skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saudi Arabia, and to a lesser extent the other Gulf states, pursuing projects like this leaves me very confused. In the news, it seems like luxury projects are often employed as a means to break their economies off of oil, but it would seem to me like luxury and entertainment are rather odd choices. My gut feeling is that these are just vanity projects.

Does anyone have any insight as to why such projects of luxury and entertainment (e.g. sports) have such an appeal in the region for reducing dependence on oil as opposed to other other pursuits? Or is it just these projects that get headlines and there isn't out of the ordinary spending on such projects?

I feel like lots of the public has many negative perceptions of the region which makes these seem more unreasonable. There was a time when I was working for an ad tech company which got probably most of its revenue from a certain Gulf state, but the employees were always disparaging the country in conversations.
This isn't even remotely what the article is about, how did you arrive at such a misleading tldr? The article talks about diluting the human experience and problems with instant gratification.
And no Pink Floyd fans.

Gapless is definitely a must for any music enthusiast, I believe.

I use Jellyfin btw, it does support gapless.
At least Mistral 7B for its 128 token text generation is 58% faster with 5090 compared to 4090.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-rtx5090-llama-cpp/3
Ouch that seems very bad.
It seems to depend on who you see and, probably, where you are in the country. Every time I go in to see my GP he seems to schedule a battery off lab work. And when I went to a dermatologist for an annual mole exam I left with prescriptions for dandruff and eczema.
“Enjoys misery” is an oxymoron I think. He enjoys joy, which he gets from doing difficult things. I’m just taking your dad’s side on this because I suspect I share some of his tendencies :)
ok I looked it up and have a better understanding now.
I had this same problem in Tidal, where attribution errors are really common even for big artists. For example, look under singles here https://listen.tidal.com/artist/8112 and look here both in the albums and singles sections https://listen.tidal.com/artist/34575

At least on Tidal you can email customer support about it, but they are slow (probably under staffed) and it usually takes weeks for them to fix things and now with the constant flood of AI-made music, the crap accumulates faster than it can be cleaned up.

I ended up moving on to Apple Music where the situation in relation to attribution is not as bad. I chose Apple Music because it's among the services that has better rates for artists, although lower than Tidal https://virpp.com/hello/music-streaming-payouts-comparison-a...
I'm just waiting for missed connections to make a comeback. Reading some of those was a joy. And you couldn't help wonder, maybe it's me...
Can we also add mass to the asteroid?
Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours
That seems pretty relative. The consequences are probably high enough for most people. You have the hassle of not having a car, then getting a rental, dealing with your insurance, eventually getting a check for what similar used cars go for, which may be in worse condition and who-knows-what mechanical condition, so then if you want a car that you can (pretty much) trust, you have to buy new which is an unplanned expense. If you're not in a good position financially, it can f things up for you. Especially if you have personal belongings in the car which are not replaceable and probably won't get full value for if you even think to report it to your insurance such as sunglasses, USB cable, emergency seat-belt cutter, first aid kit, tire iron (if you don't want to use the crap one that came with the car), floor liners, seat covers, etc.
I feel like most people just use the Arr suite of apps to track these things?

https://wiki.servarr.com/

I guess not an all in one solution but lots of strong features for libraries. Readarr isn’t great if I’m honest.
People diagnosing issues as related to tech developments when they are actually rooted in lack of autonomy and leisure time, exhibit 4,861
I got a 3090 in the depths of the 2021 GPU shortage and for my purposes (mainly JRPGs) I can still run basically every new game at 4k max settings. I don't really see much need to upgrade.

Wonder if the AI rush will result in a situation where the state of the art is so far beyond what's needed for gaming that gpus won't be a bottleneck anymore.
Yea, and I want my decompiler to be deterministic, so LLM stuff is a no-no.
That being said they also never seem to actually build any of the things they announce so maybe it's just the 3d render artists being tasteless
AppleCare+ claim denied after MacBook Pro was destroyed in a car crash
> No one feels connected, present, alive, embodied, or sexy when they’re on their phone all day.

I feel like the blame is misplaced. People are on their phones all day because of social media. The phone is just a convenient access point. I suspect without socials, the phone would be considered just a really handy tool [0] rather than the growing consensus that it's some kind of social menace.

[0] that some nerds go too far with, like the computer
Motherboard: Gigabyte MZ73-LM0 or MZ73-LM1. We want 2 EPYC sockets to get a massive 24 channels of DDR5 RAM to max out that memory size and bandwidth. (https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterprise/Server-Motherboard/MZ73-...)

