skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paper Tigers aren't at all uncommon, particularly away from their domain "hot spots". Australia suffers a great many British types who swan out to the (former) colony and big note their achievements to take top jobs on the basis of bullshit.

eg:

UK-born former West Australian state Labour politician Barry Urban was not so lucky. Since November last year, he's been behind bars.

Urban entered the Western Australian police force in 2005 before moving into parliament in 2017.

He's since been convicted of a number of counts of forgery in relation to the academic degrees that he proffered in his applications to become a police officer.

He claimed to have, and attached to his job applications, a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Leeds and a certificate of higher education and policing from the University of Portsmouth. He also claimed to have been a war crimes investigator in the former Yugoslavia.

None of the claims were true.

~ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-18/how-cv-lies-can-becom...

Sadly a not uncommon story.
Someone reached out to me because they wanted to implement my old game Glider on a Nintendo cartridge (1). My response was, "Why the hell not?"

I still have one of the cartridges he created.

(1) http://www.nesworld.com/spotlight-glider.php
I guess it because China government has blocked access to docker registry since June 6th, Chinese companies and developers have to use private registry.
I'm pretty sure Xenophan wouldn't have felt inclined to add the advice "in times of plenty save for times of dearth" in the Cyropedia if it were unnecessary advice...

I could probably find many more points of short -sighted decisions (e.g., Marcus Aurelius letting his son inherit, Sam Johnson not regularizing spelling because it was too much work, Daniel Webster changing spelling to make a point and a $) if we had to go try to list
I took a leap and used a graphite thermal pad on my last build. Never going back. no paste to muck with and if I upgrade I can reuse it and not make a hellish paste mess.
So is brevity
Show HN: I revamped JustWatch with a minimalist UI
I agree, but we need far more than just some online encryption.

1. We need a sort of blockchain system to make sure nobody can change votes later.

2. Every citizen can deposit their vote with their own key tied to their id number that nobody else has. Everyone should be able to look up their own vote via their key.

3. We need more proof of work, require every booth to record a video of the voter and have a unique physical marker so that the video cant be reused and require voters to write something specific to that location during their video.

4. Proof of location? Require voters to transmit their GPS at all times during the entire election day. Then at least group voting (beyond faking your own family members' votes perhaps) should be impossible and multi voting should also be impossible.

4. Make sure that the counting of ballots is instantaneous so that the cheaters have less room to cheat.

5. Proof of time? Surely we should be able to simply use time to our advantage, given that somebody who wants to cheat on a mass scale inherently has less time than the individual voters?

Maybe all of it together, we have so much data about citizens in most countries. It should be absurdly easy to have a citizen be forced via GPS to vote from his area or even his building where he is registered to live before he starts going to his local voting booth. This would give us a lot of confidence that this is really a separate, real person and also the person in question.

We need to use what we have to our advantage. People may be able to fake a lot of things but all of them? I rather trust a complex system like this than literal pieces of paper where any person with a bad mind can just choose to read it differently or stuff a few extra pieces of paper somewhere.
What is the temp difference? I'm cancelling my stupid bezos order.. :)

The only downside appears to be they're thermally conductive.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=niAQs8dZohE
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/173.162

(c) Manufactured articles or apparatuses, each containing not more than 100 mg (0.0035 ounce) of gallium and packaged so that the quantity of gallium per package does not exceed 1 g (0.35 ounce) are not subject to the requirements of this subchapter. For transportation by aircraft, such articles and apparatuses must be transported as cargo and may not be carried onboard an aircraft by passengers or crewmembers in carry-on baggage, checked baggage, or on their person unless specifically excepted by § 175.10.

