skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A) I know I'm doing something right when I'm alternatingly accused of being a leftist and a right-winger. Thanks for providing the regular counter to the usual accusations I get of shilling right-wing politics! Can I quote you on that next time I get one of those?

B) If there's an argument against my stance in your comment here I'm missing it. I'd love to have a dialog if you have a counterargument!
> The historical turning point was the move from the wandering hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture and permanent human settlements.

This is due, of course, to the invention of brewing.
File Compression – MediaReduce
How did you come up with these numbers? There don't seem to be many shipping products with these cores. In fact, the only one I could find was the Dimensity 9400 with a single X925 and older generation A720s. And of course the Dimensity is a mobile SoC, so clocks will be low.

Are you projecting based on Arm's stated improvements from their last gen? In that case, what numbers are you using as your baseline?
You are comparing level in the blood and water.
>As noted by this meta-analysis itself, all the results indicating that fluoride has a negative impact on IQ come from China, India and Iran.

That's not accurate. Table 3 shows negative impact from data collected in Canada and Mexico as well.
Well, I know this is going down the political rabbit hole, but look at the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in the US. The evidence that Biden won and Trump lost is undeniable, at least if you use the definition of "the outcome is undeniable considering the standards of any previous presidential election in the US".

But still you have large swaths of the American populace (including, notably, the president elect) saying that no, Trump won the 2020 election. At this point, though, I don't even really see them putting forth any argument based on actual evidence that Trump won in 2020. It's just repeating the same platitudes of "it was stolen, the politicians are corrupt, ..." etc. etc. But it's like many people just accept now that this is an acceptable way to argue things, "if you repeat it enough, you get to have your 'alternative' facts" - like, they don't even really care that much that they don't have actual evidence to back up their position. That is the part that feels relatively new to me.
a 4070 has much better performance for much cheaper than a 3080...
Did you get anything useful out of that summary that wasn’t on the first page?
Isn't it ironic: Money isn't transactional
The problem is the speed. S/PDIF doesn't have a DC component at the S/PDIF bit rate, but to an SFP+ transceiver that S/PDIF signal is a lot closer to DC than to its expected signal. A single S/PDIF bit viewed as if it were a 10Gbps signal looks like thousands of 1s followed by thousands of 0s. Yes, they all balance out in the end, but you can still develop quite a large drift within a single sub-S/PDIF-bit sequence.

A thought experiment to clarify it: let's say you are hoisting a bucket with a DC motor. You're feeding it with a 50Hz AC power source. It's obviously not going anywhere, because it's just oscillating rapidly. You'd need for the motor to run in a single direction for a few minutes to actually lift the bucket. Now drive it with a 0.0000001Hz AC power source (which starts at peak voltage). The motor is going to reverse after 58 days, but does that actually matter? For any practical purposes, how is it different from a DC power source?
I think it also depends on _what_ the domain is, and also to a certain degree the tools / stack you use. LLMs aren’t coherent or correct when working on novel problems, novel domains or using novel tools.

They’re great for doing something that has been done before, but their hallucinations are wildly incorrect when novelty is at play - and I’ll add they’re always very authoritative! I’m glad my languages of choice have a compiler!
>Exposure to many viewpoints, including wrong ones, provides a counterbalancing effect. When you actively try and suppress information you create a “forbidden knowledge” effect where people seek out silos where extreme and wrongheaded information gets passed without the “sunlight is the best disinfectant”—-it grows faster…becomes more wrong, more extreme, and more dangerous.

Fact checkers don't suppress information, they add context and information to posts others make and provide the exposure to many viewpoints that echo chambers often do not have.

People haven't stopped posting wrong and biased information with fact checkers, they just have the counterpoint to their bullshit displayed alongside their posts on the platform.

>Seems to me in my experience after decades of watching and participating in online discussion extremism really only became more problematic when fact checking and active efforts to suppress took hold. Whatever the good intentions may have been, the results were worse.

