skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every indication from this report is they really do mean 2023, so why is Nvidia's fiscal year a full year ahead of the calendar year?

It's disconcerting to see operating expenses up 31% and income down 77%. I've never heard good things about Nvidia from employees, but as a consumer I've always rooted for them, being one of the few big names that seems to do honest to God innovative work pushing the boundaries of computing, as opposed to just milking user tracking to sell ads. It'd be nice to see this kind of business model work.
> What are your thoughts on him being pretty much the only one not being able to see that the feature he pushed would create massive problems with account impersonation?

He moved too fast and everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to correct mistakes, which he did.

> What about him retweeting obvious misinformation?

It was dumb and he recognized that. He removed it within hours.

> Proudly mocking his new employees with factually wrong understanding of the product?

IMO it was wrong to bring it up publicly, but it wasn't factually wrong. It was information from the server team.
I managed to get some 15 years ago and I loved how easy it was: googled for a smart shop, bought a kit online with my credit card, a few days later received a plastic box with some dirt from the Netherlands. You had to wrap it in a clear plastic bag, and spray it with water once a day.

After a week, I had 30 cm tall Psilocybe Mexicana mushrooms. Dry them, brew them with some green tea, commune with the Gods.

I miss them so much. Probably my favourite hallucinogen, with a deep affinity for nature. Trees on magic mushrooms have another physical dimensions. It's like seeing them in 4D and they're magnificent. That, and the deep belly laughs that last for seemingly hours.
The rule of thumb I used when I lived in the frozen wastes was that 10cm of snow is about 1cm of rain in terms of water. Qualitatively I know it is much lighter than 56lb/ft^3, because you can easily pick up that much snow even if it is compacted. Otherwise snowmen would be very hard to create.

Over-all I agree that snow is heavy though.
> What would you go with instead for collaborative notebooks?

Production workloads should be code. In source control. Like everybody else.

Notebooks inevitably degrade into confusing, messy blocks of “maybe applicable, maybe not” text, old results and plots embedded in the file because nobody stripped them before committing and comments like “don’t run cells below here”.

They’re acceptable only as a prototyping and exploration tool. Unfortunately, whole “generation” of data scientists and engineers have been trained to basically only use notebooks.
>Weeds are the enemy

Yes.

>Zero biodiversity

Good.
>Please note that our business model is not about collecting and monetizing any of your personal data

Doesn't matter, any kind of connection to the mothership or telemetry is a no-no...

You could have corporate edition, with telemetry and everything or a personal one.

But no self-respecting dev is gonna use a terminal calling home for personal use...
Only people who have no experiences with snow could think this is a good idea:) The most likely result is tht the tarp would freeze onto the ground and you'd never get it to budge.
True, but I tried to make it as close to the Haskell example as possible.
I just think the OOP -> verbose/complex argument is really annoying, especially if it applies mostly to Java code.
You nailed it! Language is different in different parts of an organisation or life. A programmer says 'or' to a lay person. A lay person thinks 'xor'.
Think of "idiocy" as the lack of intelligence, rather than a separate entity of its own, similarly to how high-school physics (and therefore, contemporary common sense!) understands cold as the absence of heat.

This means that you can get rid of idiocy by adding intelligence to a system, in the same way that you can warm up a room with a space heater.

But how do you build up intelligence? Put it this way. Your onboard wetware neural network needs to iterate on e.g. pulling out of a slide, and a bunch of other stuff that you won't know how to do unless someone trains you. No iteration means no gradient, and no gradient means 'no smart'.

So if you want to defeat idiocy, you need training. Now, you can train you, but of course, you'll never know if the training was complete.

Thus the obvious antidote to e-vehicle idiocy-at-scale[1] is, yes, formal lessons and deliberate practice. Just like driving. Just like piano.

