skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There will be no hw product able to run inference in purely analog domain in foreseeable future. There’s simply no good practical way to store analog signals yet. And unfortunately activations must be stored in models like transformers or convolutional networks.

We already have mixed signal accelerators (e.g. Mythic) which are not much faster than digital competition (for many reasons).

From this point of view there’s no difference between inference and training, especially as FP8 format is being adopted by Nvidia and others.
This post is the quintessential post about how success is about being part of the right networks. The cynical part of me calls it the old boys network, the realistic part says that unless you travel in the "right circles" your chances of real success are low. Despite what VCs will tell you about being in the right market, with the right team, and having "traction" and all that, those things only matter (and probably not much) if you aren't in the right network and circles. If you're in the right network, then having the wrong product, wrong market, wrong team, wrong market fit, bad traction, etc. doesn't really matter because those networks will "fix" those problems for you. VC isn't a meritocracy, it's a fairly closed network, and if you can get in you can be successful. For everyone else, success (of the Figma type) is almost near impossible.
The most important aspect of a top school is that a student is around classmates with high drive (maybe family influenced) to succeed. This does not just create competition, most importantly, you get the signaling that it is ok and expected to study hard, to do your homework, to say no to playing so that you can finish your assigned homework.

Now if you have a top student in a lagging school, most likely the classmates will drag them down. In my school good students were physically bullied by the “cool” guys.

I think that classes need to be divided based on the performance of the students, that will be assessed on regular intervals. Let the good students go as fast as they need to, focus for the lagging students to get at least the basics right. There is no reason to pretend that we are teaching advanced calculus to lagging students, when they cannot even do simple arithmetic operations.
this website doesn't necessarily answer the question in my post
More technical article on BART wheel geometry.[1]

The old wheels were cylindrical but the rails were tapered to provide self-centering. This works well for straight track and large radius-curves. The trouble with conical wheels is that too much self-centering can induce sideways oscillation at high speeds. BART was designed for 80MPH, a high speed for the time and still fast for a transit system. BART was also the first rail system to have active suspension. Rail geometry, wheel geometry, and suspension all interact.

High speed rail wheel and track profiles are a complicated problem. The Shinkansen system in Japan did a lot of work on this, as did the TGV developers in France.
It took a while to get wheels, rails, and suspension to all work together well enough for high speeds. Now this is reasonably well understood, but it wasn't when BART was designed.

[1] https://www.wheel-rail-seminars.com/archives/2016/rt-papers/...
I assume OP asked because of the Flexport job ad on HN (currently #19) which says "looking for gritty people". Apply and let us know :D
Your smartphone does much less, not more.

When you are casting your smartphone on a built-in tv, the TV is doing all the work (downloading and decoding the signal). Your phone is just a fancy remote control.

The Chromecast is downloading the video and sending it to the TV on the contrary.
I think I need to raise my salary range. Snd should I accept the offer, I’ll also need to be extra vigilant against burnout.
Honestly, the toilet is like sacred ground for me these days. No kids, no work, no chores. I can read and be left alone and it is literally the only time of my day that is true.

My family probably thinks I have a severe bowel problem because sometimes I hang out in there for like a half hour.
Bottom of this page is a link to his main site: http://alec.land
"And so Figma has won the hearts and minds of these designers. They love it. It wasn't that they disliked Adobe."

In the small sample size of designers I know, they did not like Adobe
More levels will be coming :-)
I've been in more than a few hiring discussions. Grit when discussing a candidate usually just means they did a cool side project completely on their own and maybe even made some money out of it. Or they really took ownership of their phd research project. In finance it can be code for "we want to hire this person despite the fact they went to a non ivy league school."

However most of the "gritty" people i've interviewed would probably not consider themselves gritty... so putting that in a job description is pretty silly.
Children cannot provide informed consent, for one
more levels will be coming
A billion $ business
“advertising” is not just the obvious obnoxious youtube preroll ads and flashy popups. Sponsored products, in content product placement, adjusted and paid ranking, it takes so many more forms.

Also a lot of people won’t be able to make the distinction between an ad entry and an organic entry in a listing. I’ve mistakenly hit ads, and might be hitting some here and there without realizing it, and I would bet you do too.

That’s part of why legit businesses have to buy ads for their own product to avoid having a competitors eating up their result page and getting all the misplaced hits.
This was a lot of fun! Please make more levels and post them here!
My main complaint is the 2-way path on the left (Somebody at Bone/Somebody at Flower), I couldn't tell which restraint was for which direction, a simple arrow should fix this.
Still, it's probably a common setting, or it's common to have your system-wide audio disabled when watching videos in public.
> Why is 9% inflation (what we have today)

We have approximately 0% inflation today (at least, the monthly—not the headline 12-month trailing, but the actual amount for the month—number for the last two months has been between 0% and 0.1%; 0% to a little over 1% annualized.)

