skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did the best fast research I could given not wanting to spend more than 20 minutes on it and came to this result (aprox): - Mixed/Diverse: 48.0%
- White Men: 35.0%
- Women: 8.0%
- Non-White: 6.0%
- White Woman: 2.0%
- Non-White Woman: 1.0%
Not really.

It’s common enough that not crossing at a red light as a pedestrian (with no cars in sight) can be a tell that you’re potentially German :)
This is greenwashing advertising. Pure and simple.
I had the 2019 i9. The power difference and the cooling difference is astounding from the 2019 to the M1 (and the M1 is faster).

I actually use my laptop on my lap commonly and I think the i9 was going to sterilize me.
Microsoft forecasts slower cloud business growth in second quarter
>but then every line of code we write is hard, because it's meaningful, and that feels bad enough to many developers,

I don't know that I've ever even met a developer who wants to be writing endless pools of trivial boilerplate instead of meaningful code. Even the people at work who are willing to say they don't want to deal with the ambiguity and high level design stuff and just want to be told what to do pretty clearly don't want endless drudgery.
One of the studies is mentioned here, there have been others as well:

https://time.com/6265510/covid-19-weaken-immune-system/
For sure. If you do lose the ability to comment here for any reason, my email is in my profile. You are always welcome to write me. I am bad at responding though so I can't promise I will respond, and if I do it will probably take a long time.
What you are talking of is only possible in companies where the founder didn't take VC investment. Once you take VC money, you get on the treadmill of infinite growth to satisfy investors. That makes companies do strange things in pursuit of this impossible goal. Like hiring for the sake of showing growth in headcount, hiring people to branch into unrelated verticals, hiring people with big resumes just to say you have them on the team etc
Advancing quantum algorithms for large-scale simulations of quantum spin chains
A few key areas where our differences are advantages (in our pov):
1. We handle recovery e2e (both retries & communications)
2. We provide detailed real-time analytics on performance
3. Higher ROI (cost less and are directly responsible for more recoveries)
4. They're competing to be the card vault (replace Stripe, Adyen, Spreedly, etc. vault) whereas our vision is revenue optimization from initial authorization to recovery (complimentary to any stack)
The neighboring city charges $100k per newly constructed unit for park maintenance fees. So there actually are a lot of nice parks.

https://x.com/maxdubler/status/1778841932141408432
Siemens to buy Altair for $10.6B in digital portfolio push
> Apple is well on its way to ensure you can only run things they allow via app store

I'm very happy to only run stuff approved on Apple's app store... ESPECIALLY following their introduction of privacy labels for all apps so you know what shit the developer will try to collect from you without wasting your time downloading it.

Also have you seen the amount of dodgy shit on the more open app stores ?
Thanks! I just not sure Amazon DSP drivers can use that mobile app from Google with their 300-stops Flex itineraries.

By the way Routing24 works on mobile, optimizing when offline too. It's just the current app is designed for desktop and route planners. Solver itself works on any 5 y.o. brick with shattered camera like a charm.
People also thought we could simply do a degrowth and then came covid..turns out we go fully tribal warfare if not bribed by burning the world as incense for the economic gods.
Valve has adapted this kind of thing in Counter Strike for almost a decade.

They try to make own matchmaking for possible statistical outliers so cheaters end up playing against each other. Of course, real good players can still get there and there are (at least used to) real humans on reviewing on those games to see if someone is actually a cheater. It is not a simple task, since you can cheat to be just slightly better than others and that is enough to be good.
If not having hackes is critical for a competitive videogame CS and Dota 2 will be dead.
"Altair, whose simulation software helps predict how products would work in the real world, fits Siemens's strategy of using its hardware and software to combine the real and digital worlds."
Err “We depend on advertising to fund our services … please disable your adblocker”

The Smithsonian ?!

I do wonder if the ad-driven digital world is simply going to consume itself.

