skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author didn't actually go to this burrito restaurant, but rather just wrote an article as if he was going to go to the burrito restaurant. From the intro:

> We’ve written about the decline of Google Search, and how to rigorously measure it through human evaluation. But why stop at Google? We’re starting a new blog series of real-world ML evaluations, where we investigate search and recommendation systems – whether YouTube, Meta, TikTok, or Amazon. In this post: an evaluation of Facebook Search!
obviously would use Yelp or Google maps first, but I'm still pretty surprised at how particularly bad Facebook seems to be at this
Because we've all seen TV
I have fond memories of my semiconductor physics classes. The were not easy whatsoever, rather intense.

As cvccvroomvroom had mentioned, I had my VLSI chip fabbed at the MOSIS facility in Westborough MA, during my EE tenure at UMASS Amherst in the 1990s as part of a state-wide chip design competition (yeah - didn't win..). There was much activity on VLSI and computer system design at that time, things have certainly changed in the US.

I recall many entries were implementations of various (and obscure) mathematical algorithms, mostly in the frequency domain (hence DSP chips), that tried to solve problems that are now trivial in SW today.

My school did win occasionally, others were mostly MIT and WPI - I think in a large part due to the excellent professors at all competting schools and the work ethic of the students.

My final submission was the design for an Arithmetic Fourier Transform processor - trying to remove the need for expensive ROM by aliasing the signup up-frequency - which I did the barrel-based ALU for, and thank the grad students for including me in the project.

cvccvroomvroom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31756704#31760353
MOSIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSIS
Barrel ALU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_shifter (my ALU did much more than multiply/divide..)

(edit - remove double paste)
Circumstantially, its possible these are semi-abandoned and what we're seeing is attrition of the b-grade troops sent to try and recover them.

I suspect like all the other armchair experts this is actually a massive russian doctrine failure, but if I was being charitable I'd say we're not seeing the FEBA in play, this is post-fight or side-fight mop-up stuff.

And, they've been let down by spares, failure to do tire rotations in the last 5 to 10 years, fake parts, fuel quality, you-name-it. A lot of the materiel we see in the videos could be the class of stuff you would also have seen post D-Day: Dang: the duce is bust: ok, drive it off the road for later and move to another truck...
I was working in a grocery store at the time. People did head out a lot for groceries due to boredom and low gas prices.
No idea if your impression is true or not. But if I was in charge of Ukrainian propaganda, I can’t think of a better story to tell allied nations so they’d donate lots of weapons
Yes hard to test when their whole product is getting mocked on HN.
man, you're not supposed to read the links. that's totally playing unfairly
Thank goodness honestly, I wish my CEO had that kind of backbone.
It’s used for elapsed time not for time intervals. They have the same units but different usage.
I like how none of these other replies have picked up on your employment as a VC yet.
Options are not shares -- they are an option to buy shares at a specified price.
> He is a smart person, but not as brilliant as I thought he was

Yeah, one of the things that I keep coming back to is Acquired Situational Narcissism. I can name a number of very successful people who I used to listen to as insightful that now seem banal to me. I'm sure I've gotten more discerning, but I'm also sure, as in Andreessen's case, that there's been a real decline.

A pretty easy explanation here is that being truly insightful is partly a function of circumstance. If you can say basically anything and have people around you exclaim, "Amazing! Brilliant!" then you don't have a lot of incentive for working harder. If you're insulated from reality by vast swathes of power and money, you don't get the corrective-whack-on-the-nose feeling from unpleasant encounters with reality.

It's akin to how I think getting a permanent newspaper columnist is a curse. A lot of those people used to be really interesting once upon a time. But I think it's the very rare one who doesn't devolve into being almost cartoonishly predictable.
> Let's talk concretely: should a queer person be expected to be tolerant of a coworker who believes that they should be beaten or killed for their sexual orientation?

> This question has a yes or no answer.

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

"Have you stopped beating your wife?" still remains the gold standard though.
What is "anecdotal data" and how does it differ from non-anecdotal data?

