skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on your feedback, I've released v0.4.0.

It includes a simple react-native target to show how to do it. To make things easier to understand, I've also revamped the documentation, added a Guide to create your own target and enhanced the Tutorial with a RN target.

Finally, I've added the Tutorial code in the repo for whoever wants to browse it without necessarily performing all the steps.

Thanks a lot again for your feedback. My email is open :)
> The point is: there isn't a "right" way.

I can tell you at least one “wrong way” though, which is to completely ignore it and pretend it doesn’t exist.

That’s what my parents did and it’s extremely frustrating to deal with as an adult. Logically I understand there’s no value in living in the past, but the “what if” thoughts will nag me forever.

What if instead of failing out of high school and getting a GED, I could have been an honor roll student and go to the college of my dreams? Things like that.

The other problem is that I somehow lucked into a great, well-paying career, so now they just say “what’s the problem, everything worked out!”.
I’m getting some strong Kony vibes here.
I'm going to add that Susan Faludi wrote about "Backlash" in 1991

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlash:_The_Undeclared_War_A...

and she wrote "Stiffed" about the problem of men in 1999,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiffed:_The_Betrayal_of_the_A...

There is a case study in that second book about Stanley, a brand that represented masculinity and how it's trajectory reflected the decline of men, in recent years Stanley has become a symbol of female-gendered consumerism.
Finally the emacs and vim communities are united!!!
Last fall I built a new workstation with an EPYC 9274F (24C Zen4 4.1-4.3GHz, $2400), 384GB 12 x 32GB DDR5-4800 RDIMM ($1600), and a Gigabyte MZ33-AR0 motherboard. I'm slowly populating with GPUs (including using C-Payne MCIO gen5 adapters), not focused on memory, but I did spend some time recently poking at it.

I spent extra on the 9274F because of some published benchmarks [1] that showed that the 9274F had STREAM TRIAD results of 395 GB/s (on 460.8 GB/s of theoretical peak memory bandwidth), however sadly, my results have been nowhere near that. I did testing with LIKWID, Sysbench, and llama-bench, and even w/ an updated BIOS and NUMA tweaks, I was getting <1/2 the Fujitsu benchmark numbers:

Results for results-f31-l3-srat:
{
"likwid_copy": 172.293857421875,
"likwid_stream": 173.132177734375,
"likwid_triad": 172.4758203125,
"sysbench_memory_read_gib": 191.199125,
"llama_llama-2-7b.Q4_0": {
"tokens_per_second": 38.361456,
"model_size_gb": 3.5623703002929688,
"mbw": 136.6577115303955
}
}

For those interested in all the system details/running their own tests (also MLC and PMBW results among others): https://github.com/AUGMXNT/speed-benchmarking/tree/main/epyc...

[1] https://sp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/Publications/public/wp-perfor...
They cancled my trip to India for budget reasons just before they mandated wfo. nobody on my team works from the same office as me (other than my boss)

i'd complain more except I bike to the office and thus I'm getting exercise that I'd otherwise put off.
Yep. When I was working at AWS ProServe (consulting department), until mid 2022, I could just tell my manager I need to fly out to a customer site and AWS would pay for it. The same if I wanted to meet some of ny team in person we could just all fly out to an office.

That all changed later where we had to get approval from our skip skip manager for travel on the company dime.
zstd is a great setup, for sure, but the build system they use is patently awful. Can someone make an autoconf or hell, even CMake build system for them pleasee???
> You spend an inordinate amount of time trying to organize it

I mean, I don't. I've been doing Go for well over 10 years, so I'm well aware of the limitation and intentionally avoid running into it. "Well I hate that!" Yeah, we know. What can you do about it? Use something else.

In a past life, I taught Perl classes at companies that use Perl. One time I was explaining the advanced parts of @INC (the module lookup configuration/resolution order variable). One student hated it to the point of tears. They could not live with a programming language that had an @INC variable. Nothing I can do about that. It does. Get over it, or don't get over it. Those are the only two options.
Don’t worry, it is a matter of great doctrinal import that all scientific datasets be replaced with datasets that have been properly refined in accordance with scripture. /s

Maybe this administration will get better over time?
I don't think you always have to be on camera and a cell call is sometimes just fine. But, given that we have the technology, especially for genuinely interactive calls, I agree that people should generally default to video on. And, to the degree that there are face to face offsites, I think you need a really good reason not to attend--and "I don't want to" is not that good reason.
> nearly-unhinged celebrity

I have a theory that they had to cast him as characters named "Charlie" who are PG versions of Charlie Sheen so he doesn't get confused.
It seems like the biggest blocker for hiring is location selection.
I mean, they are ending support for windows 10 in a few months. Win 10 is pushing users to upgrade pretty hard. It's not surprising to me more people are on it now than before

People who are jumping ship won't show in the numbers until Windows 10 is at end-of-life.