CPU: 2x any AMD EPYC 9004 or 9005 CPU. LLM generation is bottlenecked by memory bandwidth, so you don't need a top-end one. (https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16819113865)

Get the 9115 or even the 9015 if you really want to cut costs

RAM: This is the big one. We are going to need 768GB (to fit the model) across 24 RAM channels (to get the bandwidth to run it fast enough). That means 24 x 32GB DDR5-RDIMM modules. Example kits (https://v-color.net/products/ddr5-ecc-rdimm-servermemory?var...) and (https://www.newegg.com/nemix-ram-384gb/p/1X5-003Z-01FM7)

Case: You can fit this in a standard tower case, but make sure it has screw mounts for a full server motherboard, which most consumer cases won't. The Enthoo Pro 2 Server will take this motherboard (https://www.newegg.com/black-phanteks-enthoo-pro-2-server-ed...)

PSU: The power use of this system is surprisingly low! (<400W) However, you will need lots of CPU power cables for 2 EPYC CPUs. The Corsair HX1000i has enough, but you might be able to find a cheaper option (https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/psu/cp-9020259-na/hx1000i-fu...)

Heatsink: This is a tricky bit. AMD EPYC is socket SP5, and most heatsinks for SP5 assume you have a 2U/4U server blade, which we don't for this build. You probably have to go to Ebay/Aliexpress for this (https://www.ebay.com/itm/226499280220)

SSD: Any 1TB or larger SSD that can fit R1 is fine. I recommend NVMe, just because you'll have to copy 700GB into RAM when you start the model, lol
> People connecting through our VPN have access to an internal-only SMTP gateway machine that doesn't require SMTP authentication.

This part sounds... not great. Even bad actor within org could send messages as someone else: president to payroll etc.
Many Nvidia "gaming" SKUs are already at the point where memory is often the biggest likely limitation on their gaming use case, and they'll be noticeably better products for the consumer with a small cost increase by adding more memory.

So I'd say there's good evidence that something outside cost and value to the gaming use case is why they don't have higher memory SKUs, and eating into "professional" priced AI SKUs is an obvious possibility.

I doubt anyone outside Nvidia itself knows "for sure", but it's a pretty big indication.
Apple has already gone into business with T-Mobile.

This is a continuation of the efforts.

Originally this was meant to be an Apple exclusive offer but Apple chose globalstar which launches with Apple.
Monke, smash!!
> “The Biden administration isn’t just giving a green light for ethnic cleansing — it’s bankrolling it,” said DAWN executive director Sarah Leah Whitson. “Gaslighting Americans into facilitating long-held Israeli plans to depopulate Gaza under the cover of ‘humanitarian aid’ is a cruel and grotesque hoax.”

https://truthout.org/articles/rights-groups-say-bidens-israe...
I cannot get behind that argument, it seems to me that it ends up needlessly marking work as dangerous and in need of proper review when it's actually not at all remarkable and so you teach people these reviews aren't really important, it's probably just another false positive.

Rust spent lots of effort on making sure these lines are in the right place. The current work to try to "make C++ safer" is likely to ban taking a 32-bit unsigned integer and treating that as a 32-bit IEEE floating point value because it can invoke Undefined Behaviour in their language. Meanwhile in Rust that exact feature is not only safe, it's a pure function named `f32::from_bits` because 0x40000000 literally is 2.0, it's never any other value, there's no actual danger here, you just need to fix your programming language but C++ would rather waste your time on this non-existent problem.
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Earlier you posted about TDS. You’re the one that made this thread political and not about technology.
Baguette bandits strike again with ransomware and a side of mockery
It was absolutely not like that, at least up until 10 years ago. Agents and the operational staff were totally separate.
That nicotine patches help with focus is no surprise if you have been naive to nicotine before. I have been using patches on and off (like years of no usage in-between) for focus, and 7mg is actually a lot. Is there anything indicating that it is not just the effect of nicotine, and truly helps against whatever lingers inside your body (the spike protein)?

Given other people around me talking about treating their long covid with nicotine since it went through social media last year, I suppose you don't know about / didn't try the Natto (nattokinase) [1] / NAC route [2] (for which there were early studies showing they can dissolve the SARS-Cov2 spike protein)..? Or does the community consider that a dead end by now?

That there is a political echo chamber-driven division between those routes is a bit strange and dangerous, isn't it. With nicotine you will need to be careful about its effects on blood pressure, and it would be better to not even think about vaping (some of the flavoured products could be equally/more addictive to/than cigarettes [3]).

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9458005/

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9663386/

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31536738/
I don't use or actually even like Sublime, but I have the exact same experience of it. Quick loads and lack of "extras" that cause even portions of lag in the experience; there's an immediacy to Sublime.

But those things that introduce clunkiness are often very useful. They take away from the aesthetic feel of writing code, but give advantages that are too useful to give up, imho.
Switched to it last year for working on a large C codebase, huge fan. Visual Studio Code was always way too slow at indexing, Sublime is fast.
> We do still gave to define how we'd even measure humanity's position though, without that we don't have direction and can't know if we're getting closure or further away.

