skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the discussion of how PyPI wheel/binary storage bloat could be addressed using Zig's build system was particularly interesting.
> computers are a very important form of technology. Without it no websites, no Roblox studio, and no nothin.

My son would agree.
Though I agree about the point about not creating objects/instances where a pure function will get the job done, I disagree with the general stance against OOP. I think OOP is absolutely essential to simplicity. FP tends to lead to too many indirections with data traversing too many conceptual boundaries. FP (if used dogmatically) tends to encourage low cohesion. I want high cohesion and loose coupling. Some degree of co-location of state and logic is important since that affects cohesion and coupling of my modules.

The key to good OOP is to aim to only pass simple primitives or simple cloned objects as arguments to methods/functions. 'Spooky action at a distance' is really the only major issue with 'OOP' and it can be easily solved by simple pass-by-value function signatures. So really, it's not a fundamental issue with OOP itself. OOP doesn't demand pass by reference. Alan Kay emphasized messaging; which is more leaning on 'pass by value'; a message is information, not an object. We shouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater.

When I catch a taxi, do I have to provide the taxi driver with a jerrycan full of petrol and a steering wheel? No. I just give the taxi driver the message of where I want to go. The taxi driver is responsible for the state of his car. I give him a message, not objects.

If I have to give a taxi driver a jerrycan full of petrol, that's the definition of a leaky abstraction... Possibly literally in this case.

That said, I generally agree with this article. That's why I tend to write everything in 1 file at the beginning and wait for the file size to become a problem before breaking things up.

There are many different ways to slice things up and if you don't have a complete understanding of your business domain and possible future requirement changes, there is no way you will come up with the best abstractions and it's going to cost you dearly in the medium and long term.

A lot of developers throw their arms up and say stuff like "We cannot anticipate future requirement changes"... Well of course, not on day 1 of your new system!!! You shouldn't be creating complex abstractions from the beginning when you haven't fully absorbed the problem domain. You're locking yourself into anti-patterns and lots of busy-work by forcing yourself to constantly re-imagine your flawed original vision. It's easier to come up with a good vision for the future if you do it from scratch without conceptual baggage. Otherwise, you're just seeding bias into the project. Once you have absorbed it, you will see, you CAN predict many possible requirement changes. It will impact your architecture positively.

Coming up with good abstractions is really difficult. It's not about intelligence because even top engineers working in big tech struggle with it. Most of the working code we see is spaghetti.
TSMC CEO predicts AI chip shortage through 2025
There aren't many radios in the higher frequency bands that can be used for networking. That is why people repurpose existing hardware.

BTW, amateurs are limited in what they can use radio for. Replacing existing communication systems is not allowed, efffectively meaning that can't have non-ham users. The systems I know about are for ham-only communication, like linking repeater sites.
I’ve been to Bishkek, it’s a really interesting place. At the time everything was still straight out of the Soviet Union (maybe still is) and the people were all friendly. The mountains are immense and beautiful.

The tourist experience wasn’t sugarcoated at all though. It’s a genuine poor country with not a whole lot happening. Id say go for it, it’s a place that I find myself thinking of often.
You haven't really given us enough information to find it - have you got a name or star or anything?
> I get the impression that nobody bothers to use the postal service for anything important any more.

Try to send invitations to parties by email and see how many actually reads their mailbox filled to the brink with spam.

I want everything important from companies by snail mail. Friends etc. could use sms, telephone or snail mail. People don't seem to read private e-mails that often and a lot are missed. Me included.

Note, I am referring to private correspondence. At work I check my email properly.
We jokers are tired as well
Yes correct, it's a good startup but 7 years was too kid. At least 12 years is fine. Kids life are so different, joyful, curious, etc. Any kid will be come adult to learn code or do whatever work.

Programming isn't big deal any old age man can do programming. Anyone can learn programming at any age. But kids life never come back.

At least teaching standard mathamatics like bits and bytes with abacus can be acceptable. It might be helpful to improve the math skill along with their school syllabus. Math is universally standard. Math actually improves our lifestyle.

But programming is just text format that a engineer designed. A well designed IDE with voice assist can replace all kind of programming.
Beyond general conspiracy-theory concerns, this is one of those situations where I encourage readers to cautiously check what else the same "China Media Grand Mishmash Network" has put out and whether it seems accurate or unbiased.
"The next time they bug you about Grant's drinking [...] tell them you're gonna find out what brand he drinks and send a case of it to all your other generals."

--Bob Newhart, as Lincoln's PR consultant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF1ew8wxiEw
Slightly off-topic: To the web developer gurus in here, how do you build a site with those scrollable 3D animations? Is there a name for it, or better, a tutorial? Maybe not the minimal one, but it’s still cool.
I would think it is easier to learn self control with a more fully developed brain than the other way around.

