skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I'd ever purposefully want to be 100 miles from civilization without connectivity. That sounds absolutely terrifying unless you're with a large group.

Campgrounds out of range are OK, as long as you're completely sure your boss is OK with you being unreachable, but being on foot with no way to call for help would be terrifying for most people, it's actually pretty amazing that some people feel more relaxed in a situation like that than the do at the office.

People making a racket and disturbing the owls seems like a pretty big problem though, especially when more people might be willing to go to these places now that there's cell service.
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I'd recommend a Raspberry Pi instead. Easier to source (you may even already have it!) and I can guarantee it will be supporter longer and better than whatever low-volume Chinese board they're using here. There is zero advantage to this box, it doesn't even include built-in interfaces for some of the more "exotic" protocols like Zigbee or Z-Wave so you still need dongles either way.
Have you seen how difficult US immigration is to navigate? It's impossible for most people, and about to get even harder soon.

Even if US immigration were more liberal, moving is very costly (financially, emotionally, psychologically). Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Parent specifically said “with zero expenditure of time”, which seems to imply the latter question
I've seen this show before. Let's async all the things IO and not pay attention to database integrity and reliably fsync'ing with storage. I look forward to drh's rebuttal.
It's interesting, to everyone but but the mega shops like Google, protobuf is a schema declaration tool. To the megashops its a performance tool.

For most of my projects, I use a web-framework I built on protobuf over the years but slowly got rid of a lot of the protobufy bits (besides the type + method declarations) and just switched to JSON as the wire format. http2, trailing headers, gigantic multi-MB files of getters, setters and embedded binary representations of the schemas, weird import behaviors, no wire error types, etc were too annoying.

Almost every project I've tracked that tries to solve the declarative schema problem seems to slowly die. Its a tough problem an opinionated one (what to do with enums? sum types? defaults? etc). Anyone know of any good ones that are chugging along? OpenAPI is too resty and JSONSchema doesn't seem to care about RPC.
>Social media is designed to be addictive, and it seems reasonable to ban addictive things for kids by default.

Like certain types of food? Watching TV? Playing video games? Reading (fiction) books? Getting into relationships/making friends? Pretty much everything great in life can become an addiction.

If the claim is that social media is designed to be addictive, therefore we should ban it, then I would love someone being able to demonstrate that and that in this instance it's worse than usual. I want to see what "rules" they use to design something to be addictive, but I don't think this demonstration is ever going to happen, because social media isn't designed to be addictive - nobody knows how to do that. It's iteratively designed. They try stuff and make more of what works.
You're totally right and we are doing a mixed batch. What we changed was the priority of performing prefills over decodes.

When looking at a variety of workloads, we realized that prioritizing finishing a query (priotizing decodes) lead to underutilization of the GPU. We noticed there tended to not be enough requests that are concurrently running (because prefill wasn't prioritized) to meaningfully utilize the memory bandwidth with available decodes. This lead to a system that was unfortunately neither compute nor memory bound.

By running mixed batches that prioritize prefills we still compute some decode tokens in our spare capacity, but ensure compute is as saturated as possible. This additionally leads to a buildup of decodes, so that when we are primarily computing decode we're pushing our memory bandwidth as much as we can.

Of course there is still plenty of improvements that can be made on this front. Finding a dynamic balance between prefill and decode that allows us to have both the memory bandwidth and compute being pushed to their limits is the goal from a scheduling perspective. There are a whole host of factors such as the model architecture, input-token:output-token ratio, underlying hardware, KV-cache allocation (and many more) that all play into the pressure placed on memory and compute, so there's definitely still exploration to be done!
Is it wrong to say that the sun turns around the Earth?
I think not only is this possible, it's likely for two reasons.

1. A lot more projects get the green light when the price is 5x less, and a many more organizations can afford custom applications.

2. LLMs unlock large amounts of new applications. A lot more of the economy is now automatable with LLMs.

I think jr devs will see the biggest hit. If you're going to teach someone how to code, might as teach a domain expert. LLMs already code much better than almost all jr devs.
>In the same way that you could be sued for anything,

The risk and cost imbalance is much more extreme than that of a lawsuit.

I'm confident that, were I sufficiently motivated, I could upload a swathe of incriminating material to a website and cover my tracks within a couple of hours, doing damage that potentially costs the site operator £18M with no risk to myself -- not even my identity would be revealed. OTOH, starting a lawsuit at the very least requires me to pay for a lawyer's time, my face to appear in the court -- and if the suit is thrown out, I'll need to pay their court costs, too.
This is an explicit anti-example in the article:

> For example, if you observe that it's silly for people to move from iPhones to Android phones because they think that Apple is engaging in nefarious planned obsolescence when Android devices generally become obsolete more quickly, due to a combination of iPhones getting updates for longer and iPhones being faster at every price point they compete at, allowing the phone to be used on bloated sites for longer, you can't really make money off of this observation.
Yes but that’s the same as gathering new information about them
Trump and his ilk basically want to tear down any institution that was made for the common good.
Really? I'm in my 30s and I've been to fewer than that.

