skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Vespa there's a managed version hosted by the Vespa company in their cloud environment, and then the open source version is easily run locally or in any environment of your choosing. It takes some attention to detail, but it's quite flexible. I have a long running single node instance on an Intel NUC, but I've also run more complex cluster variations across different cloud environments.
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The Titanic, at least, _was_ largely operator error (they shouldn't have tried to avoid the iceberg unless they were certain that they could do so; it was designed for a head-on collision and _that_ would not have sunk it).
It still blows my mind how infrequently I have to charge my M3 Pro MacBook Pro. It is a complete game changer.
Was I attacking Sabine or was I saying trusting a single source to inform the entirety of a view of a non-expert about a debatable topic is perhaps not responsible?
Normally I would agree with you but for such a fuzzy topic involving search it would require all pages and discussions it can find to be the same and not outdated. I don't see why anyone would presume these systems to be omnipotent.
Now we have spectre, after 30 years Intel did not learn any lessons. More things change, the more they stay the same.
ACPUL works well even with partially broken code keeping programs free from crashes and freezes. Some functions were broken for a long time, but this didn’t block progress allowing me to complete 90% of important features and fix them after 10 years. This has been verified over time in practice. I believe even 30-50% of a program can work opening up many new possibilities.
It's robustly faster at the things that Geekbench is measuring. You can find issue with the test criteria (measures meaningless things or is easy to game) but the tests themselves are certainly sound.
Apple TV is a gaming console.

https://www.apple.com/apple-arcade/
You say this as if fast compilation speed somehow means bad performance.

This is a false dichotomy. Pascal compiles fast and runs fast.

Then there's the fact that performance of a program depends on far more things than the language it's written in — and faster iteration cycles ease optimization and profiling on the level of algorithms, which is where you have most gains.

Squeezing that potential 3% speed up from using another language is rarely worth it then.
COMplex (noun) as opposed to comPLEX (adj) might help you
They're "integrated" the way Adobe or Autodesk's acquisitions are "integrated," which is to say that they're not, in any meaningful way - but at least you only have to log in/get your credit card out once. And that's sort of fine, because they never needed to be integrated. All of the individual applications work fine on their own, with common media formats if you need to move between them. In fact, the acquisitions should have never taken place at all; they should have been blocked for antitrust violations.
> This is probably Google's Altavista moment

Yes and no. Yes for the quality of search results. Google algorithm and user experience was simply better than AltaVista's, but Google had another advantage. It used a cluster of cheap consumer-grade hardware (PCs) as its backend, rather than the expensive servers AltaVista used, in fact, AltaVista started off as a way for DEC to show off its hardware.

As a result Google was not only better than its competitors at searching, it was also cheaper and scaled better, and this architecture became the new standard.

It is the opposite for these AI-based systems. AI is expensive, it uses a lot of energy, and the hardware is definitely not consumer-grade.

What it means is that barring a significant breakthrough, cheap ChatGPT-like services are simply unsustainable. Google don't have to do anything, it will collapse on its own. Ironically, probably in the same way that Google result became crappier by the year, but on fast forward.
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Funny I was watching an Asmongold video where he was speculating that most people are functionally illiterate and literally can't read blog posts.
Was this a machine summary? Because, I mean, you realise it's not correct?
Nothing to prevent sovereign countries from declaring to be on different day if they want to.

The BIT anchor would not be changed for political reasons, unless approved by residents of Baker Island.
Ah yes, and then was it Borland Pascal? I seem to recall a nice IDE through my old rose tinted glasses. But 8086? PC assembly I didnt get along with, having been spoiled with DevPac and 68000 Amiga world. But I had a lot of fun with the box drawing characters in the IBM PC 'font' putting together a small Pascal windowing utility blitting chunks of memory to swap overlapping window focus.
I agree - thank you for writing that more pointedly than I did in my post.
Between the first half and the last sentence of your post is a giant leap of conclusion.
I took a class there while I lived in the area. The guy teaching it worked with me at Intel. It was a good local resource, sad when it was taken over by OHSU.
Or users of Slack, Spotify, Teams.. you name it. But I don't want to make an excuse that Electron-like frameworks should be encouraged to be used even more if we have super single core computers available.
Perhaps it worked that way with you, but I'm not smart enough to figure out a 3x3 on my own, and wouldn't have had the many many hours of enjoyment that I did have, if I wouldn't have learned any algorithms.

It's not like memorizing algorithms makes it trivial - there's still recognition/look-ahead and finger tricks to learn, if you want to get faster. And finding the optimal cross (in CFOP method) during the 15 second inspection takes some thinking. I'm bad at that.
What you wrote didn’t really refute my point either.

