skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a nice tutorial but just to be clear: that is not a deep dive in any sense. It's just the bog standard tricks. It doesn't cover MMA and WMMA, which today is table stakes for fast matmul. Also doesn't cover software pipelining. It's basically a good summary of the basics.
Classic strategy. Market leader is closed source. Follower attempts to be open source to gain market share despite being behind in features and market.

Has this strategy ever worked? Gitlab went public, but it's barely a fraction of what GitHub is.

Framework laptops aren't really all that big.

Maybe Android? But it had huge backing.
This isn't your business though right? Why would you be worrying the owner is letting management be shit, and letting their asset crumble?

The only step up you should be considering is to a better role, at a better company, with better leadership.
It’s probably decent policy to simply fire any pilot who ejects. The cost of training a pilot is much lower than the cost of an aircraft and it will make people really think hard about whether they need to eject.
Yeah.. well this whole post is about Apple Intelligence.
The Sun is more active than predicted and small satellites are paying the price
If your tech can destroy Bitcoin, then it's already over. It's only a matter of time. May as well capitalize or use it as a marketing stunt.
Punitive punishment is unproductive, not to mention immoral and reprehensible, if the ostensible goal is rehabilitation when the prisoner will eventually be released.
Internal Marketing is the primary role of the Product Manager at a lot of big companies.
Can you give me some clips of Joe Rogan actually being smart? Because I haven't seen him elucidate anything in interviews that isn't a wikipedia page or high level google search away.

Now, don't get me wrong, that is a lot better than the flotsam out there, and admittedly it is even better than the paper thin bullshit CNN and the like trot out, but it isn't smart. It's more not-stupid.

If you have clips that will change my mind, I'll happily watch, and try to get over my Dana White hatred spillover bias.
Five devious tricks pathogens use against us
> Isn’t this exactly the kind of stuff that annealing can be applied to?

Yes, but there is just no evidence that annealers are better at this kind of stuff than classical algorithms. They are "just" an interesting analog computer that can be applied to this type of problems, without a reason to believe that they will be drastically better (in terms of complexity theory).

On the other hand, circuit-based digital quantum computers and error-corrected adiabatic quantum computers (which are similar but sufficiently different from annealers) can run algorithms that are better than all known classical algorithms at this kind of stuff (modulo the fact that such computers do not exist yet).
Note that this was the case for Blender pre-2.8, too.

The issue with any software of this complexity is tech debt. If anything, GIMP should be a big warning sign about what happens if you bet on e.g. a UI framework which moves on without you.

GTK's development and release schedule is pretty aggressive, especially with the even releases being stable and the odd releases being unstable (which no other library on the planet decided to do so). A lot of cross platform software decided to a refactor to QT because of that, and I'd argue that the problem lies with upstream GTK and its failed API stability promises along the way.

In open source projects, you cannot afford to bet on unstable UI frameworks because you don't have enough time to spend on refactors like this. If every second subminor GTK version breaks your code, it's just not possible to keep up with that.

I'm actually impressed that GIMP wasn't fully abandoned because the sheer amount of code that needed to be rewritten is massive.
That's just one of several goals.
For some reason, the Dutch game show, De Grote Donorshow (The Great Donor Show) comes to mind, where 25 people competed to get a kidneys from one terminally ill woman.
Because America is a brutal society uninterested in progress or decency. Just look at the per capita incarceration rate and the number of likely innocent executed people.
What a beautiful website! Absolute joy to explore it.
♭6 ;-) (E-C is minor 6th)

