skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of the 'poisoned' clown bike, which has a geared stem that inverts steering, move bars in an arc to the right = bike goes left.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI2aMKwXXnE&ab_channel=MikeB...
There is a "Read More" link: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/wiki
I've never once regretted my decision to write GPU code in CUDA... I mean, I wish there were alternatives because being locked into Nvidia isn't fun, but CUDA is a great developer experience.
Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies
Damn that's impressive. I should have guessed you had an open source background since you saw a problem, found a solution, then you shared it. In my set-up for the rare occasions when I do need windows, I run it inside Qemu and PCI Pass-through my laptop dedicated GPU and on my desktop a second GPU. I just can't stand what windows does in terms of privacy and nagware. It feels like it's run by the very same people that used to spread malware back in the day.
The author ignores what many find most compelling about those videos. Namely, the domain experts (navy pilots) who filmed the videos and discussed them at length[1].

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Eco2s3-0zsQ&t=5207s&pp=ygUWam9...
Their largest business is largely mobile ads in mobile games, as I understand it, and has been for a while. As a business, they haven't really competed all that effectively with Unreal for AA/AAA games. If you like ads in mobile games, root away!

> https://unity.com/products/unity-ads
You seem to know a lot about the system, thanks for sharing. Do you have any idea the reasoning behind the no nested libraries & objects can only have a 10(?) letter name?
Pedantically, the correct English would be “company that made a malware installer”.
Do these two new drugs (lecanemab and donanemab) work the same way aducanemab does? Does that mean that the aducanemab results weren't a fluke and that the amyloid plaque hypothesis may in fact be true?
> Surely more bank failures would be seen as worse for the economy than inflation.

I disagree with this. Also keep in mind that the Fed has a dual mandate (price stability and maximum employment); they aren't guardians of the overall economy nor are the responsible for ensuring that banks don't fail.

> Personally, I'd like to see Congress take more action to reduce inflation.

100% agree
Non-customers were on his free tier and were simply acquaintances. It's likely that many didn't upgrade to his VIP (Very Important Pedo) tier.
Congress has no electoral mandate to lower inflation, that's not their job.

Using fiscal policy for inflation targeting is crude and horrendously slow.
"I will give you a message in German. Correct the spelling and grammar mistakes and explain the corrections."

I feel a lot more confident writing in German when someone is highlighting my mistakes before the message gets sent.

I also ask it more and more questions that would have been a Google search plus a few minutes of reading the first results. ChatGPT gives me a straight answer in a few seconds. This is good for quick definitions, code samples etc.
I would love to have a pinepook (without pro), but whenever I check their site it is not orderable. Anyone know when it will become available again? Is there some newsletter I can subscribe to? I did not find anything and asking in their discord did also not help
Yep. Those people are read write execute for the user and no special bits.
Every day it seems like the vendor-lockin-plus-$$$ vs developer-experience tradeoff that comes with Auth0 gets less and less worth it, unless you're a massive B2C app like OpenAI (which uses Auth0).

- the economics for the middle (aka most risky) scaleup stage, as talked about in this post, are not great.

- Yes, Oauth is complicated, but so is Auth0. OSS stuff like Passport (for the JS ecosystem), authlib for python, and omniauth for the ruby is basically just as easy, and the vendor lock in on storing users in Auth0 is quite massive.

- WorkOS and a slew of new products exist to cover B2B SAML enterprise-SSO-connections at a smidgen of the cost of Auth0 (which charges multi-thousands-per-connection).
Is the focus of Mozilla not primarely their browser anymore because of this acquisition?
> Google will retire Chrome’s HTTPS padlock icon as no one knows what it means

Hopefuly they will retire all the icons because only Google knows what they mean. /s
I feel for you man.

I'm a fairly intellectual guy, but all of this stuff seems to come from the really bookish people that just spend basically all of their time in academic pursuit.