How do data collection methods on something like micro-aggressions ensure no low quality "anecdotal data" gets in?

It would be more defensible to claim anecdotes were lower quality evidence than "data" (assuming such a distinction were clear, which I'm not sure it is) than to claim they simply aren't evidence.
That weird guy that everybody loves to hate (RMS) has been talking about this for at least 3 decades, but instead of listen to him, people prefer to ignore him and pretend Microsoft is a "friend" of open-source.

Why do people keep telling themselves lies?
And when all of your neighbors that don't have that device just think you're being a nutter so they call the police causing you to spend the rest of the rest of your time dealing with coppers
Cool?

Needs:

Export to dxf for engineers

Print to pdf for students

Print to svg for designers
NetBird – An Open-Source Trailscale Alternative
I can’t really agree with your prognosis, but honestly this advice is amazing because outside of the apocalyptic context it’s so fun. Got $10k? Buy a scooter, prosciutto and a wheel of Parmesan!

Why shouldn’t I spend like an Italian small-town bachelor in 1975, if the world is ending anyway.
As a native English speaker, your writing seems beautiful and perfect to me. I would never have guessed you aren't a native speaker. The feeling of foreignness can be pernicious. You'll always wonder if a miscommunication is because of foreignness or the countless other reasons even two native speakers misunderstand each other.
Lincoln also expected the newly freed slaves to go somewhere else and not stay.
Nothing better than boring technology.

Unfortunately, boring technology is rare these days.
403 from Asia (Vietnam) too.
I'm interested what people know about 'net' carbs and ketosis. I'm not all that savvy on this stuff. I'm looking at a package of chia seeds, which says it's got 16 grams of carbs per quarter cup include 14 grams of fiber. On the Web, I see 'net carbs' calculated in this case as total carbs in grams minus fiber in grams: 16 - 14 => 2. Curious if ketosis occurs when you keep these 'net' values below 20. Another way of asking this is: Is the idea of 'net' carbs legitimate, when talking ketosis? Can I eat up to 20 grams of net carbs and have a reasonable expectation of ketosis, even if the 'total' carbs were 10 or 15 times the 'net carbs'?
I wish they had this in 2.5x speed

not fast enough
I agree, do we humans, as a whole, seem to care what animals think/feel/experience? Why would we? Only now are we starting to find points of commonality that our human brain experiences. So, if the aliens are like us but more intelligent would they think of us in the way we see animals here on earth (pets, experiment subjects, objects)? I wonder, what would be have to offer any alien civilization that is more intelligent/advanced?
Sometimes I'll be on Google Maps, zoomed into my city near me, and search for a store I know exists nearby, and it'll zoom out to space, rotate the planet, and zoom back into Iraq to a vaguely similarly named place.
Inflation is going to destroy the US, and very quickly.

Normally you combat inflation by increasing the interest rate. But with a debt of 30 trillion, the US is constricted in how high those interest rates can go. If the interest rate went up by a mere 2%, the increase alone in interest that the US would have to find would be 600 billion dollars each and every year. (Or almost as much as the huge overblown Defense Budget). So what is the US going to go without? Its Military or its interest rate rises?

Those interest rates won't be going anywhere. That means that inflation is going to hit levels almost unthinkable.
And the company only lasted a few years! Good for him on being in the right place at the right time and jumping on the opportunity. But if we're going to use it as a yardstick of his genius, surely we have to also look at how it turned out.
Yeah, it's the best time to invest since ... (checks watch) ... 18 months ago. I'm sorry, at an investment horizon of 10-20 years, that's not a slick deal. I am also talking about bitcoin. If it goes to $5000 then we're talking.

I'm not sure who were investing past mid-2021, to me there was nothing at all publicly investible for the long-term at that point. You were guaranteed an inflation-adjust loss just looking at how deeply negative real rates were.
Wow. You were in Richmond and didn't stop at Tacos Los Primos (550 23rd St, Richmond, CA 94804, in parking lot)?

