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41,807,800 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T09:22:49 | null | null | null | null | 41,807,615 | 41,807,615 | null | null | true | null |
41,807,801 | comment | mahin | 2024-10-11T09:22:49 | null | I combined all the books mentioned here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41807759">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41807759</a> | null | null | 41,756,432 | 41,756,432 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,802 | comment | nh2 | 2024-10-11T09:23:07 | null | This is wrong:<p>> Email addresses are case-insensitive.<p>From <a href="https://thecopenhagenbook.com/email-verification" rel="nofollow">https://thecopenhagenbook.com/email-verification</a><p>The email standard says they are case sensitive.<p>If you lowercase emails during send operations, the wrong person may get the email. That's bad for auth.<p>Some (many) popular email providers choose to offer only case-insensitive emails. But a website about general auth should recommend the general case.<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9807909/are-email-addresses-case-sensitive" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9807909/are-email-addres...</a><p>Side remark: It is not always clear/obvious what's the other case of a given character is, and may change over time. For example, the German capital ß was added in 2008 to Unicode. So it's best to avoid case sensitivity where you can, in general programming. | null | null | 41,801,883 | 41,801,883 | null | [
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41,807,803 | comment | scheeseman486 | 2024-10-11T09:23:11 | null | Wine and DXVK are already running on Android and they play Windows games with the rendering and computational complexity of Fallout 4 at playable framerates on many of the latest smartphone SoCs. It's still WIP, but it's already gone beyond proof of concept, people are using them. Valve don't need the developers to be on-board in order to run their games on anything else, that's why Proton exists.<p>What Valve want is the dissolution between platform/architecture and store. By my eye, it's the driving force of their efforts, more so than them selling hardware or being the open source good guys. Not to undervalue their work in helping make Linux a first class citizen for gaming, but the core of their business model is getting people to engage with their store, full stop, and being able to sell their games on Android (and elsewhere) would massively extend their reach.<p>This may go both ways too, there's also been indications that Valve have been tinkering with Waydroid, meaning Steam could also become a store for Android-native games. | null | null | 41,806,862 | 41,799,068 | null | [
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41,807,804 | comment | yread | 2024-10-11T09:23:24 | null | Even flying cars are a better (ok, less worse) solution than the stupid tunnels. But Musk is not selling those yet | null | null | 41,807,416 | 41,805,515 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,805 | comment | valianteffort | 2024-10-11T09:23:37 | null | I played through the entirety of Elden Ring and its DLC on my macbook pro through GPTK which is a pretty modern and demanding game. Don't think that would be possible on asahi. | null | null | 41,803,559 | 41,799,068 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,806 | comment | codr7 | 2024-10-11T09:23:38 | null | You're describing a world that doesn't exist from my experience writing booking systems.<p>Getting time zone conversions right all the way through the stack is far from trivial, which is why I prefer to do it in one place and keep the rest of the system out of it. | null | null | 41,793,946 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,807 | comment | marcyb5st | 2024-10-11T09:23:38 | null | I agree with you, but as the article mentioned, if you need to finetune a small/medium model you really don't need clusters. Getting a whole server with 8/16x H100s is more than enough. And I also believe with the article when it states that most companies are finetuning some version of llama/open-weights models today. | null | null | 41,806,180 | 41,805,446 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,808 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T09:23:47 | null | null | null | null | 41,807,794 | 41,807,794 | null | null | true | null |
41,807,809 | comment | ignoramous | 2024-10-11T09:24:07 | null | The peace prize is being awarded to a Japanese organization that advocates nuclear non-proliferation, as the committee emphasizes its urgent importance amid two ongoing wars, in which one belligerent threatens to use nuclear weapons while in another one probably has.<p>But the committee ostensibly fails to call out that nuclear weapons come in all shapes and sizes (they are not just big bad bombs), as the US, world's largest weapons manufacturer, both uses it and sells it to its allies: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7903104/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7903104/</a> / <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2015-003481_EN.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2015-00348...</a> | null | null | 41,807,681 | 41,807,681 | null | [
