skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this a Williams tube or a Mellon tube? I have seen ONE or these, and they used to be more numerous than pocket change, at least the ones that no longer worked. Unused they were treated like fine crystal, used like empty beer bottles.

I wanted to hook one up in a tv to see a 1" movie, or maybe a 3/4" movie with the aspect ratio but the refresh rate was really slow, so it was useful as a memory.
For some of us, a laptop is essentially an easily movable desktop. It's not portable as in "I want to travel with it", it's portable as in "I can easily take it anywhere within my house/office".

Those kind of "movable desktops" benefit from performance, additional ports, etc, and instead have little use for thinness or less weight.

I simply cannot see myself ever owning a bulky, noisy desktop ever again.
Thank you!

> i guess at the limit this is a qualtrics competitor? and before that i guess google forms. can i use this as a strict google forms replacement? - dump data straight into a google spreadsheet?

Yup, can easily deploy and dump data into a csv

> good luck - i think its an important problem but idk if its venture scale yet. you might explore RLHF/AI data annotation as a usecase.

yup :)

> i'd be most concerned about botting and filtering out low effort surveys - the latter i imagine is a big academic concern. if you came out with a singular innovation there you could probably build a company around it.

This is exactly what we've been selling in the space of 'fraud detection'! We got tired of integrating with all the API for survey platforms so we decided to build a developer-friendly one ourselves!
Neither of the anecdotes you've provided imply that children having their own bedroom is a luxury. Only that the opposite does happen, and isn't necessarily bad for the children in every case. There is a wide space between those, and you should pay respect to the differences between different people.

As for an explanation regarding the parent comment: Their use of the word "luxury" in this context antagonizes people by implying their standards are too high or they're spoiled or whatever, when really it's a perfectly reasonable thing to prioritize - and a perfectly reasonable thing not to prioritize. I.e. they have introduced team A vs team B negativity where it doesn't need to exist.
This discussion feels very familiar. Didn't we have basically exactly the same set of comments earlier this week?
AWD means that all the wheels receive power from the power train. Most AWD will stop providing power to a wheel if it loses traction (spins). This is because they have an unlocked differential. 4WD typically means all four wheels can receive power from the power train and can be locked so that that will not lose power if they spin.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I really don’t see how kubernetes is more complex than ECS. Even for a one-man show.
yes, especially if you are trying to run various different projects you don't control

some will need specific versions of cuda

right now I masked cuda from upgrades in my system and I'm stuck on an old version to support some projects

I also had plenty of problems with gpu-operator to deploy on k8s: that helm chart is so buggy (or maybe just not great at handling some corner cases? no clue) I ended up swapping kubernetes distribution a few times (no chance to make it work on microk8s, on k3s it almost works) and eventually ended up installing drivers + runtime locally and then just exposing through containerd config
Didn't they lose the single core lead recently, despite running their chips so aggressively clocked that they're burning out at stock settings?

The APU systems from AMD work really well as mini-pc systems, though I'm unfamiliar with Intel products there. Perhaps they're better.
And there is a shit ton of diversity in Mexico and across South America.
A potential trigger for pine mouth: a case of a homozygous PTC taster
Not Tommy Tutone's, so less a direct connection to the article, but I love the tech career of James Williamson of the Stooges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Williamson_(musician)

"In 1997, he was hired as Sony's vice president of technical standards; in this capacity, he liaised with competitors and helped to codify nascent industry standards, most notably the Blu-ray Disc"

I remember shopping at record store in Claremont, CA in early 80s and finding all these rare Iggy and the Stooges albums. Clerk says Williamson comes in the store every now and then and brings in more, and that I should check back from time to time. I shrug and think nothing of it. Turns out he was going to nearby Cal Poly Pomona and graduated in 1982 with an EE degree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMHStOPPte0
The bonus is free heating for every employees household!
sure but the unwind flags don’t prevent optimizations like exceptions
The Rust example is categorically different from the drinking father example. The former evokes emotions around professional decisions while the latter evokes emotions around personal decisions.

The consumer may still ultimately benefit from this advertisement which evokes emotions in such a personal way, especially if we assume the efficacy of the product to be as advertised. The advertisement might also cause a mentally unhealthy individual to become worse as such. The negativity of the emotions might push someone into a worse spot or into learning self-harming or abusive behaviors.

As much as advertisers A/B test their advertisements, I don’t get the feeling they measure the effect they have on national suicide rates. Do you think they’d publish those numbers if they had them?

