eventually become absurdly-expensive. Most incomes will gradually become more and more devoted to food, and poverty and disease will mushroom like nothing else in history.

Police departments and militaries will become understaffed before breaking down and ceding their arms to local defense militias and criminal gangs. As a single anecdotal example of unsustainable problems today, Austin PD's morale is terrible and has 250 unfilled officer positions. They don't respond to most calls for 36-48 hours unless there are lives at risk. The falls of major population centers into chaos won't necessarily be synchronous.
I was quite confused when following an Indian cookbook, which kept referring to "fresh coriander." I tried to find it at the store, with no luck. But I can buy cilantro, no problem (:

Apparently "chinese parsley" is another term for it, perhaps less common now (haven't heard that in a while).
What does any of that have to do with AirBnB? If a house isn't safe enough to be used for short-term stays, it's not safe enough for anyone to live in.
I agree entirely with the above, not kidding.
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I sometimes suspect the pandemic and lockdowns probably killed a lot of social engagement and internet activity too. Yes, it seems counterproductive, since those times were boom periods for many social media platforms...

But then once it ended, it feels like being stuck online with nothing else to do all day burnt a lot of people out on the internet and online activities. Perhaps they decided it was best to make up for lost time once real life 'reopened'. Or perhaps they took one look at the online panopticon, and realised it wasn't adding as much to their lives as they thought.

Because activity in many communities seems to dropped significantly, at least from what I can see. Yeah, Discord's seemingly doing better than Reddit or Twitter in this climate, but even then, communities that seemed to be booming in the pandemic (or even before) are now far less active than they used to be, and lots of people who used to be there all the time seem to barely show up anymore.
No because there’s so much to do. If something becomes annoying or frustrating there are a million different things to do.

It’s all about perspective.

Life could have been way worse…
The first GPU went on sale decades before 1999: all personal computers used dedicated hardware to accelerate text mode - none of them could early on draw pixels fast enough to draw a screen of text at anything usable for text editing.

All laptops use a GPU since the very first PCs used BIOS routines to access the graphics card, which, surprise surprise, accelerate textmode to make it usable. You're proving my point.

Same goes for pretty much any MIPS router that connects to a screen. List your make and model, and I'll find the docs showing you how the GPU in it is used to draw characters in text mode.

Even the term "text mode" is a holdover from those 1970s era cards: they had dedicated graphics modes where you draw pixels, and hardware accelerated modes called textmode where ASCII bytes get drawn, by hardware acceleration, as characters.