skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in a way that is relevant, I agree. But if you squint enough then it's an "immutable" ledger that appends and uses signatures.

Blockchain zealots often yell out "git" as a success story of blockchain, whenever someone says "blockchain as a solution is yet to find an actual problem to be applied to".

So that's just me trying to avoid a "gotcha!" from people who are talking nonsense.

But it seems there's no way around it. Either I'll get a blockchain zealot replying "what about git!" or if I try to preempt that I get someone sane (like you) replying "git's not that!".

Sigh.
and yet it keeps being a useful tool.
> the majority dev environment in its chokehold

Is that so?
No it is not. There was Sci-Fi channel miniseries Dune and Children of Dune. Those, despite the lower budget, are much better than than the movie.
Probably advanced Q&A chatbot trained on your company’s documents. Imagine how that could improve onboarding if you can ask AI how things work in your company.
Though, P and NP are intrinsically defined asymptotically, so I'm not sure what it means for P != NP for all practical problems, other than saying that something like 80*n^5 is impractical to compute for n=10000, say.
"Hence, we provide a proof of P = NP."

Now map a big, critical and difficult problem to the 2-Maxsat problem, solve it in polynomial time, get rich and come back to argue if it is really a proof of P = NP.
amazing piece of work, it's nice to see it's free.
16% is the new 6%.
Falling a distance of 1 metre would take 25 seconds, and for a step 10cm high it would take 8 seconds.

If you exerted the same force to lift your body upwards as you'd need on earth to rise by 5cm, as in going on tip-toe, you'd jump about 1.5 metres. It would take you well over a minute to land again.
This is a really unfair interpretation of this graph. Unions had a big impact on these rights, but unions back then were nothing like the Unions today.

In the 19th century, Labor unions functioned more like activist group then unions in the modern sense. There were quite a few of them, they often included members across businesses and even industries (of these IWW still exists and still functions like this). There were no protections for collective bargaining so there was no need for unions to mass enroll whole businesses, what was important was organizing for every event, and build a solidarity across workers, rather then unionizing whole workplaces. The union’s job was to organize direct action and build up solidarity around them. A successful strike had union members and non-members alike striking in solidarity. A very successful strike crossed many and diverse workplaces. As you can imagine these often turned violent when scabs refused to participate (as they were allowed to), or when unions with conflicting ideologies were competing for members and propaganda.

This changed in the new deal era, particular when the Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act; NLRA) was enacted in 1935. And you can see the uptake in union memberships on your graph. This act legalized collective action and protected workers in labor unions. This formed the basis unions as we know them today. From then on it became more important to organize each workplace, rather than each direct action, and the protections would only apply for members, not participants. So memberships suddenly became more important than participation.

Comparing memberships between these two eras is effectively comparing apples to oranges. While today membership count is an indicator of effectiveness, this was far from truth prior to the New Deal.
I'm pretty excited for every company to have a better way to search their stuff, if it works out that way.
Microsoft completely lost mobile. Like not just a few goofy phones like Kin, they just straight up have no relevance or marketshare or anything in what is clearly the future platform for all computing.

A lot of this damage was done under Balmer, but IMHO Nadella has a lot of blame too. Microsoft has gone from domination of computing platforms and making money on every single device sale to competing for scraps in someone else's app store (making that someone else money!) as they sell office apps and such ported to platforms they don't control anymore.

I think there isn't more outrage or unrest about this failure from Microsoft shareholders since Azure and other service growth has kept dollars flowing in and the share price up. But Microsoft is nowhere near their 90s peak of total control over consumer computing.
Square Enix’s AI Tech Demo Is a Staggering Failure
I'd say he is the best non-founder CEO perhaps ever.
As with other announcements, I'd like to know the job function breakdown. How much of this is sales, marketing, etc. Specifically I want to know how many were software developers.
> He turned around an almost dying windows to become this Kraken that has the majority dev environment in its chokehold.

