skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus, is speed of application even a thing most nail salon customers care much about?

I don't know many who use them, but the ones I know who do consider it as much a recreational activity as anything else. They like the social aspect of doing it, as well as taking the time out to pamper themselves. They're not just getting their nails done.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to compare against subsidies and tax breaks to other car manufacturers?
Probably because it's a loaded (and incidentally no longer useful) term that conveys more than that. As explained well by deBoer here https://web.archive.org/web/20230404013504/https://freddiede...
LemonSqueezy itself or Paddle. Both are merchants of records. At least paddle (maybe LS too) allows reverse invoice which is important for some home grown startup saas as they simplify taxes to single customer (paddle), one invoice and one tax jurisdiction usually.
Article discusses using types to catch issues during development instead of at customer time.

Substitute the word "archive" for the word "achieve."
>ignoring the apology

US apology was plastered all over local news. They did delay broadcast for a a few days, by which time protests against US embassy already began. Delay got protestors to get rage out of system. I was in BJ at the time, very few locals believed apology - this was few years after clinton sent 2 CVGs through TW strait.

Also important to note, PRC gov also unlikely to have believed in apology if background that PRC using belgrade embassy to move downed F117 material. In which case US apology insincere, attack was purposeful (reports mission coordinated by CIA not NATO), but PRC weak at the time, not much can be done, same with 95 TW strait drama. Saying US gov apologized to Belgrade is like saying JP gov apologized for WWII, but kept going to Yasukuni shrine. Flip side of PRC weaponizing propaganda to ferment anti-US sentiment is US propaganda / selective reporting / decontextualizing pretending PRC didn't have good reason to. Everyone uses media to direct influence propaganda on foreign policy. Ultimately, Belgrade just another US intervention effort against PRC interest, queue Hainan EP3 drama a year later.
Ads are necessary evil. Though fight will(and should) continue on all mediums.

Was building a case for German offline event posters.

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Author here!

Sorry that some of the stuff went over your head! I wanted to include longer descriptions of the tech I was using but the post was already suuuper long and I felt like I couldn't add more.

Very happy to answer any questions that you've got here!

I'm not sure how you'd simplify the architecture in a major way to be honest. There are certainly services you could use for stuff like this, but I think there you're offloading the complexity to someone else? Ultimately you need:

* A database that tracks which boxes are checked (that's Redis)
* A choice about how to put your data in your database (I chose to just store 1 million bits for simplicity)
* A way to tell your clients what the current state is (I chose to send them all 1 million bits - it's nice that this is not that much data)
* A way for clients to tell you when they check a box + update your state (that's Flask + the websocket)
* A way to tell your clients when a box is checked/unchecked (that's also Flask + websockets. I chose to send both updates about individual boxes and also updates about all 1 million boxes)
* A way to avoid rendering 1 million dom elements all the time (react-window)

The other stuff (nginx for static content + a reverse proxy) is mostly just to make things easier to scale; you could implement this solution without those details and the site would work fine, it just wouldn't be able to handle the same load.
I'm going to be very blunt: equating modern advertising with whatever the roman merchants did is either incredibly naive bordering on stupidity, or it's arguing in bad faith, bordering on malevolent faith.
Thank you so much for letting me know. Tried out cloudflare this morning, rolling it back.
In which case the question gets inverted:

Why of all common things you could CT scan and show people, you choose something that is kinda obvious to anyone who has thought about it for five seconds? I don't think average people struggle to understand the concept of "electricity makes wire hot", especially if they lived at the same time as normal car cigarette lighter usage.
RP English wasn't always used for Romans in Hollywood. But given that you're speaking English, not Latin, demanding "accuracy" is a category mistake. It's a matter of analogy: which English dialect today is most fitting, by analogy?

RP English has a certain perception in the US, but is it really the best accent in our times? The British Empire is gone, and did not rule the US. The American Empire, though hurtling fast toward extinction, is a sensible analogue. So some variety of American English seems fitting, and in general, an English language American movie will need to translate into American linguistic categories. For example, among Romans, you can vary dialects based on social class, ethnic origin, and so on.

But that's if you want analogical accuracy, and that kind of accuracy can work well when the subject matter of Rome is used as an occasion to critique our society.
It's a scanner company showing off their scanners, they don't sell bandsaws. :p

That said, it's a kind of marketing I like, since it does have some underlying product-performance and educational virtue to it.
One of my favorite software developers - Valhalla DSP, who make awesome reverb, delay, and modulation audio plugins - references the NASA design guidelines.

https://valhalladsp.com/2011/04/26/valhallaroom-an-overview/

"The idea behind the GUI was to organize the controls in a logical manner, such that their size and display status was an accurate representation of their relative importance. The GUI is also proudly 2D, with the controls being more of an abstraction of knobs and sliders than an ersatz depiction of hardware that doesn’t exist. Futura Demibold was chosen as the font, as it is specified as the control panel font in the NASA usability guidelines, and because it just looks cool. The tooltips area is an effort to incorporate documentation as a design element, in keeping with the minimalist/Swiss School influences."