Admittedly, I dragged this away from OP’s point a bit but I think I brought it back. One person might laugh it off while another abuses their family. It’s really hard to say that the advertisement is not evil, even if it can be demonstrated to be a net good for some.
Langchain is frequently crapped on here on HN. Do some searching and you'll see it's pretty much a universal sentiment that langchain is terrible and you shouldn't use it.
> refused to allow users to download their data
> instead of having it uploaded to FitBit's servers

I download my monthly data from the fitbit server into LibreOffice. I have about 2 million steps on my fitbit. I have csv files going back to 2019 ever since I purchased the fitbit. They've made a nice dashboard, with some badges. I share the dashboard with friends, bit of a social competitive streak. If I were to directly download the data from the fitbit to my ubuntu desktop, I would have to write a fileparser & then make a dashboard & all that...not interested. I want to walk, not do software in my offtime.
> Once you already bought the NVIDIA cards what’s the point

Good luck getting a multi-user GPU setup going, for example.

It super sucks when the hardware is capable, but licensing doesn't "allow" it.
> What you fail to take into account...

I've accounted for all that though. I even said in the comment "even if the police in this instance are, for the sake of argument, irredeemably corrupt" just to highlight that I'm very open to the idea that these police are actively engaging in corruption.

This issue I'm raising is that the call to action in the article is observably stupid. They're arguing that if a Mob boss is publicly racketeering on facebook then that shouldn't be used by the police as evidence to raise their suspicions. And there is no way that makes sense. They should be calling for something that will actually help their cause.

Shutting your brain down and panicking isn't going to get you to a good place - there are a bunch of problems outlined in the article and the call the action addresses none of them. You really need these people to focus on doing things that will help, rather than doing things at random. In this case like - reigning in RICO abuse, replacing the police leadership or a demilitarisation strategy for the training facility. Trying to ban the police from using public information to inform their policing is remarkably foolish.

> I would know, this is exactly what happened to me, as I mentioned in another comment.

Well, you probably need to hear this although it is a bit brutal: you're going to lose more if you make stupid arguments. Try to avoid doing that, the justice system responds to it really badly. It also make a difference politically although not as much. If you score a win, you need to be fighting for something that actually helps your position, not arbitrary demands.
I made Stranger Video (the linked item)! Neal's a friend of mine and I gave him a (small) hand with eyechat.

We were originally going to collaborate more on eyechat but then One Million Checkboxes[1] blew up and I had to bow out

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40800869
Fig is ending their service
What exactly do you think CDNs do?
Innovative method uses oxygen and light to recycle unsaturated polymers
I think it's like a wink wink
That's good to know. I've found that it is helpful to add Auto Discard Tabs, if you're a real tab hoarder.

What is "the Chrome way"? What I'd like to see is that the addresses are not cached to ram, but either disk or swap (or a combination). I figure these tools are more used by tab hoarders as well, and if they're working as pseudo bookmarks (at least conceptually) I am very willing to trade some loading time and have non-active tabs have high niceness.
love my matias ergo pro, but did have to replace two switches (soldered them myself) within the first few months (and it's been fine for years since)

the medium term reliability issues are such a shame, the design is so comfy
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Power too. I think we're still in the happy place where buying epyc is cheaper than being given xeons for free after you look at the electricity bill over the life of the machine.
Maybe you're being honest, but you're using a throwaway account and I use Cloud Jira every day. It's slow and bloated and drives me crazy.
"And who is, in the end, the parent usually taking children to school and picking them up, and dashing over to pick them up if they get sick or injured?"

While this is true, this has done more to hurt women than the RTO policy. I grew up in New Jersey. When I was 5 years old I started Kindergarten. The first day of school my father walked with me, to show me where the school was. After that I was on my own. And all of the 5 year olds in my neighborhood were also on their own. We were expected to have enough maturity to get ourselves to school, and we did, everyday. We generally walked together, all the 5 and 6 and 7 and 8 year olds. School was exactly 1 kilometer from my house.

If you're looking for something that puts an undue burden on modern women, it's the modern practice that children cannot get to school on their own. They (the children) still somehow manage to get to school on their own in rural areas and in most countries: most of Europe, all of Latin America, Africa, nearly all of Asia.

We should be clear about where the real burdens are coming from. If we could get back to a situation where children could get to school on their own, the situation would be easier for women.
Ask HN: Niche non-tech websites to visit?
Hey HK! What are some of the best non-tech related websites you visit? Be it for news, philosophy, book reviews, travel, general information?
Legitimately I don't know if you're joking or not. And the Internet isn't helping me.
I think it's possible that the breakthrough(s) needed for AGI could be developed anytime now, by any number of people (probably doesn't need to be a heavily funded industry researcher), but as long as people remain hopeful that LLMs just need a few more $10B's to become sentient, it might not be able to rise above the noise. Perhaps we need an LLM/dinosaur extinction event to give the mammals space to evolve...
In other words, it's a Veblen Good.
Seats 11 comfortably, bit warm during floating point operations. All the crays dissipated an enormous amount of heat. Today's machines, millions of times more powerful, disspipate thousands of times more heat.