The 12-month trailing is 8.3%, but it takes a while for the 12-month trailing to reflect current conditions, when there is a change, for reasons explained by the name.
This is incorrect. You need to attend a school admissions counselors are familiar with. They often can’t evaluate grades, academic advisors, or recommendation letters from schools they don’t repeatedly place students from, and therefore have a harder time making a case for high performing students from unknown schools.

I once talked to an admissions counselor for a “selective” university who could name the challenging coursework and reliable recommendation letter writers at all the best high schools in the region she covered.
Yeah that was by accident, I whipped this up kinda fast
The data seems problematic, there's a few 0's here and there and some strange noise in the rest. Increase the number of samples / iterations with `core-to-core-latency 30000 1000 --csv > output.csv`
Global-Chem: A Free Dictionary from Common Chemical Names to Molecules
We are writing the molecules to common chemical names that the general public use and keeping a record for all of us to download and maintain together. We can all manage it as an open source governing community and use tools to declare whether these chemicals are safe or not for general use.

I'm gathering information currently, and looking to expand to other open source software tools. Does anyone want to join, have an idea for a connection, or a chemical list they think would be worthwhile.

It was just mentioned to me I should look into pre-workout supplements for example.
I really don't get why people make things so complicated.

Here's how to fix Kubernetes and systemd: make a non-sucky build system and then use it to build systems.

Systemd builds a running system. Kubernetes builds a distributed system. Make a build system that can build both. Then you're golden.

And it will also not be monolithic (i.e., it will follow the Unix philosophy) because a build system just hooks together smaller tools.

Yes, the build system needs to be able to respond to events, but that's a simple extension.

Disclaimer: I'm currently building such a build system. I wish the author luck, but I am a competitor.

Edit: I might have sounded snarky. I'm not trying to be; it's just late at night. The author has a lot of good ideas; I just think that the ideas could be followed just a little further to something great.
A better Kubernetes, from the ground up (2020)
They aren't bots. Don't make an accusation like that without a reason for it. (And I also disagree with the Texas law.)
A few guidelines for navigating social media
Twilio CEO announces 11% of employees will be laid off
Yes, I'm thinking of working this idea into the next iteration (though with a wolf instead of a dog)
> Will this apply to bots?

Most likely it'll apply in whatever cases Texas's govt wants. That is, the vague law will be basis for selective enforcement, like GDPR. There's no other way this can work.
Yes I have a puzzle generator program, will post more soon
If I were in that position I'd just stand up an ejabberd server, find an XMPP library for whatever language my app is written in, and configure XMPP chat. Now I'm not necessarily saying this is the best overall solution in any universal sense... it's what I would do at least in part because I'm already fairly familiar with setting up ejabberd and coding against an XMPP library. YMMV.
Is this a reference to Flexports hiring ad, also currently on the front page?
and luck and risk profile prove that wrong or correct places to put ones money
> Yes, it's different, and it's a LOT slower, as the teacher goes over it again and again and again and again and zzzzzzzz......

Three things:

* The normal pace anywhere -- even most colleges that are not CalTech or MIT -- is for chumps. It's slow so that everyone can keep up.

* On the other hand, I don't think your experience is representative of current middle class (and above) schools. Students complete a whole lot of what was previously considered college curriculum before graduating. Many of the students at my school graduate with >1 year of college credit, and this is despite the non-remedial curriculum floor in colleges moving up from decades ago.

* I don't think you can generalize your experience. You are very intelligent. Your experience (and mine) are not representative of overall student performance or problems.
I agree there is a way to go... I am just curious if the answer lies in a super computer. I don't think it does, but I am also openly admitting my naivety.

Since you brought up the brain, I will roll with some thoughts. Instead of thinking about a hunk of wet meat that contains a quadrillion synapses... wouldn't it make sense to break those into discrete, specialized and smaller hunks of wet meat of say 10 billion? Then we link those discrete units under a unified command which directs information to the correct specialized core and then the next until some arbitrary stopping point was reached. AKA: An ensemble of models.

My point; It seems that throwing more compute at individual problems has probably reached a kind of apogee in time and cost. PaLM, Bloom, GPT-NeoX and GPT-3 all live in silos. Cool story, but you can't use GPT-3 and PaLM at the same time without an absolute ton of overhead right now. At some point, I think there will be a unifying middleware that can utilize these models in there current form. That is, you will not need to train yet another model to combine the networks of one or more discrete models. Just a hunch.... could be wrong.
It's an open source project, they aren't selling you anything. If you find it doesn't work as intended for a given ROM, you roll up your sleeves and fix it, ensuring the intended feature remains complete.

