skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (Fun bonus story: I noticed significant drops in throughput when using battery on a MacBook. Something to do with the efficiency cores I assume.)

That sounds like the thread priority/QoS was incorrect, but it could be WiFi or something.
Well that's one way to tell the world you've never built anything new.
Yes, its performance is rather poor and there can be a lot of headaches with caching (especially if you're using a file system that doesn't support reflinks). For large sharded datasets (e.g. WebDataset), you're better off with other solutions, especially when your ML pipeline can stream them directly from object storage.
Proven but unlikely. Linux on the desktop is still not a thing the masses will adopt, despite all the times we hear that someone put Ubuntu on their grandparents' computer and it turned out fine.
It won't take 10 minutes, but it might still take a minute or two (for Pro) - though Flash and Flash 8B should be significantly faster.

It does process a version of the raw video but it can run that faster than the default video playback rate.

That is quite a bit of detail here: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/vision?lang=python#pro...

"The File API service extracts image frames from videos at 1 frame per second (FPS) and audio at 1Kbps, single channel, adding timestamps every second."
Whatever man. I think this is all completely irrelevant to the current WordPress saga, not to mention that I totally disagree with your 0-evidence hypothesis in the first place that people are somehow more critical of open source leaders. FWIW, there is plenty in my HN comment history lambasting Google's fall from technically-admired leader to "just another big company led by the bean counters".
I'm really surprised people still think he's doing the work and not just a salesman.
> You can still be on the hook for rolling a 100 sided die. And in some cases that's effectively all you can do.

Sure. And the article allows for that. You need to have "an account" that acknowledges that at the time you didn't and couldn't have enough information to completely de risk the decision, but that you'd discussed and agreed that the 1/100 (or 1/5 or 1/10,000) risk of the bad outcome was a known and acceptable risk.

"where an account is something that you tell. How did something happen, what were the conditions that led to it happening, what made the decision seem like a good one at the time? Who were all of the people involved in the decision or event?"
But that's like how I memorize sheet music, visual groups and subgroups of notes, and yet sheet music is formally linguistic nevertheless. So in such debates I think a tricky pitfall to avoid is that all data structures are essentially linguistic as well.
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That is not accountability. Can the algorithm be sent to jail if it commit crimes?
I’m not really convinced with the Lunar Gateway either, but we’ll see.
The cost to become a doctor is now so high in the US that you have a tremendous amount of debt and have to charge high to pay it off. It’s also why no one wants to become a GP.
Additionally, this would be a great way to gather tons of plant data that you can then use to increase recognition accuracy.
Yes, anyone could have done what Musk did. But only Musk did it.

P.S. I've read full length biographies of both, and am an ME/AE engineer myself. I think I have at least some grasp of what they have accomplished.
It was dead before.
I'm not sure that's really an accomplishment that will inspire kids.
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I think that’s implicit in the promise of the upcoming-any-year-now unattended full self driving.
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Time: a separation between individual events that can be crossed by cause and effect.

Space: a separation between individual events that cannot be crossed by cause and effect.

"Individual event" is meant in the familiar sense, like a "bang" from a gun, or your birthday party.
Why would charging for extended support hurt Microsoft? They "win" if you pay for it, or if you upgrade to windows 11. If you do neither, you'll probably get hacked down the line if you don't airgap, and Microsoft doesn't gain or lose anything (except goodwill, but that doesn't matter with the kind of monopoly they have).
Honestly, for some of us the idea that all your thoughts have to filter through language sounds very tedious.

I want to remind everyone that your experiences are unique and do not necessarily translate to all other people.
You seem to be conflating inner monologues and imagination.

I don't use an inner monologue but my imagination is fairly good at creating new images.
Why was NASA/Boeing/Bezos/Branson/Russia/etc unable to do it?