I don't know how much gallium TIM they put in these laptops but I do wonder if there is a legal risk from carrying one onboard.
None of those are implementations of the C++ standard library. None of them even live in the same namespace as the standard library so your claim that they remain compatible at the source level is nonsense. Just a simple Google search would reveal that you are wrong about this and what's worse is that you place the burden on me to have to disprove your wrong assertions as opposed to providing references that justify your position:

Folly https://github.com/facebook/folly:

"It complements (as opposed to competing against) offerings such as Boost and of course std. In fact, we embark on defining our own component only when something we need is either not available, or does not meet the needed performance profile."

libcu++: https://nvidia.github.io/cccl/libcudacxx/

"It does not replace the Standard Library provided by your host compiler (aka anything in std::)

Incremental: It does not provide a complete C++ Standard Library implementation."

Abseil: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp

"Abseil is an open-source collection of C++ library code designed to augment the C++ standard library. Abseil is not meant to be a competitor to the standard library"
Yeah Bing really isn't bad. And LLMs are basically search engines for most use cases.

I think Mozilla should just run an ad auction to choose the search engine. Bing/MS would pay to capture market share, and Google would pay to prevent Bing from gaining ground.

So let them fight it out.
The Apple one felt like fake Twitter outrage. I’m yet to find anyone irl who is upset about the fact they can make music and draw on an iPad.

The AI outrage is real though. I’ve met quite a few people who border on visibly angry if the topic of AI generated content comes up. You can almost see The Sims negative social penalty icon show up next to someone if you talk about AI.

The only people I see with positive thoughts on it are the sales guys at work, and even they seem to be getting soured on it now they have been put on a new tool that AI transcribes and ranks their calls.
A project with similar goals: https://github.com/google/fleetbench
And yet those funds are allocated by politicians, probably with more concern about campaign donations, jobs in their district, and looking good for the camera...
> Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has launched a scathing attack on Apple

Aaaand time to stop reading, this is not notable.
> Everyone agrees Google search is the best and that's why they use it exclusively.

What a specious argument. Just because it is the best now[1], doesn't mean it is the best possible, and blocking competition can prevent something that is better from gaining traction.

[1]:which is itself debatable, and I question if any search engine can unilaterally be the best since different engines may be better in different situations
The Brain Is Not Computable (2013)
https://transitcosts.com/
I tried to switch to DDG, I even gave myself 90 days. On day 91 I immediately switched back.
Sure it is. Biden goes to city to see troubles with illegal immigration he's heard rumors of, so they remove all the illegal immigrants.

I'm sure potemkin might have used the same excuse
Easy GIF Compression
No, you just need an angle of attack sensor. These are increasingly available for small GA planes.
No. We live in a society.
Take a look at older designs from the '60s and all the Experimental aircraft.

It's not that the industry doesn't know or can't do "sexy" (e.g. Cirrus custom leather and carbon fiber interiors and paint colors such Mykonos Blue), but that anything related to the airframe, avionics, or powerplant MUST be FAA certified so that exponentially (I'm not kidding) adds to its cost and time-to-market.

With such high fixed costs and high liability, manufacturers are forced be very conservative to earn very slim margins.
Shows they always do not , get it right.
also maybe outside their risk envelope ...
Where does memory-hard Proof-of-Work fall on this triangle?

(In the typical meaning of PoW, as opposed to human attention-work)
>Is this actually true?

Yes and no.

Yes, it has been demonstrated time and time again that most people do not go and change the defaults even if they could. Most people actually prefer having less dials, even if they say they want more dials.

No, because Chrome isn't the default in Windows (ChromiumEdge), MacOS (Safari), iOS (Safari), most if not all the Linuxes (Firefox), and most if not all the BSDs (Firefox). Chrome is only the default browser in Android, but Android is a Google operating system so this shouldn't be a surprise. Also, this is one of the most spectacular exceptions to most people not changing defaults.
List of Ig Nobel Prize winners
> I acknowledge that's still more than most people ever learn.

So you know you're wrong as a matter of plain fact, but you're going to continue to spout your "mental model" as truth anyway?