If management allocates time and resources only for a quick-&-dirty prototype not for public use, then releases it to the public with bad consequences, they will definitely ask the engineers about it. If the engineers properly covered their paper trail, i.e., kept receipts for when management refused their requests for resources to build-in greater safety, then engineering will be not responsible. Ethically, this is the correct model.

But if he & you are saying that management will try to exploit engineering and then blame failures on engineering when it was really bad management, yup, you should expect that kind of ethical failure from management. Yes, there are exceptions, but the structure definitely encourages such unethical management behaviors.
Absolutely!

I think a thing that can be said about opportunity in the US is that you really can change your socioeconomic status. You can be born dirt poor and be a billionaire by the end of your life.

It's very unlikely, but it is possible. What's not possible is to do it all by yourself, or without a large amount of support from society at large.
ARM processors have always been good at handling heat and low power (like AWS Graviton), but what laptop did you have before that would overheat that much during normal usage? That seems like a very poor design.
Not a lawyer, but my local university (a registered non-profit) had an AI department that took in a ton of grant money before they rolled it out into a for-profit.

The "founders" got fat salaries and bonuses after the conversion. They then started going around town hyping their success and whitewashing the history of the "startup" as if it was bootstrapped.

I have no idea how they managed to legally pull that off...
Exactly. This is great for the user until the incentive for anyone to put out new content completely dries up, then not so much.
What are other important “protein complexes” that we know of in biology? Seems like they may have relevance as an important precursor in the pathway of the evolution of life
iOS imposes substantial limitations to compel app purchases through its app store or through its iTunes stores.

I just wanted to listen to music I already have played from my phone while I do dishes.

In my case I just wanted to have a media player that could play MP3s and feature a playlist dynamically populated from either the local device file system or, more ideally, from a shared network location. Restricted. There were some media apps that kind of, in a really shitty way, figured this out. Most of those apps, even when shitty, cost money from the app store.

Fuck that stupidity.

I wrote my own solution in JavaScript that executes in the browser and it does almost everything I want. The playlist data must be statically written into the browser page and cannot be dynamically populated from any file system because Apple disables that part of the browser's FileSystem API in browsers on iOS, though it executes correctly on desktop Safari. I then host the page from a shared network location so that I can access the same content in the same way on any device with access to the network. I adapted this home grown media player to execute video as well, but it can only play videos from codecs/containers already supported in the browser.
Let the age of AI-SEO begin.

This won't fix any issues with existing search, it will just make new forms of the same decaying cruft we're used to.
Same but in both case, I am not sure what to actually program with Ada every time I try to learn it again. I am a bit to used to web/data programming I guess.
I know it’s somewhat unpopular because of many things are labeled with insignificant quantities or are treated as a fact of life, but Prop 65 has to be my favorite ballot proposition.

I would rather know what potentially harmful substances are in something and decide if it’s acceptable than not be told at all.
I feel like it's a lot easier to think about in the My Grandfather's Axe form. The axe only has identity because you give it one and therefore it retains that identity through your possession of it.

If everyone who knew Theseus's name died, neither ship would ever be the Ship of Theseus again.
For how long? There are a lot of superlatives ("simply incredible" etc) - when some new AMD or Intel CPU beats this score, will that be "simply incredible" too?

New chips are slightly faster than previous ones. I am not incredulous about this. Were it a 2x or 3x or 4x improvement or something, sure. But it ain't - it's incremental. I note how even in the Apple marketing they compare it to generations 3 or 4 chips ago (e.g. comparing increases against i7 performance from years ago etc, not against the M3 from a year or so ago because then it is "only" 12% - still good, but not "simply incredible" in my eyes).
So the audience for blog posts might be even smaller than we think. If so, then a converter probably wouldn't get a lot of use.
Introduction to DMA (Direct Memory Access)
Seeing the Windows XP boot screen warmed my heart and the Roller Coaster Tycoon mention make me smile.
You don't have to sign into browsers. You don't even need an apple ID, I use a local account on my macbook.

It's not the happy path though. We need a tech a company that prioritizes local-first designs.
Pascal = Turbo Pascal if we're taking late 80s/early 90s.

Everything else is blasphemy.

After that, Pascal = Delphi (for quite a while).

The fact that both are commercial, closed-source (and, in case of Delphi, quite pricey) packages is pretty much the sole reason Pascal lost out in popularity to languages that mere mortals could use at home without having to resort to piracy.

It took Embarcadero over a decade to realize that offering a free "Community Edition" of the IDE is a must to stay relevant. It was too late by then.
Or more accurately AMD is playing catch up with the Strix series, while Intel seems too busy shooting themselves in the foot to bother.
Doesn't work on my machine.
A very rich guy made one and put it the tomb? Your comment is the conjecture here. Which begs the question, why you even doing that?
> Put 2 and 2 together and come up with Cleopatra?