But I think it should be noted from the context of that comment (and the original article) that the names are necessarily ambiguous. So the names E-G-C (or whatever set you choose, how about F#, A#, C#) are pitch positions and don't disambiguate between enharmonic equivalents, eg in isolation we have no reason to prefer F# over Gb. Which is the problem.
Minimal Anti-Collusion Voting Infrastructure (more than voting ring detection)
Out of curiosity, is there a source for the "statistical value of human life" at $13.1 million ?
Hi, can you also check for me ? I have applied on 1st november.
You're not saying anything specific or anything of substance. America isn't interested in rehabilitation, it's interested in punitive retribution and maximizing suffering.
I remember a friend telling me years ago some scraping that happened where they worked - they scraped results from a bunch of different websites to create SEO websites and they had some setup using tor to avoid getting blocked. One of the websites that the company actually depended on apparently rendered results using a whole assortment of visually identical but structurally (HTML-wise) different methods which were returned randomly to hamper scrapers. They eventually gave that up because it turned out TV closed captions can be downloaded as XML and they had what the company needed.
I wonder if using something like puppeteer or playwright to actually make the server think everything is being done client-side would still raise flags.
And, back in the day, Natalie Portman references
I'm not a fan of the Silurian hypothesis, but maybe it could have predated Theia?

More tantalizing, maybe there's a universe-level Silurian analog where our Big Bang was predated by another universe teeming with intelligent life.

Maybe we get Silurian'd ourselves.
Or because it was fraudulently submitted perhaps?

Goldstein is not the author of this essay. Goldstein has never been employed by or contributed work to Thought Catalog. We do not know who authored the original essay. Thought Catalog allows pseudonyms and anonymous submissions and has since deleted this article.

~ https://www.propublica.org/atpropublica/addressing-disinform...

Having read the article it doesn't say "hate speech" to me, it screams bullshit over the top parody strawman of DEI position.

You have to wonder about anyone who read that article and took it seriously.
Well, I think rehabilitation is on the list, but deterrence, incapacitation, and justice are also on there.
The feeling is understandable when transitioning to a more managerial role. However, nowadays I focus more on the coaching opportunities and making sure my people grow, which is a huge reward in itself. Additionally, I see how spending 5-10 minutes sending messages can create clarity and an action plan for engineers, which has a multiplicative effect on the org. After a few cycles, I was able to appreciate leveraging my time in this way, although it took some getting used to (about 6 months).

I think there is a silver lining and opportunity if you choose to look at it that way. That’s how I overcame similar feelings.
Learning how to cancel, or quietly bury projects, can be just as important.

You're quite likely to be handed projects that make no sense. Bad ideas are created every day. Even if you ship them, you may be associated with their failure.
That is Proposition 36: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/05/california-p...
They wouldn’t be able to do much with an oil painting. Any old drying oil from that time period would have long ago polymerized and carbon isotopes in any new oil used to mix the pigments would be a dead giveaway.
It exploded. I get only server errors now.
Der Spiegel Proclaims the End of the West
Ha! That is awful, thank you for telling me about it.
Discussion an hour ago (which either got flagged off the front page or triggered the flame war detector) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42112432
Torrents.csv would let anyone set up a public tracker these days, FYI.
>Real transparency would mean regular and verified reports accessible to the public...

And I'm assuming you hold all the other social media sites to this same high standard?
So I guess the four Horsemen of the apocalypse are Donald Trump, RFK Jr, JD Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy?
Lately, I was thinking that flatpack wouldn't be needed as much for Gnome dev if the libraries were more stable.
Coming from Photoshop (but now just an occasional user), I tried it when I was ditching Adobe but just found its interface extremely clunky and annoying to use. I’m on macOS so I ended up trialing and buying Pixelmator Pro. I would have looked at Affinity Photo failing that.

Blender’s interface is not super intuitive but I hear once you learn it the UI is good. On the other hand, Gimp felt to me like having a lot of rough edges that would always annoy me.
After endless PR blunders, they're trying to lure back customers probably with a spam platform or freemium nonsense. Nope, they shat the bed and now they have to sleep in it.
It's hard to make a case that deterrence works with the US prison system.

In G20 countries the US imprisons more per capita than others and yet still has higher homicide rates (etc).