It isn't a perfect analogy, but it is similar to we don't give unlimited junk food to children either, as it can be easier to learn moderation starting with healthy habits than the other way around.
I believe at least one French government website uses Matomo, based on the fact that I once used their React snippet to make it work.

Matomo is pretty solid. And you can always use it just to ingest the data, then analyze it with something other than the default dashboards.
I’d say it’s because there is so much (free/open) code around these days that it’s not surprising there’s something that parses the file out there.
No, they modified it somewhat in SNW: they pushed back the start of the Eugenics Wars (there's a time-travel episode explaining it, originally it starts in the 1990s), and then they threw in a bit about a "second civil war" and WWIII killing 40% of the population in the pilot episode.
That book directly inspired my "blink my caps lock light when someone visits a web page" hack from nearly 8 years ago: http://lelandbatey.com/posts/2016/12/Making-lights-blink-for...
I don't find it to be a personality quirk any more than I find healthy eating and regular exercise to be a personality quirk. The rest of the population can eat Cinnamon Toast Crunch and drink Coke if that's what they want, but it's not going to be in our house. Part of my job is to guide my kids toward making wise choices and avoiding obviously poor ones, even if 80% of the population does it. I don't think that requires social isolation; I think that requires placing them in situations where the other 20% are wildly over-represented as peers.
https://archive.ph/9gvHZ
Same on MacOS, press shift 5x to activate.
I mean, if I’m going to buy a house, I’d want to buy it in my hometown, but that’s very nearly impossible even at software developer salaries.

I’m now living overseas, where housing is also expensive, but at least within reach due to low interest rates and just plain building more smaller houses.
I just checked huggingface and the model files download is about 25GB but in a comment below someone mentioned it is 8fp quantized model. Trying to understand how the quantization affects the model (and RAM) size. Can someone please enlighten.
Wait until you find out how we used to change the colour of links!
crying in rails concerns :*-(
I doubt many Russians can tell the difference between Ukrainian and Polish either. I unironically think that some of them convinced themselves they were fighting Polish mercenaries just because they heard western Ukrainian accents.
Youth with conduct disorder show widespread differences in brain structure
Because, every run up to a presidential election, we get (mostly democrat) people declaring "if Republican wins, I'm moving to Canada!"
For both your examples, that’s not something 99% of people have to consider though.

But most computer users did have to understand the things I mentioned to some degree to get things done.

If you get a mismatched usb-c cable, chances are you’ll still get some data transfer or you’ll just try another till it works. A data only cable being used for data is no different to an end user than a broken cable.
I might argue that Microsoft had two distinct eras of innovation
I'm somewhat familiar with Cyc but I'd never heard of this development of "micro-theories". It makes perfect sense though - to generalize hugely structured ontologies break as soon as the second person tries to use them or they are used on a slightly different domain.

Anyway, Prolog should be suitable for reasoning over them, but it is only grounded in the "micro-theory" part.
Dithering just black, red, green, and blue is sufficient to produce a full-colour image. Everything else is a combination of those. That's effectively how normal LCD or OLED monitors work!
There is few people who would disagree, specifically both the guy who was fired in the elevator, and the person right behind him, who quit a week later. The guy Jobs fired in the elevator was an engineering liaison to the design team, who's firing set back the iPhone by more than 6 months.

Great attitude, when you blow off a few toes.
The model description on huggingface says - Model size - 12.2B params, Tensor type - BF16. Is the Tensor type different from the training param size?
If you want to use my server, it might be a little more powerful than the current one. I would self host but to be honest I'd prefer helping out with the main instance. In case, I am here
you're right, it turns out it's an esp32
very nice comment! Both put in perspective the importance of Steve Jobs, while not aggrandizing him too much and instead shifting the focus to what we could do instead. Bookmarked!
When you put it in that context, the rovers look like an absolute bargain!
> Defund the USPS.

How? The US government doesn’t fund the USPS.

There’s been some back and forth about the sudden mandate for USPS the pre funding retiree healthcare out 65 years, which nominally created a great deal of debt to the government as they failed to meet that sudden obligation. However, by removing the obligation that ‘debt’ disappeared as the government hadn’t actually spent any money on USPS retirees healthcare.
Relevant username, I guess
Yes, you should take the bus.
YES! This project, this is what the internet is for!
1.5 was several years later
There may not be much risk from a legal culpability perspective if they make the appropriate disclosures somewhere in the depths of a EULA, but even so it is a failure of professional ethics to build tools which are "dangerous at any speed" and inflict them upon the world.
Did you read TFA? This is explained.
This was an incredible article. Thanks for sharing!
If you write down the exact line and column and ask them to look at it, would that make it an index of reflection?
Seems like Gboard is incompatible with it. Is there a good enough open source alternative to Gboard in 2024 that has smooth glide-typing and a similar layout?
Also, odds of 'the hug of death' is very low on some so nimble.
> Steve points out that the design effort in the U.S. at the time had been focused on the automobile, with little consideration or effort given to consumer electronics

Home stereo equipment has a long and storied history of design, and before that it was radios. The 80's was chock full of interesting and pretty electronic gadgets.
This isn't exactly true. Even with junk mail they aren't profitable. But being profitable is a non-goal; they exist to serve the people, not to allow 3rd parties to harass them endlessly.
I suspect that his work is related to this: https://www.tacton.com/products/tacton-cpq/configurator/
Been down hours. Those poor 9's
>You just described google 10 years ago. And I would argue they have been on a downhill slop ever since.