BTW, Musk took enormous personal risk on these ventures, betting his whole fortune on it.
True that's a reasonable possibility. But in go the top engines are far from perfection but it's not clear in chess
“They also reveal cracks in Starbucks’ business model, which has changed in response to customer demand from a predominately sit-down coffee shop to a mostly drive-thru and mobile takeout chain.”

This is the real reason Starbucks sales are tanking, which has been pointed out by many people. The app, with a million customization options keeps the baristas busy and when you try to order in the store you get crazy wait times.
Link's not working for me.
This is a trademark dispute. WP-Engine uses the trademark, and made a tactical decision not to license it. Their thought was better to ask for forgiveness later then pay up front. Protecting your trademark is critical for an organization governing an open source product. Just look at Docker to see what happens when you lose control of your trademark. Last I checked, most owners aggressively protect their trademark. It's one of the few IP protections open source companies have. Why are you all defending the freeloading open source strip miner? Is WP Engine's use of the trademark fair use? Something tells me that they will end up settling this out of court...
> Single English words cannot be trademarked.

Um... Apple? Shell? Alphabet? Chevron? Target? Caterpillar? Oracle? Orange?
Does Apple consider the Vision Pro a commercial flop?
"Cathy argues that the use of algorithm in some contexts permits a new scale of harmful and unaccountable systems that ought to be reigned in."

Algorithms are used by people. An algorithm only allows "harmful and unaccountable systems" if people, as the agents imposing accountability, choose to not hold the people acting by way of the algorithm accountable on the basis of the use of the algorithm, but...that really has nothing to do with the algorithm. If you swapped in a specially-designated ritual sceptre for the algorithm in that sentence (or, perhaps more familiarly, allowed "status as a police officer" to confer both formal immunity from most civil liability and practical immunity from criminal prosecution for most harms done in that role), it functions exactly the same way: what enables harmful and unaccountable systems is when humans choose not to hold other humans accountable for harms, on whatever basis.
When the next recession happens, stocks will fall and bonds will rally, causing yields and interest burden to fall. The US recently had a historic opportunity to refinance and lock in long term debt at low rates, but that ship has sailed.
Strapping the whale to the side of the ship to be butchered while sharks feasted on the underside always seemed insane to me.
You're really good at bullshitting and saying nothing at the same time. Feedback and communication is pointless without accountability. I'm sure this sounded smart when you were typing it out but man, this is dumb. Like, this is literally what lack of accountability sounds like.
I wonder if that will come around though, where it's cool because it seems so simple or 'real' compared to black box software or AI walking talking robot or wherever we are.

I grew up interested in stuff like that, taking walkie-talkies apart and building electromagnets with nails etc. - despite the availability of the world wide web & DAB radio.
The Microsoft HoloLens also supposedly had “business” applications, but was ultimately discontinued. The Apple Vision Pro was DOA, Apple just refuses to come to terms with that.
I disagree. I as an adult with zero prior experience with electronics have recently completed the book "Make: Electronics", which contains such experiments, and I got a sense of amazement very much resembling one that a(n) (intellectually curious) child would have. A 555, a couple of trimpots and a speaker can be loads of fun!
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Hi. I have been using email login and admin users can invite their colleagues by email address.

Of course, many established companies offer SSO, ability to login using Google, Apple, other oauth.

I asked around to my test users and a few potential users and they mentioned email is fine. In my own experience as a SWE I used many softwares at work which used just email login. However, many more offered a bunch more.

Will it be fine to open it up to broader audience without all these things?
> 6-byte ethernet address (first three bytes should be 80:00:20).

I believe the first three bytes should be 08:00:20, since "08:00:20" is currently assigned to Oracle (who bought Sun in 2010), and "80:00:20" appears to be unassigned.

This is also visible in the photo just below "Sun SPARCstation 20", where it says:

Ethernet address 8:0:20:c0:ff:ee, Host ID: 72c0ffee.
Sending files anonymously and sending files easily seems like mutually exclusive problems. If it's easy and anonymous, it's too easy to abuse. The teacher should just be using file storage that is tied to an account: it's not as though they're trying to stay hidden from their students
> Can you count without using a "language"?