> They say your social cluster is 150 people

Maybe yours is.
Because they were a large fraction of cars manufactured by US companies, so not excluding them would have put the entire US auto industry out of business.
How many worked in America and Western Europe and were paid a living wage in their respective countries, and how many of those 430 million people currently work making textiles in America and Western Europe today, and how many are lower paid positions in poorer countries, under worse living conditions? (Like being locked into the sweatshop, and bathroom breaks being regulated?)

Computers aren't going anywhere, so the whole field of programming will continue to grow, but will there still be FAANG salaries to be had?
Kevin Langdon's 'Omni' IQ test
I feel you take me as arguing "PEGI represents the public" or "PEGI assigns ratings fairly according to public sentiment". I'm only proposing the public's opinion of all of these things went farther down hill at the same time, not that the legal regulation (and therefore ratings PEGI feels they can get away with) happened at the same time too.

Recall PEGI is formed and funded by the video games industry, it does not have people's considerations in mind beyond "what can we get away with while still preventing real government regulation which we don't control from forming". Government regulations of traditional gambling existed before PEGI was even a thing (which is also even before anything associated with gambling at all took a sentiment downturn) while government regulation of lootboxes is just getting started.

This limits what PEGI thinks they can get away with (obviously that does not including trying to call things illegal for a 17 year as fine for a 3 year old). PEGI is already very away public opinion of lootboxes for children is low, that's why they've created the extra "Includes Paid Random Items" label. They'll use that excuse to avoid the age change until countries force their hand and legally call lootboxes gambling too. I wouldn't be surprised if that was in the next 5 years for most or all of the EU, a few countries in the EU are already there.
> an arrogant guy who thinks he knows better than everyone, coming to snap conclusions that other people’s work is broken

I see you’ve met my boss.
there isnt unless you pin it...after a context switch the data in the cache is useless so it makes no difference whether you pin it or not (for this specific regard)
I went down a rabbit hole one week trying to figure out if there was a simple pathway to making a JSON-like format that was just a strict subset of SQLite file format. I figured for read-only workloads, like edge networking situations, that this might be useful.

There's a lot of arbitrariness to the file format though that made me quickly lose steam. But maybe someone with a more complementary form of stubbornness than mine could pull it off.
While I haven’t worked at “the big guys”, I don’t find the statement false at face value. Rather (as you point out) perhaps a bit over simplified. Furthermore, it might be better to say “fair markets demonstrating healthy competition encourage efficiency.” But even in skewed markets, i.e. those with monopolies or heavily entrenched participants, the big guys may have inefficient operations scattered throughout, but can utilize their size to distribute those inefficiencies across other areas where they have above average efficiency. (Orgs like Amazon have perfected this practice). However, I’d argue the original quote is still true at face value, if the net sum of all your practices is in the red (financially) then the company can’t survive forever (although the company decay time-scale may seem long WRT one’s perspective).
Even if I was close to my grandparents' generation, I only have four of them and that number doesn't increase over time. I don't think I know 16 * 2 = 32 people of my grandparents' generation, especially not now, way past my teenage years.
That prick piano player Nick Nightingale ended up making some interesting movies of his own.
One key difference that I suspect the court will consider is that this isn’t a shelf.
There is a lot of custom logic and proprietary data, including a custom LLM framework and an agentic workflow framework as well as an insight engine.
A liberal society should be the polar opposite of “stupid people can’t handle _______ so nobody gets ________”

I think it’s perfectly acceptable, even laudable, that people with superior intelligence have better outcomes than people with lower intelligence
Both the red yeelight classic and green Xiaomi Home is showing as previously downloaded on my iphone. Afraid I don't know which (was years ago) but I'd try red first

...and that too feels on brand for Xiaomi...utter chaos on branding.
This guy was an asshole, even for the times. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-nazis-took-be...
Hey Finn, great project and impressive demo. I had some questions that I was able to answer via the FAQ, except for #3. I'll put the first two here just in case somebody else has the same questions:

1) What about languages other than English? Just English is supported for now.

2) Is this running locally? No.

3) Could you imagine offering a one time payment option? Dragon is currently charging 999 € for their latest version but I really like the fact that I actually own the software after paying once.

In any case, good luck with this!
A connection that tickled my fancy...

In the "Finding Paths, Faster" section it specifies:

1. that we can only use the standard A* algo when we know enough about "the graph in question" to exploit that knowledge to pick a heuristic.

2. When we don't know anything specific to "the graph in question", we need to rely on BFS or by extension BiDi BFS (Bi-directional BFS) to find the shortest path in general.