Microsoft was still growing under Ballmer. Windows was far away from “dying”.
Except he hasn't debunked anything. He's pointed out the specific niches where performance matters and one of the 5 "excuses" he raises is countered. Some software counters some of the "excuses" some of the time. Not all software counters all of the "excuses" all of the time.

If anything, the article points out the accuracy and value. of the five metrics for evaluating performance needs over other business needs.
It doesn't seem like the large majority of the HN audience would participate in this, so it's still a bit weird to assume other readers would know the reference.
Can I upload a .csv from mixpanel?
This is the problem with using AI tools without thinking. It reads like PR copy, repeats facts that everyone here knows, and doesn’t invite any discussion.

I’m glad that Dan has clarified that HN comments are not allowed to be copy/pasted LLM outputs, or we’d end up with a lot more non-comments like this.
"basically just massively parallel CPUs" is correct-ish, but it has the added wrinkle that you have to think of them as CPUs where large chunks of cores have to be executing the same instruction at the same time, which means that it's mostly loops where each iteration runs close to the same instructions that make sense.

Also, I think you might be drastically underestimating how utterly insane modern JavaScript engines like V8 are. JS code running as well as it does on CPUs is sort of a minor miracle in the first place. Even then, there's still a place/need for WebASM on top of it.

Transposing that unto a GPU in a transparent manner is asking a LOT. Not to mention that there's a lot of stuff you can do in JS that, if feasible at all, makes no sense whatsoever in GPU-land. Even basic stuff, e.g. string-based property lookups, just does not belong in GPU code for the most part.

If I see an API that looks like `GPU.exec(Callable)`, then I expect that any callable can be passed to that API. In JavaScript, that can mean a LOT of different things, many of which would be hell on earth to convert to GPU-compatible code.
This would be a great meme if they fired 16% people to make an chatgpt microsoft bob.
Given the rise of foundational models the tuning/adaptation on top is quite a bit cheaper.

I imagine foundation models become a bit like cloud provider paas offerings vs rolling your own data centers.
Some questions and facts to think about for you to correct your bias:
1. How long has Microsoft been around if you think they can only see end of current FY?
2. Has they grown larger and larger in terms of revenues and profits if they can only focus on short term ?
3. How much does Microsoft ‘little employees’ get paid ?
4. After ‘little employees’ got laid off, are they doing really bad after Microsoft?
> Google recently unveiled a voice AI that could fill pauses with the best of them, resulting in more natural-sounding conversation.

Ugh. The last thing I want is an appliance saying "uh" or "um", which may indicate uncertainty. As much as I want to stab Siri, "one moment" seems far better, because it explicitly pauses the conversation for deliberate thought and implies it may take more time than an "um". Having no answer is also seems more acceptable with "one moment". (Which is good because Siri does that a lot.)
I felt the exact same thing. I was pretty sure the answer was "No" but they were too chicken to write it.

Were they hoping that people wouldn't notice?
I love you. I fail to remember the name of this phenomenon and I spend 3 minutes googling for it every time I see a headline that is a question.
is Datomic Cloud used by Nubank?
> 1. A unique computer key identity is created on startup.

> 2. It announces every network adapter you have to the dHT, including localhost, docker virtual network adapters, everything.

This is totally insane, is there any client that don't enable those misfeatures? (like, generate a new key identity on startup, and don't publish any network adapter)
Rust doesn't have to output more code than a C compiler. But it tends to because most rust programs are stuffed full of bounds checks. And bounds checks aren't small. As well as the conditional itself, every bounds check also includes:

- A custom panic message (so you know which line of code crashed)

- Some monomorphized formatting code to output that message

- The infrastructure to generate a stack trace after a panic

- Logic to free all the allocated objects all the way up the stack

If you compile this 1 line function:

pub fn read_arr(arr: &[usize], i: usize) -> usize {
arr[i] // (equivalent to 'return arr[i];')
}

