skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth keeping in mind that Nubank owns the company that makes Datomic, so that might colour their opinion. On the flip side they probably wouldn't have bought the company if they thought their product was crap.
I have found that in most real-world cases if you parallelize SQL commands you can significantly increase CPU utilization and thus database throughput.
I was looking to go big because I anticipate that I will not be able to do it part time. I am looking for a full time opportunity so that I can leave my job and focus on it, while drawing some income to pay bills.

Is there any info you can share on your acquisition process? Was there any steps that reassured you wouldn't be left with an empty account and no business operation to take over?
Given the context when you say China, I assume you mean Taiwan. China plays a role too, but TSMC is not Chinese.

Given the lithography equipment used by TSMC is built by a single European company, I think it’s disingenuous to exclude Europe from the production chain.

I think the reality is fairly complex and the entire world is involved in the end to end production. Further, TSMC is working to diversify their production facilities to meet some of the onshorinf demands rising from the pandemic chip shortage fiasco. Additionally the instability between China and Taiwan is driving regional diversification. China has made itself such an undesirable business partner there’s enormous pressure top to bottom across all industries to find alternatives for sourcing. Margins in China have gotten worse due to a rising labor movement and improved general prosperity. Finally, there are other semiconductor manufacturers (global foundries, etc) that are striving to catch up - and it’s the nature of things that someone will. So, I agree, the world will start diversifying production out of China for many reasons. This will be better for everyone, even, IMO, China.
Lol, I don't think they do but this raises a good question as to why. (Could claim it's not see-through so you'd only have the eyes left to hit). Maybe in JW5.
>used Clojure fulltime for five years.

How did that work out for you? Usually following a hype cycle, there is a negative hype cycle i.e. Mongo is webscale, then Mongo is a buggy mess.

Clojure seemed to just fade away. Did it turn out well or are there interesting pitfalls that make it not as great as advertised?
Of course, I didn't like this move either. The magic is that John is human, and they sully that notion by making him survive a 5-story fall.
woah, didn't know about this site! it is super cool!

It feels like what Pinterest would be without the annoying bits.
Sounds like damage control wrt the last post.

Sorry nope.. privacy, encryption, security is not their thing.

Even if they’d have e2ee, it’s just a patch to a bad culture
The thing is, Hickey was entirely right to reject this idea of “Simplicity” being the same thing as “Easy”. But he then decided to conflate in “comprehensible” which it turns out is very much a matter of aesthetics.

Turns out if you really focus on composability above other concerns you get Haskell.
Sports Direct owner defends live face-recognition camera use
Ah I guess I read it right then I reread it wrong, my bad and thanks for the pointer! That's a shame but hopefully it's released in a more open way in the future. My interest is in building good collaborative interfaces (and games!) on top of these things.
That verse is also absent in two of their greatest hits albums, including the 1998 one.
For languages, I think it depends on the language and the learner. Flashcards helped me learn all ~2,000 of the Jōyō kanji in about 18 months.
> My YouTube feed is full of “Elon says” videos, many of them could be deep fakes? There is zero way to prove otherwise.

by this 'logic' any CEO could claim immunity from SEC since anything they say in real life could be walked back as 'that could be a deepfake!'
The point is that the American units are now defined relative to metric units.

As recently as the 1800s, the yard was defined as:

"the Straight Line or Distance between the Centres of the Two Points in the Gold Studs of the Straight Brass Rod now in the Custody of the Clerk of the House of Commons whereon the Words and Figures "Standard Yard 1760" are engraved"

... That standard yard was destroyed in a fire in 1834, and a new standard yard was made using several copies of the original standard yard as reference.

But now, it's just defined as an exact fraction of a meter. First as 36/39.370113 m, now as exactly 0.9144 meters.
ChatGPT (gpt-4.0) is crazy omniscient.

It doesn't diminish, the knowledge is like a fractal. You can zoom out, in, etc.