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41,807,810 | comment | pieterbeulque | 2024-10-11T09:24:26 | null | Anecdotally, I don't know anyone that uses files on their iPhone, and I don't really understand it myself either. | null | null | 41,807,649 | 41,801,334 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,811 | story | palebt | 2024-10-11T09:24:27 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,807,811 | null | null | null | true |
41,807,812 | comment | jampekka | 2024-10-11T09:24:34 | null | It took EU enforcement eight years to enforce obvious violations of the law for a few companies. The illegal nags are still rampant.<p>And e.g. Meta (and many newspapers) already has a new obviously illegal tracking scheme with the "pay to not track".<p>The intended effect of GDPR would have been easily gotten with legally binding do-not-track and similar automated means. Very few people want to be tracked, but most of them are against their true consent. | null | null | 41,803,276 | 41,797,719 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,813 | comment | walthamstow | 2024-10-11T09:25:11 | null | I visited the Hiroshima museum last year. They've got a set of stone steps, a person was sat there when the bomb went off and they were simply vaporised. The stone steps bear the residue of the person, almost like a shadow. | null | null | 41,807,681 | 41,807,681 | null | [
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41,807,814 | comment | dspillett | 2024-10-11T09:25:15 | null | <i>> Screens are difficult for older eyes to read.</i><p>For my Dad, we got him a “simple phone” – it basically does calls and texts, has big buttons in pretty much the style of old Nokia phones but chunkier. The screen is larger and higher resolution than those, so the text is nice and clear. It works really well for him in terms of being able to cope with it with his eyes and getting the job done.<p><i>> Every app has a cloud service</i><p>And that phone doesn't run apps at all… For things beyond calls and texts¹ he uses a laptop, largely keeping with the files/folders metaphor and no extra apps.<p>----<p>[1] managing his banking, certain shopping though he often instead asks one of us to do that as he is wary or falling into scam sites, facebook for more passively getting news on what family a-far is getting up to, his collection of digital photos (he used to take a lot), and such | null | null | 41,805,811 | 41,801,334 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,815 | comment | flir | 2024-10-11T09:25:18 | null | The nurdles mostly come from the manufacture of Nurgles. | null | null | 41,807,710 | 41,806,629 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,816 | story | dalance | 2024-10-11T09:25:23 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,807,816 | null | null | null | true |
41,807,817 | comment | haspok | 2024-10-11T09:25:36 | null | "Tesla sold more Cybertrucks than almost all other EV trucks combined" - in July, you forgot to add<p>"The Cybertruck was the best-selling $100,000+ vehicle in July" - there you go | null | null | 41,807,771 | 41,805,706 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,818 | story | blueeon | 2024-10-11T09:25:46 | Show HN: Markdown to Poster Image Editor | Create elegant graphic posters with Markdown for free.
Edit using Markdown, flexible and real-time preview, supports export as images. Supports multiple ReadPo poster templates and themes. Provides a free poster rendering API that can be integrated into your website, Bot, ChatGPT, Coze, and other platforms. | https://readpo.com/en/poster | 2 | null | 41,807,818 | 1 | [
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41,807,819 | comment | roschdal | 2024-10-11T09:25:53 | null | [flagged] | null | null | 41,807,681 | 41,807,681 | null | [
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41,807,820 | comment | wasma | 2024-10-11T09:25:55 | null | Looks so. | null | null | 41,807,601 | 41,806,852 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,821 | comment | pvg | 2024-10-11T09:26:16 | null | You could edit the title to start with 'Show HN:' instead of 'Launch:' so it shows up in the feedbacky places of the site, more info here <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html">https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html</a> | null | null | 41,807,784 | 41,807,783 | null | [
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41,807,822 | comment | pjmlp | 2024-10-11T09:26:16 | null | In modern times the closest we have to Inferno is Android, which traces back to Bell Labs original goal to target Inferno against Sun's Java efforts on the market.<p>Pity that most Plan 9 afficionados usually always forget about Inferno, with Limbo being the re-consideration that dropping Alef from Plan 9, or designing it without automatic memory management in first place was a mistake.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alef_(programming_language)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alef_(programming_language)</a> | null | null | 41,805,323 | 41,777,995 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,823 | comment | pyrale | 2024-10-11T09:26:28 | null | I have no issue with this laureate, but it is sad that the comittee could not find someone deserving that is working on a more current conflict. I guess this is not a positive outlook for the current state international conflicts. | null | null | 41,807,681 | 41,807,681 | null | [