It might be a goal or a stated desirable .. but it's clearly not working as such.
You can 100% download higher quality audio tracks from YouTube using yt-dlp. You have to use session cookies from a browser that you've logged into your premium account with to get the higher quality tracks. There are options with yt-dlp to help with this.
No, VPSes use Xen and KVM because VMware is too damn expensive for anything but corporate IT workloads.
23andMe Lays Off 40% of Staff, Shuts Drug Development Business
This is a bit off-topic, but: am I just dim or could the README be a bit more informative? What it's for, who it's for, etc. (I'll give partial blame to me or github for the About section/link being there... it's offscreen by the start of the README, so I missed it)

(I also... don't use spotify... so had less-than-average context to guess the purpose of this project with.)
This looks great.

I haven't used Chrome for years and it appears that via extension is the only way to browser embed.

Is there a Firefox extension on the roadmap? As soon as there is it would be an insta-subscribe.
My only issue with Steam at this point is that it’ll just randomly complain it has no connection, no matter which content server I set it to connect to.

If I spam the ‘retry’ button it’ll eventually work, but it’s a massive PITA.
honestly every system I saw someone corner themselves in didn't take very long to have someone else figure out. you just toss some smart motivated folks at it. paging them every time something breaks also seems to help the knowledge transfer. I know it motiviated me to get in there and do a gut rehab.
Fully recovered. Felt like shit for about a year after from losing so much weight, and being stuck in a room alone for 3 months probably didn’t help much.

Wouldn’t be surprised if it broke something that shows up later but so far everything is fine 8 years on.

Only chronic symptom so far is I got into functional programming while quarantined and it stuck, so maybe it’s a sign of mental illness.
You have a good point in that it was supposed to replace all kinds of aircraft. That was kind of its thing.

“ intended to replace a wide range of existing fighter, strike, and ground attack aircraft …”

One aircraft for the navy, marines and air force would save money was the thinking I imagine.

I remember the competition for the design many year ago (there was a Nova tv program) but haven’t been following too closely but it’s had issues filling all the roles.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Strike_Fighter_program
If end-users do like it upper managment notices it but it will take time, generally you iterate faster against upper managnent. Same kinda applies when end users dont like that stuff so you cannot lean too heavily to opticks game.
The attack is local, limited, and requires sophistication to pull off. For most people and most use-cases, this is a theoretical vulnerability rather than a real one.

While some users may need to buy updated YKs, perhaps having a tier of discounted "vulnerable" new old stock and more expensive patched new stock would make the most economic and utility sense.
Wasn't GTK originally the GIMP toolkit? It's kind of awkward to say you shouldn't have bet on the thing you created in-house…

Of course it's gotten a life of its own since, but that wasn't a thing when GIMP picked it.
I personally find token2 really nice.
https://archive.is/6sX2O
Not mean to offend you but many people have come up with the same statement. It is pretty cliche by now.
I use this page to create a page with links to all kinds of music providers: https://odesli.co

Works per artist, album, or song.

Create a login to customise URLs.

I'm just a user; I don't have a dog in this race.
I wonder why there's no standalone app for PCs.
Yes, that's why I don't do that work anymore and write code instead. I found this early on: my second company, which I founded at 19 (over 30 years ago), grew to 500 people in a few years, so I became director of engineering (cto in english basically) at 22. I burnt out and sold, 'retired', got bored and went back; I will never do that again; I mean, I have to a bit sometimes but I make sure it gets limited to the bare minimum I can do. Some people like it, I don't, it's life.
Mastodon would be perfect for these but there is no critical mass at least yet.
do you have life outside work sir
I honestly quit recommending Gimp due to its name. Name changes are challenging of course, but not impossible. I understand the developers have a lot on their plates with the 3.0 transition and keeping up with GTK, but I really hope they can make a bit of time to prioritize a more community-friendly name for the project.
This is off. E-C# is the major sixth. E-C is the minor sixth, which as you say is enharmonic with sharp fifth (E-B#).
They also have Slack integration (/songlink {url})
He is one of those for whom I wish I had enough time to understand his ideas.
I don't like this take. This post is for any engineering leader.