Yes. Seriously, these kind of questions are so surprising. It tells you that everyone's experience is just a little different.
This is a general trend in all propriety operating systems. The better the hardware gets, the more stuff they add like transparency effects, animations, other stuff that runs in background that most people don't event need. On Windows you can do certain things to make it more efficient by using those open source utilities that strips out a lot of unnecessary stuff from Windows.
"This is the underlying reason why, when you move at speeds that approach the speed of light, you start to experience phenomena such as time dilation and length contraction:"

This is not even possible in pulp science fiction. In order to be able to move with the speed of light you need to transform yourself into a photon. Only a photon can move with the speed of light. Saying "close to the speed of light" changes nothing. You need to be light to move with the speed close to the speed of light. Macroscopic objects cannot move with speeds approaching light speed.
I think it's a matter of hygiene and speed. Sure I could butcher a chicken, maybe have a shot at a bigger animal like a goat or cow. I've seen it multiple times since I live in a country that regularly do animal sacrifice. But I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to do it as clean or as fast as the usual butcher.

It does feel different from market-bought meat though, at least for me.
I'd very happily buy one of them if the price were less insane
Coming up with and executing a billion dollar innovation is hardly a myth. While there are plenty where the term merit doesn't even come close to fitting, your outlook on the world is pretty damn jaundiced.
"allow a surgeon anywhere in the world to view an operating surgeon’s viewpoint and give them advice."

Have they shipped telepresence where the camera feed of one headset is live streamed to another? For getting expert advice remotely this does sound like a killer app (or should I say lifesaving?) , like having a voice in your head who is situated in the same viewpoint as you
Please follow a simple rule: Don't buy a device that has the word "smart" in its name or description.
It's the only real solution if you need tens of thousands of concurrent tasks. Real threads use too much memory.
Cloudflare tunnels work over quic so this is not entirely correct
Yeah, I think you're conflating the arguments of "Weapons of Math Destruction" and "The Unaccountability Machine" here.

"The Unaccountability Machine," based on Mandy's summary in the OP, argues that organizations can become "accountability sinks" which make it impossible for anyone to be held accountable for problems those organizations cause. Put another way (from the perspective of their customers), they eliminate any recourse for problems arising from the organization which ought to in theory be able to address, but can't because of the form and function of the organization.

"Weapons of Math Destruction" argues that the scale of algorithmic systems often means that when harms arise, those harms happen to a lot of people. Cathy argues this scale itself necessitates treating these algorithmic systems differently because of their disproportionate possibility for harm.

Together, you can get big harmful algorithmic systems, able to operate at scale which would be impossible without technology, which exist in organizations that act as accountability sinks. So you get mass harm with no recourse to address it.

This is what I meant by the two pieces being complementary to each other.
It's worth noting that math and programming do not appear to be considered "languages" by much of the academic and/or neuroscientific literature; see [0] on the front page right now and my comments regarding the same [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41868884

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41892701
“Close to the speed of light” means, like, 99% of the speed of light. You can even see the speeds listed on the graphs, which are given as a fraction of c.
Sorry I'm out of the loop these days with most tech news. I checked your link but I guess I don't really get it.

Can someone quickly explain what's going on with WP? Thx
What? No. The idea that your thoughts have to be expressed in something as crude as language sounds very tedious and limiting.
The first iPhone also had a lot of criticism for major missing features. I am confident that Apple will address a lot of it in the 2nd version. Then I predict that the 3rd iteration will start to make inroads to the masses.
How is the work culture overall? I am of the opinion they are ruthless and will cull you if they think you are underperforming.
I heard the same about McKinsey
Interesting. Wonder sometimes how much of consulting business is motivated by accountability avoidance - "accountability sinks" for hire
They just shipped vision os 2 and have been delivering a bit more immersive content to apple TV. Certainly they're still searching for a killer app (IMO the focus on the landing page for reliving memories is a bit uninspired, not exactly forward-looking) but I can't see them packing up and abandoning the AR space entirely

https://www.apple.com/visionos/visionos-2/
You are just redefining symbols (language) as thought. This is semantic nonsense and purely circular reasoning.
How Open can Stripe be?
I think I speak for every pothead on the planet when I say this:

Mate, as someone who smokes a lot of weed, I’ll take some minor health issues over getting thrown into jail and having a permanent record as a criminal.

