skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then NVIDIA came and announced a 4090-performance GPU for $549

Never trust vendor performance claims (these specifically rely on 3x frame generation), and never assume cards will be available at MSRP.
All universal statements like this are wrong and stem from basic ignorance

> So when it's actually 14:15:45, they'll show 14:15. And when the actual time goes from 14:15:59 to 14:16:00, then that's when your clock changes from 14:15 to 14:16.

No, that's a silly mistake, look at the picture (though much better - video) of the analogue clock to see it's not the case, the minutes hand moves continuously, so isn't at 15 at 15:59

> the meeting is in 5 minutes.

That's not the only question we ask about time. Has the meeting/game already started? You can't answer that with an average value

> for some context appropriate reason) you reply with just hours, you would say it's 11!

No, you reply would depend on the context, which you haven't specified.

> Please someone tell me I'm not crazy

Of course not, just trying to replace one ambiguity with another. Maybe instead come up with a more precise minutes display in digital clocks that adds more info like two dots flashing when it's past 30 sec and only 1 dot when it's before? (In phones you could use color or a few more pixels within all the padding?)
There were times when users warned about the consequences of putting your images on the net. If you upload them on Facebook services, you gave away the rights on them I believe.
I'm seeing the same issue. In fact, the Pipes thread is where I'm posting this.
If you are using random passwords like ys8@202hfjwoi! then it's normal to forget them. I recommend to switch to long meaningful sentences, parts of songs and proverbs or a quote that you remember.

If you are trying to recover a password you forget be METHODIC about it.
Write down each attempt you made on another laptop in paralell and double check before entering that you wrote down the password to try on the other laptop.
Sometimes you are off by just one letter.
Interesting allusion to Desiderata, “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.”
I mean "be known by people, specifically people who know you as trustworthy, likable, and intelligent, and who might be able to help you get a job".
I used AI code completion from GitHub copilot on a 20 year old project. You still have to create new classes, new test, refactor etc.
It feels like HN is 'discovering' The Matrix Profile right now :)

Comment that sparked a flurry of links and digging: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42614614
You’re probably assuming youtube doesn’t know about the scale of this problem and all it takes is to show it. It absolutely does know it and “be big enough to get human assistance” is their conscious mode of operation. They couldn’t care less about what’s right, because it’s not money.
Still widely used in military/aerospace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plating#Cadmium_plating
> The particular choice of statistical analysis does seem like it may involve creative decision making

The selection and structuring of the training set may involve sufficient creativity to be copyrightable (as demonstrated by the existence of “compilation copyrights”), even if it is largely or even entirely composed of existing works, the statistical analysis part doesn't have to be the source of the creativity.
Shakespeare’s wife?
I appreciate your thoughts, but I think you're bonkers!
Using C++ as a Scripting Language, part 14
Here's my guess what would happen: Youtube will have a word with their contacts in government and in short order you'd end up in a court room for some nebulous federal crime about malicious use of computers and hacking and they'd have no concerns about locking you up for decades. Oh and absolutely nothing about Youtube's attitude to copyright would change.

Take a look at Aaron Swartz's case for example, people may be sympathetic to his motives but he still got pursued for a 50 year federal sentence and ended up killing himself.
Based on your evaluation, it sounds like it will run inference at speed similar to an M4 Max and also allow "startups" to experiment with fine tuning larger models or larger context windows.

It's the best "dev board" setup I've seen so far. It might be part of their larger commercial plan but it definitely hits the sweet spot for the home enthusiast who have been pleading for more VRAM.
> Less interested in people and character studies.

If you don’t want examples then all you need to know is velocity. The Y Combinator people call it doing things that don’t scale. Here is how it works for absolutely anything:

1. Get the right tools in place. This is an intrinsic capability set you have to build. People tend to fail here most frequently and hope some framework or copy/paste of a library will just do it for them. Don’t be some worthless pretender. Know your shit from experience so you can execute with confidence.