The Bus Factor is how hard your team would suffer if you - or anyone else on the team - got hit by a bus.

Ideal Bus Factor for all team members is 0. This might sound counter-intuitive at first, almost like "make everybody expendable", but it's quite the opposite and kind of the point.

Teams should be good enough that they are a) autonomous and b) there are no mysteries. In the ideal state, everyone understands how everything works. New employees should hit the ground running and be able to produce value immediately. Departing employees should feel comfort in knowing that there are no unknowns.

An ideal team with 0 BF across the board is desirable. It means that team members are fungible. It means that every single team member can fill in the gaps if someone is ill, or on vacation, or actually leaves or is removed.

More importantly, a 0 BF is a reflection of simplicity. The software, its build/test/deployment pipelines, documentation, and support, should all be cohesive and coherent. Siloing information in team members is bad, everyone should be able to build and deploy.

0 BF is a healthy metric, but it is absolutely 100% not measured in email rate, commit rate, PR rate, lines of code, timeliness, GitHub heatmaps, etc. Those metrics indicate nothing at all. Quite the oppositve. They are harmful, awful metrics.

Measuring people by these metrics is just monkeys on typewriters. More startups need to hear this.
This is a great question for which I don't have an answer :-)

GIMP was my go-to ever since Paint Shop Pro was acquired by Corel (in 2006 sigh!). Then a few years back I switched fully to Mac and GIMP became borderline unusable, specially at high resolutions. Ever since I'm a bit lost when it comes to picking a new raster graphics editor. Maybe I should try Paint Shop Pro again! The pricing seems to be reasonable.
The article actually presents strategies for shipping, not changing the hearts and minds of management, or making great products. Shipping implies neither of those things.

> If you ship something users hate and makes no money, but your leadership team is happy, you still shipped. You can feel any way you like about that, but it’s true. If you don’t like it, you should probably go work for companies that really care how happy their users are.
The problem with Threads is, in my opinion, lack of funny people. it won’t be able to attract those users because what they usually post is questionable at best. And without it, it will always feel too sterile.

From what I can see, bsky mostly consists of rebels. And since users flock where everyone else is, it will be an uphill battle for them to get Twitter’s userbase.
> What are your thoughts of this stance of mine?

As you asked and in the spirit of an honest response:

* Overly performative,

* self indulgent,

* attention seeking, ...

are literally the first and foremost thoughts that spring to mind.

Your stylistic accoutrements are obscuring your message, perhaps you might want to simplify your delivery.
11 million, and it costs ~$80B to deport every million.
what you need is blogs or essays. But the audience has become too small so there are fewer writers
Twitter had such a strong home team of people trying to monitor the network health.

And they seemed committed to giving researchers and academics lots of access to understand and share how the network was working, look for disinformation & "foreign influence" campaigns.

Now there's no one at the helm and all the researchers and civic interests have been given the boot. They are being threatened by ExTwitter to the tune of 1.5c per tweet accessed if I remember correctly. These people were helping you but there's this sense that finding out what's happening is risky for business, that it could hurt, when in fact the network is just being overrun, turned into the maelstrom, and is deeply into rot and decay stages.
I wonder what would happen if we quantized each dimension to 0.5 (or even fewer) bits instead of 1, i.e., taking 2 (or more) scalar components at a time and mapping them to 0 or 1 based on some carefully designed rules.
I’d argue that this is exactly who you want testing potentially malfunctioning planes? The alternative leads to jocks crashing into the runway when they desperately try to control a runaway plane.
You’d 100% say the screenshot is fake.

I’m sure you could tell from the pixels or whatever
Attack of the Evil Baristas
https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1856128159130812866
Two ways to compute the determinant:

1) product of eigenvalues

2) cofactor expansion (e.g., https://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/determinants-cofactors...)