What are you trying to say here? It doesn't matter much what "should" be high school knowledge unless you're designing curriculum. If no one actually learns it in high school then a phrase like "you only need high school knowledge" means nothing to most people.
Would this not get picked up with a request for verifiable information , at ( preliminary) evaluation ....?
> I am unable to do anything with Photoshop beyond starting it and exiting. I have no idea how or even what it does beyond somehow modifying photos. That’s not photoshop’s problem, it’s that I don’t know what I’m doing. So I just don’t use it.

As stated up-thread:

> Over time, I taught non-computer people who used Windows all of CVS, Subversion, and Mercurial. They got each one and why things were better. The first time they had to recover something, they really got it. Source control got out of their way and was generally fine.

Seems that things only got hard(er) teaching people with Git.

> I only hear git complaints from people who don’t have an internal model that reflects what git is doing

Yeah, every time someone says that:

> git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.

* Isaac Wolkerstorfer, https://twitter.com/agnoster/status/44636629423497217

In the past I have used RCS, CVS, and Subversion. I never had to learn any kind of internal model for any of them.
Why AI Researchers Are Worried About 'Model Collapse'
https://archive.is/WEpeV
This seems like a plug for a book than anything with a definitive answer. The pull quote near the end of the article implies that the rest of the world has simply caught up and is pressing forward while the US has simply stopped.

I was in Florence not long ago and they are building out a very impressive light-rail network [1]. Twenty years ago a similarly ambitious network was planned in Cincinnati, OH and it was voted down 2-1 [2].

[1] https://en.comune.fi.it/administration/tramway/system.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetroMoves
Related:

OpenAI: Cofounders Greg Brockman, John Schulman, along with others, to leave

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41166862
To rustc not calling stacker enough/at the right times, the behaviour on MSVC/Windows is for the compiler to rely on hitting the OS's guard page to extend the stack (rather than growing it yourself), but also for the compiler to emit a special routine in any function that uses more than a page of stack frame (to make sure the first thing the function does is poke every page in order, so the OS can grow the stack the right amount).
Unraveling a key junction underlying muscle contraction
I have the all-AMD G14 and until I laid a beta bios on and then fully updated itd overheat like crazy, power off, shut off when you do a reboot, fail to boot past black screen and USB4 didn't work and PD was flaky.

Now I love the laptop but it's still not my favorite. I really prefer 11 to 14in laptops and I'd love a Lenovo T14 AMD in the A285 package. oh well. I absolutely do not trust liquid metal to last either. foam surrounds keep the metal in place and if you've ever opened anything somewhat old that has foam...well it just turns to goopy dust.
If you think nothing changes why did Google waste so much money paying? What were they missing that you don't?
Maybe they could make this sunstuff into something they could sell and ship to the poor sunstarved icedwellers, such as liquid carbonated hydrogen fuel.
This is very well polished! Obviously took a lot of hard work and it shows in the results. Well done!

Question: I see the that the code for the examples can be pulled from github, but I don't see anywhere to download the text of the book for offline reading??
Chrome is the default on Chromebooks which has a decent marketshare.
Creating a search engine without stepping in the patent / licensing minefield that Google and Microsoft have put down for each other is not necessarily a profitable or worthwhile venture.

Sure, they could write their own search engine (they also don't do large compute - so they'd be getting it from someone they'd be paying) but Apple would be paying for compute and licensing ... and not have any revenue from it ... and get in trouble with anti-trust or monopoly issues in Europe to boot.

Writing a search engine isn't likely worth the headaches that it would bring to Apple.
I assume the /EHr- flag was introduced to mitigate this, right?
Do ou have an official translation? Post in other languages are usually ignored or flagged.
>But the context here is to port shell scripts to Python, I’m not sure how huge amounts of imports matters.

Never question the modern developers ability to import 1500 heavy libraries to accomplish something that only takes 10 lines of code.
Daodejing Chapter 67 breakdown: the three treasures (2023)
This is commendable, people who travel 50-300 miles do not use an Aeroplane because you need a car on the other end regardless, so I rather take my car.