2. Build a solid foundation. This will require a lot of trial and error plus several rounds of refactoring because you need some idea of the edge cases and where you the pain points are. You will know it when you have it because it’s highly durable and requires less of everything compared to the alternatives. A solid foundation isn’t a thing you sell. It’s your baseline for doing everything else at low cost.

3. Create tests. These should be in writing but they don’t have to be. You need a list of known successes and failures ready to apply at everything new. There are a lot of whiners that are quick to cry about how something can’t be done. Fuck those guys and instead try it to know exactly what more it takes to get done.

4. Finally, measure things. It is absolutely astonishing that most people cannot do this at all. It looks amazing when you see it done well and this is ultimately what separates the adults from the children. This is where velocity comes from because you will know exactly how much faster you are compared to where you were. If you aren’t intimately aware of your performance in numbers from a variety of perspectives you aren’t more special than anyone else.

People who accomplish hard things are capable of doing those because they didn’t get stuck. They had the proper tools in place to manipulate their environment, redefine execution (foundation), objectively determine what works without guessing, and then know how much to tweak it moving forward.
Is this balanced or not: ((((((((((((((((((((())))))))))))))))))))? Humans can check only so many parentheses before losing track of them, so it is still an FSM in my opinion.

Also, those regexes are directly translated from the equivalent and much smaller FSM. Regexes are necessarily complex only because they have Kleene stars and nothing else; it's like representing every Boolean circuits with NAND, which is of course possible and a little fun fact but the process itself isn't exactly fun to me.
Then buy two and stack them!

Also I'm unfamiliar with macs is there really a MacBook pro with 256GB of RAM?
Ergonomics matters, though. In C++, this feature is bolted onto the language decades after it was originally designed. Zig is designed around this from the get go (which is why it doesn't have e.g. templates as a distinct feature).
I did want a M2 max studio, ended up with a 12 core Zen 4 + radeon 7800 XT for about half the money.

A Nvidia Project Digit/GB10 for $3k with 128GB ram does sound tempting. Especially since it's very likely to have standard NVMe storage that I can expand or replace as needed, unlike the Apple solution. Decent linux support is welcome as well.

Here's hoping, if not I can fall back to a 128GB ram AMD Strix Halo/395 AI Max plus. CPU perf should be in the same ballpark, but not likely to come anywhere close on GPU performance, but still likely to have decent tokens/sec for casual home tinkering.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree this is how I should have ended the article. If anything, the most important thing with conventions is that we all follow the same ones. So in the end I'm obviously not gonna move all my clocks forward by 30 seconds. This is just how I decided to write the article, but I concede I should have made the tongue-in-cheek tone more explicit.
It’s most definitely not a GB200 in a desktop enclosure.

The processor is using completely different cores, and the GPU is somewhere around a 5070 for TOPs.
We simply can't, I guess. Not after the original repo is long gone due to DMCA. Therefore, better to mention to do your own due diligence.
The Boston commuter rail network would be equivalent to Berlin's S-Bahn network, which is 10/20 minutes, and 30 on Friday and Saturday nights.
Hm? They have 128GB of RAM. Macbook Pros cap out at 128GB as well. Will be interesting to see how a Project Digits machine performs in terms of inference speed.
Lambda has on-demand GH200 right now for $1.49. There might be a cheaper deal elsewhere for a contract.
Doing something open-source [1] in the space. Self-hostable as well. Our customers actually have built internal things to help them with Zendesk / replace some manual Retool tasks.

There's a slack [2] integration as well. Fun fact, we use it to query our Zendesk / Postgres / Auth system from Slack and avoid internal tools.

E-mail in the profile. Happy to chat, even if it's to recommend something that works better for your use case.