My decades of watching is exactly the opposite. Extremism is and was rampant long before fact checking, and fact checking really only served to push some of the most extreme content to the margins and to smaller platforms that don't have it. It concentrates it in some ways as many of these opinions fall apart quickly when exposed to truth and facts.
Not every western country (although every Anglophone country). There's a whole spectrum of costs - e.g. Spain has the lowest costs and fastest delivery of transit projects in the developed world, by a large margin (maybe an order of magnitude?). Alon Levy at https://pedestrianobservations.com covers this in great detail if you're interested.
Speaking as US citizen, what policies/legislation could Trudeau have reasonably enacted to alleviate the housing/job market? It's been pretty rough stateside as far as real estate goes, but it doesn't seem like a solution will materialize (that is to say, there's no solution that avoids hurting the wallets of the people in charge).
Is there actually less VRAM on the cards or is it just disabled?
Yearly Themes, and why mine is "The Year of Focus" for 2025
The book "Small Signal Audio Design" by Douglas Self has an entire 50 pages chapter on selecting opamps for audio. The chapter roughly ends with this quote:

> One thing is obvious — the 5532 is still one of the great opamp bargains of all time.
This feels a lot like the "blue-zone problem" in that it turned out blue zones were only prevalent in areas where they kept birth records poorly.

I dont know much, but are less wealthy countries more statistically likely to create unreliable research or is that not a vector that seems to affect deep science?
Re-Decentralizing Development
My worldview was challenged by linked Wikipedia page re: The American Dream, specifically this quote:

“ a phrase referring to a purported national ethos of the United States: that every person has the freedom and opportunity to succeed and attain a better life.[2] … different meanings over time. Originally, the emphasis was on democracy, liberty and equality, but more recently has been on achieving material wealth and upward mobility.[4]”

It seems like the article—and many of popular complaints (including mine)—are primarily grappling with the lack of upward mobility. Versus the older meaning, “democracy, liberty and equality”, which IMO would be a much more severe loss.

An argument could be made that loss of material equality threatens access to democracy and liberty, but imo the article—and charity recommendations-are focused on bandaids, where the [Citizens United](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC) decision is the known mechanism by which inequality threatens democracy and liberty.

When/if I think of a corporation as a legitimate group of citizens, (much less dissonance when I think of a labor union this way), I wonder if the democracy and liberty are better protected by allowing inequality to be weaponized against the government. The “fact” that weaponizing inequality against the government is the effect of Citizen’s United remains unchanged?
> Multiple frame generation (required for 5070=4090) increases latency between user input and updated pixels

Not necessarily. Look at the reprojection trick that lots of VR uses to double framerates with the express purpose of decreasing latency between user movements and updated perspective. Caveat: this only works for movements and wouldn't work for actions.
There are tricks: if you need to find uniformly distributed data it is unbeatable: guaranteed to work in 5 hops or less. After 5 hops, is better to use binary search.
If data is not uniformly distributed one trick is to sort by hash of the element (store the hash with the element or calculate on the fly).
But yeah, without those adjustments it has a worst case of O(n).
This is a key point: historically, Burger King, McDonalds, Wendy's, etc often sourced their fries out of the same factory, but to different standards. Think starches, batters, fry dimensions, even type of potato in some cases. These companies competed not only on price but also in product consistency.
It is if your drive is obligatory
Tencent and CATL consider legal action over inclusion on Pentagon blacklist
Communism is the godwin point of economical discussion.
There is so much more possibility than unregulated capitalism / Individualism
https://archive.ph/UFq7Q
It is interesting to think about crypto as a stairstep that Nvidia used to get to its current position in AI. It wasn't games > ai, but games > crypto > ai.
Was surprised to relearn the GTX 980 premiered at $549 a decade ago.
https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/geforce/n...
"Frequency response:
The most important AC parameter of an op-amp is known as bandwidth gain product (fGBP or fGBWP). Standard, fully-compensated devices are designed to have an internal gain that rolls off proportionally to signal frequency. At fGBP, this gain is reduced to one:"

"Stuff not to worry about:

Despite what content-farmed articles imply, most of the other parameters in the spec can be usually glanced over. For example, the exact value of open-loop gain (AOL) is almost never of real consequence; the same goes for input offset voltage (VOS) — even in high-precision instruments, the absolute value is less important than drift over time. In any case, the parameters are usually only eyeballed in most specs, so if you’re building sensitive instrumentation, you will still need to calibrate the readings using a known reference."