This is exactly the problem. History is built on stories, it's just story upon story. Licensed historians are able to augment the existing history. The stories need have nothing to do with the truth of whatever might (or might not) have happened.

Whenever you try to find the sources for this or that claim, it is impossible to do so, especially with anything ancient. When I have tried to do so, I come away feeling extremely dissatisfied, and in disagreement with whatever conclusions are being presented as fact. In every single case.

To see what I mean, here is a link to some previous research I undertook on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927639
I expected perhaps a reference to Brian W. Kernighan's excellent critique of Pascal from a systems programming perspective:

https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html

I love Pascal's clarity, and enjoyed writing several years of Pascal and two years worth of Modula-2 in the 1980s and 1990s, but one has to admit Brian has some good points.

If Pascal was still actively used by more people, a new version of its ISO standard could incorporate many things that "happened since" if the community so choose.
But they are. They need to subsidize porting AAA games to solve the chicken-and-egg problem.

Gaming platforms don't just arise organically. They require partnership between platform and publishers, organized by the platform and with financial investment by the platform.
Gaming isn't just about hardware, it's also about software, economics, trust and relationships.

Apple has quite impressive hardware (though their GPUs are still not close to high-end discrete GPUs), but they're also fast enough. The problem now is that Apple systematically does not have a culture that respects gaming or is interested in courting gamers. Games also rely on OS stability, but Apple has famously short and severe deprecation periods.

They ocassionally make pushes in that direction, but I think they lack the will to make a concerted effort, and I also think they lack the restraint to not try and force everything through their own payment processors and distribution systems causing sour relations with developers.
unfortunately I could only afford the M4 Pro model MBP lol
No, I understand the quote the same way. I am saying X (the height of warriors in the society) is significantly taller than Y (the average for all members of the society). X very likely is still significantly below the modern average.

Modern world average male height is 173 cm. Bronze age average was 167 cm. The difference between 167 and 173 is within margin of error the same as the difference between 165+/-2 and 170. For context, 10 cm is the difference between modern male Italians and Dutch, two populations with similar standards of living in relatively close geographic proximity.
That's not speculation, that's just talking stupid shit.
No, it's an unintended transposition. They meant "it just wasn't a big deal".
A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones
How about "performs as fast as C++, compiles as fast as Java"?
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First, I hope this okay. If not I am sorry.

Looking for a developer tools application.

I found this post which has a lot of good stuff but nothing quite like what it is I used before.

https://github.com/CorentinTh/it-tools/

IT Tools is REALLY close to what it is but this is web based and I remember it being an application.

It may be an iOS or iPad OS app that I am thinking of and IT Tools may have been the closest I could get on the computer.

Thanks for reading.
Same as an in person conference - getting answers to questions that you didn't know you had. Learning what is possible to learn, instead of only what you know you can learn.
Gonna try.. it seems well suited to multiple contexts switches
Yes, modern macs are stupidly hard to repair. But I am never using any Lenovo product again since the whole rootkit incident.
It's really not such a big deal since everything on LWN becomes public after some weeks. Rather the opposite, it ensures that the site remains well-known.
The road to bureaucrat hell is paved with good intentions

https://andrewchen.substack.com/p/bureaucrat-mode
How much time will pass until someone is playing Doom on this page?
Can’t wait for the Mac Studio/Pro to be released.
What you're saying agrees with the article.

However, you say you're agreeing with scott_w, and scott_w is criticizing the article. So this is confusing.
I mean, it's not fake, just unpermitted?

Even here in the states, where it's my understanding is a bit looser with rules on gatherings you can't block traffic w/o a permit.

So... someone put out advertising for a parade and never got the permit? Why the front page?

You could have done this in the 90s with flyers, payphones and word of mouth, it's a bit weird to overemphasize the "social media" aspect.
At least with Chrome (and stock chromium, IIRC), you don't have to sign into the browser. If you sign into any Google property, the browser will use that auth to log you in.

Firefox does not, but it sure prompts the hell out of you to do so.
The transliteration of this specific character was also involved in a violent attack and suicide:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=73
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Well, I didn't read that book but it probably influenced someone who then communicated that idea to me. I should check it out.
> I think that the period we're in right now is also a very similar watershed.

I think you’re right.

In the article, they mentioned that words denigrating the holy or sacred were the most offensive while in more recent times the most offensive words became words referring bodily functions, sex, etc. But now as you suggest, the most taboo words in the English language are slurs denigrating entire groups like various ethnic groups, religious groups, women and the elderly.
The original goal of the university was to bring together knowledge from disparate disciplines. It was believed that knowledge in the fullest sense would be attained via achieving a unity of knowledge across diverse disciplines.

Hence the term "university" which comes from the words "unity" and "diversity". Every academic discipline has something to contribute - and a fully formed mind does best to draw from and be informed by multiple contexts at once.