Valhalla is one of the few audio plugin developers who make plugins that are usable/legible even when the vector interface is zoomed down to its smallest size. Apple could do well to take inspiration from NASA and Valhalla - their redesigned plugin interfaces in Logic Pro X have small regular weight Helvetica, tons of wasted blank space and are unreadable to my not-getting-younger peepers at smaller sizes. I feel like no one in Apple's design department is over 30.
> “My gut feeling is that if you want more interesting behaviour [...] – it’s going to require so much compute that we’re not going to practically do it,” says Laurie.

> Indeed, many of the team’s experiments ran for millions of steps [...]. Laurie says that one instance, running on his laptop, involved processing about 3 billion instructions a second and it still took around half an hour for self-replication to emerge.

This almost reads as satire.
In this day and age, 30 minutes on a single laptop doesn't quite trigger my sense of "it's going to be really hard to scale further than this".

Napkin math says the team in the next building over at Google is routinely running experiments that use roughly 20 billions time more compute (90 days on 25k A100 GPUs).

I'm sure they could, at least, leave the trusty laptop on for a week end?
My own solution which is ~1ms faster uses some other pattern that was found experimentally, but I cannot seem to get it to go any faster by tuning the parameters, and the #1 spot remains slightly out of reach.

Alexander Monakov has called the attention of the highload Telegram chat to this paper[0], saying:

Haswell is tricky for memory bw tuning, as even at fixed core frequency, uncore frequency is not fixed, and depends on factors such as hardware-measured stall cycles:

> According to the respective patent [15], the uncore frequency depends on the stall cycles of the cores, the EPB of the cores, and c-states

> ... uncore frequencies–in addition to EPB and stall cycles–depend on the core frequency of the fastest active core on the system. Moreover, the uncore frequency is also a target of power limitations.

So one wonders if it's not really a matter of reading the RAM in the right pattern to appease the prefetchers but of using values in the right pattern to create the right pattern of stalls to get the highest frequency.

[0]: https://tu-dresden.de/zih/forschung/ressourcen/dateien/proje...
It's not. It's completely expected. People have been using genetic evolution for Core Wars for decades. This isn't any different. Of course something will eventually replicate. There will be overwrites of the copies from other organisms etc that will mutate it. Only way I could see this being surprising is if I was an 18 year old intern who has never played with something like this before. This isn't bringing anything new to the table.
Instead of calling Stripe directly, customers call Lemon Squeezy directly - it’s an abstraction layer around the Stripe API.

What’s the barrier to entry for starting up a similar business?
It's me... tried out cloudflare this morning. Bad timing.
I get half of the raw capacity, so 7.5TB. Well a bit less due to metadata, 7.3TB as reported by df (6.9TiB).

For btrfs specifically there is an online calculator [1] that shows you the effective capacity for any arbitrary configuration. I use it whenever I add a drive to check whether it’s actually useful.

1: https://carfax.org.uk/btrfs-usage/?c=2&slo=1&shi=1&p=0&dg=1&...
You make bridge building sound just like it is in video games.
Which experience specific to Stripe is that?
> Is there a reason to choose LemonSqueezy over Stripe if you are located in the US? There hasn't been a single VAT-compliance case to my knowledge and the need for MoR is unclear.

It's not just the EU that charges VAT (or VAT-like taxes).

Most countries (and in the US's case, subregions within) charge some form of sales tax that's a pain to manage yourself if you're not a huge operation.

Always good to comply with tax laws (if not for the obviously good moral/ethical reasons, then definitely for legal reasons!)
And thus us why large-scale construction companies can bid so low, because most of their revenue and profit come from the inevitable scope and requirements changes later in the projects.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Computational Life: How self-replicating programs emerge from simple interaction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820022 - June 2024 (17 comments)
I remember seeing this posted a few days ago. When I hover over '8 hours ago', it shows '2024-07-22T15:59:19'. That's not 8 hours ago. Why is a post from 4 days ago showing as a recent post? Is it a title change issue?

Regardless. What's the point of the article. We have known for decades that evolution 'can' happen much quicker than darwin thought. From large animals to bacteria. Not only that we know that 'lamarckian' epigentics exists.
D3D12 (GPU) Work Graphs
Notes on Remitting Stripe Tax to the UK and EU
It's both. That 85% includes accidents, it's not all arson.

> According to the National Park Service, nearly 85% of wildland fires in the U.S. are caused by human activities, such as unattended campfires, debris burning, equipment malfunctions and arson. Severe heat, which persists across the country in dangerous waves, can also fuel wildfires.