Don't forget Microsoft ever since the early 90s or so. And I would argue they haven't produced much usable stuff in the research realm at all.

So I think it's more than just #1 and #2. There's also a #3: a national culture where doing great things is seen as more important than simply maximizing shareholder returns. The US had that many decades ago when it sent people to the Moon, but it lost it sometime after the 1980s.
Seems like they designed it as a radiator. Unlike A/Cs, refrigerators don't use fans to dissipate heat, but convection, because don't produce too much heat.

> Teams in Saarbrücken, Germany, have spent around 15 years researching and developing a technology using thin sheets of nickel-titanium to achieve optimal cooling or heating effects in circulatory systems. This includes creating a cooling and heating demonstrator and a continuously operating refrigerator.
Rakı is deceptively strong, especially the Cretan version, from which I am proud to have recovered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Political_views_an...
Classic marketing.
This is a huge part of it.

Congress might increase the budget by 3% but when they force something like SLS on NASA that eats 6% of the budget in real terms it was a 3% cut.

And this assumes the employees don't deserve any raises or bonuses.
Streaming for TTS doesn't matter but for speech to text it is more meaningful in interactive cases. In that case the user's speech is arriving in real time and streaming can mean a couple levels of things:

- Overlap compute with the user speaking: Not having to wait until all the speech has been acquired can massively reduce latency at the end of speech and allow a larger model to be used. This doesn't have to be the whole system, for instance an encoder can run in this fashion along audio as it comes in even if the final step of the system then runs in a non-streaming fashion.

- Produce partial results while the user is speaking: This can be just a UI nice to have, but it can also be much deeper, eg, a system can be activating on words or phrases in the input before the user is finished speaking which can dramatically change latency.

- Better segmentation: Whisper + Silero is just using VAD to make segments for Whisper, this is not at all the best you can do if you are actually decoding while you go. Looking at the results as you go allow you to make much better and faster segmentation decisions.
Actual answer: The VLBI radio telescope Celestial Reference System measures the Earth's rotational position to 10 microarcseconds, which is good to within two thirds of a millionth of a second of sidereal time-of-day. The position of distant quasars is very stable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Celestial_Refere...
Some interesting videos/talks:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LauNJNKECOM --> reviews GT, a library for generating beautiful tables (https://posit.co/blog/introducing-great-tables-for-python-v0...).

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRS8uu3GGpk --> how to communicate ideas with diagrams. Goes into PyFlow, which I wasn't aware of before. Neat!

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHm-f9E7aIY --> JupyRest, deploying web services via notebooks.
Don't want to name particular firms, but they can found at places like these: https://www.thsoa.org, https://chc2024.org/en/about/partners, https://www.hydro-international.com/members.
Semi-serious answer: Shapley value (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley_value) would provide a "fair" division.

Unfortunately it wouldn't be easy to actually calculate. The inputs to the formula are "how much of a donation would we have received counterfactually if the team had only included this subset of contributors" for all possible subsets of contributors. Though if it's a small number of contributors then you only have a 2^(small number) of counterfactuals to pull out of nowhere.
This is cool, I get to read another Jetpack Compose codebase since I am halfway through migrating our app to Jetpack. So this helps a lot.
> Who within the culture is empowered to authorize you?

Not you, or me

> Can I ask any Irishman for permission to use a shamrock?

That is unfair. American Indians, in the USA, are treated as if they do not exist.

To quote the Brian Behlendorf (of the ASF):

> Native American tribe called the Apaches, right, who succumbed to the invasion from the West, from the United States, and they were the last tribe to give up their territory and for me that almost romantically represented what I felt we were doing with this web-server project…

I think the Apache people take exception when the attempted genocide, of them, is "romantically represented"

> This frankly outdated spaghetti-Western “romantic” presentation of a living and vibrant community as dead and gone in order to build a technology company “for the greater good”

Yes

The Irish (some of my ancestors) are in a different boat. But if you want to coopt the Irish shamrock for your server software, it is still in bad taste if you have nothing to do with Eire.

But because the English did not eliminate the Irish, barely, they get to set the agenda. There are not so many romantic descriptions of the potato famine. Some, but they are in very bad taste.

