skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "closer-to-the-edge we work" metaphor just blew my mind and helped me recontextualize so much about some of my struggles for the last few years. Truly, thank you.
When only a few of them followed the hype, yes, it can possibly go nowhere.

But when the entire industry, experts and non-experts included, are fascinated and obsessed with the same thing, it is more likely to be something real. An easy example is the first iPhone.

Another more negative example is bitcoin which even though it is probably a scam, its values and influence on society has massively grown more than what it was 1 year after released. Even though it has been a disappointment technologically.
It really is brilliant. The screenwriter is Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton, Bourne Trilogy).
What you got wrong is putting all the blame on Putin. The US has made it clear that it is not accepting that Europe gets its gas from Russia regardless whether Putin is friendly, not in power, or Russia is a democracy. Not everyone agrees with the US stance (Germany went with the pipeline, France/Macron tried to avert the war). It seems that US intelligence has prevailed, however, to the advantage of the US (or their plans at least).

Europe got badly screwed. Now Putin is an enemy forever. And he is not going down since all of Russia's powerful people are on a watch list. They have nowhere to go, and so they might as well stick around to the bitter end.
I use KDE Connect to share books and papers from my computer to my tablet, so I can annotate them with a digital pen. It's pretty nice.

Occasionally I'll do the same from my phone, and it works as long as you share your mobile connection.
Ugh imagine having wired headphones which were somehow physically keyed to specific devices, sounds like a nightmare.
Reminds me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEEBE7_-aMM&list=PLD3WAy9LRI...
Hey,

Thanks for sharing your father's story, I have not done any psychological work but I'm aware that there can be psychological aspects to stuttering and I appreciate your offer for a coaching session.

I'm not really sure what caused me to stutter, but I still stutter now (I'm 22). Even today when I order at a restaurant, my stutter just kicks in, I could not pronounce anything.
My recollection was that AT&T was the only vendor that would provide free wifi with the iPhone (Apple precondition)
app to delay audio from the phone microphone and bluetooth feed to 'bone conduction headphones' May work?

>Auditory processing deficits have also been proposed as a cause of stuttering.

Stuttering is less prevalent in deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals,

and stuttering may be reduced when auditory feedback is altered,

such as by masking, delayed auditory feedback (DAF), or frequency altered feedback.

There is some evidence that the functional organization of the auditory cortex may be different in people who stutter.

Stuttering : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttering

Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_auditory_feedback

Bone conduction : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_conduction
Thanks, that's an interesting read. It feels pessimistic to me (understandable given all the problems) and I'm not sure it's really offering viable alternatives.

For cosmetics the PSL feels like a close enough solution, and it's available today. At the very least, it looks like a good way to bootstrap a list used to decide on cosmetic styling, with manual amendments when PSL has gaps or unneeded entries Cross-thread it looks like dang is building such a list, just without the initial PSL bootstrap to get it started. I wonder if there's anything on the PSL we wouldn't want on the HN list?
Only a ratio of 0.04 of accidents resulted in a post-impact fire.

Again to reiterate my point. It's rare.
Pragmatically, we need way more investment in environmental engineering and policies that put conservation first.

Since collectively we can't be bothered because we all need the newest electric vehicle, you can also accept that mass extinction is a byproduct of humanity.
Forbid them from selling to US customers or hiring US employees. Can't have your pie and eat it too.
I see where you frustration comes from as ranges for salaries can vary worldwide.

But let's speak transparently - do you risk something by sharing your website? I don't ask anything in exchange, in the end you don't have to tweet or anything.
> global censorship-obsessed WEF

Can you elaborate on this? How is the WEF tied to global censorship?
> He joined a fraternity, one of the two that took in Jews.

This was a surprising reminder that things were very different in 1935.

I wonder, is there any group like this today? “One of the two that took in X” for any X seems like an interesting formula for locating outliers, whether good or bad.

A lot of nasty examples come to mind, but it’s hard to know how Jews were regarded at the time. I wonder what the official justification was for denying access to Feynman.