Someone else fixes their plumbing, someone else built their house, someone else drives the bus (imagine them being a bus driver? ridiculous). Anything that involves physical work, not even getting your hands dirty but any kind of practical thing, is someone else's problem.

If you don't do any of that then of course you don't need a car, you don't even need to move from your desk.

I feel pretty lonely sometimes as someone who tries to straddle both.
For comparison, Epic Games has 2,200+
I've had an idea kicking around for ages of setting up something like this for music commentary / radio - a "host" could set up a show and make commentary between tracks (or even during), and you'd source all the content via a user-provided subscription.

So, for example, you might be a "70s prog" DJ / host, you'd set up a playlist and intersperse commentary or dialogue or whatever, and then the site handles authing and playing the licensed tracks between your pre-recorded (or hell, even live) banter.

Never spent any real time on it, I'm not sure that the idea of "just use the user's Spotify account" to get around licensing would actually hold up, but it seems like it would be a cool service.

That's a certified epiccoleman Free Idea for anyone with more gumption than me :)
How are you going to get funding for your pet project then?

My buddy's post doc is paid for by the military, but will have further applications in medical because both deal with fluids.

Medical doesn't pay unless you are the Physician applying the work, so he needed to get someone who will.

Also, he has yet to prove what he is looking for, he is aware he might work on this for 30 years and come up with nothing.
Came to HN today figuring there would be a thread about this, after getting an email about it from Google themselves, riddled with things causing me to wonder if the message was spoofed:

1. "Dear User" -- other emails I've gotten from Google say "Hello" or "Hi <firstname>" or have no salutation at all.

2. The main section begins with "Passkey support will be integrated because they’re easier to use, and safer than most other forms of 2-SV." -- The plural antecedent of "they're" is merely implied (the literal plural antecedent "passkeys" isn't actually written).

3. In that same sentence, the comma before "and" is grammatically incorrect. The comma should not exist, or it should be followed by a complete sentence. The same comma rule is also violated in a later sentence: "You won’t need to enter a password to sign in to your account, or to select only a single phone to use as your built-in security key any longer."

I'm not really a huge stickler for grammar, but I've seen countless "how to spot phishing" guides specifically suggesting that we look for grammatical mistakes, as they're specifically included for purposes of improving the ratio of hooked phish to eaten phish, so it follows that messages which aren't phishing really ought to use correct grammar!
If these are being released in order to raise military funding, why were they not released when they were filmed a decade ago? The military is always looking to increase funding.
Even from the headline, then from the articles headline, it took me a moment to realize "Lilly Donanemab" wasnt the name of the scientist in the articles picture.... and she was suffering from early alzheimers and that she used to be a brilliant scientist...

and I thought it was HER cognitive function was what declined.
I feel like you're ignoring all of the downsides and problems with the username#discriminator system that are clearly laid out in the article.

* Your solution doesn't solve the problem that nearly half of users don't know their discriminator or even know what that is

* Busy usernames like Mike and Jane are still unavailable

* They're still difficult and cumbersome to share offline (although slightly improved)
Cool work, I wonder how hard would it be to compile the 1st browser/editor[1]. I have seen few source code repositories with it's code[2], but I'm not sure if it's complete source or not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb
[2] https://browsers.evolt.org/browsers/archive/worldwideweb/NeX...
The common answer to this question is that the base rate could be set by some free-market themed mechanism, where the price (aka base rate) depends on the balance of supply and demand for loans, instead of the current status quo of centrally-planned rates.
None of the Navy videos depict anything clearly. That's not a coincidence.
The Fed probably believes that any banking sector issues related to interest rate risk are adequately addressed by the Bank Term Funding Program which allows banks to gradually get past their low interest rate problems and that any banks with assets that can’t take advantage of this program are mismanaged and deserve to fail. And they’re probably not wrong since durational risk arbitrage is literally the core business model of a bank.
Yes. Inevitably, the legal definition would turn out to be "whatever a person not legally brain-dead can experience, maybe" just so we couldn't say any human in a coma is "not possessing consciousness." After all, some comas last for years.