Climate change easily makes little accidents more likely to turn into big ones. Hotter, dryer, windier, etc. means that little spark from your campfire winds up sparking a fire.
Every single product company acquisition, ever.
this headline is false, from the article:

> A truly wild amount of Tesla’s second-quarter profit – over half of it, in fact – was attributed to the sale of these credits to rival automakers that use them to meet emissions rules, the Wall Street Journal reports. Sure, the money – which is pure profit – isn’t technically a subsidy, but Tesla is still very much benefitting from government programs that are aimed at aiding the development of electric vehicles.

correct me if I am wrong, but there is a difference between tax payer money going for something then a company purchasing credits from another company to meet regulatory standards
Since Sochi Olympics, Russian athletes were consistently banned for doping and for their country's starting wars. Russia didn't change anything in this regard. I don't see why these Olympics should be any different.
Apple's Next Cash Cow Will Be a Language Learning App. Here's Why
you're right, I probably could have saved some money by using Hertzner! But I'm used to using Digital Ocean, and most of my projects haven't had these scaling problems, and I think changing my stack ahead of launching the project would have been a mistake.

If I was planning to keep the site up for long I would have moved, but in this case I knew it was temporary and so toughing it out on DO seemed like a better choice.
Seeing DEI as a slur depresses me. On Instagram in the comments of videos of Trump getting shot, there are so many it's due to the SS having female members, which they conclude is because of DEI.

It makes me want to ask Putin to just launch those nukes already...
Another change that could/should have been possible for the customers , is not to have auto installs. the install would be tested by the customer first before being deployed to the company's PCs ....
Glad to see the media demonize a supposed contradiction while traditional manufacturers had billions in liquidity only to come out with half assed EVs with no grander vision of charging.
Read that before, read it again to make sure I didn't miss anything. The lack of clarity here is disappointing and only asks more questions than it answers.
It's interesting to look all the modern dog breeds and think: "There are very few actual newly mutated genes here, we just encouraged different re-mixes or even un-mixing of an enormous variety that was already latent."

(And then, for a few dog breeds: "I'm so sorry, we have much to answer for.")
I have this book; as a NASA nerd, I love it!
It's an interesting question. If you want "historical accuracy", you would have the actors speak in Latin or Greek, but these days I'm not sure it'd find an audience. The only place you're likely to find spoken Latin is ecclesiasticly.

So your show's in English but not set in England, what accent should you have? For quite a while, I'd have said "what native speakers from that area sound like when trying to speak English"...

But when I watched the HBO Chernobyl mini-series, they had a different approach. All the various Russian, Ukrainian, etc. accents were instead regional English accents. And that was pretty good, because, honestly, as someone who doesn't speak any Slavic languages, I can't easily tell the differences between them, and I'd miss the implicit cultural and social judgements the speakers make of each other. But I know exactly how an RP speaker looks down on an Estuary English speaker who in turn looks down on a Yorkshireman or Scotsman. By using my own country's accents, the narcissism of small differences comes through loud and clear.

The accompanying podcast said they did it to make the actors "act their roles and not their accents". But it is a balancing act - do you want the versimilitude of having people sound like they're from the place on-screen (while still speaking English)? Or do you want the nuances of language translated properly for you?

In purely fantasy worlds, there's no reason why elves speak RP, dwarves speak Scots and orcs speak Cockney... if anything, the dwarves should speak Old Norse!

On a final note, watch the British take the piss out of those self-serving Hollywood movies where they have Americans play the heroes despite their country not existing until several centuries later (and of course giving the baddies British accents): Jerry Brickhammer presents "The Crusades", the movie in honour of all the Americans who died in the early middle ages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbzlUQwaC4Q
Like how slavery was back in time, right? Just like we don't enslave people for economic benefit today, we have the choice to act virtuously, independent of the economic impact.
Linux Loses Talent
FPGA: non-sequential programming

Lightmatter: matrix multiply via optical interferometers

Parametron: coupled oscillator phase logic

rapid single flux quantum logic: high-speed pulse logic

asynchronous logic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconventional_computing
The Magic of Acorns
Vectors contain buy/sell orders and are sorted by price, the keys of the hashmap were different securities. Buy orders and sell orders lived in separate vectors
the mutation tester
You're missing the largest advertising: lifestyle advertising. It's not "hey everybody, we have the best mobile phone", it's "You will be cool, women will want you, success awaits you with our mobile phone".
Apple falls off list of China's top smartphone shippers
There's a video on YT with someone doing a multimeter inspection of the 13/14 gen CPUs.

In order to achieve their clocks, they boost to insane voltages, which causes both instability and damage. Intel just fucked with raw physics and lost. They tried to play the "overclocker friend" for everyone and this is the result.