The second is the one I was taught first, in the context of linear system solution, but it does not seem obvious that it would be related to the product of eigenvalues. It’s kind of a weird pile of arithmetic manipulations.
UTM is an excellent macOS Qemu frontend and it’s open source.

https://mac.getutm.app/
Maybe it was missing before, or just out of view and not obvious, but currently there’s a ‘more information’ link at the bottom of the page. Requires scrolling on iPad for me to see it.
> If you want to ship software without worrying about upper management opinions, go work somewhere smaller.

Really your option is to work for yourself. There is no company of any size > 1 where you don't have to worry about owner/manager/executive opinions.
The JAGMAN (confidential legal investigation) and MIR (open, no blame aviation investigation) on this have been beaten to death by the retired military flying community on Youtube.

https://youtu.be/hjewU9uN9Iw

https://youtu.be/g8PBA7k6vP8
> The more logic happens near the db, the more surface for errors and edge cases can be reduced and reliability issues avoided. The reduction in distances may also result in improved abstractions and in making the computations efficient in a fundamental thermodynamic way.

Fundamentally this sounds great, but isn't this rather painful with Postgres?

In my DB lectures in Uni I've been informally told to avoid managing logic from within Postgres, as the development and debugging experience for stored procedures is rather poor. I would add to this the painfully slow development cycles for third party language implementations such as plv8. In addition, platform support is next to none, because language extensions cannot load external code due to the trusted nature of the execution environment.
GIMP got stuck in the 2.8 branch because of the GTK3 changes back then, which changed a lot in the display tree and structure of the "css graph" (not sure how to describe it properly). I think that was also when they introduced their variants of expandable boxes similar to flexbox, but maybe a dev finds this and can chime in with more details on that.

I'd argue that GTK's goal of transforming into something more modern kind of lost GIMP because it was moving too fast.

I'm not blaming GTK for that, I get it, and GNOME has its goals and everything. But they're changing technologies so fast that nobody can keep up with it outside their gitlab bubble. Just thinking of the Vala introduction and GIR, for example, makes me think of never wanting to bet on their ecosystem.

They are kind of alienating themselves with the not-invented-here syndrom and too many experimental innovations that have similar already adopted counterparts in the language ecosystem.
Majority of ARC can be gamed / hard-coded, no doubt about it.

The real pressure is the private hold-out set and the variations that can be added to counter this aspect.

A true AGI would be able to solve anything thrown at it which is where the authors are trying to lead AI engineering towards since LLMs have pretty much taken over.

If it starts getting too easy, they just reconsider and add harder problems.

It's like how we don't talk about the Turing Test anymore as it's no longer the best metric to determine real intelligence.

The authors are signalling to the industry that new ideas are needed and the monetary aspect is to show how serious they are about it.

It's good because as per above we have research being thrown at it which means we can iterate until we perhaps find another breakthrough.
Great to hear somebody on the internet actually gets it.
Soundiiz does this also. I've been using it for years. Great service
I agree with the advice to ask a lawyer, but it’s sensible to be concerned with license agreements even in early-stage ventures that couldn’t enforce them.

By establishing the company as licensor, an agreement might help the founders avoid personal liability if a customer sues. Later on, it may be desirable to show potential acquirers that, from the company’s inception, its customer contracts included terms to confirm ownership of intellectual property, limit liability, satisfy privacy laws, and so on.
Is that true for those fighter planes? From a cursory investigation it seems like they’re not very flyable at low speeds without being in vtol mode.
I agree. This is a giant, glaring, gaping hole in matrix.
For what it’s worth, I have had pretty good luck with Jovian for NixOS. My primary game console is a little gaming PC running it, I like it.
It sure seems likely that the rest of the world is going to shy away from an America proudly trumpeting America First. this insulting schtick of mean cruel losers is not going to be a dignified model for the world to work together through problems on.

The chance to be a respectable force in the world is going to be deeply hampered, and the states like a Russia and China are going to be beyond joy to watch us look like such absolute rubes and fools.