(I’m half Jewish on my father’s side, and I only discovered this by accident a few years ago. So I’ve been trying to research my heritage wherever I can.)
Nice try spinderella, but you left out the part that these people want to turn our money into their money.

They can go pound sand, or even better get publicly mocked and despised as accomplices to a thinly disguised confidence game aiming to enrich themselves at everyone else's expense. Anyone pushing back on this is doing the lord's work.
MEGA65: Der letzte 8-Bit-Heimcomputer
Most feature phone browsers were very limited compared to what Safari supported (almost the full web experience at the time). You'd have to look at other "smartphone" class devices for something comparable, and those were not common (EDIT: among consumers) in the US at the time.
You don't even necessarily need to train it specifically on their writing. Just giving an LLM an example of the sort of writing you want and asking it to write something similar is sometimes enough.

But, yeah, training it specifically on a corpus of work would probably be even more effective.

I'd love to be able to do that and get output that's at least on the GPT4 level. I think we'd probably have to have a breakthrough in LLM architecture and/or some amazing advancements in hardware before it becomes practical and cost effective for individuals to train their own GPT4-level LLMs, though.
Who are these people?

What is this, a track record of 1? 2?

This doesn't seem like the type of thing you can do enough times to have a "track record" of.
National Pork Producers Council vs. Ross
> Having an ad exec run Twitter will take care of all the “how do we pay the bills” part of running the business while he does the “fun” stuff of focusing on product.

And apparently, Twitter has millions of dollars in bills that it hasn't been paying. See this other interesting article, posted today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35918253
The 2nd gen pros also have the U1 chip, the same as the AirTag. What's the point in bundling it with an AirTag?
This is one of the reasons I like PHP, in newer PHP versions it is an attribute but in older versions it is just a comment. Clever and backwards compatible.
I did and do try it with GPT4 and the API and a custom prompt to help me in rust.

Expecting only knowledge from 2021 it is hit and miss. Helped me to write some scripts but still fails to recognize tasks that are not possible in the language and halluciantes a plausible solution.

It tends to suggest non non compiling and (after being asked to do so) "corrects" bugs (some real some imaginary) and sometimes gets stuck.

Helpful yes, but not yet the invincible overlord some people imagine it to be.
Shotwell is COO, Musk is CEO
Brilliantly simple benchmark. Well done!

I must call out though that most people pick step functions because of workflow orchestration as doing your own business logic (no matter how simple) over lambdas is an exercise in futility.
I am currently moving all my workflows from lambda to Temporal and it’s been an absolute breeze. I didn’t pick step functions because the whole “lego blocks” design philosophy pushes the complexity down to devs and is hard to maintain if you are leading a team of junior devs.
Startups aren't limited to SaaS or AI work at all. Most startups are neither.
Seems like a boring ads-friendly pick, she was leading advertising at NBC for the past 11 years?
My word had a higher sum of percentages than the word listed as the "the best solution for this puzzle so far". I chose (SPOILER): radio ->(23%) sonar ->(30%) ocean, vs radio ->(29%) air ->(20%) ocean, so 53% vs 49%. Is the first connection more important than the subsequent ones?
When you get out of a plane that’s still flying you stop having any say in where that plane goes. How certain was he of where it might land? What if he misjudged and the plane had kept going much further than he expected? He had nudged it into a dive… but then he got out, changing the center of gravity of the plane - how did he know that wouldn’t trim the plane’s nose up and send it gliding off well beyond his target?
Makes sense thanks for clarifying.
> What more is there than that? The people who hate on him have never done a single important thing in their entire lives.

Exactly, its just resentment. "How you feel about Elon is how you feel about yourself."
'We're all worse off': Britain is now paying the price to leave the EU
Interesting. Are there any benchmarks you can share? On their website they only compare decompression speed and with zlib and LZMA. It would be interesting to compare to LZ4 HC mode, that unity uses.
Browsers in other phones sucked. I'd owned high-end "smart" phones before the first iPhone and ultimately went back to a flip phone because they just weren't worth using. Usability of the first iPhone browser was a huge leap forward.