Or I guess one could just complain and nitpick on Hacker News.
Corporations wouldn't spend billions on advertising/marketing for no returns. The problem is we have no idea what works. Every single experiment says it does _something_ and that's as far as we’ve gotten.
> This post really shows how much luck/privilege it takes to have a chance at success.

You're defining "success" as making billions of dollars, right?

In any case, if that's someone's definition of success and they make it, wonderful. It's great for them that they had luck and privilege. The greatest thing anyone can do for children and even yourself is to maximize "privilege".

I suggest you also talk to people with a more diverse outlook on life too though, I think it will be even more eye-opening. Take a random walk in a rural farming community, a small town, an average city or suburb, etc. You will find many people who have found success and happiness and are content because their idea of success is to raise and provide for a family, or own a home, or run their modest small business, or whatever.
It would be nice to have another bench from the Alder Lake, so we can validate the results
I see. So whenever monthly inflation goes up, it's transitory, and when it doesn't, there is no inflation.

Meanwhile, prices on a lot of things I buy doubled.
XWayland already exists and is the name for X.org running on Wayland, to enable X11 apps to run on Wayland desktops.

You may be interested to learn about wl-roots though. It's a project that I think originated from sway, and it aims to provide most of the low-level plumbing for writing your own Wayland window manager/desktop environment.
I didn't say it did, but IMO it's a good starting point.
>they often think it is just a case of governments printing too much money.

The exorbitant banknotes we see in this collection are more like each government's response to inflation once it has gone completely out-of-control.

In some sense they are trying to arrest the free-fall at an artificially imposed numerical point, by basically normalizing the losses already incurred up until that time.

Just goes to show how much easier it can be to manipulate the value of fiat currency compared to coin of stored value.

Seems like when stocks & bonds are denominated in fiat currency, in order for the securities to maintain their relative value, whilst maintaining volatility within tolerable ranges, the only direction for the currency to ever trend is being downward in value by comparison.

When stock certificates represent overwhelmingly more stored value than their equivalent in legal tender, that's not when you're going to have the most prosperity overall. This is not the way free enterprise started out.

We recovered well from that most recent devaluation is something that no ordinary wage earner said ever.
People generally under appreciate just how many groundbreaking scientific discoveries have been made at least partially by accident or aimless tinkering.

It leads me to believe that STEM fields shouldn’t be so selective in weeding out below average students. So if you increase the population of researchers/tinkerers, the probability of one of them stumbling across something incredibly useful rises. Obviously it depends on the field though and the cost of individual failures needs to be minimized.
Here is the link to the leaked version of the report: https://theintercept.com/2022/09/07/microsoft-military-union...
Exactly what I thought. Not exactly the kind of hiring ad we normally see from YC companies. Left a... gritty taste.
In 3 days? It would impossible for me to code the serverside, so i would use something already that is done.
in that case i would probably use matrix. I can scale it by adding more servers or if its an game where you have an serverselection you can limit it to one server and in case when there is an need for chatting across servers i can use the federation.
Either “we’re working on a challenging problem and we need to be able to try and try again despite failures” or “we have insane expectations of you but you will not be compensated accordingly.”
I believe @xani_ is saying "poor kid" about the child(ren) in your family, not about the child in the article.
A First Look at _hyperscript
https://archive.ph/siIRF
Modern engineering is amazing given the build of knowledge that was needed over a thousand years.

But I'm more amazed it was all built correctly by the lowest bidders on materials, sometimes mafia controlled, by the lowest cost workers sometimes still drunk and hungover from the night before.
RISC-V is certainly a great option for low cost controllers because you can just slot in an existing design cheaply with minimal customisation. Most applications for ARM and RISC-V use existing standard base core designs to which you add whatever mix of additional components you need.

So the real question is, where is the investment in the open RISC-V core architecture coming from? That’s what will push RISC-V forward. With ARM every time a small design house drops an ARM core into a SOC they pay a fee that funds further ARM architecture development. That’s not so with RISC-V. None of those Chinese design houses are making any significant investment in advancing the state of the art in RISC-V core design. Also those private shops that do innovate on the RISC-V core architecture don’t necessarily have an interest in open sourcing their improvements.