For example, SF to Tahoe is demonstrated as a route I could fly, but I need a car on the other end for sure. I could rent a car which is a pain.

I could arrange a driver service, but at that point I could get driver to drive me from San Francisco.

It is too expensive for folks who want to fly themselves and save money, it is not a great deal better for those who can hire drivers.
That argument would make more sense if such a language was widely available but today in practice it isn't so we live in the universe of less ideal solutions. Actually it doesn't really respond to DJB's point anyway, his case here is that the downstream labor cost of compiler churn exceeds the actual return in performance gains from new features and that a change in policy could give security-related code a more predictable target without requiring a whole new language or toolchain. For what it's worth I think the better solution will end up being something like constant-time function annotations (not stopping new compiler features) but I don't discount his view that absent human nature maybe we would be better of focusing compiler dev on correctness and stability.
I had about 13 of these caterpillers from the butterflys that came after I planted my garden. After they got big and fat, a huge fat toad came on to the pot and snacked on literally all of them.
> still built around PCIe DMA-P2P

Right! GPUs are bandwidth behemoths. If you have a 400 Gbit/s network and a GPU that can saturate it, there's a very good bandwidth reason to cut the CPU out of the path. For collectives, you are probably optimizing for latency vs bandwidth, but in all cases the less you move the data the better it is.

> Most topologies such as AllGather and AllReduce run with only 4 Queue Pairs. Not my area of expertise at all but wow that seems tiny! All this network, and basically everyone's talking to only a few peers? That's what it means right?

1. It seems that the cardinality of the collective groups is quite small (~128 GPUs), despite the reported cluster being 16k GPUs. They attribute it to "multidimensional parallelism" and while I don't speak much ML, I'm guessing that it's some sort of horizontal + vertical partitioning, and collectives are only triggered within a partition.

2. As these are collectives, all nodes do participate, but you create an overlay network with a ring or tree topology per collective. In a ring, every node just needs a QP each for left and right neighbors. For trees, it depends on the fanout. Now you could have shallow trees with larger fanouts, as latency is a function of the depth, and I feel like you can have more than 4 QPs (~500 is where NIC SRAM becomes an issue AFAIK). I think there is some buffering overhead per QP (beyond the standard NIC state) that they are trying to minimize, haven't read the paper thoroughly.

3. You do need a fancy network for collectives. They are a latency-sensitive operation on the critical path. The entire multimillion dollar thing is idle while an AllReduce is active, so 500us vs 100us in E2E latency matters a lot.
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You're asking them to prove non-existence? Come on, just drop some references already.

From your GP:

> I guess I will avoid that chip and favor those without an ARM block then. Luckily there are many.

What would your personal top picks be for a use-case like the OP?
Dude I am going to blow your mind
Discussions

(27 points, 2 hours ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41166862

(32 points, 2 hours ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41166731
Apple Maps is now on the web ( https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24205449/apple-maps-web-b... )

So far, Company + Map hasn't caused any problems with even bigger players and tighter interegration (Google + Google Maps and Microsoft + Nokia ( https://news.microsoft.com/2013/09/03/microsoft-to-acquire-n... )).
Agree, interesting question that this article does not even begin to answer. Frustrating.
Can't you set a group policy and have it default to Google or whatever search engine you want?
SO you mean IOS safari.
The article starts with a correct problem statement and concludes with a weird claim, because nowadays IDEs like Visual Studio Code do support the best of both worlds: inlay hints. I turn them off by default on VSCode (because it messes with columns, unfortunately) but configured them to `offUnlessPressed` so that I can quickly check inlay hints by pressing Ctrl+Alt/Option.
I have to force kill Firefox once a month when i hit maybe 200tabs even with 64GB of mem.
I'm not making up that lipstick is heritable; it is a classic example of a non-genetically-determined heritable trait, as is hand count (in the other direction). I think you need to do some more reading: you are clearly using the term as a synonym for "genetically determined", and that is simply not what the heritability statistic tells you.