I'm a https://masienda.com/ devotee who regularly makes masa from scratch (nixtamalized Oaxacan corn) for tacos with fire-roasted salsa including garden tomatillos. I still live for my next visit to Richmond, for the tacos.

At least Facebook got the trip to Richmond right. If you want to stay in SF, the Primavera stall at the Saturday farmers market by the Ferry Building is worth the wait.
Based on what I've previously seen (top comment in here seems to be a nice summary), it's more like neither explanation really has a lot going for it, despite how much sense they make if you don't look too closely.
If someone tells you you're horrible and you need to change, but you don't think you're horrible at all, and neither party can come to an agreement, then what is wrong with this? She's probably been told to her face or through a public forum by a disgruntled employee that she disgusts them so.... what's the issue?

Professionalism wasn't always wrapped up in bland, content-less corp-speak, and I'd be happy for more business communications to be more blunt and straight forward rather than more obscured.
This will be very useful feature Sriprasanna, In my previous stint even non production environment monthly cost were upto 8000 usd per month, due to the amount of services we were using. Kudos to go.
Looking forward to seeing this implemented in 5 or 10 years at an exhibit at a regional small-to-medium size science museum.
Bla bla bla none of this is real, it is an ad for an AI training Saas.
> Rust isn't just type safe or memory safe - eliminating foot-guns was a guiding principle throughout. People hate the borrow checker, but that concept of ownership eliminated broad classes of concurrency bugs. Rust was a godsend for computer security.

How often are folks writing server side code where they need to pass objects across thread boundaries?

Back end logic is usually straightforward. Each request uses a single thread. Maybe there’s some client library that has a thread pool, for things like reusing connections. But that’s about it.

Is Rust a security silver bullet? Are the other languages obsolete? Is there nothing simpler than Rust, because the borrow checker saves you from doing things you can do in C++, and that’s what we should all optimize for?

Again… why do I need Rust and WASM for serving web pages? It sounds like you’re saying security is the number one non functional requirement and is the only requirement, which I don’t think is accurate. Even then, entire companies are running on JVM.

If I have a C++ use case, I can maybe see using Rust benefits in some areas, although the learning curve is very steep.
Undo and redo in relationship to CRDTs/multiplayer discussion
"Unless you somehow achieve global equality in all things"

I'd go further and say that unless you achieve the perception of global equality in all things it is futile.

The grass is always perceived as greener, even when it actually isn't.
Why would anybody want to become an academic? Low pay, crazy politics and bureaucracy, long hours, constantly chasing grants, the threat of lawsuits from students who might “feel violated” by something you say, the demand to increase your external funding every year, the routine science malpractice, the very low chance that anybody will actually read the papers you produce etc. etc.
Have you ever used Figma?
Yes fiber doesn’t take you off of ketosis however it does increase carbohydrate absorption.
So what we mean by "Andreessen is a beneficiary of welfare" is that he got exactly the minimum that 330+ million other Americans have access to. That type of statement provides zero insight.

(less in fact. Government education spending is higher as a % of GDP than ever.)
Does sunk cost fallacy apply to an assumption that because one has an ability to program a computer one must use it, i.e., demand pay for time spent on programming, e.g., with the end goal of coercing people to surrender personal data and/or click on ads.

Perhaps the value of a PhD is not limited to its "market value". I hope that part of the intrinsic value of a degree is an ability to think critically, unlike the "senior software engineer" example I cited, for which the "market value" is probably quite high. Sometimes markets are not rational. Myself, I do not care what any job market suggests. To me, education has value, both for the individual and for society at large.

"Tech" companies are not well-known for fostering crtitical thinking ability. Most of the world is eating, and feeding families, without knowing how to program computers. It has been that way since the dawn of humankind.
I'm usually in Australia. Sometimes my searches when I have poor connectivity will end up favouring Morocco - maybe that was the last time I shared my location data with them and they can't triangulate from cell towers or something else? Though you'd think they might infer a location from current map view.
Ask HN: How much does it cost to run TLD servers?
I really wanna start a new TLD, what are some good resources to look into it. I keep reading it costs too much to handle traffic but how much a key/value store cost, it's not like there are going to 1T domains. Realistically speaking how much does it cost to handle name lookups for .net, .org, .io...
The Mead Conway book is absolutely beautiful, I have like 3 copies.