[1] https://github.com/inferablehq/inferable

[2] https://docs.inferable.ai/pages/slack
You’re talking nonsense we have an abundance of radio devices capable of point to point routing.
> Rust could be a much more ergonomic language if the compiler wouldn't have to rely on function signatures alone but instead could peek into called function bodies

This path leads to unbounded runtime for the type checker/borrow checker. We’re not happy about build times as is.
Subways in nyc have 2 crew by union decree and I don’t think it’s helped public safety
Keep in mind that a kernel module != driver. It's just doing initialization and passing data to/from the driver, which is closed source and in user space.
This definitely loses on CPU performance.
Now we're on a completely different subject, but that's fine.

Trust what system exactly?

If there was no poverty, there would be no motivation to work and build a roof over your head or grow crops to make bread. Unfortunately, the funny money that I show in the graph means that it's not a fair playing field.

If you want to fix the world, fix the money. The world is desperately in need of a digital money that can't be created with no effort, and by just a few select people (i.e. banks). The money we're using is toxic.
> Consider for example std::vector<bool>: implementations can be made that actually store a single bit per vector element (instead of how a bool normally is represented using an int or char).

Your example is considered a misfeature and demonstrates why breaking parametricity is a problem: the specialized vector<bool> is not a standard STL container even though vector<anythingelse> is. That's at best confusing -- and can leads to very confusing problems in generic code. (In this specific case, C++11's "auto" and AAA lessens some of the issues, but even then it can cause hard-to-diagnose performance problems even when the code compiles)

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/17797560 for more details.
> This has already been settled hasn't it? Don't companies have to introduce 'flaws' in order for data sets to be 'protected'?

No, flaws are generally introduced to make it easier to detect copies; if multiple flawless reference works covering the same data (road maps of the same region, for instance) exist, each is copyrightable without flaws to the extent any would be with flaws, but you can't prove that someone else copied yours without permission if copying any of the others would give the same result. With flaws, gou can attribute the source that was copied more easily, but this isn't about being legally protected but about the practicality of enforcing that protection.
Being someone who endlessly scrolls through YC and have FOMO, I'm gonna give your mailing list a go!
It has advanced quite a lot, but people don't care to learn about debuggers are they care about low level details of their programming languages.

Also it is quite telling that outside IDE friendly languages, debbugers are kind of stuck in the 80's, so no wonder that many think 80% of Visual Studio and friends is good enough.
> type Example = Something[Example]

You can't use the binding early like this, but inside of the type definition you can use the @This() builtin to get a value that's the type you're in, and you can presumably do whatever you like with it.

The type system barely does anything, so it's not very interesting when type checking runs. comptime code is type checked and executed. Normal code is typechecked and not executed.

comptime is not a macro system. It doesn't have the ability to be unhygienic. It can cleverly monomorphize code, or it can unroll code, or it can omit code, but I don't think it can generate code.
Essentially, an LLM is a compressed database with a universal translator.

So what we can get out of it is everything that has been written (and publicly released) before translated to any language it knows about.

This has some consequences.

1. Programmers still need to know what algorithms or interfaces or models they want.

2. Programmers do not have to know a language very well anymore, to write code, but the have to for bug fixing. Consequently the rift between garbage software and quality software will grow.

3. New programming languages will face a big economical hurdle to take off.
Why do you think Meta bought VR tech and took it further? To pour ads directly into our brains. It's just that scuba sized VR tech it didn't catch on, so instead they invested in Luxottica now to make AR fashion items with the same purpose.
> Why would you go to them rather than the actual documentation?

Not every documentation is made equal. For example: Android docs are royal shit. They cover some basic things, e.g. show a button, but good look finding esoteric Bluetooth information or package management, etc. Most of it is a mix of experimentation and historical knowledge (baggage).
Welcome to adult life, it will only get worse with time. Start building appropriate habits, less depending on memory and more depending on notebooks, calendar reminders, physical backups for passwords and keys, etc

Also, if you work in IT, you should already know that people forgetting their work computer password after a vacation is a common occurrence...
Ontario is not part of the US.
Ah ‘fieldNames’, looks very similar to Nim’s ‘fieldPairs’. It’s an incredibly handy construct! It makes doing efficient serialization a breeze. I recently implemented a compile time check for thread safety checks on types using ‘fieldPairs’ in about 20 lines.