I created a prompt that asks me a set of questions on a topic. It then scores my understanding, gives me deeper insight into the topics, broadens my understanding with some extra information, and then provides a mind-map of related topics, and a mind-map of adjacent topics.

To bootstrap an area of understanding, I ask it for a mind-map of a topic. Like a fractal, you can choose a line item and go deeper.

Prompt 1: Give me a small mind map on the amygdala

Based on that, prompt 2: give me a mind map on the role of the basolateral nuclei of the amygdala in the creation of phobias
There are valid reasons not to release the source code that have nothing to do with “security by obscurity”: legal, various notions of “control”, and more
In the 2nd movie (and perhaps other places), he gets shot repeatedly with rifles. Even if the shots don't penetrate, the repeated impact alone would break ribs and leave him incapacitated.
I thought that might be it, but primers use lead styphnate.

https://www.virtusammo.com/primers-101-how-are-ammunition-pr....
Upon request my dentist sold me ($20) a tube of Fluoridex [1] prescription toothpaste with 1.1% sodium fluoride to use at night. The instructions are to avoid eating or drinking afterward for 30 minutes, which is easy when you are asleep.

The Colgate I use in the morning has 0.25% sodium fluoride for comparison, so the prescription toothpaste is 4x stronger.

There are some threads on /r/dentistry/ suggesting that SnF2 can cause irritation.

Whatever compound, the benefit of fluoride toothpaste is increased by not washing it away with a mouth rinse after brushing.

[1] https://dentalhealthessentials.com/fluoridex-sensitivity-rel...
Right, and how is that less complex than IPv4? Now you got two separate protocols to manage something you do in one place in IPv4.
Strong cultural pressures * 2, because a man is required.
Kyle Hill, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpn4ImFo0Dg
Just like clockwork, the "I have no idea what this multibillion dollar company actually does now, so let me comment on how they must have way too many employees and how it could be built in a weekend" HN comment is in.

I feel like HN should just autogenerate these comments now for stories like this (perhaps with a helpful response explaining what the corporation actually does do and giving some examples of corporate jobs that are a necessity at a certain size).
Deploying PostHog on Kubernetes
https://www.exideas.com/ME/index.php MessagEase
IDK, I would use "immigrant" when someone moves to another country with the intent to stay there, and "expat" when someone moves to another country for work or study (so, longer than just tourism) but while they might choose to stay/immigrate, for now that's just temporary, say, for a year or two.
It’s a really emotionally effective argument to call the boogeyman of the day an “addiction” and link it in people’s minds to chemical dependency, which is what the term is supposed to refer to.
The visualizations remind me of those in a paper I co-authored a while ago (2009) visualizing ~2400 scientific journal / ~5.7M full-text articles: "Semantic Journal Mapping for Search Visualization in a Large Scale Article Digital Library" https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/accepted/?id=63e...
I am on the whole not that impressed with the quality of Google stuff. It's not like it was 20 years ago, when seeing the Google version of something was really exciting, like when Search, Gmail or Maps first came out. Now I look at Google about how I looked at Microsoft back then... a company whose products that I'm generally better off avoiding, and when I do use them, it's usually not because of the product quality itself.
We don't dig up our dead. Why are we digging up and burning dead animals and plants?
Anyone know why the ~15% number keeps showing up in recent layoffs?

The startup I was at recently laid of 15%. I'm pretty sure it wasn't for (public) optics, because the layoff didn't get any press coverage.

And based on the startup's business, I very much doubt the layoff was triggered by ChatGPT's success.

My best guess would be behind-the-scenes VC strategizing, but this is happening even with publicly traded companies like DropBox.
The first half of this obit goes harder than you may guess.

> There is nothing about “The Jerry Springer Show” to be applauded — after all, his guests, representing an enormous variety of lifestyles deviating from what is perceived as the norm, were packaged as freaks and brought onstage to be mocked by the audience, and to be (at least seemingly) sternly judged by Springer.