Then way down the page in the "Finding the Right Path, Faster" section it specifies an optimisation for speeding up a correct BiDi BFS algo in a general graph is to order our searching by always check the side with the least queued branches.

The connection comes from realising that while we might not know anything specific to the graph in question, we know enough about graphs in general (of which "the graph" is one) that gives us enough knowledge to exploit the graph in question.

So a BiDi BFS where we repeatedly choose the side with the fewest branches IS essentially a BiDi A* algo that can be applied on a general graph.

Or put another way, Unidirectional A* search can't be used on a general graph, but Bidirectional A* search can.
Hi there. I think the container image is private at the moment. Trying to pull ghcr.io/g1ibby/auto-vpn is failing. Render.com says: No public image found. It looks like you may be using a private image. Thx!
Frame of reference conversations are great. We're in a great search for objectivity and constantly having to modify absolute statements by .. the contextual information of the frame of reference.

Data Flow programming always felt to me like you were a gopro camera on the blob of data moving through the conveyer belt of programming, like the suitcases at the end of toy story 2

Capability based OS, suddenly it shifts to a bubble of what you're allowed to do, as the primary driver of what things being done you engage with. Microkernels, and all that "stuff" which was in kernel for a monolith is suddenly off in discrete bounded processes.. It's mystifying.

Don't get me started on Virtual Memory, stack frames, working set. Heaps of frame-of-reference things going off inside a program, all the time, all at once.
I make wormwood soda, which is much higher wormwood content than absinthe, and have never had a hallucinogenic state, so yes, likely heavily overstated.
Aside from the image cleanup, the usages on the iPhone seem like solutions in search of a problem. Apple Intelligence on the desktop is pretty limited, so it's pretty underwhelming, too. There may be some valid usages in certain business areas, but all the hype outside of that is starting to smell like a con job.
> what's keeping you from just walking out the door tomorrow and never returning?

A literal 7 figure paycheck, which substantially pads my savings. Waiting until my next major vesting cycle in a few months to get out from corporate forever!
Jepsen will have interesting things to say as well.
I don't have to do any of those things.

I am not going to address all the fallacies in your comment. Whether you have seen an example of it is immaterial to what the HDMI spec says.
> For example, in my social circles, there have been two waves of people migrating from iPhones to Android phones over the past few years. Both waves happened due to Apple PR snafus which caused a lot of people to think that iPhones were terrible at something when, in fact, they were better at that thing than Android phones. Luckily, iPhones aren't strictly superior to Android phones and many people who switched got a device that was better for them because they were previously using an iPhone due to good Apple PR, causing their errors to cancel out.

Uncomfortably reminiscent of politics.
I know it's popular to hate on Google, but a link to the Wikipedia is the first result I get for a Google search of "efficiency paradox".
omegle.com is shut down [1] while omegle.cc looks to be sex-focused. MB you're trolling me?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omegle
He's going to feel real foolish when he finds out his phone had the time on it all along.
This really depends. Some examples where the number one choice is IMO justified:

- ZFS. There are other filesystems that provide checksumming, CoW, etc. but ZFS is a proven solution in this space. I am happy work on BRTFS and bcache continues but they are not yet there.

- Debian. There are distros that do things better and differently but nobody has quite as smooth an experience, hardware support, security, and software availability all in one package. Alternatives are really good so it really says something about Debian that it is as popular as it is.

- ssh. There are some alternatives but when was the last time you heard an argument made in their favor?

I could go on but hopefully I’ve made my point. Sometimes the standard choice is the right now. And yes I know me picking Debian as a good distro can start a flame war :)
IIUC this is only about read performance. It's totally fine to async all your reads as long as (like SQLite does) you have a Reader-Writer lock and verify integrity properly on writes.
That's the part that seemed odd for an article trying to put McD in the spotlight of the recent events. It just read as completely random "look, how crazy he is, he decided out of the blue to stage a McD cosplay foto session".
Steam sales are abysmal on Mac, so it's a decentproxy I think. I couldn't find a nice cut report on gaming PC sales vs standard desktops, whichi is unfortunate as the PC market in general is on a downtrend while my hunch is gaming is probably flat or rising.

On Apple and gaming...they've been on the cold with Steam, basically refusing any improvement that would help. They've Epic at their throat. They've faught Microsoft over the XBox streaming issues tooth and nails. Sony and Nintendo are the only big players that don't actively fight them. I wouldn't call the situation great.

On Apple and Nvidia, it's a long story. They were in good terms, until the Metal transition where they cut ties in a very messy way, and we're all assuming there was a lot going on behind the curtain.

> macOS 10.14 Mojave required metal-compatible GPUs. At some point, during the macOS Mojave beta, Apple pulled Nvidia's ability to sign its code, which ended Nvidia's support for macOS in one spiteful, anti-competitive move. In order for GPUs to be Metal compatible, they needed drivers, and Nvidia wasn't able to release drivers.