What makes a super computer?
>You'd need level converters to interface with 5V.

Part of the GPIOs are CMOS are 5v-tolerant, and TTL considers 2v HIGH, thus it is possible to interface some 5v hardware directly.
even if progress stalls (and it won't), we've only started to tap its potential
I have a friend that is the drummer in a band that had a couple big hits in the 90’s, not going to drop names, but their contemporaries are bands like Collective Soul, Gin Blossoms, that kind of stuff. They have a few gold records. To this day they still tour every year and make enough money off touring and royalties to make a good living. I grew up on punk and thrash metal, so had never heard of his band, so it surprised me how close to 30 years later they still get booked at Disney and on rock cruises, but happy he still gets to keep doing that.
"Young talent, more inclined toward flexible work arrangements, may view federal employment as an unattractive option, leading to a significant loss of fresh perspectives and innovative ideas."

Yeah, unlike in the House, Senate and White House, where we have 85 year-olds running the country.
I blindly clicked this expecting an article about the matter. Was kinda surprised to be given a live demonstration. I can reach nhs.uk fine.

Edit: searching Google, there are recent reports that make me feel like this is their response to being too incompetent to process cyber crime reports. I’m genuinely curious if someone unilaterally decided that people not physically in the uk don’t matter.
Well, depends on how much CPU time we're talking about.

The Linux kernel is one of the few cases where just the sheer scale of instances may make a difference
Domain and cert was created on July 6th,2024, "1138 successful founders" already using your product, impressive!

I am curious how this performs in comparison to having a conversation with ChatGPT about your ideas, and expanding upon them.

A full example would probably sell it better.
Apple Revises DMA Compliance
This week we had a few minutes of downtime on an internal service because of a node rotation that triggered an alert. The responding engineer started to put together a plan to make the service HA (which would have tripled the cost to serve). I asked how frequently the service went down and how many people would be inconvenienced if it did. They didn't know, but when we checked the metrics it had single-digit minutes of downtime this year and fewer than a dozen daily users. We bumped the threshold on the alert to longer than it takes for a pod to be re-scheduled and resolved the ticket.
> "Linear Algebra Done Wrong site:sites.google.com" finds the page you linked.

I think you have the wrong framing. It isn't that you can't create a p̶r̶o̶m̶p̶t̶ query that yields the correct result, it is the ability to do this without knowing the answer a priori.

As in, if you didn't know a second newer version existed, would you find it? Certainly the new version should prioritize the older version.

FWIW, my query "Linear Algebra Done Wrong" yields the newer version (2017), but I've just interpreted OP's point as being illustrative and helpful to readers (and it looks like the link now does point towards the new version. Possibly this made my query work)
The word was used in the construction 'I don't think it makes sense that you would be lying, therefore I must conclude that I haven't gotten through to you', to justify my repetition.

It certainly has gone off the rails, but I am entitled to defend myself at least as much as you are entitled to tell me to stop. I haven't done anything wrong. I am finished now though
Say what you want about that company and its products, but everything they make is absolutely, absolutely gorgeous.

They nail aesthetics. Good Lord.
The perfect modern machine for a 'Das blinken lights' notice.
"I'll get it after the weekend"

Also, rentals.
If someone is missing a family member it’s much more prudent to do a specific DNA test then, not advocate for carte Blanche providing your genetic data to the government.
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

https://xkcd.com/1357/
i'm not sure what you mean by "bread and butter" of the fitness industry. certainly most fitness "influences" are on some sort of performance enhancing drug, with many of them on anabolics which is the reason why they look muscular and lean. i'm not sure what fat burners you think are actually more dangerous than this stuff (clenbuterol? ephedrine?), but I don't agree
People often ask me about potentially selling software I’ve built for our company (a similar situation to OP), but one important factor to remember is that part of what makes the software great for us is its focus. As soon as you start selling it, you have to add feature after feature to meet the various customer needs, which then makes it worse for us. This may be a worthwhile trade off if the potential revenue is large enough, but it’s important to consider in advance.
I used to do this kind of work as a contractor (for logistics and manufacturing), and I've it seen go both perfectly well and tragically wrong. The most common points of failure I've seen are underestimating the amount of business/domain knowledge needed and picking the wrong team.

Sometimes it's worth bringing someone in to build a temporary prototype to test the waters (I once wrote a wireless hand scanner pick system for a startup warehouse in a weekend -- they planned to throw my code away but just needed something functional right then.)

I would only pursue it if:

- your business is truly niche/unique and there's a significant cost due to process friction

- the total amount of work needed to have a functional product could be completed by one or two good developers in a matter of weeks/months.