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41,807,824 | comment | sapiogram | 2024-10-11T09:26:31 | null | It's paywalled, is there a way to actually read it? | null | null | 41,799,674 | 41,757,701 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,825 | comment | hnbad | 2024-10-11T09:26:35 | null | Also, we know that some of those pre-human species interbed and co-mingled with each other. The dynamics between tribes is also completely different from modern racism.<p>Just ascribing behavior we observe in humans to "human nature" is a thought-terminating cliché and prevents looking deeper into how we got here and why. Modern society didn't pop into existence fully baked and that goes as much for the good (which we rightly laud as important achievements we need to preserve) as it does for the bad (which we often just describe as "human nature" to avoid challenging our assumptions).<p>If everything bad is human nature, there's literally no way to improve things. If everything bad is human nature <i>but only for certain people</i>, that's one step away from arguing that the only way to improve things is through genocide. | null | null | 41,786,694 | 41,785,265 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,826 | comment | wasma | 2024-10-11T09:26:50 | null | This is amazing! It'll be like having my own team on the Football Manager tactics page :D | null | null | 41,806,852 | 41,806,852 | null | [
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41,807,827 | comment | aetherspawn | 2024-10-11T09:27:00 | null | Is MS Teams channels really so bad that we’d pay $16/mo per user for something else? | null | null | 41,805,009 | 41,805,009 | null | [
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41,807,828 | comment | shiroiushi | 2024-10-11T09:27:19 | null | Don't forget that a lot of the crazies are carrying guns, thanks to America's obsession with "gun freedom". | null | null | 41,806,774 | 41,804,460 | null | [
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41,807,829 | comment | blueeon | 2024-10-11T09:27:33 | null | It's free, here are some examples: <a href="https://x.com/BlueeonY/status/1813255256396242980" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/BlueeonY/status/1813255256396242980</a> | null | null | 41,807,818 | 41,807,818 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,830 | comment | thimabi | 2024-10-11T09:27:42 | null | Congratulations to Nihon Hidankyo!<p>As said in the announcement, even 80 years after those bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we still need to highlight the dangers of nuclear weapons.<p>The threat and use of such weapons is still allowed by customary international law. Maybe movements like this will help change this sad fact. There has been progress in this direction. However, of course, nuclear-weapon states have been vehemently opposed to that, although they are obliged to negotiate a general and complete nuclear disarmament. | null | null | 41,807,681 | 41,807,681 | null | [
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41,807,831 | comment | slhck | 2024-10-11T09:27:45 | null | Since when is the WordPress ecosystem this … bad? I built WP websites 10-15 years ago and it was a quite straightforward experience back then. These days, there seems to be no around themes and plugins that all have very limited free versions, and constantly nag you about upgrading to the pro version, in a million different styles of banners and popups. Hosting providers have made it easier to deploy WordPress in a one-click manner, but anything beyond a basic page (sending email, backups, contact forms) already turns into a nightmare. No thanks! | null | null | 41,805,391 | 41,805,391 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,832 | comment | rcxdude | 2024-10-11T09:28:58 | null | It does feel like joint rotations are probably not a great representation for processing animation data. And it's not generally how the motion is captured, nor does it seem to be how the human eye analyses it. But I don't know what an alternative would look like, and I'm pretty sure smarter people than I have spent a lot of time thinking about it. | null | null | 41,800,049 | 41,797,462 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,833 | story | markwilliam8860 | 2024-10-11T09:29:08 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,807,833 | null | [
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41,807,834 | comment | markwilliam8860 | 2024-10-11T09:29:08 | null | [dead] | null | null | 41,807,833 | 41,807,833 | null | null | null | true |
41,807,835 | comment | vineyardmike | 2024-10-11T09:29:17 | null | Sorry, I should have been more clear.<p>They’re decreasing demand for expensive GPUs that would be required to train a model. Fine-tuning and inference are less compute intense, so overall demand for top-end GPU performance is decreased even if inference compute demand is increased.<p>Basically, why train an LLM from scratch, and spend millions on GPUs, when you can fine tune LLAMA and spend hundreds instead. | null | null | 41,807,691 | 41,805,446 | null | [
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41,807,836 | story | kleiba | 2024-10-11T09:29:18 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,807,836 | null | null | null | true |
41,807,837 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T09:29:22 | null | null | null | null | 41,807,011 | 41,807,011 | null | null | true | null |
41,807,838 | comment | BoppreH | 2024-10-11T09:29:24 | null | And startup time. JIT languages are a bad match for command line applications, for example. | null | null | 41,806,376 | 41,787,041 | null | [