The Guardian newspaper apparently did an internal study pre-covid and found that 1/3 of its content was essentially unread, and that the effort to SEO / promote that 1/3 not only was wasted effort but actually harmed the results of the other 2/3rds.

Google (or rather PageRank) does try to promote what is well read and referenced, but the sludge does drag down everything.
Are they cache coherent these days? I feel like any unified memories should be.
Personally I like to imagine that the part of the skill tree that involves software locking based on external servers is a side branch, not the max height of the trunk.
> But I work hard in a good job and I have disposable income. So I can, effectively, pay a scalper to do this for me. Am I less deserving of a ticket?

No, but you're not more deserving either.
Uh.... have you been around kids? It will take several absurd misses before they even start to respond to a ball in flight.
It's the other way around, isn't it? MagSafe was removed in the 2016-2019 model years (not sure why; maybe to shave off another bit of thickness?), and then brought back in 2020 to MacBook Pro and 2022 to MacBook Air.

Personally, I practically never use MagSafe, because the convenience of USB C charging cables all over the house outweighs the advantages of MagSafe for me.
Google's internal codebase is nicer and more structured than the average open source code base.

Their internal AI tools are presumably trained on their code, and it wouldn't surprise me if the AI is capable of much more internally than public coding AIs are.
I think the irony comes to full circle when you then use `unsmear` library to reverse the leap smearing in ntp

https://github.com/google/unsmear
In Apple world black means pro. That's why they give you black stickers with pro models and white for everything else.
I don't think it's surprising that o1-preview is only slightly better than GPT-4o, it was never advertised as being better at this kind of recall.
No law is going to physically protect you from a 2 ton hunk of steel.
To quote an old meme, "They hated Jesus because he told them the truth."
I'm so excited about fast dedup. I've been wanting to use ZFS deduping for ArchiveBox data for years, as I think fast dedup may finally make it viable to archive many millions of URLs in one collection and let the filesystem take care of compression across everything. So much of archive data is the same jquery.min.js, bootstrap.min.css, logo images, etc. repeated over and over in thousands of snapshots. Other tools compress within a crawl to create wacz or warc.gz files, but I don't think anyone has tried to do compression across the entire database of all snapshots ever taken by a tool.

Big thank you to all the people that worked on it!

BTW has anyone tried a probabilistic dedup approach using soemthing like a bloom filter so you don't have to store the entire dedup table of hashes verbatim? Collect groups of ~100 block hashes into a bucket each, and store a hyper compressed representation in a bloom filter. On write, lookup the hash of the block to write in the bloom filter, and if a potential dedup hit is detected, walk the 100 blocks in the matching bucket manually to look for any identical hashes. In theory you could do this with layers of bloom filters with different resolutions and dynamically swap out the heavier ones to disk when memory pressure is too high to keep the high resolution ones in RAM. Allowing the accuracy of the bloom filter to be changed as a tunable parameter would let people choose their preference around CPU time/overhead:bytes saved ratio.
Being able to ‘connect’ call stacks between python, c++, and the gpu/accelerator seems useful.

I wonder if this pushes a bit much towards flamegraphs specifically. They were an innovation when they were first invented and the alternatives were things like perf report, but now I think they’re more one tool among many. In particular, I think many people who are serious about performance often reach for things like pprof for statistical profiles and various traceing and trace-visualisation tools for more fine-grained information (things like bpftrace, systemtap, or custom instrumentation on the recording side and perfetto or the many game-development oriented tools on the visualisation (and sometimes instrumentation) side).

I was particularly surprised by the statement about intel’s engineers not knowing what to do with the flamegraphs. I read it as them already having tools that are better suited to their particular needs, because I think the alternative has to be that they are incompetent or, at best, not thinking about performance at all.