You can't expect to run modern CPUs at 1.5-1.6V 24/7 and not have stability/failure issues.
I wasn't saying that you could get within 1% of the true median, I was saying you could find an element in the 49th to 51st percentile. In your example, the 49th percentile would be -90 and the 51st percentile would be 90, so the guarantee is that you would (with very high probability) find a number between -90 and 90.

That's a good point, though, that the 49th percentile and 51st percentile can be arbitrarily far from the median.
> Climate change easily makes little accidents more likely to turn into big ones.

precisely - when climate tips ground temps close to ignition points it does not take much to spark a huge conflagration, even if the source is human.
There is a feature where sometimes old submissions are resurrected and/or merged with newer ones, and it leads to incorrect timestamp anchor text.
He must have been born in a village that rests in the shadow of the Piz Palü, where in that village, they all speak like this.
Also torpedoed good internet for Australia, to prevent streaming services from knocking his cable tv out.
This is extremely funny. I'm assuming they just tried many seeds until one worked, to demonstrate the role of chance in scoring these programs?
The problem with AMD isn't that they are only hitting 90% of the hardware capabilities vs Nvidia hitting 98%.

It's the fact that AMD doesn't prioritize the reliability of its hardware and software stack. If I run llama.cpp on Vulkan I get a reasonable speedup, but if I raise the batch size to 512, the GPU is starting to make strange noises and shuts the PC down midway. Very cool. 98% of zero is still zero.
Important to note that despite being started by humans, those fires are still made larger and exacerbated by climate change.

Not to say you’re implying against that, just clarifying.
What the fans of advertisment forget how much funds are channeled artificially from the end user into things they absolutely do not need or want, they even loath! It is hugely distorting the economy this way! (money is spent of unwanted)

People gladly pay for things they really need. And people do not need all the things they use but do not pay directly for, but covertly and cowardly is drawn from them under the hood! Lied to and cheated the people are!

People not happy, people are forced to use this way! As there are no micropayment solution built instead of the hugely harmful ad practices.
Well that's ironic. You do know many of Shakespeare's plays were adapted from elsewhere outside of England or Scotland. So Shakespeare would've been committing the same sins you're all getting twisted about by having Englishmen play characters called 'Malveolo' and 'Othello' and 'Titus Andronicus' etc. I'm really not understanding this slavish devotion to the skin color and ethnicity of who plays fictional characters.
The idea that evolution isn't a gradual process of improvement but rather more like a dynamic system, is fairly widely accepted and essentially originates with Stephan Jay Gould.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium
Nothing conspiratorial about that, except for your mindset. Smokey the Bear has been informing us about wild fires for 80 years now…
Good question, it's addressed in the article:

"This research is far from the first attempt at mimicking life digitally: for example, simulations such as the Game of Life, which has a grid of cells that are either “alive” or “dead” and are governed by simple rules, have shown self-replicating behaviour. Laurie says what makes this work unique is that the system had no formal rules, goals or processes to encourage or kick-start artificial life – it simply arrived. “It all fizzes around and then suddenly: boom, they’re all the same,” he says."

Another user posted a link to the full (non paywalled) article, it's worth a read. It also presents a few critic views.
Of course it can be done, it's just a lot of effort. You need parametric kernels you can find optimal configurations for all hardware and input size combinations.

Then there are also numerics: being fast is not enough if your implementation accumulates a lot of rounding errors doing so. Floating point arithmetic can and will mess up your results in unexpected ways. -funsafe famously is neither fun nor safe.

Maybe tooling will catch up and make it easier. Think tinygrad with beamsearch, triton or halide.
> current models are not much different from what was available 2 yrs ago?

Well, yes. If you don't count multimodality, math skills, coding skills, latency, performance, or anything else then yeah we are still basically at GPT-2 level.

Just like computers aren't that different from what we had in WWII, so why worry about them influencing society
Deja-you, the recursive construction of self
> There is a time and place for demographic accuracy. If you are shooting some kind of historical reenactment I can see the argument it enhances immersion

Of course, and I can’t say I ever noticed the race or gender of characters until recently. If movies/TV were was always just equally non-accurate then it would be fine, but that’s not how entertainment works. A man can be replaced by a woman or a transgender, a white character can be replaced by a non-white actor, and anybody can be made gay/bi/++. But the reverse is never allowed. It’s not some insane conspiracy theory either, these are basically the new rules of film making.

https://www.oscars.org/awards/representation-and-inclusion-s...

For people that are aligned with this political agenda, I’m sure it’s good for them. But I’m personally just not interested, and I think there’s quite a few people out there with the same views as me on this.
Water absolutely is a green house gas, and the most significant one at that.

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/steamy-relatio...
It's not a simple "acquisitions are good" or "acquisitions are bad" discussion. There is an ideal amount of M&A activity in an economy which is more than "no startup ever gets acquired" and less than "every startup is bought out by big tech". In recent years we have been closer to the first extreme, and very few startups have had exits of any kind.