skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair. I'm trying to point out that the degree to which your statements illicit an emotional response from someone, by any means, has no bearing on the validity of that statement.
> I must say you got a much healthier reaction.

I definitely spent a lot of time carefully crafting the message and iterating on a minimal repro.

Writing on the internet requires a LOT of defensive effort. It’s very annoying but is what it is. I write blog posts and my secret goal is “high views, low comments”. Because most comments are “well ackchyually“.

For the Reddit thread it helped that I tagged u/STL and he responded quickly in agreement. That was very intentional on my part! I’m still a little sad I didn’t get a Raymond Chen comment though!
To what extent? Google buries a lot of their privacy options deep within settings of individual apps and the settings menu
This is exciting, would love a new excuse to play space trader again and then patiently wait for picoverse to come out. I’ve been stuck in that loop for over 20 years now.
It's the word "too" that makes it subjective.
> GLP-1s and roux-en-Y are literally the only two treatments shown in clinical studies that cause people to lose weight and keep it off indefinitely.

Total Diet Replacement (TDP) is apparently also quite effective. This isn't the article I read, but it's talking about the same trial(Direct) so here you go: https://tdmr-europe.com/2024/01/17/experts-demonstrate-total...
Personally I think it's clear that with large bureaucracies personal incentives become disconnected from company outcomes, so instead of fostering innovation you get empire building and politics.
I just wish thered be an option to omit the freaking fan. Really not a fan of fans...
This is why the engineer should be the one understanding the cost.
I use authjs (aka next-auth) and recently documented that Google login requests additional access every time the user logs in[1].

I created an issue with a repro, although the maintainers moved it to discussions. It seems that the problem is with Google, but in that case I don't understand why the next-auth example works fine[2].

There are other users affected. If anyone knows how to solve this problem, I would appreciate it if you could say so.

https://github.com/nextauthjs/next-auth/discussions/11160
https://next-auth-example.vercel.app/
Huawei Readies New Chip to Challenge Nvidia, Surmounting U.S. Sanctions
Latest chapter in US sanctions backfiring.
Congratulations, you've discovered the reason companies only want to hire new grads!
Looks cool. To help the pitch, I think you should show the equiv price on anyscale/together for the 10B tokens. Also is there a reason you're not selling at more granular amounts? Why $400? Just speaking personally, I reckon I'd rather invest in a 3090 so I have more security/privacy. I can't think of many genuinely _useful_ 10B+ uses that won't include a bunch of private data. But nonetheless, I reckon there's a niche here, so nice work.
Instrumentation checklist for running large GPU clusters
Transformer based AI is basically printing machines for the knowledge economy from existing labor patterns.

Nobody currently can say which patterns it cannot extract, hence "we always figured out new jobs" is ... challenged
Never knew this about man7, thank you.
> I don't think that's up to Waymo, it's a legal thing mostly. The city has to allow that.

Did the SFPUC make a change to disallow that then, because point-to-point is how Waymo worked in SF as recently as a month or so ago? Perhaps they did, as a condition of allowing expansion.
One thing I didn't understand about the original video - why didn't they just CG in the bins instead? Why go to all the effort of CG'ing out the ball, changing the trajectory etc? It seems like it would have been easier to have him make 3 random kicks then add some bins in where they landed. But, maybe there's something obvious I'm missing.
Nice to see such an incredibly long and detailed writeup. Sounds like the 68k environment made a "good enough" VM for most applications.
> “I’m sorry to be so blunt [...] But the fact of the matter is, if you all leave the university and go found a company, you’re not gonna let people work from home and only come in one day a week if you want to compete against the other startups.” [0]

Hold up, so stuff like WFH policies are to blame for the company losing its edge and not being head-to-head with "other startups"?

I thought it was because Alphabet Incorporated wasn't directly competing with "startups" was because it was a structurally different kind of company that works in fundamentally different ways because it's publicly traded (GOOG) and employs ~150,000 people! How silly of me!

[0] Bonus video context for quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxDM8io4lUA&t=10m40s
rock that moves and is hot inside so a magnetic fields generates from its motion and protect us from the sun particles
LegendKeeper will never have ad placements because of how ugly they are. Personally I wouldn’t be able to tolerate an ad messing up the flow of our designs and user focus, lol. Idk how others do it; we also never relied on ads in the first place so maybe that makes it easier.