So I suppose we’ll see. As is often the case it’s not so much the technical issues that will decide the matter but the investment and funding model for the open core architecture.
All of that, while technically correct and possible, is vastly more complicated and time intensive than a rewrite of what the OPs description of the codebase is.
I would love to read about that if you can dig up the source
It’s a human interest story not a shipping manifest.
Maybe change the animal picture to have them holding the item in their mouth?
Which is "only", what, 90% of Google's business?
Let’s assume you have AsicBoost 2.0 - what would be the most strategic way to deploy it? I assume it’d look like a hashpower increase to the rest of the world, which may or may not go noticed; but perhaps have them run “normal” and then fling it wide open just before? after? a havening?
I can’t change the link, but the source is better imo:

https://www.twilio.com/blog/a-message-from-twilio-ceo-jeff-l...
Reads like any “software company” with ancient management that doesn’t believe technical sect is actually a thing
oh yeah WoW not LoL, i remembered wrongly
You are absolutely right. I worked at a big agency where I managed a team that ran the search ads for a fortune 500 tech company. That was usually how it worked. I tried to communicate up the chain that the dinners and outings on Google's dime are a clear conflict of interest, but nobody wanted to hear it.

By far the most dissapointing thing was that the client often just wanted to go with Google's recomendations or they had even worse ideas. Even when we really tried to look out for the best interests of the client it was like fighting an uphill battle both ways.

Another problem is that anything that isn't direct response is hard to measure so it's tough to make a clear and compelling case. Anybody can chalk up any hare brained idea to brand value and it is tough to push back on that when the client doesn't really care.
oh yeah i'm referring to the new M1 chips. older macs didn't do it well for me too.
Yes, because it's trivially easy to avoid going to Disney. To avoid all tech giants, you practically need to opt-out of modern society and become a hermit.
What a stupid "smart" compiler.
Of the other Hayek I've read, none of it's any easier to read. I do think he's worth the time to get his point of view to sink in. (I don't think the same of Austrians in general.)

Perhaps most relevantly he wrote a book on the idea of competing private currencies (Denationalisation of Money -- it seemed meant for people with more knowledge of economics or finance than me).
I wish I could apply the current HN format to websites with dumpster fire UIs.
Zerohedge comes to mind, and perhaps even Reddit (which isn't as bad)
I don't think it's an over-reaction at all. Racial inequality is a hot topic, as well it should be -- it's a given that media outlets will use hot topics as a means to make money; the problem here is that brewing up anger over a supposed racial bias is entirely incorrect and potentially damning for no good reason.

Little effort is needed to provoke outrage about racial discrimination, I think that it's up to good citizens, particularly journalists or those with a 'loud voice' to make sure that they don't stir the pot and create unneeded tensions and hatred for no good reason other than more clicks.

It would take a lot to make me believe that the wording wasn't purposeful.
This Porsche hot-take is about 20 years past due. Porsche practically invented the sports SUV in the early 2000s with the Cayenne. At the time, many Porsche enthusiasts were against the idea of a Porsche SUV, but many in the market point to that decision as one that basically saved the brand. They also have a line of EVs that compete directly with the higher end Teslas.

https://www.hotcars.com/truth-behind-why-porsche-cayenne-suv...
In these cases, the “longness” of the phrase and its nonexistent independent clauses are just formalities. We’re calling the same thing by another name. I think it confuses people when there are guidances out there about not using overlong “sentences” but then they are undermined by overlong sentences which are merely “sentences” by technicality.

The rule is, write clearly. And if it’s not clear, write it more clearly. That’s pretty much it.

If you need guidance, Cormack McCarthy is the professor.
As much as it ostensibly is, I just cannot see the ‘acquired by Adobe for 20B’ as a success. At least I’d consider it a failure.

If it were ‘Adobe acquired by Figma’ it might be different. But if terrible old behemoths can just buy off all competitors, then where are we going?
I checked out the site and leadership out of curiosity. Mostly I'm thinking gritty => tenacious.
I believe what you'd call night mode is called "Dynamic EQ" on the Denons.

This basically adds more bass and treble as you lower the volume, due to the way the ear works - the Fletcher Munson curve.

This still won't help with the terrible excess dynamic range that current movies insist on doing though.

You'll still have to adjust the volume all the time, but it will make things sound much better at lower volumes.
Searx. Best private web search that is not DuckDuckGo
I effectively un-googled myself. iCloud email, no Chrome, no Android. The hardest part was web search. Put your selected Searx host in "Open new tab with:" setting and click on new tab button. I got used to this very fast.
If you want to contribute to open source projects, you donate to the project if they have a direct way for donations

Github takes a cut 10% from organizations, so avoid doing that, nothing justify them receiving a cut from donations, they should be ashamed, unless it is to cover financial fees, but it's not specified, therefore it's for profit

https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-gith...
I think that’s much closer to “Linking Your Thinking”. Short version: your PKM is a wiki. Make lots of index pages like “Restaurants Index”, with a master index that maps to all of them.

ZK wants to apply a linearity that just isn’t relevant to the things I want to record.
There's always East Palo Alto but kids there face a different set of challenges