... You produce 20 hairy lines of assembler: https://rust.godbolt.org/z/dhz34KEvj

In contrast, the equivalent C function is this rust code:

pub fn read_arr_unchecked(arr: &[usize], i: usize) -> usize {
unsafe { *arr.get_unchecked(i) }
}

And predictably, the result is this gem - identical to what the C compiler outputs:

example::read_arr_unchecked:
mov rax, qword ptr [rdi + 8*rdx]
ret

But nobody writes rust code like that (for good reason). You can get a lot of the way there by leaning heavily using rust's iterator types and such. But its really difficult to learn what patterns will make the rust compiler lose its mind. There's no feedback on this at compile time, at all.
Why would you need ai when you can just sort your files yourself, manually inspect your files for the one you want because normal search is inadequate...
> we JUST finished having every company try to pivot to blockchain and NFT

I really don't think there are many existing companies that "pivoted" to blockchain and NFT. Certainly not a majority.
Desktop windows is a dead end product. Extracting any value from the few that still use it is natural.
> I'm suggesting that no such destruction of an archaelogical site and sale of historical artifacts to another country (even less so an individual buyer) is legitimate or ethical, regardless of whether it was approved by the occupying force at the time.

But you are saying that they are legitimate just by your reference to "another country". The borders of today and their respective governments take precedence. You would be fine with artifacts from Sparta being sold to a museum in Athens, even though they were separate states at the time, and the Spartans would have not been happy about that. But if Roman artifacts were sold by Italy to a museum in London, this is illegitimate because it's "another country" even though at the time it was all part of the same empire.
There are many ways of defining "best." There's not only "best" in terms of the bottom line, but also "best" in terms of their stewardship of the product line and customer satisfaction. Personally I am very fond of Lisa Su's leadership of AMD. AMD's offerings have become very compelling under her tenure; I love my Ryzen 3900 machine. She would make a strong contender for best tech CEO of the 2010s, in my opinion. Another strong contender would be Jensen Huang of NVIDIA.
Successful but not perhaps not dominant.

That said, they have more market share vs Playstation than iOS has over Android.
And yet I can't help but wonder what they need that many people for? The core of dropbox is still file syncing with extra tooling to enhance that. Figma had just over 200 people when they sold to Adobe and that is a pretty complex application.
I don't know any numbers but I would guess that Xbox is not close to being the market leader. Sony has that wrapped. Xbox is probably closer to Nintendo. They do, however, have a competitive platform which is important. Something they could never do with Windows Phone.
I stopped using Dropbox a long time ago (though switching cloud storage services is not trivial!). My point is a more general one, that today's tech companies can't just be, they must expand and expand.

To butcher a quote from Grandpa Simpson:

“I used to be ‘the target customer’, but then they changed what ‘the target customer’ was. Now I’m not ‘the target customer’ anymore and ‘the target customer’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
What if I told you you could replicate all of that with proven battle tested technology… for free.
That's a great point. If you've had the pleasure of writing anything in GTK/Glib with C, you quickly realize it ain't your mothers C. But like C with a bunch of object oriented casting on top of it .
Yes, I’m also not their target customer for all those add on features that I don’t want… I would be using a different service if there was one with similar or better syncing capabilities that works as well as Dropbox…
Closed CCP government (not a fairly minor DMCA which also includes colossal opening factors like section 230).

Good open society where the government doesn't monitor all communication systems for wrong think & have reeducation camps.

The communists are the totalitarians, being a one party system & suppressing minority cultures & using vast force & subversion to illegally take control of Hong Hong against agreed terms & being a sore child about every little geopolitical issue they can.
This puts it in a way I was struggling to do so. The "we are just saying we should improve society somewhat" counterclaim is disingenuous because the "we should improve society somewhat" is usually expressed in criticism and not solutions, and when solutions are suggested they are pretty vapid and full of wishful thinking.
> There used to be one called what.cd [0] that, to me, was like the Library of Alexandria, but for music. It was burned down in the name of commercial interest.