Ironically, that was largely because it let you more easily use sites built for desktop, due to the larger screen space and ease of pinch to zoom. Those older phones would have been somewhat more useful if mobile first/responsive sites had been a thing then, but it took the popularity of the iPhone for that to happen.
and I believe CalcKey? is adding account content migration, which is why Eugen is suddenly talking about account migration again.
Ask HN: What tutorial or course would you like to see?
Sorry, missed that part :(

TBH I don't know. Apple is obviously a hardware company that happens to make software.

As you say, Nintendo does sell software as you say. But there's plenty of people out there who buy the devices for a couple of games. The people that always just want whatever the latest Mario Kart or Smash Bros is, or whatever.

That's why I've figured they view themselves as a bit of a hybrid. If they viewed themselves as a software company I'd think they would be less fanatical about having their own hardware.
This is great, but how is your performance on multi-table joins? We've been working on a homebrew solution using OpenAI internally conditioned on our schema, and can't bridge the multi-table gap.

Also I'm skeptical if this generalizes, do you have measures in place to prevent query hallucination?
He is chief engineer of SpaceX. The rockets seem pretty good to me.
It might just be a gigantic support burden for them: They then would have to care about thousands of hardware configurations, and people complaining "doesn't work on my PC". It's probably not worth it. Also the market for it is likely small. Most Switch users seem children, casual games, families, etc. Those usually just want to buy hardware which "just works", compared to enthusiasts who actually want to fiddle around with tons of settings.
Some cool uses for this:

- Remove AI and Crypto from HN https://histre.com/hn/?tags=+all-ai-cryptocurrency

- Don't miss any Lisp news https://histre.com/hn/?tags=+emacs+lisp
Sure, but I still won't be paying. There's nothing so important in YouTube that I'd ever even consider paying, I'd drop it like a hot turd if I couldn't block ads.
RISC OS doesn't support Wifi or >1 CPU, and it is a 32-bit OS with no 64-bit support (yet).

It's the original native OS for the ARM family, designed by some of the same team who designed the ARM processor at Acorn Computers.

It's FOSS now and has been modernized a lot, but at the core, this is a multitasking GUI OS hand-coded in Arm assembly language by a team of about 6 people -- most of whom I interviewed a year or so back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SDL0IwbCc

In 1987 it originally fit entirely into and ran from 512KB of ROM on the Archimedes computer, and ran in 512KB of RAM. The later RISC OS 3 needed 2MB of ROM.

Even now, the core OS fits into about 6MB. That's not the kernel, that's the whole OS, filesystem, GUI, network stack etc.

It is a late-1980s OS, older than Windows 2.0, or MS-DOS 5.0, or NeXTstep. It is almost incomprehensibly tiny by modern standards.
New cars are just for rich people now
No, I'll keep matching the energy I see here. This place isn't as sophisticated as you think it is.
Dangers of AI to Humanity
Yeah. Not worse to the point of jail time.
There are indeed modern releases that live up to nostalgia for games of yore and they are... games that are incredibly similar to their predecessors. Game design has gone through a variety of eras and fashions and fads, and games "back then" (for whatever period you happen to be nostalgic for) were just built different. That doesn't necessarily mean better or worse, and maybe nostalgia is the reason people prefer games from the time period when their tastes were developing, but it's not just the games themselves. It's the way games operated.

I guarantee you that if Nintendo released "A Zelda in the mold of OoT but with a new set of dungeons and items and such" people who love OoT would go nuts for it. Look at what happened with Sonic Mania. For some reason, though, publishers/developers are very wary of doing this. Nintendo refuses to make a new Zelda that just reapplies the winning formula. Sega refuses to make Sonic Mania 2 - honestly, I was very pleasantly surprised they made the first one! I blame the late 2000s mantra of "innovation" and its presence/absence that seemed to be all the rage in critic circles.
It's an awkward structure to have the executive chairman and/or majority shareholder take a position (usually CTO or CPO) elsewhere in the org chart, because it means that that person is simultaneously the boss and subordinate of the CEO.