For what it's worth, you can mechanistically work out lipstick and hands from first principles; just plug rough numbers into the formula.
Excellent. I looked forward to it and enjoyed it.
I'm taking a sabbatical through end of year
> which 50 do you discard?

That's a piece of information: you know there are 50 questionable vote.
You know how many questionable vote in the gland scheme of things. As a matter of fact: most of them are too small to make a different.
This has me a little dumbfounded as either really profound or slightly misguided. How do you mean?

As I am reading this you think a custom schema wont effect an implementation, but how do you expect to implement an external service (API for example) without the required defined schema. That's kind of the definition of a schema in this scenario.

Extending the schema might be another thing. But implementation can't work without adhering to the defined schema of the provider? Right?
You must get to the exact number, so you should not overshot too much.
Agreed, and also the comments dropped off steeply 10 years ago in 2014.
I suppose it tells them you searched with the address/search bar instead of navigating to the search website. But I'm not sure why you would care about that.
A little bit about Analog Computers
I don't know where you're getting 300 MB/s from.
Touch Wood: The Roman Phallus as a Lucky Charm
Flight codes are meant to signify the particular starting point, stops, and destinations that will be made along the way.

You can change the aircraft and the flight code stays the same. Many flight codes happen on a regular schedule, like daily. But the same flight path and pattern at a different time on the same day will get a different flight code.

Some patterns have many flights per day along the same path — maybe ten or more. But they each get a different flight code.

All of this is within a single airline or codeshare, of course. Two different airlines can use the same four digit set of numbers for totally different flights, because the full flight code includes both the airline designator and the four digit number.
Nah that was mostly about extern "C" functions which technically can't throw (so the noexcept runtime stuff would be optimized out) but in practice there is a ton of code marked extern "C" which throws
I think the issue is the stacked hat instead of letting it be adjacent. There have been dozens of these computer keyboard projects and a lot of them are smaller.
Testing browser performance
> Just a simple Google search would reveal that you are wrong about this and what's worse is that you place the burden on me to have to disprove your wrong assertions as opposed to providing references that justify your position:

How rude. Have you used any of those libraries or perhaps relied on Google's "AI"-generated answer?

> None of those are implementations of the C++ standard library.

HPX, EASTL specifically are, the latter being heavily used in (unsurprisingly) the gaming comunity).

libcu++ is for your target compilation.

As for Folly and Abseil, I wrote "as well as more who use Folly and Abseil which have alternate implementations to much of the standard library" (i.e. not ful drop in replacements).

So really I don't know what your point is: you made an assertion, then replied not to what I actually wrote but by simply doing a quick google search and using that as your conclusion.

I have used all of HPX, Folly and Abseil but I guess the top of a google search result is more authoritative.
How are you going to address the insurance, ownership costs, and FAA certifications for this?

Atm, the real barriers to entry in the market are the insanely high regulatory and liability compliance costs--not flight aides, pilot training, or folks with the desire to fly.

- Look at the long path that Cirrus had to take with it's "Safe Return" auto-landing feature.

- Look at the decades-long adoption curve of even basic/obvious tech like 100LL avgas.

- Look at Bye Aerospace's struggles bringing a simple "go-kart" electric training aircraft to market

I'm not optimistic for ANY substantive innovation in this space without a serious overhaul of the regulatory environment.
1. Peter Deng (product) Left

2. Greg Brockman is on sabattical. Doesn't look like he's leaving.https://x.com/gdb/status/1820644694264791459

3. John Schulman joins anthropic (he cites alignment as a research interest)

Source https://x.com/jon_victor_/status/1820622558875787421
Locally? Yes. Globally? No.
If all the talk about reducing costs for this aircraft is fully realized it will still cost at least a few hundred thousand dollars. If you have those means then funding a few cars isn't much of an issue.