Some data hoarder must have saved all this stuff, right? So why isn't it in a torrent?
>> MS still lacks a industry leading 21st century consumer device

Oh but they have brought 21st century advertising and bullshit to windows devices!
Tim Cook and Apple have better stats by virtually every metric - also a non-founder.
> Personally trained models based on our own data.

This leads back to one of the AI promises if the earlier Internet, before WWW when Usenet, Gopher, and a number of other ideas, were where we were heading, and for a time after WWW's popularity before search engines hit certain quality/coverage levels: an intelligent search agent trained on information about you that would go off and scour the various data resources for you and return an optimal set of results after a while, perhaps even idly looking around and finding things you might search for but hadn't thought to ask it for yet.
Such a reduction is known to exist, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily easy to implement. It would suffice to find some large instances of 2-maxsat and solve those.
Movie and TV Giants Want Australia to Introduce DNS Blocking to Prevent Piracy
The low trust society they left behind damages greece to this day. https://youtu.be/404IeUzGNZ4?t=179
Counterpoint is that there is nothing wrong with a round number and it is perfectly compatible with setting appropriate resource targets for corporate goals.

The idea that some sort of complex algorithm should be used indicates a misunderstanding of what business management actually consists of.

It is much more social science than engineering.
Does anyone here have any hands-on experience and can tell me if the claimed 5ms latency for 5G is anyhwere close to reality? As in, can it reach the 5ms only if you're next to the tower, are they not including processing time at the tower and modem etc.
I assume this type of API is not available natively because it's not how the interacting with the gpu works and is best left to libraries like gpu.js
I feel like Google would have been a better fit for Github. But then it would be about due for cancellation about now...
Have tried a few times, it's not my kind of place. Would appreciate other suggestions, though.
To many, that's probably the foremost goal of a CEO, no?
Good CEOs don't screw up the current business. Great CEOs make big bets that work out. Tim Cook is clearly in the "good CEO" category.
What is even the point of releasing binaries under Apache 2? When I patch the binaries, do I need to release a hexdiff too to fulfill my Apache obligations? Very weird.
> Someone needs to have the working set of your database in memory, why shouldn't it be your app server and business logic?

This one confused me. The obvious reason why you don't want the whole working set of your database in the app server's memory is because you have lots of app servers, whereas you only have one database[1]. This suggests that you put the working set of the database in the database, so that you still only need the one copy, not in the app servers where you'd need N copies of it.

The rest of your post makes sense to me but the thing about keeping the database's working set in your app server's memory does not. That's something we specifically work to avoid.

[1] Still talking about "non-webscale" office usage here, that's the world I live in as well. One big central database server, lots of apps and app servers strewn about.
I'll happily recommend https://syncthing.net/, it's open source, end to end encrypted, and peer to peer (your machines send files directly to each other).
I've read the book, and I quickly found the movie to be unwatchable because of dumb, pointless changes to the story. Not quite as bad as David Lynch's "Dune Velvet", but still bad.

One thing that really bothered me is that the movie had Gurney Hallack warn Paul not to sit with his back to the door rather than Thufir Hawat. In the book, this was an important early scene because it's a setup for Thufir's death scene at the end, when he says, "The universe is full of doors." Of course Thufir's death hasn't been shown yet in the movies, but they already degraded it somewhat.

There were other changes that bothered me too. IIRC there was something crucial missing from the gom jabbar scene that left out a big part of the motivation for it. I don't remember all the details now. (Edit: Now I remember. The Reverend Mother explained that an animal would gnaw off its own leg to escape the trap. In the book, she explains that a human would fake death and kill the trapper to eliminate a threat to its kind. Whereas in the movie, she just says "What will you do?" WTF?!?) I stopped the movie after a half hour or so. I didn't see the point, when the book is so much better.
that's Media's b.s. No country based their national security on a private company. its ridiculous.