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41,807,839 | comment | blueeon | 2024-10-11T09:29:31 | null | any unique features? | null | null | 41,807,783 | 41,807,783 | null | [
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41,807,840 | comment | exitb | 2024-10-11T09:29:33 | null | It's probably also an interesting challange to implement an emulator.<p>I was hoping that Uxn could eventually be a vehicle to get rich, graphical apps onto less popular operating systems, like Plan 9 (which they support). While their 1st-party roms are great, the wave of software never came. | null | null | 41,807,636 | 41,777,995 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,841 | comment | thrownawaysz | 2024-10-11T09:29:38 | null | If I were a gambling man I'd put some money on a chinese professor getting the economics Nobel Prize | null | null | 41,807,681 | 41,807,681 | null | [
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41,807,842 | comment | fragmede | 2024-10-11T09:29:59 | null | Ed Zitron's analysis hinges on a lot of assumptions. Much of it comes down to the question of how much it actually costs to run a single inference of ChatGPT. That $20/month pro subscription could be a loss-leader or it could be making money, depending on the numbers you want to use. If you play with the numbers, and compare it to, say, $2/hr for an H100 currently on the front page, $20/$2/hr gets you 10 hours of GPU time before it costs more in hardware than your subscription, and then factoring in overhead on top, it's just not clear. | null | null | 41,806,926 | 41,805,446 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,843 | comment | wruza | 2024-10-11T09:30:01 | null | The worst anti-pattern here is the catch- and finally-blocks living in a different scope.<p>Really, who thought it was a good idea that finalization and error handling blocks must have no access to their subject scope? Every damn language copies that nonsense, except for js and its `var` hoisting. | null | null | 41,804,584 | 41,787,041 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,844 | comment | OutOfHere | 2024-10-11T09:30:08 | null | Somehow I suspect it is targeted disinfo for a political cause; truth be dammed. When they can't win by truth, they try to win by targeted viral lies. It's as if Cambridge Analytica were reborn for 2024, targeting individuals with custom lies that they will fall for. In the future, we can look forward to realistic fake videos to go with these lies. | null | null | 41,807,121 | 41,807,121 | null | [
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41,807,845 | story | mitchbob | 2024-10-11T09:30:20 | 'Founder Mode' Explains the Rise of Trump in Silicon Valley | null | https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/opinion/silicon-valley-musk-trump-andreessen.html | 8 | null | 41,807,845 | 1 | [
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41,807,846 | comment | ptman | 2024-10-11T09:30:24 | null | There's always C if you prefer your language to work like C.<p>Go is supposed to be an improvement over C for most programming tasks. | null | null | 41,801,131 | 41,769,275 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,847 | comment | mitchbob | 2024-10-11T09:30:27 | null | <a href="https://archive.ph/ATp8B" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/ATp8B</a> | null | null | 41,807,845 | 41,807,845 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,848 | comment | shiroiushi | 2024-10-11T09:30:39 | null | Do those Christians advocate burning unbelievers at the stake?<p>Luckily, these days, you'd have a very, very hard time finding any Christian who publicly advocates this, but centuries ago it was rather common. | null | null | 41,805,923 | 41,804,460 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,849 | comment | vineyardmike | 2024-10-11T09:30:40 | null | That’s the point. You can run inference on a 4090 but training is better on a H100. If you use llama, you don’t need to train on an H100, so you can free that supply up for meta. | null | null | 41,807,776 | 41,805,446 | null | [
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41,807,850 | comment | znpy | 2024-10-11T09:30:55 | null | I would have called it OpenPress, but that's just me :) | null | null | 41,804,706 | 41,804,706 | null | [
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41,807,851 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T09:31:07 | null | null | null | null | 41,807,740 | 41,807,740 | null | null | true | null |
41,807,852 | comment | ETH_start | 2024-10-11T09:31:24 | null | If you can't recognize his contributions I think you're too emotionally attached to the question. | null | null | 41,807,581 | 41,805,706 | null | [
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41,807,853 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T09:31:32 | null | null | null | null | 41,807,823 | 41,807,681 | null | null | true | null |
41,807,854 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T09:31:52 | null | null | null | null | 41,807,819 | 41,807,681 | null | null | true | null |
41,807,855 | story | agluszak | 2024-10-11T09:31:53 | Playground IT | null | https://bitslap.it/blog/posts/playground-it.html | 1 | null | 41,807,855 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,807,856 | comment | sampullman | 2024-10-11T09:32:10 | null | Burning the visible part would just make food for the roots. | null | null | 41,806,401 | 41,780,229 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,857 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T09:32:21 | null | null | null | null | 41,787,041 | 41,787,041 | null | null | true | true |