I rarely think about fGBP and AOL as separate ideas, the author could make the point more directly by saying they are related and that one is easier to select from a single decimal value. AOL or fGBP is a primary design consideration.
That defines any clockwork clock as digital rather than analog and I think at that point the definition you're using needs to be rejected.
Facebook deletes internal employee criticism of new board member Dana White
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book
I don't disagree, but this isn't it.

Its too circumstantial to scale to even a dozen people in a locality. It isn't that it doesn't scale to the masses, its that it doesn't really scale at all
>The film was controversial even before its release and it has remained so ever since; it has been called "the most controversial film ever made in the United States" and "the most reprehensibly racist film in Hollywood history." The film has been denounced for its racist depiction of African Americans. The film portrays its black characters (many of whom are played by white actors in blackface) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive toward white women. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a white supremacist far-right hate group, is portrayed as a heroic force that protects white women and maintains white supremacy.

(from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation)
>In fact, the Reserve Banks are required by law to transfer net earnings to the U.S. Treasury, after providing for all necessary expenses of the Reserve Banks, legally required dividend payments, and maintaining a limited balance in a surplus fund.

Going purely off memory here, I recall audits implying this may not actually be happening as legally required. It was back when Ron Paul was making a big deal about it though, I can't remember the specifics so I'm bringing it up to invite discussion.
Apple Vision Pro to Support Nvidia GeForce Now via Safari
Eh? By all indications compute is now evolving SLOWER than ever. Moore's Law is dead, Dennard scaling is over, the latest fab nodes are evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

This isn't the 80s when compute doubled every 9 months, mostly on clock scaling.
I wager they did a study to weigh the costs and came up with the inevitable answer that chasing down the tenth of a percent (a wild guess but I think it's at worst an order of magnitude off from the actual number) of cars that exist only within the congestion zone and never leave would cost more than you'd gain both in fees and second order effects. Especially the population of cars most likely to never or rarely leave are being charged on a per ride basis, cabs and rideshare vehicles like Uber etc.

It's like all the efforts to drug test people on welfare, they cost vastly more than they save/recover.
Anyone can build their own AI. In terms of jobs lost, the same sensationalisim was said when computers started becoming ubiquitous.

What's more likely is some things will be further automated. And the industrial work complex will still find a way to require other jobs.
In an alternate and very charitable timeline, after being healed of his cancer by top doctors, Jobs grows greatly in love with science and medicine, and faced with the covid pandemic, makes Apple permanently remote work (with office option for those who want it), and donates sums of money to bootstrapping vaccine production for all the world.

A boy can dream.
So is social media trending towards more free speech or not? This indicates "not", in contrast to all those articles about Meta censoring less.
but do you have a beard?
>The idea that there is some official governing body

Platforms were encouraged to create their own departments, and have. There is no "one" or "governing" body here, so this is more hyperbole in this already flagrantly absurd discussion.

>have the power to designate what you or I or anyone else can talk about is preposterous

No one is stopping you from posting bullshit, fact checkers simply post the corresponding challenge or facts that allow others to see the lack of truth in your statements.

The idea you can say whatever you want, lie all you want, and be unchallenged as some form of right is absurd. Claiming because you can be challenged is censoring you or preventing you from talking is also completely absurd.

>and, frankly, anyone on a site called Hacker News should be ashamed for supporting it.