What people fundamentally value will vary by their philosophy (increasing pleasure and decreasing suffering, searching for higher meaning in the Universe, etc.) but I'd claim the intermediary objectives tend to have a lot of overlap, with a shared set coalescing around (roughly) increasing humanity's knowledge and potential/capacity to act. For instance, gaining capability to deflect meteors puts us in a better position because getting wiped out by one would render accomplishing effectively anything else impossible - making it an intermediary objective common to pretty much all frameworks.

> On a 30 year scale I'd say we may have moved upwards (though significantly is a stretch)

As compared to 1995, the average life expectancy has increased from to 64.9 to 73.5 and the portion of population living in extrmee poverty has decreased from 32.5% to 8.5% - seems significant to me, even ignoring scientific/technological advancements beyond that. True that averaging over a longer time period smooths out the bumps.

> do we always need to trend upward on a never ending treadmill

To me, "treadmill" implies lack of progress. If we have the option to improve things (e.g: reduce cancer cases) and an option to not, I don't really understand the idea that we should default to the latter, only choosing the former if we "need" to. Only way I can really make sense of that policy is if at some level you actually think it's instead a downwards/net negative trend.
Italy’s privacy regulator goes after DeepSeek: https://www.politico.eu/article/italys-privacy-regulator-goe...
I don't know about phones, but an Apple Watch looks like a very un-sexy car:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Multipla

Nothing compared to a Rolex, for instance.
Absolutely.

Even if fusion reactors can be made reliable, they'll still require a huge amount of investment with a payoff decades into the future. Meanwhile, you buy some cheap solar panels and can get returns on your money almost immediately.
There is nothing in the deepseek paper that suggests you can't use the order of magnitude in hardware costs you saved to just train models that are ten times as large.
Uncompressed high res textures and audio and a lot of unique assets.

When disk space isn’t a problem and with loading times being already rather fast (other than any shader pre-compilations that are CPU bound) there is no penalty to large games.

Not only that but having very large games can be sort of a moat especially on consoles, if you can only have 3 games until your drive gets full you might think twice before uninstalling call of duty to try something new.

And whilst this can also present a barrier to entry the big IPs have enough initial pull to overcome any downsides most likely.
Sold last year. This is not really the place for misleading low-effort politics.
No, definitely not. The compiler couldn't care less if your arguments are correct. Consider:

func cleanupTemporaryDir() {
os.RemoveAll("/")
}

You might have some very unhappy users if you ship that. Of course, as you would have documented your intended behaviour, the mistake is going to get caught when you run your tests, making it abundantly clear that you screwed up before bad things happen. Like before, you're not going to end up out.

Sure, a language with a deeper type system can place restrictions on what kinds of values you can pass in. "/" would be prevented by the type checker, letting it be known as you type and not later when you run the tests. That is nice. Nobody is going to deny that. But this act as if it is the only thing that will save you is completely disconnected from reality. Our world does not exist in this imagined vacuum where when one thing doesn't exist nothing does.
No, you don't feel sexy, because you aren't sexy.
Globalstar or Iridium which are SpaceX partners
If you spend as much time reading the early 1950s documentation of the nuclear industry, you'll quickly see that commercial nuclear reactor development was very much decoupled from the graphite or heavy-water moderated bomb-making reactors. They separated around 1953 and never came back together. Back then, the fledgling industry was wondering if they could sell excess plutonium for bombs, but the government said that they were not interested in buying it. They said they had more than enough coming from their own specialized bomb-making reactors.

Certainly nuclear tech was subsidized originally by the Manhattan project, but very soon after, bomb making and nuclear power went their separate ways.

You could much more strongly argue that the nuclear reactor development made to power submarines helped develop the commercial nuclear power industry. This checks out much more cleanly, as Shippingport was led by Rickover himself.
I am using Kotlin with Quarkus for my healthtech startup (founded last year), mainly because it just works. JVM is a very optimised piece of software, and it can handle almost anything you throw at it. And I like writing Kotlin, which I think is more expressive compared to something like Go, while being less verbose than Java. Contrary to popular opinion of not touching ORMs, I use Hibernate, and it might be the best ORM available. None other ORM library comes close - but that's just my opinion. Sure, I can handwrite SQL queries, but as a startup, my data schema is always changing and I don't want to spend my time updating those raw queries when Hibernate can do it for me. I use it at my day job as well.
I use a mix of sublime and vscode.
I often pick sublime, because I want peace of mind.
I trust it to not try to make me 'do something else'. It (mostly) doesn't pester me with things to update or that are out-of-date, it doesn't run or fail with weird things in the background I didn't ask it to do.
It sticks to a minimal layout.
I had a similar love relationship with early versions of paintshop-pro - it contained the right balance of 'enough to do what you need, but not too much to overwhelm you'.
Whenever I ran into a too-new version of paintshop-pro, I closed it again because I didn't want to deal with their lost-sense-of-balance.
Sublime for me is like that, it is a hammer where the head won't suddenly fall off.