Lots of performance measuring on Linux is done through the perf subsystem and Intel have made a lot of contributions to make it good. Similarly, Intel have added hardware features that are useful for measuring and improving performance – an area where their chips have features that, at least on chips I’ve used, easily beat AMD’s offerings. This kind of plumbing is important and useful, and I guess the flamegraphs demonstrate that the plumbing was done.
Sadly, didn't visit any concert in UK, so couldn't include that datapoint in my anecdote.
The touchbar was useful in one important way.

Because it made the esc key useless for touch typists and because, as a vi user, I hit esc approximately a bazillion times per day I mapped caps lock to esc.

Now my fingers don't travel as far to hit esc.

I still use that mapping even on my regular keyboards and my current non-touch-bar macs.

Thanks touchbar macs, rest in peace.
Why do you think the next conservative president would need to do it unilaterally without Congress? There's a good chance that the next conservative president would also have a conservative Congress.

It's not outlandish at all
> Being ALLOWED to be used badly

I don't see how you stop devs from using a system call or similar incorrectly. In this case the result is an FD leak, which is no more than a DoS, and easy to chase and fix [unless the library in question is designed in such a way that the problem is unfixable, in which case abandon that library].
Yeah exactly my thoughts.
I have been trying all kinds of services since 2010 and it always comes back to that.
Even with very fast fiber, there is no realistic way to get the latency into desirable territory. It makes a large amount of games borderline unplayable and a whole lot extremely annoying.

Basically, the only thing half-working are slow paced story games and slow strategy games (mostly turn based), which ironically require little ressource most of the time (so why pay for cloud service ?!).

Like most things "cloud" conceptually it is seductive but in practice extremely compromised.
What exactly were they wrong about with regards to Roblox?
How much shit, and how does it compare to the risk profile of, say, not wearing a five points seat belt and motorcycling helmet while driving, or a bulletproof vest when going to school, or an N95 mask literally everywhere?

Security theorists are always ready to tell us about the horrifying risks of installing kernel-level code from a vendor, but can they actually quantify the likelihood times damage those billions of installations have inflicted on Joe Random's life?

And contrast them to other risks that we regularly take in the name of comfort and convenience?
If you've already put a piece of hardware into your computer made by nvidia, installing a kernel driver also made by nvidia does not increase your risk at all.

Installing some random anti-cheat kernel driver is not the same thing, at all.
It may well be that there is no alternative. Maybe Dropbox did try everything, maybe tried to let those 500 people work on producing different products or on finding other sources of income, I don't know. And I get that it's important for a business to keep itself afloat. But it's a recurring phenomenon in larger tech companies that I find puzzling.

Many of the answers in this thread have been perfectly reasonable. And I'm probably kidding myself when I think that "if I were that CEO, I'd do things differently".
It’s certainly possible with appropriate proof methods. My disappointment was specifically about non-memory resources, however.
Either of those use way too much. As sibling points out, 4.7 is more in the range of what I drive and expect. I have a Skoda Rapid with just 5 gears, and I manage to get it under 5L/100km.
Not a gamer - Is Steam basically a package manager like 'yum' or 'brew', but for games?
Discussion (59 points, 3 hours ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41998983
You can get a lot of mileage out of ESLint + typescript-ESLint + various other plugins. It's more of a "choose your own adventure" kind of experience, but the defaults are a good start, and if you're looking for cyclomatic complexity and all that jazz, there's various plugins that can calculate that. And the typescript ESLint plugin is great because it uses the types as part of the hints, which is great for finding places where you no longer need optional chaining, or where a condition is always true/false because you forgot what types things were.

That said, I tend to take a much more lean approach to linting these days. I try to only include lints that are actionable, likely to lead to real bugs, and have no false positives. Everything else feels like it's better handled in code review. If you don't know why your function is too complex and difficult to read, I don't want you to rewrite it just to satisfy a robot that's following arbitrary rules! I want to be able to have a discussion with you about proper techniques for splitting apart code.