(LegendKeeper mentioned!! 8))
IIRC water in earth's mantle is magnitudes greater than the volume contained in our oceans. I think only part of Earth's H2O story is illustrated by this graphic.
Why wouldn't the argument here that courts and judges aren't experts at anything not apply to every single decision they make? If we're simply going to decide that courts shouldn't be trusted to decide anything "hard", shouldn't our local courts also defer to local government officials? It certainly would make it easier on the District Attorney's office if the County Judges were intended to "defer" to their opinion on forensics, and I'm sure the local sewer district would love to not have to waste time bringing expert witnesses to court to argue their case for violation of a local ordinance.
Just stumbled upon this blog which details out testing and validating large GPU clusters before running training workloads. Any other similar blogs which adds more nuance in terms of debugging the issues once we identify them as well?
In Alberta and BC, helicopter rescue is free if you contact emergency services (Parks or RCMP).
As far as I know the OS handles the low lever memory management. The ephemeral database uses the allocated from the OS ram. Depending on your OS configuration one may have or not have a swap. However for the database app (daemon, service) this may be transparent. Either there is some free ram to run or there's no ram available.

The other thing is that probably it's not a good idea to rely on swap memory. Not sure there's a point of going that path for performance reasons.
I'm having a hard time finding a reference to the hardware the inference is run on. The paper mentions training was done on a single A100 GPU so I'm going to assume inference was run on that same platform. The 22fps result is somewhat meaningless without that information.

It does feel like we're getting closer and closer to being able to synthesize novel views in realtime from a small set of images at a framerate and quality high enough for use in AR, which is an interesting concept. I'd love to be able to 'walk around' in my photo library.
I can see a simliarity here in comparing Java/JavaScript/any other modern, more productive language to C. Yes, both can write more or less the same program, but you'll get the same result with less effort and more quickly with the modern languages. Yes, modern languages will always be slower and heavier on resources than C.
Can you run this tool on the removed posts dataset?

https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals
> Never have I, in my development career, been so overloaded with assignments as to be continuously engaged with actual work.

You must not have been working for Amazon then.
128GB of storage in 2024 is the real shocker here.
Location: Hong Kong/Vietnam (Asia)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Flutter (Mobile), Typescript, GCP, Firebase, Figma (mostly UX part)

Resume: https://deimantas.dev

Email: aurimas [at] deimantas.dev

Uniqueness: Swiss-knife of MVP development (development + UX + management, all in one).

Solopreneur, 10+ years in Tech Land, most of it mobile. Several years of UX, Management exp. Very strong Product Management and Mobile UX skills in addition to development makes me a great MVP builder. Worked in several countries before on-site. Last 5+ years focusing on Remote work. Building mostly MVP/POC mobile apps for my clients (mostly USA) or starting my own later failing startups.
>Someone needs to figures out how to take my money and distribute them to people working on actually valuable stuff.

why do you need a financial advisor to donate to Patreon or even Youtube memberships now? The models are about as easy to (un)subscribe from as you can get, while allowing granular control.

Do you really want some "index fund" where you trust someone else to use your money to fund "good creators"? That sounds like a capitalist's wet dreams. And a consumer hellscape.
What a coincidence, One hour before reading this article I was thinking of it! I was imagining that how the sphere will look like if made of oceans and seas' water. Now I got to know it :D
Feature Flags Wouldn't Have Prevented the CrowdStrike Outage
> It’s really cool to see the left not have the full propaganda apparatus this year

There is less propaganda from the left this year? What happened to their apparatus?
[Comment reused from a sibling submission]

> I’m sorry to be so blunt [...] But the fact of the matter is, if you all leave the university and go found a company, you’re not gonna let people work from home and only come in one day a week if you want to compete against the other startups. [0]

Hold up, so stuff like WFH policies are to blame for the company losing its edge and not being head-to-head with "other startups"?

I thought it was because Alphabet Incorporated wasn't directly competing with "startups" was because it was a structurally different kind of company that works in fundamentally different ways because it's publicly traded (GOOG) and employs ~150,000 people! How silly of me!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxDM8io4lUA&t=10m40s
SpaceX: CNBC's story on Starship's launch operations is factually inaccurate
Determining Cat Chirality (2017)
Location: Hong Kong/Vietnam (Asia)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Flutter (Mobile), Typescript, GCP, Firebase, Figma (mostly UX part)

Resume: https://deimantas.dev

Email: aurimas [at] deimantas.dev

Uniqueness: Swiss-knife of MVP development (development + UX + management, all in one). Proven 10k+ hours remote working experience.

Solopreneur, 10+ years in Tech Land, most of it mobile. Several years of UX, Management exp. Very strong Product Management and Mobile UX skills in addition to development makes me a great MVP builder. Worked in several countries before on-site. Last 5+ years focusing on Remote work. Building mostly MVP/POC mobile apps for my clients (mostly USA) or starting my own later failing startups.
The TikTok Case Will Be Determined by What's Behind the Government's Black Lines
Windows, not too long before iOS was introduced, came in Fisher-Price green and blue. It did not exactly scream "professional workstation".

Apple could spend an entire major version number fixing every bug and security hole in macOS and iOS. It would pay off in the coming years.
I'm pretty sure it's half baked and useless
Google trying to cram everything including the kitchen sink into chrome probably doesn't help here.