It can work - most famously, this was the structure that Google had in its golden years (2001-2011) with Eric as CEO and Larry & Sergey as presidents of Product & Technology, respectively. It also was sort of the structure of Apple with Steve Wozniak as an IC & founder. But it puts the CEO in a very awkward spot where they're in charge of the organization but not really in charge of the organization, which in turn requires leadership with great humility. That's not really what Elon is known for.

The structure of SpaceX or Facebook or Apple 1998+, where you have a visionary CEO and then strong COO under them that makes the trains run on time, is much more common and less fraught with conflicting reporting lines.
> If they do not defend their copyright, then it is not strong and can be broken in certain scenarios.

This is not true. Copyrights (like patents) do not have to be actively defended to remain enforceable.

This is partially true of trademarks, however.
Unless your speech happens to make Elon angry or get in his way.
please share the whole workflow. your comment has me excited
Venture capital is far from the only way to fund new ventures. The majority of new ventures are not VC funded.
I've worked on .. several? high core count 2d array machines, and they tend not to be to useful for general code because of limited memory bandwidth. some pipelines and embarrassingly parallel things work really well. generally machines with higher dimensional interconnect tend to be more useful

I agree we shouldn't have completely abandoned these machines in the 90s. the massive resurgence we see of vector and simd today proves that there was substantial value - and maybe the software story would be a lot better if we hadn't have taken a 20 year piss break.
I'm not saying that grazing animals are a problem, I'm saying that markets and regulators are doing a bad job of managing their location and population size, and that wolves would do it better. Those markets and regulators have a certain values system: they want certain numbers to go up, certain people to be re-elected, etc.

Most humans also want their grandchildren to grow up in an environment that isn't teetering on collapse--which is not something that the dominant values system is considering. So my issue with "value" is not that it's useless, but that we're using it in a way that fails to acknowledge that different people value different outcomes. We're instead encouraged to seek value of an unspecified type and leave it to other people to decide which outcomes actually result from that seeking. It's a sort of blindness and it's leading us off a cliff.
Non-paywall version: https://archive.is/VSDdb
So, when you decide to leave a company where you have spent half a decade, do you provide 6 months free labor, or do you do the disgusting thing and just leave?
Mobile browsers were a painful experience before that.
Mobile keyboards were a painful experience before that.

I think Blackberry was the only one that did both OK enough to take seriously. I know people loved the Sidekick, but I never used it and don't recall if people used a web browser on it, or just text messaging.

The first iPhone was more impressive than a Blackberry.
Removing the seats from his car, hiding it, and having two books on homicide investigation inside it are not social awkwardness.
Citation needed. No they don't.
What if they aren't bad policy decisions and his critics are too short-sighted?
Will make things rather hard for financial businesses that expect 3 months per quarter and 4 quarters per year.
I think a lot of people on here are for some reason believers in the idea that if a technology has detractors, then it must be another case of the steam engine, human flight, or some other technology that had doubters before completely revolutionizing our world. In reality, there is no such law of the universe that says that some technology will be wildly successful because it is heavily controversial, and, in some cases, it turns out that a lot people were correct in predicting a technology's short/long term uselessness (crypto, web3, AR). Every time some article is posted highlighting AI's shortcomings in relation to its posited ubiquity in professional settings about 10 people wax poetic about how the internet/cars/etc. were doubted heavily, when they clearly are not similar in nearly any regard. I wish we could appreciate new technology without blowing its applications out of proportion and then being disappointed when it falls short of an impossible bar, which is my main gripe with both AI doomers and people who are entirely dismissive of the technology (despite basically nobody saying anything of the sort).
Eh, things didn't change when Valve ported their games and client to Linux and native SDL2. The Steam Machines didn't really encourage anyone to write Linux-native titles, and the Steam Deck runs Windows games like-native.