Put yourself in the shoes of people who are told that the story of their near genocide, is "romantic".

The ASF are starting to do the right thing, and we should be calling them the ASF too. I appreciate the difficulties they are going to have changing their name, but that needs to be done too.

We cannot live in peace together when we do not listen to each other, and when re romanticise others tragedy for our own careless reasons
"rachiu" in Romanian/Moldovan is brandy in English.
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There’s a few different goals of advertising but with near 100% name recognition, is this going to change anyone’s mind? Do you really want to link Trump’s name, someone famous for seeming like an outsider with big business?
The radar-invisible shapes came from a Soviet research paper!
Aerojet rocketdyne is another major player. I used to go watch their engine tests as a child.

I agree satellite work is more distributed.
Sure, but plenty of consumer tech is vulnerable to trivial attacks.
If you'll read the article past the 2nd paragraph, you'll see that BS has a formal academic meaning that does not, imply any intent to deceive.
What has that got to do with the ASF or the Apache people?
They didn’t mention whether or not Tesla has made up for the difference in other states.
Why do you say that? A bigger company has also more to loose with such a problem and therefore they care much more about such things.

Smaller companies can hide behind obscurity, not big company.

If the same thing happened to a company much smaller then SAP, it wouldn't have made hacker news.
I've noticed this phenomenon of disappearing posts as well.

There are "flagged" posts, which say [flagged] and then there are disappearing posts which just, disappear!

I have had such posts open in separate tabs, and when refreshed they and their content show up blank.
Or if pixel density is high enough, adjacent pixels could display the colors to combine with no flickering. Unlike regular RGB subpixels, this would only be needed for areas where the color cannot be displayed by an individual pixel alone.
Specifically, IIRC, the character used the "Scroll Lock" LED to blink out some coordinates in Morse, to avoid the location being displayed on-screen and thus captured by Van Eck phreaking[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
Entire Azure been offloaded to WITCH beware.
Is there anybody from Natives in Tech we can hear from?

Judging from the referenced blogs they have a very relevant POV.

Not really a comfortable place, here on HN. A lot of unthinking racism here.
Any gamer who maps shift to something discovers this very quickly
Love, Death and PostgreSQL Triggers (2022)
I wouldn't be happy to run it containerless, per se, but within docker or on a remote spun-up box it's fine. I think it's mostly something to play with for now, but I'll eventually build it into a couple of AI platforms I run, just to help with amorphous tasks and more deterministic outputs with math and data.
> I assume OP wants to succeed and retain control.

I assume they want to pump and dump like most other businesses riding on the LLM hype train right now. Choo choo!
And separately, some people apparently vote down if they just don't agree with you, even if it is a valid comment.
I don't think being an asshole precludes you from being a good speaker
RisingWave: Process, manage, and analyze event streams with Postgres-style SQL
This is what impostor syndrome looks like at an industrial scale.

I find the best antidote to that is live streams of people like geohot, a man at the top of his game who is an idiot more than half the time when coding - "No! You're missing a coma, this won't run!"
I'm pretty sure this is him:

https://www.forbisanddick.com/obituaries/William-Bill-Ryan-2...
Those 9's are still there. Just that the decimal places were misinterpreted,
Cuttlefish Can Create False Memories, Just Like Humans
Ontology: Study of the nature of being, becoming, existence or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations (philosophy)

What does that have to do with this?

Is there some use of "ontology" in logic I have not heard of?
Inside the historic computer collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen
Jobs communicates amazing well. But I don't think this can be reduced to just a skill "good communication". He communicates with passion because he has something he's passionate about and not in corporate terms. He's passionate that the objects around us, humanity, can beautiful rather than ugly and work in a beautiful rather than ugly way. If you step back and think, that's a big thing for humankind. We live a lot of our lives with objects.

I too have qualms about the practical Steve Jobs but he saw that the world was being built of out computer and it could be nice or it could be terrible. He put forward that vision and I think it was the power of that vision rather than doing speaking right that powered his speech here.
The decimal is going door to door, menacing the 9's.
I decided to throw in the towel on frontend dev when I was forced to translate wireframes from a UX designer into pixel-perfect CSS (on a safety and time-critical project where the site was going to be used by back-office staff only, you've got to love how consultancies find ways to make $$$).

We had used Bootstrap and similar frameworks for years prior, but all the battling with different CSS layout techniques to render the UI on this project made me realize I was wasting my time, and the fact that the designer couldn't give developers working CSS made me wonder if the entire promise of separating design from functionality was a mirage.
WTF? No. Those have the almost opposite problem: they're famously inflexible, meaning you end up with lots of repetition, or else people resort to reflection or casting.
99.999999999999999999999999%

high availability

fault tolerant and resilient infrastructure
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