[1] a friend from grad school who is Korean told me that there's a word in Korean that literally means "road stupid" and this is the only fact I know about Korean and I love it. So many people are road stupid! I'm one of them! I'm trying to improve!
Sure, it's just speculation. That's what was being asked for. There are reasons to donate to politicians other than quid pro quo.
How is 93% compression efficiency calculated?
Reconstructing images a person sees via non-invasive brain scans
It's bitfinexed so probably yes.

That said bitfinexed will likely say that everything in crypto is a scam, not just ftx. And I'd agree!

Their main focus is the tether scam though.
I'm hoping this was meant to be a joke. In any case, now that you've pointed out the "pomo" vs "porno" similarity, I can't unsee it.
> What becomes clearer by labeling things with neurotransmitters?

The relation with addiction.
>The Guaranteed Income Pilot for Artists, in partnership with the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, currently provides 190 artists who live and work in San Francisco monthly payments of $1,000 for up to 18 months.

Lots of reasons to be against the headline program described here, but this one really irks me. I find it hard to believe the 190 artists were selected in a fair way - or why any funds should even be targeting what a city deems as an artist.
The book was never banned in the UK, and the film was withdrawn from the UK market at Kubrick's request, and subsequently re-released after his death in 2000.
Getting in (assuming a typical robotics company/startup) is not that hard, just don't expect to get paid much (relative to most top tier tech compensation). Most of these "fun" fields all either significantly underpay, or are part of subsidiaries like Google X that are next to impossible to get in without exceptional pedigree.
Yes, regardless of the motivation/the author pimping his product, fundamentally he's right about the maddening nature of command input. It's terrible.

Tab completion is a half-designed solution, and not exactly portable across shells.

Terminals need to stop pretending they are dumb 8" CRTs from the 1970s. Virtually all interactive terminal input is through GUI applications at some point, and if it's not, it's not by choice.

And performing stdin input in scripts for programs that need it? Don't get me started, and don't say "expect" with a straight face. The fact that scripting languages have no provisions after 40-50 years is nuts.
> One nerd can host a platform for tens of thousands of non-nerds, or equivalent to one Discord server. The challenging part is finding non-toxic and non-power-tripping moderators.

Hosting a platform reliably isn't something that one can do with the BBS of old. Having the data center; or paying for AWS and the corresponding maintenance and security for the site; and that in today's polarized world, hosting such a paints a target on you and your services for threats and DDOS attacks whoever someone has a disagreement with you.

While yes, one nerd can host the platform, if it scales to thousands or tens of thousands it is not fun and tends to be much more than a hobby to do so.
He doesn't say he thinks it is okay to act unethically, he says that in general acting unethically doesn't matter the way he previously said it did because public perception is shaped more by winning than it is by whether the winner was ethical or unethical.

Elsewhere in the DMs he says "I didn't want to do sketchy stuff [...] and I didn't mean to" and "it as never the intention".

None of this reads like bombshell level "Wow this guy is terrible". He comes across as maybe terrible or maybe someone who played a little too fast and loose with an explosively growing business of which he lost control.
It doesn't. Doctor's and psychs feel entitled to treat their patients in any abusive and harmful manor. It won't matter, because nobody would believe the anyway.

A huge percentage of Doctor's are abusive scumbags. Everything you hear about medical ethics, they do the opposite.

They are bigoted, and emotionally abusive, gaslighting monsters, who stubbornly refuse to self reflect.
In English, and especially in software, "libre" is often used to differentiate two meanings of "free": you know, ye olde "free as in 'freedom'" vs "free [libre] as in 'free beer.'"
Do you use any tool like Browserstack or Lambdatest or Saucelabs for running your tests across browsers? My question is if you have already invested in end to end testing automation then why not run in 10 browsers to be on safe side than running in only 3. Price?
There are some parallels with Elizabeth Holmes.