I had an eye-opening experience with VSCode recently:
I had brought one of my laptops on a car drive, where I had a few hours before the people (family) I chauffeured would come back, and I had a coding project I wanted to update some stuff on.
The kicker: I didn't have internet in the car,
but for local vscode editing, that shouldn't be a problem, right(?) At least, I had not thought it would be.

Well, for some reason, VSCode suddenly became stupid. It could not longer figure out
where my methods and classes were defined, so I had to navigate my code-base by hand (god forbid).
It also flashed something about not being able to connect to "dot net" / ".NET" or something similar.
I am not quite sure what was going on, maybe copilot..?
Whatever, my VSCode was in a mode where it seemed to rely on some online resource to operate,
and suddenly had become braindead by severing the cord..??

This reminds me why I like sublime.
I believe they might be facetious.
https://archive.md/74wBh

For those who don't want to access an HTTP-only site on their network.
Yeah, that's true, it's very hard to stand out or know how good someone actually is through a short CV.

> not the actual business value of what I’m doing
Assuming that you are not willingly going to work for a company that does harm (i.e. gambling, borderline scams, etc.), most businesses should actually provide some sort of value to some people (otherwise they wouldn't have revenue).

Yes, working for a medical company who tries to cure cancer is a meaningful mission, but so is for a company creating entertainment (games/movies), educational content or even for companies that simply aid other companies in achieving their goals, or slightly improving people's lives.

I think the least meaningful type of work is actually the one that has a meaningful but unachievable mission. Like "web3 decentralization". Yes, the idea sounds nice, but if it's impossible or impractical to reach the goal, it doesn't really do any good either, or can even turn it into a harmful process.

Meaning doesn't only come from the business goals themselves, but also from the people you work with. You can still find meaning in helping those around you.

I am not disagreeing with you, but I was raised and spent my life being a coder. If my sole goal in life was to help people (instead of enjoying the coding/creation process), I would have become a medic or something with a clear purpose.
You could almost use the same coding style, typically you don’t what to leak data between handler threads in Java so you can write in similar fashion where you start from scratch at every request.

But Java has more ceremony with the stricter type system.

A bigger problem (at least with older Java versions) is string building and templating. You typically do a lot of string stuff in web development.

Deployments and dependency management are worse with the wars and the jars and how to build them.

PHP is closer to the metal so to speak where many APIs are thin layers around various C libraries, e.g I find working with database (JDBC?) in Java annoying. I feels like Java is it’s own island in that way.

Java’s plus is better performance for CPU heavy tasks, connection pooling and easier when you do things asynchronous. Streams are a plus too. But those things are not important enough to pick Java over PHP IMHO.
If I recall correctly, that's one of the well documented places where I had understood the fact that the concorde wasn't profitable, and would more or less never by in its current context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBvPue70l8

Which isn't to say Boom may not succeed.
UCSB. One of the most liberal universities in the world. Seems like a potentially biased liberal source.

Title of article starts with the word “fact sheet”. Uh-oh red flag in my book. Reeks of elitism and overconfidence.

First paragraph starts by making excuses for Biden because there was an epidemic and labels it as a “historic” recovery.

Is that really the best you could come up with? How is this any better than a right wing rag starting off with the Hunter Biden story?
Will there be a way to disable this?
> Your Phone is why you don't feel sexy

Talking about phones, having pictures with humans.

But i agree. 20 years ago phones had a design. Now they are all coloured monolyths.
HN flags any Trump related topic almost immediately as people are still pretending this doesn't affect them and isn't worth discussing.
I love this, but I want it as a plain desktop app instead of a server + a web app. I don't want the headaches of self-hosting (regardless of whether it's on the same machine or a different machine on my network or he cloud), I just want to open an application and it works.
I can't believe Lauryl Sulfate is in nearly every toothpaste. I don't know if I'm some rare case freak, but that stuff butchers my mouth.

It takes less than three days of accidentally using toothpaste with that stuff to cause me two weeks of miserable mouth hell from all the ulcers that form.
From first principles, ignoring safety (which was pretty lacklustre in the beginning) fission should be cheap though.
I can promise you none of the artist I listen to are getting radio play.
> Starlink cares a lot about national borders

Isn't is moreso that _laws_ care a lot about national borders? And Starlink has to care about laws to operate?
Here is the ABNF:

https://preserves.dev/preserves-text.html