Apple make iPhone that everyone love. Apple is the Shield that protect USA or maybe Google, Facebook? how about Ukraine is the food basket of Europe or perhaps even the world since Ukraine is a big exporter of grains. surely no one will attack Ukraine because the food price will soar and possible world wide famine.
>My objection is the end quality seems stuck at that level.

I don't think we can declare them to be stuck given the SOTA massively improved six weeks ago.
You need to define the measurable criteria during the evaluation time period

Then you can sample across CEOs and then measure Nadella based on that

Do you have such criteria and data?
I used get high enough speeds from Tmobile that I didn’t bother with home internet.

Then again, I was literally living across the street from the AT&T world hq in Dallas. Coincedence?

Then again, that was only until I hit my GB cap.
My perception is Dropbox is trying to shed personal users to shift to enterprise accounts.
The idea is that instead of shipping electron, you ship a native binary that use egui without using wasm or the canvas.

Egui only use wasm in situations where you must use the user browser because you have no choice. Eg: showing a demo of the app on the web without having to install anything.

> Its a 5mb wasm bundle. But on the plus side, 5mb is positively tiny compared to shipping electron

This comparison makes no sense. Situation where electron could be used are exactly the kind of situations where a wasm bundle would not be shipped (a native binary would be shipped instead)
The examples I gave, music and navigation, would need a full qwerty to emulate the capability of a touchscreen.

But please, continue to shit on any opinion positive about Tesla.
Same here in Australia. I actually think we have developed the technology (and the matching legislation) that allows pole mounted cameras to detect this while driving at 110kmh down the expressway. I know many people that have been "busted" and even though I use a handsfree holder, just placing (when you forgot to do so before you drive off) is just as illegal here.

I did laugh when of course sometimes they would pickup someone holding a chocolate bar while driving. While not necessarily the best thing to do with the one hand, not illegal all the same.
"you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
The truth about those claims of Qualcomm chips snooping on you
Another excellent example of slow cinema is Once Upon A Time In Anatolia. The long night shots of immense fields of windblown grass illuminated by the flickering light of a couple flashlights and some lamps are like Van Gogh paintings. The movie is all atmosphere, but it's entrancing nonetheless.

Goodbye, Dragon Inn is also great. The movie itself isn't very long, but the long shots are pure slow cinema, stillness made into an aesthetic sublime.
One can avoid being called a hypocrite, moral relativism conversation aside, by doing one thing - not judging others publicly.
Still waiting for an MS product that I would use voluntarily. Excel is good, VS-Code is OK. Not using either one atm
> That's utter nonsense that children have not had much education at the age of 10-11.

In that case, the IQ measured later, say at 30, should be very different from the IQ measured at age 10-11. It isn't, though...

It should also go up (a lot) if the kid ends up with lots of education compared to a child with the same childhood score that doesn't end up with lots of education. It doesn't, though.

In other words, it is NOT utter nonsense.

I have flagged you.
This seems as good an opening as any...

No. (the first one, haven't seen the second)

This "Dune" is not good. It's pretty, but stupid.

For one thing, just one little thing, what's the Baron's guy's name? Not the Feyd-Ruatha/Raban amalgam. The mentat.

No one says Piter's name!? If you haven't read the book you wouldn't know WhoTF that character is.

- - - -

I could go on and on, but what I really want to say, what I want future filmmakers to hear, is just this:

Just film the book.

Don't change the dialog, don't change the characters, don't add scenes and for fuck's sake don't delete any! Just film the book. Don't second guess Frank Herbert. He lucked out, made a masterpiece, and a whole Universe so real you can taste it. (the rest of the series not so much, but "Dune" itself is a window onto an alternate Universe.) You wouldn't hack up Shakespeare, you're not going to improve on Dune. Just film the book.

Whew! That was bottled up for a while.
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It's double the size! Check out the video and the picture with the Eiffel tower. I have looked at this for 5 minutes. Come on, really? Is this real or is someone trolling HN?