And we are yet to see whether they throw the book at her.
I for one think the future where we all walk around in cyberpunk body armour to protect ourselves from wayward idiots on powered transportation they are unable to control would be kind of sick
I'm a fan of the ones you listed as garbage. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of course, but those have been working for me for years... decades in the case of notepad, which I use mostly for ephemeral notes or as a cheap clipboard.
One issue is that Safari doesn't work on Windows. So, as a Windows dev, I am forced to buy a MacBook just to test on Safari. (I tried cloud testing services, but the experience is too poor and time-consuming).
Slightly related... I heard someone at Tandy say that when they were pitching the TRS-80, they said "hey, if the computers aren't popular, we can give them to each store to use for inventory tracking." -- That was probably around '75 / '76 when they were pitching the idea. Same time frame.
Yeah when I saw it was Piper as the journalist, I was expecting to see a massive disclaimer/disclosure on the article. There still isn’t one.

My own disclosure: I have many mutual friends with Piper and participate in the local EA group and contribute to EA causes.
The only one I recall of the top of my head is that it makes `first & bool | second & ~bool` faster, since you don't need a `dec r0` instruction to turn {0,1} into a bitmask. Anyone else have a better guess?
Money is a helluva drug!
Not exactly though, turing complete means the language can compute anything, not do anything.
In the vast majority of popular programming languages, it is generally not possible to write bare-metal device drivers, for instance.
>But they decided to write a whole blog post making up problems about peoples’ current workflow.

Not really, those are problems with current workflows.

>People are naturally going to point out that they don’t suffer from these problems.

They do, they just work around them or are used to them.
I'm good friends with one of the founders of Skitch. He effectively got less than nothing for that sale. It was an acqui-hire with vesting stock valued in the several $million, but when he couldn't handle working in the big corporate environment at Evernote, he had to leave, and lost his stock with zero remuneration. He couldn't even pay off the debts he'd incurred over the years building Skitch. Terrible outcome for him, as well as the product. So sad.
They did, at least some of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6nAxiym9oc
Could they make the wheels larger to fix this?
> surely a skilled manipulator would know better, or could at least present himself in a positive light?

My bet is that he lost his back country. He was until recently the front-person for a hugely successful enterprise who donated money extremely broadly. Back then he could have yelled "I run a goddamn ponzi scheme" into the loudspeaker of huge credible news outlets and they would have edited to "Master genius is going to revolutionize everything through revolutionary crypto". He's speaking into the same loudspeaker because he still thinks the message that got through back then was due to his skills as a communicator and not because... they where all on the receiving end of the cash flow he was throwing around every which direction. But obviously anyone who was receiving money back and writing favorable about him back then will do their best to distance themselves now.

Case in point, quote from article:
(Disclosure: This August, Bankman-Fried’s philanthropic family foundation, Building a Stronger Future, awarded Vox’s Future Perfect a grant for a 2023 reporting project. That project is now on pause.)

Which basically says they where on the payroll. Obviously they aren't going to pay the money back. You have to wonder what great articles about SBF they would have printed in a completely unbiased fashion if not for the implosion.
When painful, destructive effects are disproportionately affecting one part of a community, it's good to see that at least somebody, somewhere, is trialing a response.
How do you enable reading mode (assuming means no edits)? I looked through shortcuts and don't see it.
Salary is always relative ($120K in SV may seem like a very low salary and only for junior engineers… in Berlin 99% of senior software engineers with 10 years of experience make less than that). But working conditions (e.g., normal working hours, possibility to work remotely) shouldn’t just go away.
>once demand dries up.