41,807,858 | comment | oliviergg | 2024-10-11T09:32:46 | null | A great solution, but a huge headache: a window in a screen that captures the mouse when you go to the edge of the screen. I wasn't ready for that. | null | null | 41,800,602 | 41,800,602 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,859 | comment | Philpax | 2024-10-11T09:32:55 | null | I would and do, but a lot of existing code (especially ML code) is Python and I find myself having to interface with it. It's not an awful lot of fun, especially when there are no annotations to record what the code expects and what it outputs. | null | null | 41,807,067 | 41,801,415 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,860 | comment | thimabi | 2024-10-11T09:32:57 | null | At a time when Russia threatens the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, Israel and Iran escalate tensions, North Korea tests missiles and warheads… it is hard not to relate the award to these circumstances.<p>Perhaps the committee thought it was best to express its opinion on current conflicts indirectly, as it has done so in the past. | null | null | 41,807,823 | 41,807,681 | null | [
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41,807,861 | comment | mrweasel | 2024-10-11T09:32:58 | null | How so? I mean I don't disagree, but more out of concern for what they'd do to Wikipedia is given the chance. | null | null | 41,799,579 | 41,797,719 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,862 | comment | novolunt | 2024-10-11T09:33:06 | null | [dead] | null | null | 41,807,813 | 41,807,681 | null | null | null | true |
41,807,863 | comment | leoedin | 2024-10-11T09:33:07 | null | As an embedded engineer sometimes working on PWM, it's interesting to think that the origin of the gate drive signals is still just some sort of microcontroller timer running at 3.3V and a few mA. I'm sure there's a few layers of level translation and isolation between the micro and the 4 MW power transistor - but it's still indistinguishable at the digital level from a circuit driving a tiny motor on my desk. | null | null | 41,807,066 | 41,757,808 | null | [
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41,807,864 | comment | Joel_Mckay | 2024-10-11T09:33:22 | null | <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases</a><p>I think the science allows people to see what the author is attempting fairly clearly. =3 | null | null | 41,780,328 | 41,780,328 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,865 | comment | zaptrem | 2024-10-11T09:33:26 | null | As someone who has done a bunch of large scale ML on hyperscaler hardware I will say the uptime is <i>nowhere near</i> 99.9999%. Given a cluster of only a few hundred GPUs one or multiple failures is a near certainty to the point where we spend a bunch of time on recovery time optimization. | null | null | 41,807,398 | 41,805,446 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,866 | comment | adrian_b | 2024-10-11T09:33:36 | null | It is quite difficult to compare the true efficiency of Apple and non-Apple computers, because only few useful applications can run on both kinds of computers and because typically those who use non-Apple computers do not have direct access to any Apple computer, while those who use Apple computers usually have never used a <i>good</i> non-Apple computer (I would not consider any of the old Intel-based Apple computers as good).<p>Of the very few benchmarks that can compare Apple with non-Apple, I have never seen any where an M3 was 2-3x more efficient than Lunar Lake, so a link would be appreciated.<p>On the contrary, most if not all benchmarks showing battery lifetimes were showing better values for Lunar Lake, implying better efficiency.<p>Other than by the battery lifetime I cannot see how you can test the efficiency of an Apple computer, except by using a power and energy measurement instrument on the wall socket, because in none of the reviews about Apple computers have I seen any mention about accurate internal power sensors exposed to the user.<p>An M3 is definitely much more efficient in single-threaded execution than Lunar Lake, which is due to having a higher IPC and a lower clock frequency.<p>On the other hand, in multithreaded applications there is very little efficiency difference between different CPU microarchitectures that are implemented in the same TSMC process. | null | null | 41,804,929 | 41,803,324 | null | [
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41,807,867 | comment | ryandv | 2024-10-11T09:33:56 | null | Moreover hard science is more or less based on at least three things: objectivity, quantifiability, and empiricism. We suppose that objective phenomena exist and can be independently verified and confirmed by other observers, using quantifiable measures to agree upon exactly what it is we are observing when conducting an experiment.<p>The issue is that the mind is by nature <i>subjective</i> and wholly private, inaccessible to outside observers. Further, whereas when conducting an experiment in physics where it becomes possible to separate the experimenter from the experiment (to an extent, observer effect and quantum mechanics notwithstanding), as regards matters of the mind the observer and the observed are one and the same <i>of necessity;</i> you are in fact part of the experiment yourself.<p>> The problem with psychology experiments is that the mind has many hidden variables which cannot be easily accounted for.