There's a lot of interesting lines to be studied between this show and media in the current era, from Fox News to TikTok to politics to the comment sections. Something about intentionally rallying the worst emotions we can conjure up out of vulnerable people for the ratings.
> in which companies dont go about their business, aiming for sustainable growth and a healthy profit, but pivot to whatever unrelated technology (or, more often, bullshit fad) comes next, to prop their stock or to increase their valuation when they're sold.

Meh. You could've said the same thing about companies leveraging dot-com, or going mobile first. All these were a net gain for investors and society.

"The future is now old man."
> Interesting - having read the book several times I don't get the reference to the dinner scene; will have to look it up.

Chapter 16:

* https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dune/summary/...
This comment is important :)
You can, in the same places where you could already replace it with LTE back then, and in remote place where you couldn't already, 5G isn't going to happen anyway.
Perhaps the single greatest source of caution is the huge uncertainty around the future trajectory of AI technology.

Compared to previous technological leaps – such as railways, motorised transport and, more recently, the gradual integration of computers into all aspects of our lives – AI can spread much faster. And it can do this with much lower capital investment.

Yes, as we move forward the future becomes more uncertain and less predictable. This level of uncertainty is going to increase anxiety. What skills do you invest into? When they may become obsolete before even acquired.

As long as useful AI's can only be built by large corporations with unlimited resources, inequality may increase. However, at the same time the counter to that is all advancements in AI might be easily replicated by others at a fraction of the cost. As demonstrated by Alpaca.

AI is likely to lead in the area of unexpected consequences for all of society. The question is whether the positives will outweigh the negatives.

Just keeping up may become a futile endeavor.

"Climbing the skill ladder is going to look more like running on a treadmill at the gym. No matter how fast you run, you aren’t moving, AI is still right behind you learning everything that you can do" - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
It sounds like you're suggesting owner financing? I think either way there will be financial risk.

You pose great questions around making sure the business is doing well and still trending up. Based on the little info I got, it appears that way. What was weird to me is it seemed like an American business with all the text in English but almost all of the clients were from India. I'm not against overseas customers, I just expected the site would be in another language. Maybe English is the common language between their dialects?
Newer releases have improved significantly in this area. It's now possible to understand perf implications with the addition of io-stats[1] and query-stats[2].

[1] https://docs.datomic.com/pro/api/io-stats.html
[2] https://docs.datomic.com/pro/api/query-stats.html
what no they do fall at the same rate. acceleration is F/m so the mass of the object cancels out
Externalization FTW!

You don't know something until you try to spit it out in your own words in a way that make sense.

As an example, you think you know what a bike looks like. You do, right? Draw it without cheating. 95% of people I've asked - can't. After drawing it have a look at https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/
I see people simply stating their moral system and when they fail to uphold it, being attacked. The inference that they think everyone should use their moral system might be inferred, but wasn't necessarily intended.
This is my one fear with GPU stuff.

I'm using Canvas when I build games on the web, and that's about it. And even there I'm regularly trying to think "isn't there some way I could represent this application state as a tree?"

There are a few places where this doesn't make sense, but if we're honest most application state even for native apps really ought to be represented in the form of an interactive document.

I want people to be able to build more powerful stuff on the web, but I don't want them to start looking at the DOM as if it's just some inconvenient quirk of the platform rather than a really seriously integral part of the web's success as a platform.

Yes, it's often inconvenient to build fancy effects on top of the DOM, yes you have to worry about updates and performance -- because your entire application state is not supposed to be in the DOM 100% of the time; the DOM should be treated as a render target presenting the application state and controls that are relevant to the user right now. The DOM forces you to represent your current app's interface as a pure-text XML tree;that is the common denominator for all of your users no matter what device or features or settings they have enabled. Targeting that common denominator is good practice because in most (not all but most) cases if you can't sit down and write out your app's current interface as presented to the user on a sheet of paper by hand as an XML tree, probably something in your interface has gone wrong or gotten too complicated and you ought to be rethinking the UX anyway.
do you integrate with supabase?
> Even as a techie, why would you put in the work to set up your own thing?