We would need to compare percentage of Windows 10 user in 2020 to Windows 11 users in ~2026 to get a sense of the impact
>It’s not a low level management decision

wait, what?

In bigger companies teams are autonomous, they arent asking CEO if they can use Java or if they can work remotely.
"Our labor is our greatest STRENGTH"

IF all you have to offer is your labor, you are completely fungible. You have almost no power as there is almost always someone else who can do what you do.

You need to find ways to deliver more value if you want more control.
Related:

Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42827723
Nah, 20 years ago there was a panic at the data center when I showed up on Halloween in drag with 4 inch high heels, fishnet stockings and a crop top. They rethought all the security policies. The microexpressions I saw on some people's faces indicated it wasn't a completely safe thing to do.

Today I don't have the figure for it, but I think it is even less safe because of the polarization that has been driven by people's need for polarization.
Sorry, I forgot about the submission rule for dating older posts. This is from 2020. From an annotation in the post:

> This essay was written in April 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic which has all but shut down travel to the United States...
That’s the software platform used to deploy it
What is the antidote?
I would have to upgrade my machine to run windows 11. I would rather not as it’s perfectly adequate for my needs.
Except when the co-worker you need to collaborate with is doing their laundry, gardening, or picking their kid up from school.
The text doesn't read as if he's blaming his parents for anything. It seems to be a pretty neutral acknowledgement of past harms so he can move past them. Any "blame" you're reading into it is purely coming from your own perspective. He's pretty explicit about that:

> Yet I forgave: I have other things to attend to if I truly want to get over what happened.

I'd say his recovery/therapy is going pretty well. His perspective on the situation seems healthier than yours.
Great description of ISBN format description and visualization. TIL that 978- prefix was “Bookland” ie a fictional country prefix that may be thought of as “Earth”. It has expanded to 979- which was originally “Musicland”.

This probably means that in the (hopefully near) future where we have extraterrestrial publishing (most likely in the Moon or Mars) we’ll need another prefix.
I unironically think they should be. It will never happen, but one can dream.
I read every 1990s Cypherpunk email
So why didn't it work?
Sure this "Unihemispheric sleep" stuff cannot have helped any pre-existing issues, but I think we shouldn't discount the existence of those issues which predate what amounts to cult indoctrination.
I've experimented a bit with bzip3, and I think the results in the readme are not representative. I think it's a handmade pick, with an uncommon input and unfair choices of parameters. And it's made with a HDD, which skews the results even more.

For instance, with a 800 MB SQL file, for the same compression time and optimal parameters (within my capacity), bzip3 produced a smaller file (5.7 % compression ration) than zstd (6.1 % with `--long -15`). But the decompression was about 20× slower (with all cores or just one).

I'm not claim my stupid benchmark is better or even right. It's just that my results were very different from bzip3's readme. So I'm suspicious.
Kinda? We all have bills to pay sure, but I also don’t want to spend my time working on something that doesn’t really need me.
The risk of deployments isn’t entirely technical. Depending on your business and customer base it might be necessary for some groups to have access to the feature earlier or later than others.
> those uncommon skills help make someone be a good controller

Societies hiring norms are broken.

Everyone spends years at school before (a) being filtered by experts for aptitude, or (b) filtering themselves for fit. It is so sad to see teachers, lawyers, engineers, everyone waste years to discover they don't like a job or the job doesn't like them. The cost to society is percentage points of GDP.

Even worse is that nobody encourages us to quickly test different disciplines and discover unobvious fits. Internship or volunteer is the closest and requires me to do a lot of high-risk heavy lifting. Maybe I'd love being a teacher and maybe I'd be great at it. Who knows?
Another (small) plane crashed in Philadelphia today. That's two in a couple days.
Raytracing decent scenes was a big CPU hog in the 80s/90s for me. I'd have to leave single frames running overnight.
If you believe not being on video is enough for going back to RTO and if you comply, they will just find another absurd reason to go back to RTO.
Does it make any sense to have specialized models, which could possibly be a lot smaller. Say a model that just translates between English and Spanish, or maybe a model that just understands unix utilities and bash. I don’t know if limiting the training content affects the ultimate output quality or model size.
My Journey Beyond the 9-5: Why I Started My Business
Blue Ghost lunar lander is documenting its journey to the moon
The megacorps are reporting billions in AI revenue. Does that typically count stuff like this where it’s dark-patterned in? The Google Workspace thing where it’s a support ticket to make it even have a switch would be another example.