<p>This is where the pillar of quantifiability breaks down, and barring advances in techniques for inspecting the brain with greater spatial and temporal resolution it's hard to see how one can quantify what cannot be directly observed.<p>Empiricism is the only aspect of the three aforementioned that can still hold up within this domain, and there is a large centuries' long tradition of studying the mind subjectively, qualitatively (as opposed to quantitatively), and yet in a still empirical fashion with falsifiable hypotheses; various mystical and meditative practices exist in this space, such as the fire kasina practice, especially as formulated by a trauma physician [0] complete with falsifiable hypotheses and steps for independent reproduction. What distinguishes practices in this space from harder sciences is that the phenomena observed are subjective, not "out in the physical world," and there does not exist any instrumentation for measuring them apart from that of your own faculties of perception.<p>As an aside I found the comparison to shamans and spiritual teachers in TFA interesting, since I have always considered psychology and spirituality to concern themselves with the same subject matter and problem domain of minds; one could say that they are both proto-sciences of mind, and psychology is the latest iteration of this tradition (though as TFA states somewhat misguided and out of touch with its roots in mysticism; on this latter point see Jung's <i>Psychology and Alchemy</i> for a discussion of where analytical psychology connects with the older esoteric traditions).<p>[0] <a href="https://firekasina.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/the-fire-kasina.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://firekasina.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/the-fire-k...</a> | null | null | 41,806,794 | 41,780,328 | null | [
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41,807,868 | comment | codr7 | 2024-10-11T09:33:59 | null | Makes everything worse for you maybe, but that gives you no right to control the discussion. Your reactions are always your responsibility. | null | null | 41,805,393 | 41,786,768 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,869 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T09:34:04 | null | null | null | null | 41,807,823 | 41,807,681 | null | null | true | null |
41,807,870 | comment | vibrio | 2024-10-11T09:34:14 | null | Yes. And that crappy erasable ink that flourished in the 80s. It was a mess. | null | null | 41,804,113 | 41,758,870 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,871 | comment | bbarnett | 2024-10-11T09:34:25 | null | Depends.<p>Over the next 2 years, I expect SpaceX to send a lot of probes out.<p>First, mass to orbit is super cheap now. Second, part of the whole R&D for Mars will be to try a variety of long range engine types and configs, and they love to iterate fast and play.<p>So I expect probes sent in Mars' direction, but also elsewhere to explore. And I cannot stress this enough, they are clearly capable engineers, but these probes don't need 10 years of development and hyper engineering, because cost to orbit is meaningless.<p>A probe fails? Who cares! You sent 5 different designs, and can just send more anyhow.<p>NASA was concerned about cost to orbit, but also perception. A lost probe would be a "waste to taxpayers", and just getting launch windows was a chore. I remember some probes had to wait years for space on the shuttle, so constrained was lift frequency.<p>But SpaceX is OK with blowing stuff up during tests, with learning as they go. So I imagine 2 years max, they'll be spewing satellites all over the place, without a concern if they fail early, or even make it.<p>Yet some will. Many will.<p>And you can bet some will head to asteroids.<p>Note: at this point someone usually chimes in with how hostile space is, and cheap probes won't work, and yada yada.<p>I didn't say cheap. Cheap implies skimping out on part quality or construction. You don't need to do that, as the parts are not remotely expensive compared to R&D, dev time and custom build work. In fact if one removes R&D, part cost isn't noticeable.<p>This means that scale is cheap. Building 1000 probes is almost the same cost as 1. And launch is now super cheap.<p>Access to Space is on the verge of when airplanes became unremarkable.<p>And it's coming faster than we think. | null | null | 41,806,102 | 41,760,971 | null | [
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41,807,872 | story | ivanilievski | 2024-10-11T09:34:25 | HackingRobots: Geoffrey Hinton Wins Nobel Prize and Alternatives to Lidar | null | https://hackingrobots.beehiiv.com/p/geoffrey-hinton-wins-nobel-prize-d2e2 | 1 | null | 41,807,872 | 3 | [
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41,807,873 | comment | ivanilievski | 2024-10-11T09:34:25 | null | LiDAR is an impressive technology but has several shortcomings. First, its high cost makes it less accessible for consumer applications like autonomous vehicles. Additionally, lidar is vulnerable to weather conditions; rain, fog, and snow can interfere with its laser beams, limiting its effective range. It also struggles to accurately detect objects with highly reflective or absorbent surfaces, resulting in unreliable data. Furthermore, processing the large amounts of data generated by lidar requires significant computational power, adding complexity to the system.<p>Read more in the article... | null | null | 41,807,872 | 41,807,872 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,874 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T09:34:38 | null | null | null | null | 41,797,719 | 41,797,719 | null | null | true | null |