But there's definitely people who go the other way entirely and build incredibly strict ESLint configurations, so looking for those might help you if that's what you want.
pylance is pyright under the hood, isn't it? it's the main reason I use pyright over mypy: I work in VSCode and I want compatible type checking
at the same time, the banks are happy they don't have to spend the money to develop those APIs themselves.
I loved my 2015 MBP, probably the best machine Apple made, overall, until arguably the 2019 16" (read: after the butterfly keyboard debacle)

Traded it for an M1 Air in 2021 and was astonished at how much faster it was. It even blew away my 2019 16" from work.

You're going to be even more blown away!
The anti-cheat also goes hand in hand with the predatory business models of "always online" and micro transactions. Those things sell because of advantage over other players or just social factors in the case of cosmetics. Wouldn't be as relevant in an offline game. But now, since the game is online (for business, not technical, reasons), we need some way to keep everyone honest.

I'm just hoping this entire business model dies, along with the anti-cheat and everything else with it.
> Maybe there's some slight doubt in whether or not the image could be a hash collision, which depends on the hash method. It may be incredibly unlikely (near impossible?) for any hash collision depending on the specific hash strategy.

If it was a cryptographic hash (apparently not), this mathematical near-certainty is necessary but not sufficient. Like cryptography used for confidentiality or integrity, the math doesn't at all guarantee the outcome; the implementation is the most important factor.

Each entry in the illegal hash database, for example, relies on some person characterizing the original image as illegal - there is no mathematical formula for defining illegal images - and that characterization could be inaccurate. It also relies on the database's integrity, the user's application and its implementation, even the hash calculator. People on HN can imagine lots of things that could go wrong.

If I were a judge, I'd just want to know if someone witnessed CP or not. It might be unpleasant but we're talking about arresting someone for CP, which even sans conviction can be highly traumatic (including time in jail, waiting for bail or trial, as a ~child molestor) and destroy people's lives and reputations. Do you fancy appearing at a bail hearing about your CP charge, even if you are innocent? 'Kids, I have something to tell you ...'; 'Boss, I can't work for a couple weeks because ...'.
I'm curious why you think Standard is "harmfully redundant"?
Congressional Insider Trading Is it real? And can we use it to our advantage?
That's the promise of eBPF.
Seems plausible enough to me, but whether there's a business case or not isn't my concern as much as how it feels to price something out knowing that I'm deliberately gouged on arbitrary components instead of the the segmentation being somewhat more meaningful. They're already reaping very high margins, but by tightly coupling quantities of those components to even higher margin builds, it feels a bit gross, to the point where I just have to accept that I'd have to spend even more excessively than in previous years of similar models. As in, I'm happy to pay a bit more for more power if I find it useful, likewise with ram, but not being able to get more ram without first getting something I have no way to put to use seems a bit silly, akin to not being able to get better seats in a car unless I first get the racing spec version, otherwise I'm stuck with a lawn chair.
That's annoying. I really want to fully remove lightning connectors from my life, but, my existing magic* devices work fine and will probably work fine for another decade or two.
Not sure but if Trump wins and turns H1B visas on its head again, we might see a reversal.
The lineup barely matters for gravity assist. Jupiter is the vast majority of the total you can get. Saturn has 30% of the mass and 2/3 the orbital velocity, so adding Saturn gets you only 20% more above using Jupiter alone (and the Voyagers didn't really try), and the ice giants are smaller and slower yet.

We could easily overtake Voyager via only Jupiter if we wanted to (and New Horizons eventually will), and Jupiter-to-any-target launch windows come at least every 12 years.
> In fact, every computer without a discrete GPU uses a unified memory model these days!

On PCs some other hardware (notably the SSD) comes with its own memory. But here it's shared with the main DRAM too.

This is not necessarily a performance improvement, it can avoid copies but also means less is available to the CPU.
Dont forget integrated GPUs actually working quite well for 80% of gamers
Fair enough, would complicate things quite a bit. Still sad to see it go, but thanks for all the fun while it lasted!
piece of mind? or peace of mind?