A copy is available here https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/VLSIText/PP-V2/...
Robinhood's Stock Is Now Worth Less Than Its Cash on Hand
> integrates both open-source components, like Roslyn and Razor, with closed-source components

This kind of thing is why copyleft is so important. Microsoft wouldn't be allowed to do this if the tools in question were GPL'd (and external contributors didn't have to forfeit their copyrights with a CLA).
They don't go into much of the detail of their "event consumers" but it certainly sounds like something Flink can handle, although Flink itself can be yet another operational set of headaches on top of Kafka. It also seems like something simple enough (simple processing-time windows) that they might not need Flink for the consumer.

I have a hard time recommending Flink over dumber consumers or a more micro-batch vs true streaming approach unless you're doing something that really needs the long-lived in-worker keyed state and the ability to do things like streaming joins and all. Otherwise the Flink gotchas and nasty surprises can outweigh the ease of which it lets you do what you want to do.
Sorry, I was just responding to your question on JS compilation and webpack.

This post is obviously overengineering things, it’s literally submitting a html form and obviously we can do that with plain old html. The point, however, is that it’s a small scale demonstration of how to run rust on the web, not that you should make phishing websites out of rust and wasm.

Are there actual use cases for wasm? Yes, particularly for performance critical applications. Games, ML, etc, there’s already a lot of wasm deployed today. Since wasm is here to stay, the natural follow-up question is can we compile to it so I can use <insert favourite language> on the web, and that’s the motivation behind stuff like rust/wasm.

NodeJS made it possible to run JS on both front and backend, but nobody actually wants to write JS. So now people are trying to run <favourite nonJS language> on both instead. It’s still in its infancy, so really not recommended for anything other than prototyping and fun exploration, but there’s potential here.
Is anyone arguing that?

As an outsider, to me it seems like some Kraken employees are saying X,Y, and Z is wrong with the company. Kraken leaders say we don't actually have problems X, Y, and Z, and tell them to quit if they don't like it, because there will be no meaningful response to rectify X, Y, and Z, since the leaders don't believe those problems exist.
Not necessarily, but is this research?

It looks more like a catalog entry of peppers, which presumably has been done many times before and which is why I was hoping someone could help explain the significance of this paper/post (i.e., why?).
say the guy whose coins he hyped both went to zero. Not that he's wrong about the economy, but I would not take financial advice from him.
Maybe I'm dumb, but what's the benefit? Would the risk of false alerts be worse, assuming people would do things they would only find acceptable during the end of the world?
They are the primary contributor to both things.

It’s quite amazing that most people just associate open source with “free” not realizing that time is literally money.
China says it detected alien signals using giant 'Sky Eye' telescope
I had someone give me some GIS data for a project and when projected all the points appeared on the other side of the world. Took me a minute to figure out they needed negatives on their longitudes.
As a European expat in the US, I settled for minutes.

Edit: Turns out I was right? Weird world.
But they're not the only contributor, so they'd have to either get permission from everyone else or revert all their changes, which would have been a nontrivial effort.
Overview of the economics of a nuclear reactor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbeJIwF1pVY

Duration: 23 min

Speaker: David Ruzic, Prof of Nuclear Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mapping the Migration of the World’s Millionaires
I think the claim is that SPG can also fire in direct mode and they have MUCH bigger guns. Imagine an SPG with trophy system bolted on it. Question is, is passive armour beyond stopping bullets and shrapnel worth it?

I wonder if the new "tank" will be a wheeled SPG that can fire hull down and has an APS system. Or it could be something like BTR 4 with its auto cannon, being able to carry some infantry, add APS to that and you have a lethal combo.