Developers are not going to want to develop, debug, playtest and support a whole other operating system unless they have to. Unless you're already dealing with an ARM native port of your game (like Factorio or No Man's Sky), porting to Apple Silicon isn't immediately attractive.
>with something better.

Like plutocracy?
SpaceX CEO should enough of an example.
I had plenty of fun running around BotW and just exploring the world. I didn't feel the need to be "rewarded" for doing so.

I didn't care about the bosses or dungeons because I was, well, exploring. I didn't care about the story because I was, well, exploring. The mobs were really only there for me to find new and inventive ways to interact with the world.
I'm with you. But this is a matter of personality and preference. It's not that startups are objectively better or worse -- it's that startups have different tradeoffs.
These are just a few random ones off the top of my head!

* Handling several thousand connections per second without needing a proxy or pool (MySQL's connection model is thread/conn vs Postgres using process/conn)

* Handle extremely high volume of primary key range scan queries (MySQL's InnoDB uses a clustered index, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35909053)

* Handle workloads that lean heavily on UPDATE or DELETE, without major MVCC pain (see https://ottertune.com/blog/the-part-of-postgresql-we-hate-th... for example)

* Semi-synchronous logical replication, for environments which cannot tolerate any data loss during failover; this ensures the statements have reached at least one replica but without the huge latency of synchronous replication

* Use index hints, to ensure random index stats changes don't cause unexpectedly negative query plan adjustments (see discussion in subthread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35909340)

* Handle very high-volume OLTP workloads using direct I/O, since InnoDB's buffer pool design is completely independent of filesystem/OS caching

* Achieve best-in-industry compression by using the MyRocks storage engine (MySQL's pluggable storage engine design has a lot of tradeoffs but it is inherently what makes this even possible)

* Use UNSIGNED int types, to store twice as high max value in the same number of bytes, if you know negative numbers are not going to be present

* Use case-insensitive or accent-insensitive collations out-of-the-box without having to monkey with confusing user-defined CREATE COLLATION

* Ease-of-use commands like SHOW CREATE TABLE

* Silly cosmetic things like the ability to reorder columns in an ALTER TABLE (see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alter_column_position)

* A tooling ecosystem which includes multiple battle-tested external online schema change tools, for safely making alterations of any type to tables with billions of rows
> I think "as a kid" is the operative phrase here. Nothing will ever live up to that nostalgia.

Of course, you're entirely correct but other entries in the series, even Skyward Sword with all its flaws, has managed to capture some of that spirit. BOTW to me is just an entirely different game.
As someone who hates cutscenes, that was fine by me. Cutscenes rip you out of the game to present a story in a different mode, and often it could be completely done by using the game mechanics directly. Not to mention until quite recently they would also take large loading times.
Don’t you love geeks…

This was a simple and fun read while waiting for my coffee to be done.
I also wonder how the world would look if IBM partnered with Apple rather than Microsoft.
And a prominent WEF board member will agree with this?
seems written by gpt
Only supported on 68020+ though, but yeah think it would be something like move.l #3,([6,a0,d0.l*8],4) (scale only goes up to 8 though)
Do they claim that existing python code would get a 10x bump? That sounds too good to be true
> No one ever tweaks that one setting even though they should

That entirely depends on the use-case. Most people running FFMpeg do it as a once off thing - and if those people like me, when I rip a movie I want the highest quality and lowest size I can get, and I'm happy that the default sacrifices speed for quality and size. The processing can be slow because I'm doing it only once. If you're in the business of encoding video and do it all day everyday, your calculus will be different and you won't be using the defaults regardless.
In addition to what you mentioned, I also often come up with new and interesting ideas while writing on a topic. I guess when the mind is tasked with crystallizing the ideas, it forces the mind to systematically sort out the clutter, and allows novel ideas to form.

I've lost count of how many times I've started writing on a topic, and then scrapping it altogether in favor of a better idea on a tangentially related thing.