Frankly anyone on this site should be able to separate hyberbolic strawmen from reality.
> we think one to two out of every 10 of these actions may have been mistakes

May have been a mistake? Reminds me of RTO and the subjective feeling of being more productive in the office. They have the feeling they may have made mistakes and base their new policy on that feeling.
For context, the X925 is what used to call Cortex X5 and it is now shipping in MediaTek Dimensity 9400. It has roughly the same performance per clock as a Snapdragon 8 Elite Or roughly 5% lower performance per clock compared to Apple M3 on Geekbench 6.

Assuming they are not limited by power or heat dissipation I would say that is about as good as it gets.

The hardware is pretty damn good. I am only worried about the software.
The number one complaint I get from people is "Why did Facebook / Instagram / Oculus take down my account, ban me, require me to send ID, etc."

The moderation is definitely a system that could be improved drastically.

Best case scenario: this genuinely does lift the restrictions on discussing certain topics that are hot button issues: Israel/Palestine, immigration, gender politics, foreign relations, etc. I'm also very hopeful this serves as a cudgel against governments around the world who wish to silence journalists and physically attack speakers they don't like (e.g. Saudi Arabia, India, etc.)

Worst case scenario: This becomes a Musk-like social media platform, where things he likes are okay to talk about and things he doesn't like get you banned (e.g. recent H1B debate, in which I agreed with him but not his censorship, the guy posting his plane schedule, etc.). Still banning many reasonable posts about Israel/Palestine or guns or topics that it's just safer to ban and the leaders don't care about them. Still banning many reasonable posts that the leaders do care about and want to influence in one or another way. Still cooperating with censorship with govts that are powerful, or strategic enough (e.g. Saudi Arabia, India, etc.).

So let's see what happens. I'm optimistic, and some things I heard were strange (moving moderation teams to Texas to reduce bias??). But time will tell what comes of this
I see 11 charts that predate 1980.
Here's a housing chart that goes back to 1900
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041889/construction-yea...

Hard to say, but it looks like linear growth to me.

Here's "housing starts" which looks to me to be mostly flat from 1960 to 2020, with some cycles up and down.
You can now power your outdoor devices via indoor outlets without drilling holes. The 2nd generation Power Mole launched today on kickstarter, and can send up to 11 Watts through windows up to 36mm thick.

Smaller, higher efficiency and longer range than the original.

Ships worldwide now
Apparently he got fed up with being called Putin's puppet.
No, because I want someone who stays around to build up enough knowledge of the tech and domain to make significant contributions. Someone who is completely uninterested and uninvested is rarely worth the time investment of a relationship with them.
Animal Grief (2015)
Dupe often means duplicate discussion. If you see a dupe, there's usually an ongoing/recent discussion elsewhere already, from a main source or news item. Want to add to the conversation? Share a link in the discussion instead of splitting it up. News stories reporting on the same topic without really adding anything substantial to the discussion are dupes.
Hotdog Detector
On the flip side of portion size, the giant portions restaurants give out in the US means that my wife and I can split almost any meal we get when eating out.
It remains completely asinine that X feigns technical issues when users attempt to post banned material.

The service should return “this link offends Elon, repent lest ye be smited” as that is the true situation.
For the record, I no longer endorse the recursive self improvement story told in Friendship is Optimal. I do not believe that we'll get FOOM from a Solomonoff reasoner.

I wrote the details here: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/1026612/friendship-is-optima...
I have the skills to write efficient CUDA kernels, but $2/hr is 10% of my salary, so no way I'm renting any H100s. The electricity price for my computer is already painful enough as is. I am sure there are many eastern European developers who are more skilled and get paid even less. This is a huge waste of resources all due to NVIDIA's artificial market segmentation. Or maybe I am just cranky because I want more VRAM for cheap.
And this is why we have traffic today per that theory. Demand were induced and in a lot of cases cities didn’t end up building key reliever routes. So those initiall routes were overcapacity potentially from day one in the city.