41,807,875 | comment | ETH_start | 2024-10-11T09:34:39 | null | ElonJet was a live geotracking site for private jets. You can post cisgender, it just comes with a warning.<p>Before, people were being banned for using "him" instead of "her" to describe biological males who self-identified as women. People were secretly de-amplified for criticizing the government policy of lockdowns. It was censorship on a whole different magnitude. | null | null | 41,807,612 | 41,805,706 | null | [
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41,807,876 | story | edward | 2024-10-11T09:34:45 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,807,876 | null | [
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41,807,877 | comment | valianteffort | 2024-10-11T09:34:46 | null | There are countless videos on youtube of people recording their experience with FSD's open beta. It is probably 90% of the way there, if not more. Anyone who thinks Tesla won't get there first is peak delusional. Hate on Elon as much as you want, but Tesla are top-tier engineering.<p>Real funny seeing a bunch of web devs on HN talk shit about Tesla's engineers too lmao | null | null | 41,807,674 | 41,805,706 | null | [
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41,807,878 | comment | HelloNurse | 2024-10-11T09:34:53 | null | Expecting an incorrect program to compile and run is a reckless spoiled brat attitude, not "exploration and experimentation".<p>On the other hand heavyweight type systems that demand preemptively writing code to cover cases that won't happen and/or aren't important, including cases that make sense but aren't needed yet, can waste time actual exploration and experimentation, compared to writing only useful code and being sometimes surprised by runtime errors when the program accidentally attempts something not implemented yet.<p>On the third hand "exploration and experimentation" can suffice for a proof of concept, not for production code: tests and automated checks are necessary to be confident about your program, and even rudimentary tools like Python type annotations and type checkers can be useful. | null | null | 41,807,627 | 41,801,415 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,879 | comment | rpgbr | 2024-10-11T09:35:28 | null | Gutenberg is atrociously bad for blogging types — and there are a lot of blogs out there. I agree that WP needed an official page builder, but it doesn’t belong in the core; it should be a plugin.<p>Btw, Gutenberg is a plugin and its rating in directory (2/5) is telling[1]. Meanwhile, Classic Editor[2], a plugin that disables most of Gutenberg, is used in +10 million websites and a 5/5 plugin.<p>[1] <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/" rel="nofollow">https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/</a>
[2] <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/" rel="nofollow">https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/</a> | null | null | 41,805,322 | 41,804,706 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,880 | comment | ryanb_0 | 2024-10-11T09:35:59 | null | How does it work for adults? | null | null | 41,807,783 | 41,807,783 | null | [
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41,807,881 | comment | gnabgib | 2024-10-11T09:36:14 | null | (2023) Discussion at the time (378 points, 51 comments) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788360">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788360</a> | null | null | 41,807,876 | 41,807,876 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,882 | comment | znpy | 2024-10-11T09:36:35 | null | A bit of OT, but if one would like to pick up a bit of Prolog, what's the recommended book?<p>And what prolog implementation should one pick? | null | null | 41,800,764 | 41,800,764 | null | [
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41,807,883 | comment | Toorkit | 2024-10-11T09:37:19 | null | Sometimes they don't show up until you press Alt, but they're there. | null | null | 41,807,444 | 41,801,334 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,884 | comment | mppm | 2024-10-11T09:37:20 | null | This is indeed a very timely award. I sometimes feel like the world has forgotten that nuclear weapons still exist and are still on hair-trigger alert to obliterate major cities. Maybe the end of atmospheric testing and the success of (now defunct) weapons reduction treaties has blunted public perception to the ongoing threat that they represent, and to the need to tread carefully where nuclear powers are involved. | null | null | 41,807,681 | 41,807,681 | null | [