As a techie, I do this so that I can maintain control and trust, and so that when something goes wrong, I can fix it instead of just refreshing the status page of the service and hoping.

I in no way think that anyone else should do like me, but when people are having trouble with a service, I will mention options that involve not needing that service.
Ah crap, my bad. It was either link to the local Cincinnati news station owned by a conglomerate, or TMZ
https://hnrss.org/frontpage

This https://hnrss.github.io/ has more options if you don't just want front page stuff.
Yeah I have the same issue with context window size. Personally I'm just waiting for future LLM's with 10x-100x context window. However, someone else recently came up with this solution:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35488291
I honestly recommend you just stay with Dropbox.. there's no fantastic alternatives
Datomic's is perfect for probably 90% of small-ish backoffice systems that never has to be web scale

How do they scale it for Nubank? (millions of users)
ok so why not make a bulletproof helmet and ski mask?

Look I'm not watching these because of realism... I'm here for bad Keanu Reeves delivery but mindless martial art mayhem.
Most of the money is going to middlemen tho. That's the problem.
I think a multi-modal LLM could give Microsoft a real shot at the phone market. Apps overall will become less relevant as 1-LLM app rules everything. Google could fumble here because they don't really like LLMs as they are a fundamental challenge to their operating model.
> look at Facebook lighting almost $40 billion with their Metaverse product

That’s only because it failed (and the jury is still out on that). If it works they’ll conquer an entirely new market right from the start.

Certainly a much better long term strategy than hoping they can keep up their advertising revenue.
Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere
Almost none of these modern "great" TV series would be tolerable in a theater setting—no talking, no phone—even broken up into two-hour chunks. Too much filler, too much repetition, simply not enough substance. They're OK at home because people can tune out and screw around on their phones or play Switch or go put away some dishes so they're not paying close attention to the whole thing—very few of them are improved by an actual, close watch for their entire runtime, but they're good if your attention is dipping in and out while you do other stuff.
Oh, you mean thumb-key? I thought you meant the T9 one above.
For Android I use YATSE (paid) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.leetzone.a...
Part of my job involves reviewing IP licenses. We don't negotiate technical details like aspect ratios. (Some IP owners do, like Disney.)

The decision to mutilate Friends was made by a software engineer (working for the Licensee) who couldn't be bothered to add black bars or convert ratios because "reasons."
> Worth mentioning that Syncthing doesn't have a cloud part, while DB does.

I see that as a huge plus for Syncthing.
Nothing to Write in the Age of Content
Absolutely, this is a central subject of study in Tactile Internet from what I’ve heard; next-gen backhaul/WAN technology. It starts with first hop to support local Tactile Internet networks. Private, ultra low latency 5G LANs are already being used in e.g. some production facilities.
The counter-programming for Oppenheimer's opening day is Barbie. :)
Really cool product. Though I wonder if it might result in actually less infrastructure dedicated to bikes. If you look at the charts, there are more cars in a 5 minute period than pedestrians or bicycles all weekend.
Eh, I worked for a video analytics startup in 2016 and we had investors (and a CEO) who were desperately pushing to do stuff with AI because everyone was doing stuff with AI. Needless to say, the startup ended up alienating their customers and eventually failed and “exited” for a five figure sum.

The current “wave” of AI and deep learning and whatnot has been going on for almost a decade, longer than blockchain and definitely longer than NFTs if you ask me. Not saying that it’s not overhyped, but it’s definitely not a new hype.
I agree the movie is really good and hits the author's main themes pretty well. I also like the dinner scene in the book, and it plays a key role in fleshing out the complex socio-political-economic world of the Imperium - but for a movie it really wouldn't be feasible. It introduces too many characters (the banker, the water-seller, the smuggler, the honeypot, etc.) and has too many side-stories and nuances - it would probably take at least half an hour of screen time to do properly, and trying to cram it down would make it meaningless.

