skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm a man, so I went in with my prejudices and automatically assumed Murderbot is a "he". When reading a review that considered it a "she", I re-read most of it and there's no single indication of its gender, if Murderbot even assumes one.

Wow, I've only read the first one, but definitely considered Murderbot a she (even though I'm male). Hmmmm....
That was the situation in 2022 and early 2023.

Since late 2023, ODROID-M1 is supported by mainline u-boot (odroid-m1-rk3568 target) and you can also use a mainline kernel (6.4 or later) which provides working USB 3.0.
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Is there some kind of list that shows comparable performance over all of these changes? There's that ARM 4_0_X_X quant, NUMA patch, now this SDRAM tweak. Plus if there's any delta with your llamafile speedups vs. openblas. I feel like we should be approaching over 3 tok/s tg for 7/8B models at 4 bits by now?

Last I tested, the ARM quants were actually slower on a Pi 5 than Q4KS, but I later learned I messed up some compile flags and haven't had the chance to retest lol.
GitLaw ( https://gitlaw.co ) is a git enabled version control platform to collaborate on and store legal docs. We're also open-sourcing legal templates / making them free.

The idea for GitLaw has been mentioned a few times on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3967921 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35844200

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@fakedang I saw your comment here:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41373440
If you ever write up anything about this, would love to read it.
For my own interest and also trying to inform a 19 year old family friend about the realities of HR that she is studying at college right now. Want her to realize some of it will be automated away (or to do it herself)
Didn't see contact in your profile, so random comment here!
> I always find it interesting

That's not interesting. That's not understanding capitalism. It's all about Incentives.

The idea that business leaders can be ever considered genuine political or cultural voice or actor is the problem. Silicon Valley and hacker culture has created an atmosphere of business politicians and for some reason hackers take them seriously and don't laugh at their faces.

The talk is just empty PR. Somehow smart people working for OpenAI, Google, keep eating it.

Traditionally business people don't get into discussions of culture or politics directly. They might work in the background, but never directly. There is a good reason for that.
They're not expensive or well-connected enough to get DoD work. Would have to promise to build different sections of the rocket in different swing states, etc.
If I'm going to remove the case and do my own modding, then all best are off. I want something working well out of the box. I have enough computers to play, and not enough space to put Frankenstein systems securely around the house.
I think Final Architecture was a better story, but the background and philosophy in the Children series is very very good indeed.
this was likely due to the French whose coffee was traditionally robusta from their African territories, they almost certainly introduced coffee to Vietnam when they held it.
The idea of software being eternal is rubbish, not least because software isn't its code but its "identity" which comes down entirely to the actual use of language (including all the branding and marketing, all the live demos and discussions over drinks after conferences).

The words "Napoleon Bonaparte" have a referent in the real world, just not in the present - does Napoleon Bonaparte exist? Usually we instead say he "existed".

Incidentally, this is why I agree with the author that criteria 1 and 4 aren't actually necessary for non-existence of a piece of software. Even if lots of people, authors or otherwise, remember a piece of software, the software is gone once it can no longer be said to be used anywhere. In that case we would say that the software "existed".
All of the sql queries are wrong. We just did not have bandwidth to audit them.
If mTLS is combined with outbound connections, then IP source whitelisting is irrelevant; the external network cannot connect to your resources.

This (and more) is exactly what we (I work on it) built with open source OpenZiti, a zero trust networking platform. Bonus points, it includes SDKs so you can embed ZTN into the serverless function, a colleague demonstrated it with a Python workload on AWS - https://blog.openziti.io/my-intern-assignment-call-a-dark-we....
He didn't mention a timescale. Maybe it's a difference between 4 hours and 1 day? I would agree that if someone takes longer than a day to respond, then it's going to be hard to work with this person. 4 hours is fine.
>macchiato

Side note:

I rarely drank coffee (or tea, although I do drink tea again, somewhat, nowadays).

I used to drink Indian-style milk tea almost daily, earlier, in school, college, and later.

So once, some years ago, when I walked into a Cafe Coffee Day [1] shop (an Indian coffee shop chain, possibly modeled on Starbucks), and after looking at the menu, ordered a macchiato. it was a pleasant surprise to find that it tasted very good. :)

(I had nothing against coffee, it was a common drink at home, growing up, the filter coffee [2] kind, but also Nescafe and Bru, just that I did not prefer it much, later.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_Coffee_Day

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_filter_coffee

Filter coffee has kind of cult status in some states of South India.
Possibly. I will investigate that route as why not at this stage.