Who in their right mind thinks it makes sense to have a desktop screen sharing system... built into a browser?
It’s unlikely an individual would need this much capacity. Folks who need tokens at this level are apps with lots of users that don’t have their own GPUs. Think character.ai type apps.

10B tokens on together.ai is ~$2,000.
Recent and related: rePalm: Towards the first unauthorized PalmOS port - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41194806 - Aug 2024 (28 comments)

Related and less recent:

RePalm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35511106 - April 2023 (145 comments)

RePalm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29197125 - Nov 2021 (6 comments)

RePalm – Hardware Emulation of PalmOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19761952 - April 2019 (37 comments)
Indeed:

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/what-is-gen-zs-no...

> According to a recent report by decision intelligence company Morning Consult, which surveyed over 2,000 adults in the U.S., 57% of Gen Zers said they'd be an influencer if given the opportunity, compared to 41% of adults from all age groups.

If true, possibly the most damning rebuttal of UBI proponents that there is.
> I just miss the days of youtube just being a fun video platform instead of another TV channel.

It's another effect of the economy. Programmers are traditionally well compensated, so they can use their free time literally giving away knowledge for others. Because they don't need to monetize that knowledge to survive.

Video editing: not so much. If you want more people just having fun you need some part of the economy making sure they pay rent. Hence, hustle culture. It'd still exist if everyone was comfy, but many people would instead focus on leisure over minmaxing money.
tl;dr CNBC found a typo (mercury concentration) on one page in a spacex permit. The other pages had the correct numbers. CNBC ran with the typo
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-69006713

Dr Scolyer is super interesting
If internet points are how you’re measuring the validity of a point, there’s all kinds of things going wrong.

Again, people pushing back doesn’t mean you’re fostering fruitful debate anymore than flat-earthers are generating debate “with complex views.”
The US political system was setup from the very beginning to be intentionally slow moving. The Chevron deference, and all of the executive regulations that followed, were a workaround to functionally make legislation at a faster pace than the system was designed for. I.e. the deadlock is a feature not a bug.

One huge problem though, and one that you allude to, is that we've created a web of legal protections allowing corporations to get away with all kinds of stuff in tandem with the regulatory framework propped up by Chevron. The problem as I see it isn't that companies will get away with dumping toxic chemicals until Congress holds them responsible. The problem is that companies are allowed to grow so large and powerful that only an act of Congress can stop them.
Yeah, I would not point somebody unfamiliar with Stern-Gerlach trying to learn "the basic idea of quantum mechanics" at Sakurai. Feynman lectures vol. 3 maybe
Stalking Waymo's Zeekr CM1e Robotaxi Test Vehicle for Nine Minutes [video]
You can create a font quickly, sure. To do a good job will take quite a bit longer.

Helvetica took a year. For the semi-bold variant in one size. The thin, bold, and italic variants took about a year each. Helvetica Neue has fifty-one variants, that's not something you're going to do quickly.
Yeah, that's the force that makes you go out of the cave to chase a mammoth. Strong force to fight back.
I remember wasting HOURS on the CalTrain playing space trader. And QForth (Quantus Forth?). I spent some time working for Handspring and PalmSource. I wonder if I can still remember the magick binder incantations...
>You mean I could get a f...ing text again about things

Tone aside, we already do that... it's also monetized and being AI-slopified as we speak. Much faster than video.

in this scenario where videos become non-viable, people would ujst paywall their text like many journalists have resorted to. There's no free lunch these days.
Judges are still allowed to defer to experts. The question is how often they will when it's up to them to decide.
Why do programming books always have some random unrelated illustration on the front?

Usually when you have a textbook, they will have some nice illustration that is tangentially related to the content of the book (like fibonacci spiral for a math book or some chemical reaction for a chemistry book for example). But I suppose that there isn't really such an equivalent unless it's a computer graphics book.

I guess it's also like how every project has to have its own "cutesey" mascot.
If we account for arbitrary precision operations necessary for large N, I believe the memoized insane recursion is quadratic in space and time. This is actually not as bad of a pessimization as I thought it would be over just using Binet's formula, but it's still a hit.
Overspent Azure Credits
I am the CEO of a small scale startup that decided to use Azure for our backend since we got accepted into the Microsoft Startup Program and got the $1,000 in Azure credits. When we started on Azure we set up spending limits on Azure and a few days back we applied for level 2 of the Startup Program which would give us $5,000 in Azure credits. Just yesterday we got charged with a $2k bill for the previous billing cycle on our card with a $1k bill already for the coming billing cycle. For now we have scaled down our backend to the absolute bare minimum but I would like to understand what our options are regarding the $2k that has already been charged onto our credit card.