I think you are vastly exaggerating the health consequences.
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'10' would be counting the comparator and 2 op-amps as 3 components, the replicas you're pointing at break those out to discretes too, because once you've started down that road, why wouldn't you?
Please check 192GB RAM on the new ThinkPad P16 G2 laptop [1].

The new replacable and upgradable LPCAMM2 format should be RAM future proof for laptops [2].

[1] ThinkPad P16 G2 Laptop Review: 165 Hz Screen, RTX 2000 Ada and up to 192 GB RAM:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39984046

[2] Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 Debuts LPCAMM2 Memory Alongside Intel Core Ultra CPUs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40153241
Agreed. Also if they get the ultra wide streaming of a macbook support shipped might change the equation for me as well. If it works as a productivity tool I can stomach the price.
For years, one quite busy Starbucks downtown was our "third place" to play cards and socialize. We had moved there because the locally owned coffeehouse two blocks away had shut down, of course.

For me, the whole point of Starbucks and other coffeehouses is a place with tables where you hang out, socialize, use the WiFi, stick around a few hours. Many of us would refer to the coffee prices as "table rent", because we acknowledged that their revenue went mostly towards maintenance and cleaning of the tables and restrooms we were using for many hours on a few bucks' worth of beans. And, if we were polite, we made sure to refill our cups every couple of hours, and be hungry again and again, if we camped out for extended periods.

The pandemic and the delivery apps like DoorDash have really put the crunch on third spaces, especially around here! I live in a college town, and even so, restaurants have shut their doors, and several have popped up anew as drive-thru-only, such as coffeehouses as well as fast-food restaurants.

For someone like me, owning no vehicle, and often hiking through the urban jungle on foot or public transit, we need restaurants as way stations, somewhere to relax and use the facilities, or we won't walk down the street!

All the homeless folks are camped out at bus stops, because they're being kicked off the buses and the train now. There are basically no other benches or shaded areas to rest if you're a pedestrian walking down the street. It seemed impossible that this metro area could become even more car-centric, but it has.
I'm not sure you expressed that well and some of your facts were just false but are expressed confidently, that tends to wind people up a bit.

> They caught lightning in a bottle and it may never happen again.

Sure but doing it the old way you all but guarantee that its not gone happen again.

In terms of engineering success, SpaceX didn't have some magical pill. Suggesting that these new processes could result in other successful companies. The recent successful moon lander in the CLIPS program is at least amazing as the Falcon 1 was.

> My hypothesis is there isn't room or capacity for more competition.

We have to differentiate the markets. Are you talking about human space flight only? Then you might be right in the short term. But NASA can at least guarantee flights if somebody else invests in it.

In other markets much more competition exists.
No, language's purpose is to communicate. Isn't this obvious?
How does it compare to Oxen?

https://github.com/Oxen-AI/Oxen
I've been using Svelte since v3 was released almost daily. I've been using v5 for the past couple of weeks and it's fantastic.

The biggest improvement IMO is that you can now write reactive logic intuitively outside your components and it just works without needing to use complex machinery or patterns like Mobx, Redux, or Vuex.

I've been doing frontend since the 90s and used everything under the sun. Svelte 5 is the most pragmatic and elegant solution I've ever used.
that's not free
Wow, AWS really wants to get rid of CodeCommit.
One of the circuits on the site is a 20000 V zapper [1]. Would even that fail to interest today's kids?