My most annoying symptom is when I exercise, sleep the day after and subsequent couple of nights (not the night of, strangely), is completely compromised. Really shallow, hot sweats, waking up multiple times etc. Im trying to understand if this is dysautonomia or PEM at the moment. Most of my fatigue follows from having this disrupted sleep I think and I dont have flu like symptoms typical of PEM, but it does feel like im having an allergic reaction. Very strange
I am very curious, because I do think they are unambiguously a good thing.
Yeah, my comment wasn't meant to be anti-condom
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The issue is effectively that Blizzard released Starcraft 2 during a time where RTS was seen as a forgotten genre entirely, the best you had was the Company of Heroes & Dawn of War.

If they had released it 5 years earlier it might have allowed the genre to stick to the huge cultural legacy it had, at least in Korea.

Let alone the fact that the story of Starcraft 2 was... white-washed entirely compared to the OG & Brood Wars.
Not because of YC. I think that what people say here, is only a fairly small data point, for them.

But I would encourage folks to consider their approach, in general, whenever we are in a professional context (and, despite the casual nature of HN, this is very much a “professional context”).

I think that some few people here, are able to post in a truly anonymous fashion, but most folks could be doxxed fairly easily, if they piss off the wrong people (not always movers and shakers; we have some truly amazing talent, hereabouts).

In my case, I just make it clear who I am, and post carefully (I know it may not seem so, but look closer). I learned, long ago, that I’m not actually able to maintain true anonymity, so I don’t even try.
When you're trying to limit the variables on a study, yes. HIV reception between men and women has many differences so it can be better to limit your study and get twice as much data
Release the genome of the first emperor!
Vietnamese tycoon loses death row appeal over biggest bank fraud
I really like Scalzi's ideas, I just can't stand his execution.
Classics are for casual gamers who enjoy fixed settings. Redesigns are subscription models that revive a working brand and keep players happy with a constant flood of new features.

I understand Blizzard wants to decide what story to tell about its IP. On the other hand, many gaming veterans still want to feel and grasp the before of a remake rather than the after alone.

GOG hit a sweet spot for me. It simply fulfills my early adulthood dream: "One day, I will play all my good old games on CD again. See you fellas!"

GOG is Netflix for my earliest games. But this is not the reason, I buy games there.

Why did I buy a W2 at GOG over a year ago? It was not nostalgia but a closed-game approach.

All new "cloud" games are subscriptions in disguise. I liked the fact that game mechanics in W2 were mostly figured out, and you had to max out under fixed conditions: working on skills, not play-testing new civs.

That's the main difference between tradition and pure entertainment. All major forms of sport have a fixed rule set, with some minor tweaking here and there to leverage these.

I don't have the time nor will to grasp these changes. Age of Empires: Conquerors lost its appeal to me, because as a casual player, I cannot keep up with all the new addons. Years ago, when there were hardly any addons, I still benefited from my former RM 2000+ rating earned around 2000 at the MS ZONE and could play quite competitively online without any pro-gamer training all the time. Not anymore.

Imagine Basketball being modified significantly every season. This is what Formula 1 does now, with a lot of drama and storylines way beyond the sport, and I lost interest.
Essentially it's down to people having different tastes and standards regarding what they read.

I adore world building so I gravitate to fantasy and scifi but I really don't care that much about characterisation. A story with a dull self insert character is genuinely fine for me so long as the world building is interesting. That is ultimately why I didn't care about Murderbot much, the world building is pretty standard and the character that fans of the story relate to is pretty much lost on me.

You have to figure out the specifics of what you enjoy from a book and then look for people with similar tastes in order to find recommendations.
Always super satisfying to take a 1.2s calculation and make it orders of magnitude faster. Recently I had a complicated calculation mostly done in SQLite (with some C callbacks to do core floating point ops) that was taking 1.5s; rewrote it into a hand-crafted incremental computation network and got the calculation down to 6ms.
good. fraud and financial crime ruins lives.
Daniels email collection is also funny [0].

[0] https://daniel.haxx.se/email/
the hilariously imbecilic "wet market hypothesis" only ever existed because liberals refused to agree with Trump on anything, even simple conclusions on Covid origins

as soon as idiots started peddling the (weirdly racist) idea that Covid came out of Chinese people eating Pangolins, it was clear that TDS was a real and frightening thing

no surprise that there is no reporting on this in NYT or WaPo...can't confront readers with their own stupidity
How does pulling old games from stores squeeze an extra few pennies out?
It is kind of telling how we accept that companies hide their support channels in every conceivable way and that this leads to random and arbitrary contact points sticking out more than the official ones.
I consider them to be tools run upon/within other tool(s), their entire purpose being to manifest some kinds of data flow that produce a cascade of changes within a specific context.