Anybody got numbers on this?
Yeah I tend to agree here. You're not gonna run linux on the rp2040. Broadcom would know this.
yeah, I feel like this would only work with powder, which happens where I live happens twice a year if we're lucky?
Oh, I got it, you meant the "architecture" of the firm (i.e. the org chart).
Not sure where you live but here is a current link with states where you might be able to acquire some legally: https://bit.ly/3AlzBoa I would recommend, as others have, the eat-some-shrooms-while-camping scenario. If and when you do find a place to purchase them, just ask the staff about the product. What's the recommended dosage for a first-timer, what can you expect, how long might it last, etc. They may not be able to give you exact advice but ask. Gobbling down a handful could lead to unpredictable results. Back to camping. Make sure you have enough water or wine or whatever and depending on the climate that you can stay warm if you need to. Maybe take some music you love to listen to. Indian ragas would be perfect if you are familiar with them. Anyway, find a place to get the shrooms, find the place you want to camp, and go prepared. Also if the trip gets heavy don't freak out. Try to stay calm and lay out under the stars and enjoy the sky and the air and the smell of the forest or plants around you :) Don't go trudging off into the darkness or desert. And if you think you see people out in the shrubbery spying on you, don't worry. It might be a coyote or wild cat or a skunk :D
Good Luck !
They were heavy drinkers - the effects of the heavy drinking may have masked the symptoms of the cobalt poisoning. It almost certainly made people take them less seriously, as evidenced by the laughing in the linked video.
This text resonates with me a bit:

> like, "oh FTX doesn't have a bank account, I guess people can wire to Alameda's to get money on FTX"
> ..3 years later..
> 'oh fuck it looks like people wired $8b to Alameda and oh god we basically forgot about the stub account that corresponded to that and so it was never delivered to FTX'

I'm not trying to defend his actions him and I think he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but honestly, I kind of get what he's saying. I've worked at enough start ups where everything is always chaos and speed and scrappiness are valued above all else, that I feel like I've seen this multiple times. It's like, someone makes a dumb choice and everyone goes, "we'll that's not great, but it's working and it's not that bad, so I don't want to make it my problem" and eventually that dumb decision is just how things are. Eventually, new people join the company and don't realize things aren't this way intentionally and eventually one of them adds another dumb decision on top of that and the same cycle plays out again.

After a few years, you end up with multiple of your processes or parts of your infrastructure based on these chains of bad choices and the one of them collapses. When you're close to the problem, each of the decisions on their own don't look too bad, but when you step back and summarize it in one sentence, it's clear how fucked up things are.

It's funny because he smugly spends the start of this article arguing about how pointless regulators are, but I feel like if there was actually regulation in the space, there's a good chance they would have slowed things down enough to catch these bad decision chains.
"Wellfound" sounds like an app for finding wells to get water from in your area.
Yup, nothing to magic, just the usual symptoms of Windows and Linux have always had different ideas of how files are supposed to work, so give Linux its own (virtual) hard drive instead.

I don't know anything directly about Microsoft's 9p plans, but the blogs give an impression they are considerably pleased at the 9p file server for what they've been using it for (especially these cross-platform communications) and they might use it for other things.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/a-deep-dive-into-...

It would be pretty wild if Windows supported arbitrary 9p filesystems, but it is a kernel-level driver and they do seem interestingly confident in it.
I get that, but I find that kind of thinking achieves nothing practical because it's endlessly scalable, and hence the tie in knots problem because it starts justifying "well I just need to extract another 500% profit because then I can really start helping." and as soon as an immoral justification is accepted it's very conflicting.

Obviously this is not a blanked outcome, but it seems to be where the wealthy SBF types wander into, especially if their wealth is not entirely 'clean' in the first place.

Reminds me of arguments like, say, the Sacklers' opioid crisis isn't all bad because they donated to charity, we should appreciate the good that came.
I professionally solder about 2 to 3 time a week to replace mainly dead capacitors, broken USB or DC power jack connectors, as well as a few SO*-8 EEPROM chips. Became quite good at it after 20 years. But at the end of the day, prices are on the rise in western europe while personal energy is low. I must admit I'm equally ashamed to not be able to do more and being envious.

Still, always a pleasure for a tech guy to scroll through a bonafide geek project.