It is also important to note that induced demand is not infinite. There is a point when there aren’t more drivers to actually get on the roads. We see this in some midwestern cities that had their full freeway plans built and didn’t experience significant growth after those plans were made. Those are “20 miles in 20 minutes” places any time of day for the most part.
Yeah, absolutely.

LLMs work best for code when both (a) there's sufficient relevant training data aka we're not doing something particularly novel and (b) there's sufficient context from the current codebase to pick up expected patterns, the peculiarities of the domain models, etc.

Drop (a) and get comical hallucinations; drop (b) and quickly find that LLMs are deeply mediocre at top-level architectural and framework/library choices.

Perhaps there's also a (c) related to precision. You can write code to issue a SQL query and return JSON from an API endpoint in multiple just-fine ways. Misplace a pthread_mutex_lock, however, and you're in trouble. I certainly don't trust LLMs to get things like this right!

(It's worth mentioning that "novelty" is a tough concept in the context of LLM training data. For instance, maybe nobody has implemented a font rasterizer in Rust before, but plenty of people have written font rasterizers and plenty of others have written Rust; LLMs seem quite good at synthesizing the two.)
Power supply and common mode noise can be 60 Hz.
The writeup, demos and proofs of concept, along with transparent roadmap/todos on the GitHub page are top notch. Great presentation. I definitely see myself trying this.

This is evidence of a great moment in modern indie game dev: the power of fun and simple prototyping.
He wasn't just a product of his time. He was so racist his works were controversial when released. Is a single sentence about that really too much?
A hedge fund exodus reshaped global cocoa markets
Someday we'll get you back as a Linux zealot my friend :-)
100% agreed on "innovative for consumers". carry on :-)
Can someone explain the "plot" here? I read the article and have no clue what the actual accusations are.

> Grosz had formed an early-stage venture firm called Mechanism Ventures. (...)
> “I knew he wasn’t up to any good at that point in time,” Du Val told CNBC.

Starting a company is suspicious?

> Part of the scheme involved Grosz’s plan to create a company called Cavalry, which was designed to directly compete with Toptal.

Is starting a competing company not allowed, somehow?

> Cavalry poached several executives and top employees from Toptal to weaken the company, according to Du Val’s lawsuit.

Is hiring from competition illegal? Genuine question. Seems like another company is being sued for poaching as well

> The negative coverage, the suit says, led Toptal to lose contracts with current and future clients.

I'd love to see some examples. Apparently the judge decided that the negative coverage cost Toptal about $500k (as per compensatory damages). Is this a lot? Wikipedia says Toptal had $100mm revenue in 2016.

I expected a bit more meat in an article titled `How...`
Tech has become so entrenched with Government.

The Metaverse and the WFH bets made by Zuck were controversial but at least it was something rooted in tech and population habits trends and vision without any political poop attached to it.

This one is pure political poop to please Orange Man.

Also I believe that fact-checking needed to be slowly sunsetted after the COVID emergency was over, but the timing of this announcement and the binary nature of the decision means that it was done with intention to get in the graces of the new administration.

If these techs executives become the American equivalent of Russian Oligarchs I hope that States would go after their wealth based on their residence and even ADS-B private jet trackers if they were to move to say Wyoming but partying every weekend in Los Angeles/NYC etc.
Nothing tops Waterloo, critics are imbeciles. About as close to a perfect movie as it gets.
Warning: in Android Firefox, shop UI goes off screen and the game breaks, have to reload to start over.
Someone should be held accountable for this.

Nevermind the redacted stuff. I want to know who to blame.
The asterisk is DLSS4 is using AI to generate extra frames, rather than rendering extra frames, which hurts image stability and leads to annoying fuzziness/flickering. So it's not comparing like with like.

Also since they're not coming from the game engine, they don't actually react as the game would, so they don't have advantages in terms of response times that actual frame rate does.