All the contexts are nested aggregates: software resides within the OS (itself having/providing many contexts), which is within the hardware's complex set of contexts, which is within the network of networks.

So, I would say there's nothing really abstract about software systems, except for, perhaps, when we are conceptualizing them, but even then we are imagining something very real that does something very concrete to some real things.

One could also look at the software itself, while latent, as potential dataflow; and then, when it runs in its appropriate context, it is an active agent of change, that may or may not be actually accomplishing its goals, depending on its and its contexts' circumstances at the time.

There are many reasons developing software is the among the most difficult tasks in the history of human tool engineering. The evidence for that is that there is no industry that I know of in 2024 that is not wholly dependent upon software.
Well my personal view is that it is making a negative value judgement against the original work and that it does not really need to be changed.

But your suggestion of a "trivial" way to change it got me curious.
Can you link the script? This sounds vaguely like something that would be no skin off my back, so I'd be quite happy to help with this.
Why should someone's kid get the house from their parents decades after it's been built? The issue of inheritance is the same for physical and immaterial assets
What is durability? I can't find this information.
Yeah, that's very good, but I'd say "try to give the computer", for various values of "try" :-)
Excuse my ignorance but how big of a lookup table would you need to achieve the same outcome ?
I previously worked for a company developing custom software some of Germany’s leading banks. Even (back in the nineties) when we had to use languages such as Natural and COBOL, we developed a macro language (that compiled to COBOL) to let us use more specific types.

Particularly in finance, yo need to distinguish between dates and durations, between interest rates and volatility and a host of other business concepts. Using strong user-defined types helps catch errors at compile time. I would have no problem, on a large project, with having every variable (with the possible exception of counters, etc.) being a user-defined type. On small projects, where one developer can comfortably oversee all of the code, the overhead of correctly defining types and their operations might not outweigh the benefits. In user-facing code, for example, UI frameworks don’t use business types. Writing conversion routines to translate user input to a business type can be a disproportionate amount of work for a small project.
I'd be scared to break the thing: it is so big and directly connected. It wouldn't fit into a pocket anyway...

Also I wouldn't choose one with a lightning connector, better with a USB-C (or A) female port, so I could also use it for some other devices too if necessary.
I don't think we need to make copyright terms even more of a clusterfuck than it already is.

Just reduce the term so that people can create derivates of the culture they grew up on (abolishing the mess entirely would be even better). Characters from Calvin & Hobbes being used by others is not any more of a problem than fan fiction is a problem now.
How do you ensure that you always have a sufficient stock of vitamins either you, despite being in a different part of the world on a weekly basis?

Do you have kids, if so how do you deal with frequent disruptions to the morning routine? Do you not have days where you just need to get up and go e.g. to catch a flight, get to a meeting, take a kid to school, or because you stayed up late and got drunk, etc... and taking vitamins took a back seat?
Woah — following your link is how I learned that Greg Bear passed away, two years ago. Brilliant writer. RIP.
“CCP” is the direct translation of the party’s name in China. But apparently this discussion goes all the way back to the 40s.
I find it quite interesting that we're beyond the point of having an Intel processor being a massive advantage. I think 10 years ago most people would have jumped at an x86 processor with similar specs to the equivalent Raspberry Pi.
Commoncog hits a home run again. This is fascinating. It is more Suits than Suits. Showing how strategy > law when fighting a case. But also the interesting fraternity (not all boys of course) that YC is. Feels like the only other place you would see it is organized crime or corrupt politics where you then owe a favour. But that isn't what it is here. I guess it is about honour.
A bit of the article that stuck out to me after reading the comments here:

> “I don’t think it’s particularly subtle.” It’s a slave narrative, she says. What’s annoying is when people don’t see that.
SC2 plays pretty great but the plot really went off the rails. Brood War was already worse than base SC plot wise but at least it was still rather dark. SC2's plot feels like garbage fanfic.
To us, 750 operations/s per Bucket and 50,000,000 objects per Bucket are deal breakers.

Maybe xx operations/s per TB of storage would have been better since that way large buckets would be able to scale.
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Not the point. One should be allowed to be critical of the institutions of the valley without getting their name written down in a secret blacklist.
In EU you add 40$ for delivery and 40$ for taxes/dues
Are there any vision models that will work on the Pi 5? Something similar to minicpm-v?
As someone who runs a lot of ARM stuff... I still find things which aren't packaged for ARM/linux with surprising frequency.
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Thus slangtorch:
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> How else can you scale an accelerator?