> Nvidia publicly announced that it had working metal drivers on its forum, but Apple had revoked its developer license leaving the blame squarely at Apple's feet. Nvidia even called out apple on his support page but has now since modified it.

https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/10/13/apple-vs-nvidia-w...
Of course, 65scribe has a great (if you appreciate his passion and shtick) video on the 4400:

https://youtu.be/40VtkZdOAGo
While I vehemently disagree with Australia's proposed solution to this problem, this is very reductive and handwaving away very real problems.
> The UK is going to simply be cut off from many social media services.

Oh no! Anyway...
It tells the laptop how much power is available. And with USB-PD charging it is used for voltage negotiation which removes the risk of destroying a laptop with the wrong voltage charger, while still allowing chargers to be swappable and interchangeable.

I believe they adapt charging speed to available power in some cases. Without the data pin, what if you wanted to make a a car charger, but the cigarette lighter couldn't support enough current for a full power charger? Or what if you wanted an ultra portable charger?

It's a useful feature for a pretty small extra risk.
Tintin en Thaïlande is quite something!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_Thailand
This has never, ever been an industry where you will retire doing the same kind of work as you did when you started. There is nothing you can do to future proof your career - all you can do is be adaptable, and learn new things as you go.
Weak - the pelican is not pedaling in any of these!
Zotac confirms GeForce RTX 5090 with 32GB GDDR7 memory
I settled on Zigbee for door, window and some motion sensors, stand-alone buttons and other devices that need to be battery powered but for everything that's built into a wall or perma-attached to an outlet (like light switches, dimmers and wall plugs) I use generic commodity hardware running open source Tasmota firmware. These devices are based on standard reference designs, made by multiple Shenzen manufacturers and dirt cheap via Amazon, eBay and AliExpress. They're mostly based on ESP-8266 or ESP-32 chips and communicate via wifi.

The reason I use wall-powered wifi devices alongside Zigbee is the Zigbee architecture was designed to enable tiny battery powered devices that can run for a year or more on a small battery. Zigbee does this really well but I didn't want to be changing batteries on nearly a hundred wall switches, plugs and sensors that are connected to 110V anyway or perma-installed in places where wall power was easy to supply. There are also many devices like ultra wide band motion sensors, RF bridge repeaters, etc that can't be battery powered for long periods.

This Wifi+Zigbee split architecture has worked flawlessly in both our primary residence and a vacation home but they are both large detached homes, well-covered by wifi mesh routers with wired backhaul and other 2.4Ghz wireless neighbors a hundred or more feet away from our outer walls. So it's important to test wireless range and environmental compatibility inside your specific wall construction and unique RF domain before settling on wireless standards and architecture and installing a bunch of devices. Also, I'll mention that it's always tempting to just use wireless backhaul because it's easy but I think a big reason my large, complex home automation installs have avoided issues with randomly varying latency and intermittent signal loss is that I put in extra effort to get gigabit wired backhaul to each wifi mesh node and wired a Zigbee node alongside each wifi node. This entailed getting creative, like using an old pre-existing coax cable run with a Docsis modem to one mesh node and powerline ethernet to another. I'm pretty sure that extra pain up front prevented a lot of niggling gremlin pain later.
Even the main spring? For some of the components it seems like a significant sacrifice in quality to make it yourself. I appreciate people can make their own, but I also think the obsession some folks have with in house movements is misplaced.
Thanks for the explanation. However, there's one thing I've now realised I'm not clear on:

Could a company create a non-CIC sub-company (with ~$0 in assets) to own the website, and thereby shield shareholders of the original company? (If so, I think farcicality is conserved.)
> Here are several vendors where the 4th place vendor charges the same as the first place vendor.

That, uh, is kind of what you expect in a competitive commodity market, isn't it? I don't think that's the example you want. (No disagreement about app stores).
Another interesting analysis of EWS is https://timkreider.com/introducing-sociology/
To be slightly more precise, it's not open source, but source available.
Many invasive species get into new ecosystems only with human help. They can’t do it on their own, but once they’re there… Asian carp and zebra mussels.
The USB standard only allows 7.5W (5V @ 1.5A) of power. By negotiating over the data lines, the supplier and consumer can agree to higher amperage and voltage (up to 100W in USB3, 240W in USB3.1) - but you need data lines for this feature.

Some USB condoms include a chip to do this negotiation (with the other device) for you - but you still have to trust the chip.

You may very well have experienced this with a very basic USB cable (with just the power lines) - people call them cheap or bad quality, but because of the lack of data lines - only 7.5W can be delivered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB
You also have to synchronise to a fraction of the wavelength so that's going to be very difficult too with everything moving around.

Ps maybe that's what you meant too