In other words, it's just not ever going to be a scientific concept. There are components of it that are.
No. That is its strength.
The point is that if the only alien spacecraft candidates are in the "too far away and fuzzy to positively identify" zone, and then you improve your detection abilities and all your new candidates are again in that fuzzy zone (which is just further out), one might conclude that there aren't any alien spacecraft.

That is, there are always going to be objects that are too fuzzy to positively identify, no matter how good your sensors are. So you can always find some weird readings at the edge of intelligibility that could be anything. That's why Bigfoot videos are always blurry: clear videos are always not Bigfoot.
Too bad AI generated content cannot be copyrighted.

We’ll need to remember to sue first time they try.
Roblox is hiring. And they pay Silicon Valley salaries, not game dev salaries.[1]

[1] https://jobs.roblox.com/careers
If you're happy with a single bundled file, another option is:

deno bundle 'https://esm.sh/@observablehq/plot' > plot.js

My browser development workflow looks somewhat like the following:

Imports / versions in importmap.json:

{
"imports": {
"plot": "https://esm.sh/@observablehq/plot@0.6.6"
}
}

Code in app.js:

import * as Plot from "plot";
const plot = Plot.rectY({length: 10000}, Plot.binX({y: "count"}, {x: Math.random})).plot();
const div = document.querySelector("#myplot");
div.append(plot);

For development use dev.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<script type="importmap" src="./importmap.json"></script>
<script type="module" src="./app.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="myplot"></div>
</body>
</html>

Then you can then bundle with:

deno bundle --import-map=importmap.json app.js > bundle.js

And have as your prod.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<script type="module" src="./bundle.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="myplot"></div>
</body>
</html>

Note that `deno bundle` is deprecated. You can almost replace it with esbuild but it currently lacks builtin support for import maps:

deno run --allow-all https://deno.land/x/esbuild@v0.17.18/mod.js --bundle app.js --outfile=bundle.js. # errors, see: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/2230

I'm really looking forward to the ECMAScript proposal on Type Annotations making it into browsers some days as this would effectively unlock transpiler free typescript development, leaving just a simple optional bundling step for production.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a-proposal-for-typ...

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations
Maybe. I wonder if very narrow, multi-model systems might eventually deliver better performance and utility than monolithic models like GPT. Rather than pay for access to that, you might be better off investing in resources that can train and learn on exactly what you're doing, rather than something general that is good at a lot of things but not incredible at your specific task.
The only thing that KDE plasma needs is a way for people to monetize the discover store, and slightly better qa to iron out outstanding issues here and there. Then it can fully take on either macos and windows. It is quite slick.
Imagine if the market was in charge of these decisions.
>the Dunning-Krugerrand

Stolen. Genius. You made my day.
My point exactly - Jobs' family has benefited tremendously from Cook's actions over the last decade. If I were them I wouldn't say anything either, I'd be too busy figuring out how to spend the tens of billions he'd left to me.
Well, I know for a fact that atleast two people over the age of 30 are actively teaching groups of high schoolers to write html files in notepad in a programming course.
I don’t have one that doesn’t admit a contradiction here … which I’d argue is because comparing the size of an infinite set is nonsensical, even if the properties used to do so are otherwise useful.

Similarly, I can also work around Russel’s paradox by introducing infinite universes, but that doesn’t actually resolve the paradox, it just provides a set (ha ha) of rules that may be leveraged to formalize the Set category and otherwise prove useful things.

Just because your formalization admits a proof by contradiction doesn’t actually prove two infinite sets have different sizes, it just proves that a contradiction exists under your assumptions.
There's always been possible terrestrial explanations, but those explanations are as concerning (if not more concerning) than actual aliens, which is why these things remain so compelling.
Impressive model, thank you for releasing it under a business-friendly license!