This needs to become a standard feature of programming languages IMHO.

It’s actually one of the biggest things I find lacking in Rust which is limited to non-typed macros (last I tried). It’s so limiting not to have it. You just have to hope serde is implemented on the structs in a crate. You can’t even make your own structs with the same fields in Rust programmatically.
> In the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, a popular narrative has emerged: that because rioters did not fire guns that day, they were not really "armed."

> But a review of the federal charges against the alleged rioters shows that they did come armed, and with a variety of weapons: stun guns, pepper spray, baseball bats and flagpoles wielded as clubs. An additional suspect also allegedly planted pipe bombs by the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties the night before the riot and remains at large.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/19/977879589/yes-capitol-rioters...
> lack of labour

Thanks unions
Looks like it loads all the Google surveillance without asking. Should IP-block the EU.
Awesome.

Maybe there will be storage options of 1,2,and 4TB and optional 25/100/200/400 GBit interfaces. Or maybe everything except the CPU/GPU is constant, but having a 50%, 75%, or 100% of the CPU/GPU cores so they can bin their chips.
Are you, perhaps, commenting on the wrong thread? Project Digits is a $3k 128GB computer.. the best your your $5K MBP can have for ram is.. 128GB.
It is impossible for me to take this seriously as a social justice issue, but I do want to point out that according to this article, Lamb Weston (the main character in this Jacobin piece) makes some of the best possible fries, and that even high-end places just order them ("you can't make them better yourself"). Which makes some sense, given Dave Arnold and Kenji Lopez-Alt's investigations into optimal fries (the best fries are frozen).

Also: you can buy them yourself. You just fry them straight from frozen. I haven't tried; I don't need to know for sure that I can make perfect fries in my house with zero effort.

https://www.foodandwine.com/chefs-favorite-frozen-french-fri...
They might want, yet while Khronos keeps publishing standards using C and C++, GCC/LLVM/CUDA/.NET/Java/V8/Metal make use of C++, Nintendo/PlayStation/XBox rely on C++, ... they are going to stay around no matter what.
Quake shakes Tibet: 53 dead, hundreds flee in panic
aha, this is really something. I just got around to watching "Furiosa" last night. So something like having a personal "history man" (although, my take on the whole Mad Max series is that it's just bottled up fear-porn about white settlers going uncivilized and becoming "tribal" - a colonial horror tale, "The Heart of Darkness" with motorcycles - common anywhere a relatively small group spread themselves out on a lot of ill-gotten land, did some nasty deeds and lost touch with the mothership).

In the Furiosa context, it's a bit like a medicine man or shaman, then. A private, unreliable source of verbal hand me downs, whose main utility is to make elites feel like they have access to knowledge without needing to acquire it for themselves or question its veracity.

We really are entering a new dark age.
>Smart TVs, internet enabled appliances, robot vacuums, Alexa devices, Phillips Hue lighting, smart thermostats, etc. are all IoT.

More specifically most are IoTwNAtbOBiSDoT (Internet of Things we Never Asked to be Online, But it's Shoved Down our Throats)
Thanks I will check it out. Seems like it might be spot on what I'm looking for.

But I have to ask - why do you hate Python? :))) I mean AI space has is python first (intuitively) so SDK for python would seem to be logical. Or am I missing smth?
The name for this effect appears to be the "Preparedness Paradox" [1]. The effect where people attribute the minimal or reduced harm due to some problem to the problem not having been that serious, instead of attributing it to the essential work performed by other people to prevent the worst disaster.