[1] https://www.555-timer-circuits.com/stun-gun.html
That's not really true. Can you show me the evidence for that?

The reality is that large parts of NASA are extremely supportive of SLS. We know from reporting that this is true. It was NASA Johnson engineers who pushed the design. No NASA Administrator has ever dared to even question the SLS or publicly speak in criticism at best the have lightly pushed for solutions around SLS.
Unlike prior Sun systems there was no rack-optimized direct counterpart to the SS20

the "SPARCServer 20" was a super rare badging for like, workgroup servers

the big rackmount units for the sun4m era were still VME systems: 4/670, 4/690, etc
Crazy that with all of NHTSA's regulations, this is still legal.
Tesla in 2024 is certainly succeeding in spite of Elon. From firing the supercharging team because he had some kind of mental break to the tens of millions of dollars and engineering hours wasted on the cybertruck instead of another practical vehicle he clearly isn't contributing much to what is at this point a matured company that doesn't need a maniac (for better or worse) at the helm.
Perhaps. But one could argue that the development of language (as necessary for communication, its original purpose) was the seed that lead to evolutionary development of deeper thinking.
Windows 11 memory management is better than Windows 10. Im no longer on 16gb ram but back when I upgraded to windows 11, it was day and night difference (and this was not a clean install).
The Kinect was revolutionary and had interesting applications beyond consumer uses. Same with Hololens. Same with Google Glass. Same with 3D TVs. Same with others tech ahead of its time.

IMO, Apple's most successful approach is perfecting an already marketed product and turn it into a global phenomenon. As this article pointed out, the AVP (not aliens vs predator) has some advantages and definitely an improvement. But this first version is still not improved enough to reach mass appeal. Perhaps the next one?
The pirates lost, I know one other person besides me that collects movies to watch offline outside of subscription services. The legal actions against free streaming sites prevents any serious competitor to Netflix, Disney-Hulu etc, which are hugely valuable properties.
I'm not sure it's that fringe. Popular addages such as 'language is a vehicle for thought' and 'the pen is mightier than the sword' reveal that language is sometimes implied to be tool-like, with many of our unspoken acts carrying linguistic meaning (e.g. ghosting, not answering a call, sign language, gesturing, nodding, etc.).

Even tools present us a certain 'language', talking to us via beeps, blinks and buzzes, and are having increasingly interesting discussions amongst themselves (e.g. subreddit simulator, agent based modeling). Recent philosophers of technology as Mark Coeckelbergh present a comprehensive argument for why we need to move away from the tool/language barrier [0], and has been part in informing the EC Expert Group on AI [1].

[0]: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/97813155285...

[1]: https://philtech.univie.ac.at/news/news-about-publicatons-et...
If 20 mins of informations can legitimately be condensed into 20 seconds, it sounds like the original wasn't worth reading in the first place. Could have skipped the llm entirely.
I read their "nonsense rant" and I appreciated it.

>A 50k model 3 makes almost all offerings up to 80k (including electrics) from legacy automakers look like garbage.

This is a nonsense rant in my opinion.
I don’t know how much it works with consulting because someone has to approve paying them. If they do a bad job you can blame whoever brought them in. It does make it easier to do something you were going to do anyways though.
It was on the front page contemporaneously with this comment that recommended it, so you know it was an unbiased recommendation. :)
I thought that when I found out about MonitorDarkly, a remote code execution exploit for the Dell 2410U monitor firmware.

https://github.com/RedBalloonShenanigans/MonitorDarkly
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32634467#32635631
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA4_POi9rsg
https://web.archive.org/web/20160809063532/https://www.redba...
https://web.archive.org/web/20160809062931/https://www.redba...
Almost certainly would happen and very depressing.
How do you feel about the PinePhone? There even the LTE modem runs FOSS Linux (on one of the two processors in the modem).

https://github.com/the-modem-distro
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Elon is taking the SBF approach of double or nothing -- he hopes Trump will win, in which case Elon can continue to do as much harm as he likes.