Have you considered using Google's sparse "scaling transformer" architecture as the base? Even at 3B scale it can generate 3-4x more tokens per FLOP while being competitive at perplexity with a dense transformer. I think OpenAI uses a variant of it in their ChatGPT-3.5-Turbo product.

Here is the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12763
and the implementation https://github.com/google/trax/blob/master/trax/models/resea... if you are interested.

Hope you get to look into this!
And is Mozilla suddenly not focussing anymore on Firefox after this acquisition?

If I remember correctly the Mozilla foundation is more than Firefox. You also have Thunderbird for example.
I would hope people just go back to writing engines from scratch. It's really not that hard and unlocks being able to do unique non cookie cutter things which in the end games are supposed to contain.
You could take it and finetune it on a bunch of Lisps, probably cost on the order of 50-500 to do that.
> No the "not rational" part is that wages are not commensurate with cost of living increase because short term thinking yielding record profit margins is addictive.

Wages are where the two parties met. It's high enough so the seller of the good (employee) is ok with selling and it's low enough so the buyer of the good (employer) is ok with buying. As long as they do business with each other, they are apparently both deciding, rationally, that this is an acceptable deal. Better than the alternative.

> Workers are leaving because they can't afford it, not because they want to stratify their families and leave their homes.

Great that they are leaving! They should be leaving! Cause then, and only then, will businesses be driven closer to raising wages since the sweet spot in the above equilibrium moves upwards.

> For those thinking this is the market successfully working: has the market successfully worked in the Bay Area? How does SF look right now?

Well in the Bay Area, the market is highly distorted. Lots of NIMBY zoning rules preventing high density housing being built. People sitting on detached homes because they can't afford to move. This heavily distorts housing costs which then impacts salaries since all those tech workers need to live somewhere. Big tech and VC-funded not-as-big tech is floating in money, so can afford to push salaries/compensation higher and higher. It's the market, but it's not pretty and it's heavily distorted.
Iran seizes its second oil tanker in a week
4k Netflix Streaming - $19.99/mo

Hulu (no ads) - $14.99/mo

MAX (no ads) - $15.99/mo

Price for three streaming subscriptions: $50/mo

Number of 4k UHD Blu Rays on Amazon for less than $15: 410. Yea, I've switched back to physical media
On Butterflies
These are good basics, but will still underestimate large projects.

For a padding rule, use: estimate^2

Because T tasks times N estimation errors/delays is an exponential growth in project time complexity.

For statistics and data, see here:
https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-l...
And how does this acquisition change that?
What do you mean by "seed phrases"? Do you just mean "plain English words"? Lots of people do.
My credit union (it’s actually very worth it, so I’m not switching) has no branch within multiple states from me. A domestic wire requires phone calls and fax, can’t be done entirely online. It’s certainly more doable with a behemoth like Chase, but then you’re dealing with all the negatives of using Chase and employees that have no leeway to use common sense when solving problems.
Counterpoint: cars are unpleasant. They're expensive, complicated, require constant maintenance and consumable wear items and a lot of space to store, they pose a substantial personal liability risk, incur significant taxation and insurance fees, you have to pay for fuel and manage the logistics of frequent refueling/recharging, they rapidly depreciate in value, they can be damaged, catch on fire, strand you in the middle of nowhere, you have to pay attention constantly while using them, etc.

Yes, there are ways to defray these annoyances but those ways generally carry fractally nested annoyances of their own.

To me, living without a car is the true freedom, one that I miss, that I yearn for every day presently. To have the most expensive thing I own be a bicycle would be splendid. I can always rent a car, carry an umbrella, hail a taxi for the edge cases.
Yes, you can buy an interest rate swap. But I don't know how readily available they are to small businesses.
"Open"AI
This isn't surprising I suppose. There's always been a conflict between the studios and the writers, but they needed writers. The first chance to get rid of them must be very appealing. No more arguments about artistic integrity, or adult references sneaked into a script, or anything edgy or controversial. No arguments when they want something rewritten 20 times.