There is also a lot of overselling of infantry support. Stugna or Javelin can kill T80 from 4km away, what use is dismounted infantryman there?
The full podcast here:
video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNl6Cr1k07c

transcript and audio:
https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/marc-andreessen/
> Perhaps some people aren't very interested in partnerships and absent the social structures like religion that actively push them into prescribed partnerships, they might just prefer not to pursue them.

That’s a theoretical possibility but I don’t see much evidence for that. Do young folks today seem happier and more well adjusted than folks who were the same age 20-30 years ago? Myriad social well-being indicators are trending in bad directions.

I think many people who are single (men and women) would be happier in a relationship, but don’t have the tools and skills to succeed in the relationship economy. They need society to guide them and provide structure just like they need society to do the same thing in the employment economy. And the older generation has abdicated its duty to provide that social infrastructure, leaving young people to fend for themselves. Libertarianism doesn’t produce desirable outcomes for the median person either as applies to economics or society.

> The workplace is still a pretty good place to meet potential partners if you have the right social skills, social awareness, respect, and tact.

I’ve never met a woman who thinks that. We are talking about people’s livelihoods. Even if a small fraction of men have the social skills to accept rejection without letting it affect their work interactions with a person, most do not, which means that women will mainly encounter those who do not.
When Vanlife Meets the $300 Tank
How practical is a "split reverb" with the low-latency parts computed on CPU and the high-latency parts computed on GPU (like how partitioned convolution is already performed)? Or is reverb/convolution not processor-intensive enough to reduce CPU workloads significantly?
The same applies to the meter.
Is amt really an issue if you’re high income swe? (especially if double high income). Seems like since trump’s “tax cuts” your normal rate will always be higher than (base + options * strike price)*.28 unless you really get a ton of options and there’s huge fmv growth.
Mapping a Magnetic Superstorm: Geoelectric Impacts on US Power Systems
Really it depends on what you consider a mass of an asteroid to be.

If it's large enough, the black hole is going to be releasing xrays. If it's smaller, it's going to be releasing gamma rays.

The smaller the black hole, the faster it evaporates. The faster it evaporates, the more energy it puts out.

The black hole at this scale is still going to have too small a cross section to suck up any matter and the radiation might end up blowing away any matter before it gets to the black hole in the first place.

At these masses, there's no real danger in the black hole passing through the Earth itself. The only danger is how much radiation is going to be shot out as it passes through the atmosphere on either side of the planet.
Webpack is roughly 10 years old. While you may choose not to use it (like you avoided ActiveX) you should be aware of it if you call yourself a web developer.
Makes sense. Although for me, it means never apply for work there. I would hate to be part of a “if you disagree, leave” culture.
Only counts for estates less than $11.2 million. Again, useful for the middles class. Meaningless if you're Bezos.
Almost unbelievable that I'd ever agree with Bill Gates. But this time I'm with him all the way.
The entire article is a PR piece for some "AI" startup
What is wrong with predictability. When you buy an album by your favorite musician or whatever, you expect a certain kind of sound
But then you might stop watching as soon as the interesting part is over
You as an individual do? You know you have to pay $185,000 to ICANN just for them to consider your application, right?
WASM is honestly fantastic but it took me awhile to see the benefits. Figma is the usual example.

Another good example I learned about recently is StackBlitz, which uses it to run Node in the browser for localhost-less dev environments.
The main problem with a pacifist approach is Darwinism. When the violent can herd/control/kill the non-violent. Then the next generation of people are likely to be of the dominant.

Words and persuasion are all very good, until you meet people who simply don't care.
By "vocabulary whackamole", I meant decrying "microaggressions" as a weapon, not misunderstanding the use of "exaggeration"; I agree that wasn't super clear, but I felt I understood what they meant by it, so I tried to help explain.

> exaggerate, as far as I can tell after looking at some dictionaries, never means "more than the norm"

Not to nitpick, but it's almost exactly the second definition here[1]: "enlarged or increased beyond the normal : greater than normal"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exaggerated
To look for things hidden between pictures and backings.