It’s starting to seem like admitting people hate this stuff poses a systemic risk to the whole economy, which historically means John Q Taxpayer is about to pick up the tab.
In 2024, US companies exported $137.8 million to Mozambique, and imported $201.7 million from that country[0]. If that country were crippled by a healthcare crisis, that's less business for companies in the US and other countries that also deal with the US. Supply chains, interconnectedness, and all that. It also helps to have allies across the world. Allies who have close ties with our health agencies, and might tell us about potential outbreaks of infectious diseases. Or terrorist organizations. Also, have you noticed terrorists mostly come from countries with shattered economies and weak governments? Not to mention that STDs are contagious and don't stay home when the host travels internationally.

International politics is complicated. Anyone who shows you a single line item without context is deceiving you. Especially if the number is related to sex and a disease associated with promiscuity. That's a red flag. Their stats may be true, but their stated goal isn't.

[0]: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c7870.html
Only if animals run algorithms too. AI models are stochastic and dynamic. Algorithms are usually understood to be heuristics, fixed.
Myffmpeg Renames to FfMediaMaster and Updates
A great video tool for windows, which often is overlooked for other tools. There is also a Mac version https://www.ffworks.net/.

A great swiss army knife of video tools as a GUI front end on FFMPEG.

I am not connected to the company - but I needed to use it today, so I thought I would share.
A reason to use feature flag third party services is for the analytics and insights into the user behaviour. Such services cost a lot but might be worth it if you don't have the resources to build such an infrastructure.
A lot of the debugging ends up with "whatever, don't have time to find the cause, do X instead" which is super disappointing.
This sounds like an integration issue: systems like LaunchDarkly typically allow you to specify a default value for when the feature flag server can’t be reached.
I agree.

Two or three tweaks to register like right-click context menu, search, and Windows 11 is pretty good, I'd say.

I've been using it privately for months and professionally and the only thing that bothers me is that on my corpo laptop the Windows search is slow, but I bet that's because of corpo crap, not the Windows itself because on my home PC it is robust.
Funny. Whiteboarding, for me has always been the fastest way to discuss complex ideas. I've never been able to replicate this speed with remote people (and I've tried several tools).
>I know we’re supposed to be tech focused but I see no posts regarding the situation at large.

There have been plenty, but Hacker News has been very assiduous in flagging every one.

A lot of people support the current regime and have vested interests, political and financial, in normalizing what they want to be the new status quo.

A lot of people simply don't care unless it affects them personally, or they're simply in shock.

Either way, it's politics and Hacker News interprets politics as intellectual damage and tries to route around it. Not much one can do, this isn't a free speech platform, it's a curated speech platform.
First week we had mass deportation, second week we've heard of the building of concentration camps for undesirables, and now the modern version of book burning. There's something different about this republican government.
Boxers on with a Tshirt for the cam
My experience with my ADHD diagnosis and the 25 years of Adderall that followed have left me jaded at the state of psychiatry.

The focus of my attention does indeed change at a rate which is faster than average. If something can distract me from a task, then it usually does, at least for a few moments. But why is this classified as a deficiency and a disorder? In other words, why is directed attention considered the normal human experience?

To me, it seems obvious. My attention is considered deficient because we have constructed a society in which we expect children as young as 8 (that was the age I was diagnosed) to focus in a classroom on highly abstract topics (history, language, math, etc.) for hours at a time without issue. If a child can’t meet that expectation, then they will be medicated until they do.

But if we lived in a different society, especially one set in pre-modern times, then my kind of attention might not be considered a disorder. It could even be advantageous. How many early humans suffered a premature death because their hyper-focus on gathering berries left them oblivious to the rustling of leaves?
Delaware faces exodus of tech companies
That is a really unsupportable conclusion.

As an extreme example just to make the point undeniable, your parents could have poisoned you, ending your life. Or they could have maimed you and left you unable to walk, or to see. And those are just gross examples.

Parents have a huge impact in an unknowable number of ways. Yours did on you, too.
At Doordash, we regularly do it and interface with these tools to build custom solutions.
CO2 emissions from the gasoline does not account for the energy necessary to refine the oil to produce it. These days refineries use electricity for that so if that comes from a coal plant, it adds like 25% of CO2 emission. So the best sedan is pretty much equivalent in the carbon emission to Tesla when that car uses electricity from an old coal plant with 30% efficiency.
Well we're apes with a brain supposedly better than other apes brains no? Letting us plan in advance and anticipate consequences, right?