A very funny depiction of this effect is in the hilarious episode "Charlie Work" of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia where the titular Charlie Kelly works tirelessly to have their bar pass health inspection, only to have the other main characters shrug and say "But we always pass health inspection".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox
The CPU is apparently the result of a "secret" project that wasn't on published roadmaps. It's called the GB110. So maybe they will offer differently binned CPU/GPUs with a different fraction of cores disabled and you can pick your SSD.
Slightly tangential, does anyone remember who was the (German Professor?) guy who has spoken/written about computer (file) organisation, and has proposed a way to organise files?

I seem to remember he said he could save tens of minutes of the user everyday by seeing how someone uses the computer. It was not the Zettelkasten or the Dewey Decimal System but those topics were also possibly discussed in that hackernews thread.
I've done this sort of thing by writing a code generator in python instead of using comptime. I'm not confident that comptime zig is particularly fast, and I don't want to run the json parser that generates the struct all the time.
I think this shift towards "casual viewing" speaks volumes about where mainstream streaming is headed, but it also highlights an opportunity for something new. Platforms like Netflix focusing on easily digestible, multitask-friendly content might work for maintaining subscribers, but it feels like a step away from respecting storytelling as an art form.

This is exactly why I founded IZSIT, a streaming platform designed to do the opposite. Instead of pumping out content to fill the background, we’re championing stories that demand your full attention and actually entertain you. IZSIT is all about giving independent creators the tools to tell powerful, boundary-pushing stories using AI.

Streaming doesn’t have to be a race to the bottom. Platforms like Apple TV+ and HBO are showing that high-quality content still has a place, and IZSIT is joining that fight by putting AI artistry and storytelling first.

We won't settle for "endumbification." Film and TV should inspire, challenge, and resonate—not just fill silence while we do chores. If you’re tired of scrolling through mediocrity, keep an eye out for what we’re building at IZSIT

www.izsit.com for AI film and series
A wonderful mirror for todays society and a great tool for education purposes!
> lack of strong-form property ownership

Come on, just search the keyword "nail house in China" on the Internet[1] [2].And the latest news: China's National Highway 206 was planned to pass by this house, the owner asked for an unreasonable amount of compensation, and then they screwed up. Location: Jinxi a county of Jiangxi province[3]

- [1] https://x.com/RetirementUnity/status/1795777230825513304
- [2] https://x.com/pretentiouswhat/status/1859909798399033850
- [3] https://www.163.com/v/video/VFJNM8L73.html
Post title: I appreciate your thoughts, but I think you're bonkers!

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Related: Heat Pumps have a branding problem, but ACs don't (3 points, 14 days ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42496758
As I understand, they're less stressed about having things at precise points in time and are fine with waiting. I guess they would say something like "13 zero zero" when necessary...
> models to presume some levels of cognitive effects.

Not "presume", "deduce" or "conclude".
I have zero difficulty believing this based on my experiences with frozen hash browns for home in the past few years. What I used to get for ~$2.50-3 a bag (occasionally on sale down to $1.67) is now routinely $4 or higher.

When I looked a couple years ago it seemed like there was some news about a year or two of crop issues, but plain potato prices haven't seen the same level of sustained rise in my experience (occasional purchaser, and haven't quite made the jump to just shredding my own).

Contrary to another comment, I'm not convinced that eggs are quite as bad - prices have gone up a lot, but they're much more cyclical and still regularly down where they've traditionally been. I'd absolutely believe that most of the price variation there has been due to flock destruction due to avian flu.
Because middle management is a self-perpetuation and completely useless caste at best, maliciously incompetent is usually what I observe in their ranks. Cutting the vapid, self-important, ignorant and lazy middle management is probably the best idea any company could have. Fire everyone who does not do any real work, then hire qualified personnel where organizational prowess is really needed.
That's true if you catch the exact moment the clock changes. If you don't, the only thing you know with a truncating clock is that the fireworks started 0 to 59 seconds ago. With a rounding clock, you know the starting point is within [-30, 30] from now. So on average, you're closer to the starting point when seeing the clock show 12AM.

A good reason for truncating is that we have a strong bias against being late, but not really against being early.