Similarly, in the book the time period between the arrival of House Atreides on Dune and the subsequent invasion is much longer and has many other side-stories going on, all of which are eliminated in the movie. Including all that material would require a HBO Game of Thrones type approach, with each book consuming an entire season.

Deciding which material is the most important must have been a hard decision, but I think they did a very good job considering the limits of the movie format, and the overall atmospherics felt just right.

Personally I'd like to see a David Attenborough-style special on "Dune: The Ecology of the Sandworm Life-Cycle" but it's not likely.
I'm curious to see if they took every effort to strip that demo down or not. I think eframe doesn't get a ton smaller than 2mb no matter what you do, so maybe they did.
That's not what an introducer is. It's an easier way of configuring which computers can synchronize with each other, not to be mistaken for a relay.
The whole clojure ecosystem and the wonderful tools around it never really took off due to unclear documentation, poor onboarding and too few evangelists. Datomic and other products are really cool but are now being given away as scrapware due to this lack of effort to make the whole ecosystem more palatable, colorful and easy to get into for new audiences.
That's my main gripe with how the bulletproof suits were shown in the fourth movie. There is a difference between getting shot in the chest and actually catching a bullet with your suit while using it as a shield. The former is believable because the kinetic energy would dissipate in your ribs (possibly breaking them) the later isn't because it's roughly equivalent to dissipating the bullet's energy using your arm.

OTOH it's a John Wick movie, expecting anything to be very relatistic is already thinking one step too far.
Come on. I've worked with engineers of all stripes and virtually none of them consider 512 a 'rounder' number than 500.
Ahhh I think I finally got your point - that basically everything is confusing (as even my favorite porters can be untergärig). And I also learned that the Austrian Märzen is not exactly what I'd expect, so all in all an interesting beer thread :)

PS I wouldn't order a lager either. If I didn't care what they have (very rarely) I'd order "a beer" and live with it, or otherwise I'd ask for the choices.
I suppose this counts: Although not that interesting, I have one of those AC units in my apartment that sits on the floor with an outlet tube terminating at a window to pipe out hot air. The internal reservoir for this unit is quite small so I hacked together a float valve that triggers a pump to offload the condensation water to a larger bin, that way I don't have to empty the reservoir as often.

Pretty simple, but saves lots of time and I don't have to worry about the air conditioner turning off in the middle of the night due to it's internal reservoir becoming full.
I find that I retain the most information when I build myself a “story” of it. A kind of narrative makes it easy to relate from one piece of knowledge to another, and also interject new tidbits as you find them. Things like obsidian lend themselves really nicely
I'll usually be driving with a visually impaired passenger, so it'd be more like "lean up close to the screen to try and find where the little selection highlight is and then reach backward to try and use the knob to move it around" so for us in particular a touchscreen would be easier. Realistically I would just end up doing everything myself instead, but a touchscreen option would be nice.

Apparently the Japanese market version for 2024 is getting a 10.25" screen which I'm guessing is the same part as the CX-50. That could mean adding touch for CarPlay, but none of the articles mention it one way or the other. Maybe I'll wait and see about the US update before making any buying decisions.
Well, most of these 360MM non-German EU citizens don't live in Berlin or Germany at all, only some of them do.
What’s clever about this particular narrative trick is that it obeys a kind of conservation of disbelief: reduce the number of impossible things your audience has to believe in by having them flow naturally from just one or two impossibilities, which you can then spend more time grounding ahead of time to make them feel more real. (The trick of grounding an impossibility is another thing entirely, but comes down to introducing it in a way that lets the audience accept it as either utterly fantastical or deceptively mundane.)