If you do pursue it, I would try to take advantage of the Python Paradox (https://paulgraham.com/pypar.html) and hire someone, counterintuitively, working in a niche technology. You could probably find someone pretty good willing to build it in Elixir without much trouble.
Yeah, there's a difference between "getting screwed generally" versus "getting screwed against a contract."

Maybe if you had an employment contract stating that all commutes would be reimbursed at $X/hr you could sue for the missing money, but even that (on its own) wouldn't prevent the company from simply ending the arrangement.
The HHK is nice, but I need Function keys and arrow keys (even if I mostly live in VIM). I don't like layers as some IDEs already have triple bucky key combos. And I far prefer a split keyboard, even the MS ergonomics are great (typing on a decade-old Pelvis now).
If nVidia can release a library called cuLitho, I don't see why not.
2011 lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL221E2BBF13BECF6C

Also useful: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61iQEFiWLE2...
> This is difficult and time consuming so start now.

A specific difficulty you are likely to face:

Your expert employees are busy doing their jobs. Writing requirements means taking attention away from that work - a difficult proposition, especially if they have managers who will ask why their KPIs are slipping.
The important part is them knowing this will take place and them not knowing exactly when or by whom.

I recommend caution with this kind of approach. Even if you're bringing in a team of freelancers instead of hiring employees trust is still an essential foundation for the relationship. Clients who play silly games tend to get fired abruptly because it creates a toxic working relationship that isn't good for anyone involved.

You should be able to have an open and ongoing conversation with your team of freelancers about the long-term intentions for the system they are building for you and they should transparently and proactively work towards your goals without being nannied. If that's not happening then you don't need some kind of surprise audit - you need to find different freelancers who are on the same wavelength as you.
yeah. If you think Kubernetes is too complicated, the flip side of that is someone built the simpler thing, but then unfortunately it grew and grew, and now you've got this mess of a system. you could have just used a hosted k8s or k3s system from the start instead of reinventing the wheel.

absoutely start as simple as you can, but plan to move to a hosted kube something asap instead of writing your own base images, unless that's a differentiator for your company.
Embracing RISC-V, the high-quality open-source ISA that is rapidly growing the strongest ecosystem, does make a lot of sense.
> This has made me great at coming up with iterative steps where each step brings value: even if I stop at any one point, I have done something useful.

This is really just getting caught up on semantics, and what you've described is essentially the same as a 'quest mindset'. The goal vs quest mindsets are basically waterfall vs (lowercase a) agile mindsets. In the former you risk building something you don't want or under-allocate resources to achieving it, in the latter, you've realized that you've misestimated what the final outcome will be or should be, and know that there will be a discovery process alongside development.

> basically, life intervenes and they got to leave with nothing really done at all.

And perhaps there is no sense in that journey being 'complete' as there's always some way to improve things. But I think the caution here on the 'quest' mindset, is to still have something functional early on – "Release early, and release often" as it were. But this caution also holds for the 'goal' mindset, perhaps moreso, as there's a higher risk of misunderstanding what 'complete' looks like, or all the side-'goals' you never anticipated, and becoming dismayed when you've found yourself settling in on a loong quest anyway.
I heard they wanted to change it to just ADD in the DSM5, but it would apparently cause a lot of trouble in various statutes that specifically reference ADHD.
> Brockman wrote, "I'm taking a sabbatical through end of year. First time to relax since co-founding OpenAI 9 years ago.

Seriously? What is so wrong or uncertain that he hasn't been able to relax in 9 years? How unfortunate.

In that time, I've gotten married and divorced twice, and fathered several children.

Maybe this is a signal of the end of the current hype cycle?
I'm also ex-Google working in the space on the funding and company formation side. Would love to chat.
I would rather say that the fact that there was a (conditional) surrender by Germany and it took place before the Allies had significantly entered German homeland territory enabled certain agitators to claim that Germany had been betrayed rather than defeated.

You are correct that the punitive nature of the Treaty of Versailles made for good grist for the mill when those same agitators to point at the "unfair" consequences of the betrayal.

After WWII there was no one who could possibly say that Germany had not been completely and utterly defeated (and the Allies, at least the western ones with respect to western Germany) did invest in rebuilding the country.
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Cool tech, albeit plenty of work left.

Sell it to architects for an expensive subscription, don't bother with 17$ from random people online.

And good luck, because selling to small businesses is hard and expensive.
The used market is really good now from a buyers perspective. I'm working on a few projects and wanted a few extra pi's. Managed to grab a few used ones from people that have sidelined their projects. Good condition. Basically paid retail price but also got 7inch touch screens with each pi for free.
I see all the comments on this thread show as being only a few hours old at most, but they were posted several days ago. Not sure what's happening.
"goodreads clone but with relational db functionality exposed" has been on my wishlist forever too
Don't Trust the (Design) Process