I mean, you could delegate the scaling to the startups you're investing in.

If I'm gambling at the horse races, should I bet $100 on every horse to make my gambling scalable and diversified, because I don't feel I can pick winners with any reliability?
I'd love to know who "wins" in a scaled YC vs. the oceanic tide that is the SP500 and it's capital sucking and brain sucking ways. A Google can stop 10000 potential startups simply with RSUs and cap another 10000 by buying them out (which is kinda good for YC but not really... they'd rather own a chunk of a Google).
It's not like we have to choose between the two.
someone panicing over their job being terminated isn't very funny but the relief on someone's face when you explain that it's a computer process and not their livelihood is still something to see.
Lol....90% of senior engineers are trolls when it comes to code review.

Learn to write tests and apply a code linter. You will have joined the élite top 10% for doing so. Good luck!
GMKtec Mini PC N97 [1] is 160 EUR on amazon.de (with the 70 EURO voucher that is). Got mine with free shipping to Romania, as the purchase was over 50 EUR.

Also, the N97 has better performance than the N100, but the power consumption is higher. For me its a plus as it's more powerful than the usual N100 mini PC's while much smaller and fan noise is quite low (for now at least...). Not really intended for high workloads and 24/7 anyway. More like a backpack PC.

[1] https://www.amazon.de/-/en/G5-Computer-Generation-12GB-256GB...
How does it handle electrostatic discharge when touching it in that case? I used a case that was really more of an oversized heatsink[1] than a case and it was really sensitive. Managed to crash the rpi a couple of times when I touched it without touching ground first a couple of times.

edit: I replaced the thermal sticker for thermal paste, not sure if that could have affected it, the paste wasn't the conductive kind.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/GeeekPi-Aluminum-Heatsink-Raspberry-I...
How many of those reviewers actually owned the game?
I haven't got any personal experience of them but aren't there a number of Raspberry Pi clones which offer the same functionality at much lower cost? Seems like that would open the gap up.
Silk does not burn in normal flame.

If you are buying a 'silk' garment it is common to ask the shop-keeper to hold it to a cigarette lighter to prove it does not contain a synthetic petroleum-based fabric, such as polyester.
> Spending 10 years on trying to make starcraft 2, when the rts genre was in a major slump

Was worth it though. SC2 was the last of the old, great Blizzard
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As far as I can tell, it's a combination of corruption, mediocre education, and plentiful amounts of sugary foods and entertainment options (bread and circuses).
Just because Mars is better than the others doesn't mean its good enough as a long term habitat.

People would have bone density problems much sooner in life, as an example.
Yes, it was awewome, to the Space Shuttle in a museum like that, a Lutheran church and a few other scenes. Six years ago.
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But evidence of absence is, and in this case we have a lot.

For the last 400 years, pathologists on every country had filleted and put, lets say tens thousands of human brains and human guts under the microscope. One of them has systematically a microbiome, easy to see. The other don't, except when is diseased or rotten. The sample token here is huge, maybe millions.

If we would had searched 400 years for this chocolate teapot without finding it, we could conclude with a solid suspicion that there is not such thing.

This is very different than just saying "I don't think that there is bacteria in the brain but I never searched for it". All pathology science is based in searching for it. We created gram staining dyes, scanners, tags, gold coated plates for electronic microscopes, DNA analysis... exactly for that.

If there really is a microbiome living in each healthy brain, we should have found it 150 years ago.
The “map read” part is what’s off. I think it’s because parens are optional or not required.

There are other languages which are functional as well. like the one in the article and like Elixir where readability is it sacrificed.

I still think readability is atrocious in this language. Sure I can get used to it, but I’d never want to subject myself to that
Cosmic Encounter: Philanthropist, or the gamebreaking power of giving (2019)
Old buildings tend to have smaller windows,so it would be unlikely. (It's a 17th century building)
Ask HN: Why do people think that our in-game item exchange is for NFTs?
We are targetting a small market that is ripe with fraud and scams and want to clean it up: The in-game items trading market.

We have talked to various types of real gamers (dads in WoW, heavy gamers in Eve Online, CS2, Rust and more) and developed a regulated exchange (offering escrow, KYC, trade monitoring, etc.) to provide a safe environment for people to buy, sell and trade their skins P2P for real money. We have loyal fans and users.

However, in many interactions with game developers and developers in general, we are attacked and people scream NFT scam, which is the opposite of what we do.

What are we doing wrong in our communication in your view?

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