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41,807,885 | comment | altacc | 2024-10-11T09:37:24 | null | Because people tend to want to see options and be involved in the decision making process, especially if they're ultimately responsible for the work and its cost. For a similar reason as an architect I don't define in a ticket the exact code changes a developer should do, instead I define the intention, the reason perhaps make a suggestion and then we discuss.<p>And if they choose option C we make sure there's a paper trail to cover our asses and then a bit later find a reason to revisit the decision. | null | null | 41,798,392 | 41,794,566 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,886 | comment | globular-toast | 2024-10-11T09:37:25 | null | Hmph, I knew someone would point out that `Sequence` exists or whatever... The point was really that this could be a new type that isn't fully captured by something built in.<p>As for `collections.abc.Sequence`, using an ABC sucks because then you have to define a class and inherit from it. I don't want to do that. I just want to pass something that conforms to the duck type. Are these now also defined as structural types/Protocols? | null | null | 41,807,712 | 41,801,415 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,887 | comment | dplgk | 2024-10-11T09:37:25 | null | So a pump and dump? | null | null | 41,806,351 | 41,805,706 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,888 | comment | vibrio | 2024-10-11T09:37:36 | null | Yup. I tried that and got scolded by teachers because the lines are all off (big margin at the bottom. Thin red line on the wrong side. ) I tried to get the pads with the spiral at the top- that works. | null | null | 41,798,742 | 41,758,870 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,889 | comment | zaptrem | 2024-10-11T09:37:45 | null | Running preprocessing jobs on a $0.5 SFCompute H100 node RN (though price usually bounces up to what you mentioned). | null | null | 41,807,100 | 41,805,446 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,890 | story | austinallegro | 2024-10-11T09:37:59 | Breakdancers warned repetitive headspins could give them a 'cone-head' | null | https://news.sky.com/story/breakdancers-warned-repetitive-headspins-could-give-them-a-cone-head-13231779 | 2 | null | 41,807,890 | 0 | [
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41,807,891 | story | CrushiY | 2024-10-11T09:38:10 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,807,891 | null | [
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41,807,892 | comment | null | 2024-10-11T09:38:10 | null | null | null | null | 41,807,891 | 41,807,891 | null | null | true | true |
41,807,893 | comment | arminsergiony | 2024-10-11T09:38:16 | null | In the last few years, they’ve made a ton of changes to their pricing and terms, and honestly, it’s been pretty frustrating for users. | null | null | 41,807,702 | 41,807,702 | null | [
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41,807,894 | comment | gnabgib | 2024-10-11T09:38:37 | null | If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a><p>Discussion (932 points, 3 days ago, 792 points) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775463">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775463</a> | null | null | 41,807,872 | 41,807,872 | null | [
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41,807,895 | comment | amelius | 2024-10-11T09:39:02 | null | > only few useful applications can run on both kinds of computers<p>GCC, Gimp, Firefox, ... | null | null | 41,807,866 | 41,803,324 | null | [
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41,807,896 | story | andrewstuart | 2024-10-11T09:39:11 | Ask HN: Cameras on or off in development team meetings? | Are you camera on or off?<p>Do you think people should switch them on?<p>Why off?<p>Why on? | null | 3 | null | 41,807,896 | 5 | [
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41,807,897 | comment | guappa | 2024-10-11T09:39:24 | null | I use Qt, and I think if you have the Qt libraries then C++ is way better than rust. Most things are there instead of having to go and find a crate and then decide which one to use and hope it will remain maintained. | null | null | 41,793,760 | 41,791,773 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,898 | comment | nikcub | 2024-10-11T09:39:49 | null | I don't think Tesla have an advantage in manufacturing. China today is what Japan was in the 70s and their processes are so fucking good.<p>You can't win on manufacturing - this is, after all, a nation that is now building Volvo's better than the Swedes did.<p>Tesla fell into the China partnership trap, where the gov subsidises you and you open a "partnership" there, meanwhile they take your IP and knowledge for the benefit of the state (I was in that situation in '07 with Tencent and turned it down).<p>Hence now $10k Chinese cars - and Biden introducing tariffs to protect local industry (including Tesla - which Elon doesn't seem to appreciate)<p>On AI at Elon's recent recruitment event he put X.ai in Tier 1 with OpenAI and Anthropic and didn't even mention Meta. To me, as someone who applies these models across industries every day X.ai has never even come up.<p>That tells me he isn't informed on what Meta are doing (and that is - undercutting the commercial AI industry).<p>I'm hesitant to think it but there's a ton of hand waving and investor pumping happening here. Which is a shame, because a company with that market cap can do _a lot_ better.<p>I wasn't impressed by a single thing I saw today. I've seen the same autonomous car demo in a closed environment at my own uni 25+ years ago. I've seen better robots from Boston. I've also seen much better presentations than someone who looked like they are reading the text for the first time.<p>They have the capital, the mindshare, and the means and they're wasting it. | null | null | 41,807,751 | 41,805,706 | null | null | null | null |
41,807,899 | comment | rileigh | 2024-10-11T09:40:07 | null | [dead] | null | null | 41,807,676 | 41,807,676 | null | null | null | true |
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