/nitpick ;-)
It's fairly easy to measure performance. For companies with 100's of thousands or millions in failed payments each month 5-10% performance gains have a huge impact. On average we're improving recovery rate by 21%. To hold ourselves accountable we offer customers a full-refund if they're not satisfied with gains. We haven't had to give a refund yet.
Not my usage experience with LLMs. But that aside, poorly performing general intelligence might just not be very valuable compared to highly performing narrow or even zero intelligence.
Yes, but they provide their own apps.
It only needs to be good enough that people keep buying (or not) the Prime when their old account gets banned. There is good reason that it exist, also from cheating perspective.
more like an app store
> remove the SSD from the tray, send your machine and stick it back when it comes repaired

Apple has full-disk encryption backed by the secure enclave so its not by-passable.

Sure their standard question-set asks you for your password when you submit it for repair.

But you don't have to give it to them. They will happily repair your machine without it because they can boot their hardware-test suite off an external device.
Apple can create a profile of your preferences, for preferences in the sense of things you want to buy. It has your App Store data!

> "can someone see that I've installed an app"

You say preferences and you didn't say what you mean. One meaning of the word preferences: what if you installed Grindr?
Indeed. Exactly like the journalists, bloggers, self-published book authors, internet commenters, wikipedia editors, and earlier models that taught them almost all of what they know.
JS can do some cool things. Sometimes it's necessary. Sometimes it's the most expedient way.

On the other hand, we've exported high enough complexity and code payload sizes to the front-end and seen bandwidth rise enough that it's possible for some full page reloads to beat responsiveness/interactivity of many front ends at this point. But if one doesn't want to do that, there's techniques to let JS act primarily in the controller role while letting the back end take care of model/view concerns that, exchanging HTML as an adequate data serialization and display/UI description format.

And, just as importantly, as a hypertext and serialization format, it provides opportunity for machine discovery and description of available resources. The ones we're most used to are search engines, but we're obviously in an era where we're discovering what else is possible.

Possible ML models can also work with JS messes, but since they're less legible for people, there's less likely a good corpus correlating accurate descriptions with code in the wild. Legibility of what you feed the client has benefits beyond executablity, something that people who grew up with the early web were apparently prepared to understand.
The Chronically Online Have Stolen Halloween
So like dating?
It's a major hassle and if you are going to get a small box to plug in all kinds of other small box around it with a web of cables, you might as well get a bigger box and put it all inside...

mini-ITX case start around 3L nowadays...
We have an official open-source AI definition now, but the fight's not over
In the past I would have said "this" but I've seen a lot of people declining good offers for better ones that never materialized. Be careful playing chicken if you can't afford to.
Thank you. I was a little surprised by the price but I guess I naively hoped it was a change of heart from big standards.
I didn't say it's hard, but it's most definitely leetcode, as in "pointless algorithmic exercise that will only show you if the candidate recently worked on a similar question".

If that doesn't satisfy, here's a similar one at leetcode.com: https://leetcode.com/problems/distinct-prime-factors-of-prod...

I would not expect a programmer of any seniority to churn stuff like that and have it working without testing.
I hope we still agree the kids learn extremely efficiently by ml standards.
Quite appropriately, ".is" is the ccTLD for Iceland, and hosting a sketchy archive site!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.is
From the controlnet author:

Transparent Image Layer Diffusion using Latent Transparency

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17113

https://github.com/lllyasviel/sd-forge-layerdiffuse
I'm not really that interested in chasing this, but a point I do want to make: it isn't just risk.

If you want to participate in a lot of these multiplayer games that place cheating far too highly, you can't use a hypervisor. You must have gaming device and computing device. They cannot be the same.

That's fine for most, but I consider it shit. VFIO makes it possible for a big computer to make a smaller gaming one. Ask me how I know.

My greater point is I don't care if I get cheated out of a finals match. I can actually speak from experience. I prefer autonomy over my devices. I kind of want to eat poop with them. A little.