If two academic disciplines or contexts contradict one another, we ought to take that as an indication of an underlying problem somewhere. In this case, the paper's authors seem not to have gotten the memo. Perhaps a simple acknowledgment of agreement with orthodoxy would suffice - otherwise the opening sentence might cause misinformation. As it is, hopefully it doesn't accidentally get quoted without sufficient clarification by the media.
> "serious crimes" (whatever that means)

If you click the link in the article to the author's paper [0], "serious crimes" are defined in detail...

And you were correct to call that out. Thanks! Happy to be wrong on this one.

True conviction rates for specifically reported murder/manslaughter are generally around 50%. Theft and Burglary indeed skew the numbers a lot, with an extremely low clearance rate and vastly more reports. (All theft/burglary losses combined are only a fraction of wage theft [1], for perspective.)

All that said - if these were murders, they were committed by people with a vastly different set of resources compared to the average 'crime of passion'. I doubt that conviction statistics re professional murder are easy to come by, but I'd bet everything I own that they're significantly lower than 50%.

0 - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3566383

1 - https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-fo...
Understood but who is not lying. Now it went from a semi lying central agent to lots of distributed churches all believing their own partial view .. to me it's worse
> Archeology is not code nor is it physics.

Indeed, but after scanning this article that pulls in all those pieces of indirect evidence I wondered whether some type of structured knowledge database (that encodes the innumerable pieces of historical information that are known, tags them with confidence levels etc.) would not be useful to advance research in such domains.

Something like a large collection of RDF triplets against which you could run a query like "Given this new data point how (more)likely that Alexander the Great's tunic is identified in a royal tomb at Vergina?"
So then it should be comparable to the M1 or M2? Which isn't bad at all, if true.

But is it, for the same power consumption?
So what is the role of the Mac Studio now?

It only has:

- faster memory and up to 192 GB.

- 1 ekstra Thunderbolt port.

That is not much for such a large price difference:

Mac Mini (fastest CPU, 64 GB ram, 1 TB SSD, 10 GbE): $2500

Mac Studio (fastest CPU, 64 GB ram, 1 TB SSD, 10 GbE): $5000
Iconic gun-makers gave sensitive customer information to political operatives
What's the Most Profitable Movie of the Year? (No, I Won't Watch It.)
My best Apple purchases in 20 years of being their customer: The Macbook M1 Pro 16 inch and the Pro Display XDR. When Steve Jobs died I really thought Apple was done, but their most flawless products (imho) came much later.
I'm driving a 2022 XPS. Lots of people will (and should) disagree, but I've completely shifted over from Thinkpads to Dell XPS (or Precision) for my laptops.
> That said, I think the Lightning serves certain roles really well... If they were actually cheaper...

What you're saying is that it doesn't serve those roles very well because one of the requirements is to be under a certain price point.
> Will this fundamentally change how people find and access information?

LLMs have already fundamentally changed our relationship to information.
Pascal was the very first language I ever learned, way back in the 70s. I have a soft spot for it to this day.

I wouldn't use it for a real project, though. It has meaningful problems and limitations that other languages don't have.
Eh, Zuck did the same with Instagram/Facebook: “If we don't create the thing that kills Facebook, someone else will.”
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The GPU difference might be material.

But it is obviously a bad time to invest in a Mac Studio.
It can do several QA tasks like unit testing, but it can't automate the testing of a website because it doesn't have an understanding of the whole system. This, the lack of strategy and so on, is what shows that we are faaaar away from AGI. And maybe an AGI is a guy that perfectly knows the manual, but still has to deal with bugs and all kinds of weirdness, fuzzy states and signals, delays and the halting problem, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41960914
Pascal was my first "real" programming language and the language used in my CS undergrad. I even used it to develop for a bare metal 68000 system and a MicroPDP-11. But once I learned C and found how much easier it was to do embedded development, I left it behind. I have Lazarus and FreePascal and play with them now then, but it's more a nostalgia thing than anything else. I should probably try developing something useful with it one of these days.
>The easiest programs to fuzz with AFL are ones that parse a file format from the command line, the smaller the better and written in C or C++ (just for ease of recompiling with instrumentation).

Thanks, this is useful context -- it's easy to get overwhelmed and quit early on with these sorts of things. It looks like someone else posted a set of exercises[1] using AFL that seem to be aimed at smaller programs like you describe.

[1] https://github.com/antonio-morales/Fuzzing101
See also Logseq, which is an open-source privacy-centric offline-first plaintext-based reimplementation of the UI/UX of Roam Research. The main author is an Emacs user, so obviously a lot of Org-mode influence too, and Org is a supported format.

Basically, think Org Roam, just with Electron instead of Emacs.
Also it's comparing the lowest end M4 out of an iPad with the highest end Intel and AMD CPUs. It's a ludicrous comparison.