It must be like a dream come true!
> Maybe there's a less alarmist version to consider as well.

I'll take a crack at this since it's ultimately where I land. People will just get wise to it and "videos" of stuff will eventually be seen as trustworthy as "someone's words" of stuff. There was a time before video technology and I suspect we're headed for something similar to that. At least with respect to trust in historical documentation.
While that's true, it doesn't work if everyone doesn't have the exact same understanding of how it works. For example, most people I've worked with will choose 8 instead of 16 for an estimate of 9. This makes it risky to overestimate and appear less capable.
> ludicrous financials and outsized margins being published by corp after corp

If you translate those financials into real terms, they're less ludicrous. Sometimes negative. Margin expansion absolutely contributed to inflation [1]. (On par with labor.) But this happened through wage suppression.

> Corporations have clearly achieved deregulation at a greater scale than ever before, both thru devices like regulatory capture to weaken regulatory instruments

What changed between 2021 and 2023 that gave them this power?

There are solid cases made for care investments, to boost labour participation, and a variable corporate tax rate that kicks in when inflation is high. But they have to be based on sane, empirical arguments.

[1] https://www.epi.org/blog/corporate-profits-have-contributed-...
True, but what I noticed is that in many of these countries you can't just start layoffs whenever.

Frequently you need to have consultations with unions or staff representatives, present an actual business plan for the layoffs and why people can't be reconverted.

That hits the breaks on any impulsive layoffs and it adds another buffer of a bunch of months.
There is a big difference between bonds and MBS that have already been issued and future ones. What the FED is doing now is tanking the value of securities with lower fixed interest issued in the past.
The fed has a dual mandate (Powell only repeats this 20-30 times during each press conference). Stable prices (2% inflation) and maximum employment.

That dual mandate is what dictates policy. The recent string of rate hikes are not arbitrary, they are because of the surge in inflation flowing the extreme policies the fed took on the other end when unemployment was high during the pandemic.

If anything the case to be made is that the fed went overboard with its QE during the pandemic, but even then its a bit of "hindsight is 20/20". I think everyone can agree that had this pandemic struck in 2000, even 2010 instead of 2020, the economic impact would have been dramatically greater than it was.
I really enjoyed the recent Hackerbox[0] featuring an FPGA. I'd never worked with one prior to that.

https://hackerboxes.com/collections/past-hackerboxes/product...
> Unlike residential mortgages, corporate loans are not fixed interest rates. They are all adjustable. What in 2020 seems financially sound, becomes impossible a few years later.

> I can't imagine how other companies do this, do you just make sure your business can handle 12% interest rates just incase a politician decides to give away free money for a few years?

There's probably a larger area of acceptable risk to take for a business loan vs a personal loan, IMHO; but if it's a business loan that you're also personally liable for, that's different. Businesses fail all of the time, and it's acceptable. You also have to consider what leverage the borrower has against the lender. If your business can't pay the loan, will the lender be able to find a buyer if they foreclose? If not, they may be likely to let a default slide. I've heard many stories of commercial landlords that let businesses stay rent-free for years because they couldn't attract a new tenant for the space, and it was better to have it occupied and active than empty. I've never heard of residential landlords letting tenants stay for years rent free unless required to or some other special circumstance.
Forecasting a 28% chance of something happening is likely to end with it happening about 1 out of 4 times. At this point you are just being deliberately obtuse.
Feud takes a funny turn:

https://twitter.com/ItIsFinch/status/1653844118399864839

"Musk threatened in emails to take NPR's account, if they don't start tweeting. NPR published the story. So Musk sent a blank email with subject "You suck".

They printed it and framed it."
I meant email, which is generally my default meaning for "mail". I could have worded it better...
One important thing is when the meetings took place. Epstein was convicted in 2008. It says a lot that they are willing to overlook it.

It sounds like the emails were 2013 to 2016.