Loved the page of the guy that mapped and memory-injected a WD hdd PCB Marvell's ARM cores to ultimately install its own linux kernel on it.
yeah i find it hilarious how all these articles are trying to get to his inner philosophical self. But, at least based on this particular exchange, it seems that he was just trying to make a buck or two, and treated everything else as PR/BS.
Frankly, if you’re a foundation and your mission is to fund research for the long term, your assets should not be in speculative bullshit.

They should have liquidated those holdings and put them in something safer.
I imagine for him it is going to be something more like, "I didn't know she wasn't 18."
'Nugatory' is a new one for me.
I see a lot of people with no business in traffic commuting on bikes too. Especially with the advent of divvy or whatever your local equivalent is. Usually people with their own bikes are more than capable.

For a fun observation, go to your local Harley Davidson and watch people that haven't ridden a bicycle in 20 plus years try and learn how to ride a motorcycle, with the expectation that they'll be ready to take their licensing test in 2 days. And many of them won't even bother with that...or they'll take the test on a scooter instead of a motorcycle with gears.

The test is not hard either. Nothing like what our European counterparts have to go through.
Your sarcastic paraphrase does not capture what the review says.
My reply was to “how else…”
I believe they were generally from colleges and schools and received development assistance from NASA. Each cubesat is a certain size, in the case of Artemis 1, they are "6U" or 6-units large. This seems to be a standard designation. The adapter ring that launches the cubesats is also interesting. Little chutes.
Honestly, I'm under the impression that you have basically just reinvented Lisp ;)

Or any homoiconic language.
I don't feel like this article really exonerates him. How are we being gaslit here?
This can work very well for things like a car window.

Or even a hard to shovel area, but anything larger and it won't work for numerous reasons.
I’m not sure why people are surprised. He was a crypto guy, of _course_ he was a scammer. It’s so obvious.
Being 25% efficient means you need massive surplus to offset any kind of seasonal deficits, but by building those massive surpluses you reduce those same seasonal deficits. On top of this you don’t want a grid that breaks down due to unusual weather or really any predictable issues so you want to build in excess production, and again that safety net further reduces seasonal deficits.

Hydrogen might work as a kind of black swan protection, but storing hydrogen for very long periods isn’t cheap or easy. Hydrogen embrittlement is a problem.

At best it might fit the edge case that current reserve natural gas power plants do. But, that’s such a tiny percentage of annual demand we could just use natural gas without significant global warming concerns. I am fine with a 99.95% green grid, at that point many other issues need to be addressed.
I've heard of some of the famous viruses which are obviously more complicated than what I mentioned. But that's the difference - they are hardcoded to perform these particular steps. I'm not saying AGI is the code that does this. AGI is one level higher - a more meta objective - given the objective of "accumulating power", it will learn lower level objectives like "replicating and spreading", which leads to the final output like this code.

Basically, AGI could unleash a thousand "morris worms" - and that would only be for the objective of replicating and spreading. There could be other objectives as well.
I know he won. It was still worse behavior than firing an employee.
> I think reason the unicycle configuration is less popular is that it does not look as cool as the skateboard style.

The fact that it may look "cooler" is entirely beside the point. A sideways stance is much more stable forward-to-back. This is why we ride surfboards and skateboards sideways, and why if you're standing in a boat whose nose is crashing up and down through waves, you'll tend to turn sideways for stability. Same goes for if you're standing on a crowded bus and don't have much to hold onto: sideways is better. The toes-forward stance feels very unstable in the face of an unexpected slowdown or bump because your only way to counteract it is to start leaning back in advance, whereas when sideways, you can counter a lot of forward-to-back jolts with a wide stance.
I'd add on that a tools ecosystem integrated with git/hub over other options has also made git adoption a more natural fit for those who are less about tools and more about a particular outcome, which also spanned git usage (or git as a background vcs) beyond just software developers.
Whittier crash injures 25 law enforcement recruits
When I interviewed there, I was amazed at how much longer the tenure of my interviewers was than the 3 or 4 other big tech companies I’d interviewed at. I’m in the door now and still seeing the same thing. I think that speaks to employee satisfaction.