We banned crack and mandated seat belts, cracks feels reallllllly good and seat belts are annoying

I guess it depends on if you see humanity as a horde of dumb beasts drugged on sex, sugar and alcohol or a collective of relatively smart individuals capable of taking collectively smart decisions for their greater good.
Yes. We aren't talking past each other anymore. If you aren't composing a "salted hash" out of a cryptographic hash function and a salt, but are instead using bcrypt, scrypt, PBKDF2, or Argon2, you have nothing to worry about. Just to complete your understanding: the salt --- randomizing the hash --- has very little to do with what makes bcrypt a good password hash.

You'll avoid this confusion in the future if you don't refer to bcrypt as a "salted hash". Salted hashes are the technology bcrypt was invented to replace.
Collecting names without revealing theirs and vague demands. Seems like a fed honeypot.
I have worked for the second largest employer in the US until late 2023. RTO five days a week was a top down mandate and managers had no say so.

I was there during the first mandate. But I had a “field by design” role that was exempted. Those roles lost that exemption this year according to some of my old coworkers.
> IF all you have to offer is your labor, you are completely fungible

Historically this hasn’t been the case, strikes and unions have given us the modern workers rights we all enjoy today. What’s changed that makes you feel this way?
ok, but what are you striking for?

I mean I can guess, but the site doesn't make it clear.

I would gently suggest that you need to focus on your messaging more. You need, like MAGA a key goal.
If you view the products as prayer, worship and reflection... yeah, probably ridiculously productive.
On the contrary, I don't think government should be limiting access to education. But for publicly funded schools we should continuously re-evaluate the optimal required (i.e. non-elective) curriculum. Students only have limited time available to learn. Time spent on one subject like comparative literature is time not spent on other subjects like philosophy or statistics or foreign languages. So, given that it's a zero-sum game, what is the optimal amount of time spent on comparative literature? At some point you have to put aside the platitudes about "knowledge for knowledge's sake" and get to specifics about how many teachers to hire in each academic field.

There are very few for-profit colleges that offer liberal arts degree. Almost all colleges that pay academics to teach comparative literature are government or non-profit institutions. (Sure, you can buy an English degree of dubious quality from a for-profit school like University of Phoenix but the numbers there are tiny.)

Illiteracy is a symptom of a fundamental breakdown in the primary education system before students are even exposed to more complex liberal arts subjects like comparative literature. So I have no idea what point you're trying to make there.
Wow, this is some new kind of silly.

Let me know when the strike is supposed to happen so I can laugh when nothing happens.
> A plane and helicopter over DC came within 500' ... They avoided collision because they were over 1000' and the TCAS was still active

That's not an example of why air travel is dangerous, that's an example of why air travel is safe.
The old meaning of the word "deprecate" meant to "pray against," or "to pray for deliverance from". As a software developer, I have always found this fact amusing. Software becomes deprecated not when it is actually limited or removed, but when the developers and maintainers begin to pray that God will deliver them from it.
On a busy day, I resented it sometimes. And there were a few who, when I got a call from them, I silently sighed. But, as a product manager, keeping field people happy was part of my job and I mostly did.
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
With such a wide set of goals, this won't go far. They are limiting themselves to people that agree with all of that.
True, but it's the same for a human driver.
We are still living in a world where most people think Apple is still a Jobs-era company. Changes in public perception happen after years of inertia.

Anybody who's opened the App Store or Apple News at any point in the past several years can see the design and ads are just as spammy and ugly as Google and Facebook. anybody without their head innthe sand can see the Apple Intelligence rollout has been as bad as Apple Maps in 2011, and that dark patterns used to opt people in suggest Apple is waving the same AI magic wand at their share price as every other tech company.
I think the underlying problem here is that despite what the stock market would have you believe, sales are down, moral is down, and many industries are experiencing light to moderate headwinds.

RTO is an (desperate) attempt to resuscitate businesses experiencing economic woes.
Consumer Financial Watchdog Who Drew Ire of Banks Fired
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/trump-fires-consumer-...
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If you don't pay taxes and get a bunch of donations, I guess is hard not to be productive.
And the bad design has severely limited our ability to self-correct.
Or just wait for the NVIDIA Digits PC later this year which will cost the ~same amount and can fit on your desk