I worked with our CTO to set up spending limits and yesterday when we checked we didn't see those so we probably made a mistake while setting them up. $2k is a lot of money for us at this stage and we don't have the budget to be able to afford this (for reference our entire monthly budget right now is $1.2k). Can we email Azure, explain our mistake and ask whether we can get the money refunded to us and take it out of the credits we will get in the next round? How understanding is Azure in cases like this? We expect that we should be accepted into level 2 of the Startup Program by early next week at the latest.

Edit: I had originally written this post a while back for another forum so some of the details stated above are not valid any more. We have since been accepted into level 2 of the Startup Program and have received our additional credits but are still being billed for the $2k on our card and we need to pay off our card for that on the 19th. Also, we have an additional $1k in charges that will be charged to us on the 21st and it doesn't seem like the credits are applying to that charge either. We are able to view and confirm that the credits are in our account. Would appreciate any help and/or advice to resolve this issue.
>Writing is no longer viable for many. I don’t see why YouTube should be this special case.

>Writing is no longer viable for many. I don’t see why YouTube should be this special case.

because Youtube is owned by a trillion dollar corporation but mostly powered by content creators. Substack isn't.

It's really that simple. most wringing isn't viable because there's no money in it, literally. There still is money in video ads.
What you’re missing is there is not a debate about your point. The debate is about whether it adds anything to the discussion.

Saying “the sky is up” and having people respond by telling you that is a trivial point shouldn’t be conflated with fostering a meaningful dialog.
Sort, sweep, and prune: Collision detection algorithms (2023)
Should computer programmers also shoulder responsibility and be insured like doctors?
Funny then how every single company that has leapfrogged Google in AI (Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic) has the exact same or even more lenient office policy. All they all did their most critical work during the Covid years when every single employee was working from home full time.

Poor leaders will blame everything but their own failures. When was the last time Google had a coherent product vision?
Lucky old retired executive shares opinion and makes excuses for poor management without evidence in the pursuit of relevance.

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/billionaires-and-the-evolution...
Yup, the mere fact that we can have oceans and continents on a planet means we can only have so much water, lest we become a water world or something more like mars.

I do wonder if the OP includes water locked away in rocks though, to my understanding the majority of the water is in the mantle and not even the oceans, but my source is my butt for that one
Cool what languages can it do?

Yandex browser does the most impressive version of this and for free but only to Russian I believe, its quite amazing it does appropriate different voices and follows the correct intonation for everyone, just takes a few seconds for a YT video.
Python Library for Structured Data Extraction via LLM
It is not clear to me where you stop the tunneling down the abstractions. It seems arbitrary to each person to their knowledge base.

I have a degree in Electrical Engineering, and don't understand how programmers can function not understanding physical computer architecture.

But clearly, that's not the bar which most come from.
this is a good one for debugging rdma: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_...
Yeah, especially that persnickety, "The Programming Language" book. Talk about obscure covers!

/s

I think it's just an O'Reilly thing. It keeps the people guessing.

Actually, the covers also make the books easily recognizable. Animals, statues, etc., are all good memory association drivers.
I strongly believe so, the same way a business can check competitors' prices. If it's public, it's fair game.

Note: I am biased, I'm working on a platform that does exactly that, taking an orthogonal direction to real estate analytics: https://www.hellodata.ai. Using 100% public data.
Say 'aah' and get a diagnosis on the spot: is this the future of health?
Services like Apple Music where they're currently able to leverage their ownership of the app store to give themselves a competitive advantage can be spilt off quite easily (in conceptual terms) and stand by themselves. If they can't stand by themselves then they're being bolstered by their market position thus the reason
> Either everyone allows cybercriminals in their countries to attack other countries (and spark actual chaos in our entire internet infra that could escalate into actual violence),

This seems overblown. The behavior you're describing has been present nearly as long as the internet has been globally accessible. It's an inconvenience and it means we need to do a better job securing systems against attacks, which is hardly the worst thing from an evolutionary perspective. Better that systems get hardened now to prevent ransomware than that they remain vulnerable until there is an actual war and an enemy state takes advantage of longstanding complacency.

> or all nation states agree to tamp down on third party attackers.

This doesn't happen even with a treaty, because not all countries will be signatories, and even the signatories can just ignore the provisions as they do with many other treaties. Corrupt governments deflect blame; "the attack seems to have originated from here but we investigated ourselves and found ourselves innocent" etc. Proving otherwise without local cooperation is close to impossible because the location of the originating systems is not inherently the location of the attackers. And, of course, corrupt governments are the places where these things are already happening.
Wow. I haven't really played with Lisp since college. But I just started reading The Little Schemer with some friends, and hope to move on to SICP some time this year or next. This blog post made me a little dizzy, but also a little excited about what I'm hoping to explore with these lessons.
I tried many Fitbits and Samsung watches before discovering the ScanWatch. I briefly get excited when a new Pixel or Samsung watch is announced, and then I remember I have no interest in charging it every night, or every week.