skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but we must also heavily penalize hollow businesses, which exist mainly to funnel preexisting wealth to founders/employees before evaporating

What does this mean? Isn't all wealth that can be used to purchase goods or services "pre-existing" and by definition going to the owners of companies if they manage to make a profit? I might be missing something because it seems you just described all businesses so I wouldn't know who you're advocating to penalize or how we'd distinguish them from the businesses that aren't "hollow".

I can come up with some scenarios that maybe you'd have a problem with, but it's not clear which ones, or why?
"We're arguing that we have to offer both the carrot and the stick."

So a return to the gloriously successful War on Drugs.

Will these coerced treatment centers or new jails be in Hayes Valley, Mission, or? As long as they're next to YIMBY supporters, I'm all in.
In my head, which is based on decades old experience and the occasional stop by a music store, what I'd be wailing on is demo kit, out on the main floor. To me, that's different from getting a small, private soundproof-ish room where I can pop a few songs onto the headphones and hit it.

I don't want to be a drummer and I'm not interested in performing publicly. I just want to rock out and suck as hard as I can, without feeling the social awkwardness of being out in the middle of the store.
Ugh a ChatGPT-generated slurry of copyright violations and physic blog prose?

No thanks! I've got Archimedes Plutonium theories:

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-TEACHING-TRUE-MATHEMATIC...
Doesn't Deno already let us do this?
It's not downloadable, but here's my favorite interactive history of electronic music.

http://music.ishkur.com/

You could get lost here for a week.
This is a fantastic talk on some of the optimizations that Zig makes easy to implement: https://vimeo.com/649009599

Bun is written in Zig, but it takes the same approach that esbuild took to make things fast: a linear, synchronous pipeline fitting as much as possible in the CPU cache with as little allocation and other overhead as possible. Zig has more knobs to turn than Go.

Bun goes one step further and does a great job of offloading work to the kernel when possible, too (i.e. the large file I/O improvement with the Linux kernel)
Here's a link to the poem [0].

It's an interesting thought, but I wonder if "poem" back in the before times just meant "blog post" before they had those words.

[0] https://motivateus.com/stories/reason-season-lifetime.htm
Hello, it seems very interesting. I am using esbuild to build my apps and it has a developper live server. How would you compare bun to esbuild ? what can one do that the other can't ? do you have a compare page ?
Move fast and dig larger legal motes. Sounds about right.
> No, I did not write that poem

Clearly the poem was written by a different instance of ChatGPT! It must be very difficult to define a sense of self when you are a predictive text generator implemented as a distributed application running across multiple datacenters.

(of course there is no reason to expect a fancy autocomplete to have a sense of self in the first place...)
Interesting name choice. I read it as "oblivious" even after looking at it a few times.
import.meta.main (whether the current file is the 'main' or just being required) looks interesting and like something I have wanted in the past, but not sure if it would actually be a good idea.

was it ever offered for standardisation?
Similar energy to when someone who practises Archery watches historical fiction depicting someone telling bowmen to “fire!”
Still, it's depressing and confusing that we know the stakes and are still putting money into the status quo (natural gas) instead of racing to solve these problems. I get that people need power now and not later, but power companies are also supposed to be thinking long-term, and their new natural gas plants may very well be stranded assets or simply banned in the next 10-20 years.
That's what I'm thinking. Just a small room, soundproof. Cost for entry covers upkeep plus some margin. Hook your phone into the monitor or headphones and go to town.
I worked in a video arcade in college, and pinball machines were the bane of my existence. They broke down easily 1000% more often than anything else. Data East pinballs were particularly shoddy.
Ask HN: Need to decide between technical vs. managerial role, how?
After a longer stint as an AI tech lead, I've recently received two job offers. One role is a team lead position which is mostly managerial with a small component of hands-on technical work and the option to transition from tech into product dev at some point. The other one is a senior technical IC role (except for some mentoring), though a bit less senior than the other one. Both roles require the use of cutting-edge technology and I can see myself being happy and successful in either.

I'm currently thinking through which role is best for my career, short-term and longer-term. Because I enjoy both types of work and compensation is similar I'm struggling to identify a differentiator to make the decision easier. If anyone has found themselves at a similar crossroads or the benefit of hindsight or knows of decision-making frameworks that would be helpful, I'd really appreciate it.
The Youtuber Max Miller's channel "Tasting History with Max Miller" has a number of good examples of old recipes for now-familiar foods. His Semlor episode[1] compares a recipe from 1755 and one from more modern times, and there are substantial changes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ljm5i5N6WQ
Mortal Kombat was designed to be Pay to Win. Someone reverse engineered the arcade version and later-stage opponents were programmed to strike you like 2 frames before you would have hit them, and there was a decay each time you put a quarter into the machine.
By -

1 Listening to them talk about stuff that is interesting to them but not to me such as video games, kids' books, toys.

2 Fixing their broken toys.

3 Building science models with them

4 Helping them collect stuff (such as rocks etc.) for school projects

5 Not yell at them when they don't get a simple math or programming concept (I have had a multi decade head start on them so I need to be patient)
Where rhythm is life and life is rhythm
Indeed, http headers indicate that the asset policy for the HTML is:

cache-control: public, max-age=0, must-revalidate

A few things I notice:

- It uses Cloudflare cache (as you pointed out).
- All CSS is in the HTML file, so only one request is needed to display the page.
- The compressed webpage is reasonably lean considering it has all CSS in the same file and uses Tailwind.
Is life itself not an emergent phenomenon? What is the cleat threshold? Viruses?
What are "LIO values"?
The Health Menace Inside Your Sandwich
Five minutes with a claw-hammer should suffice for the latter.
If you get back down to basics, as business is an equitable arrangement where you offer to solve a problem, in exchange for making a profit in the process.

At some point, the problem may no longer exist, or you may not be able to continue to make a profit. That's OK! You can pivot, or move on to another business.

What I would love to see represented is some thinking around what should happen as a matter of best practice when you decide to fold the business. There's likely paying customers left behind - to use an extreme example, let's consider the case of artificial vision where people are left with implants that often no longer work, that nobody will remove:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60416058

The right thing for customers of course would be to open source the technology so they can pursue other avenues. The friction with this idea is that, maintaining ownership of the IP might be valuable later (someone may want to buy it, some new opportunity to build on the tech may arise). It would be great if there was a government institution which would compensate such businesses for their tech to open source it.
It doesn't prevent Samsung from having loyal customers. It doesn't help Sony to gain market share.
HP Elite Mini 800 G9 Requires Motherboard Replacement for Bios Admin Reset
Consider how similar your comment reads, for an outsider, to this explanation of AWS InfiniDash: https://twitter.com/TartanLlama/status/1410959645238308866
I wonder will there be windows 12 in the short term. They haven't even finished their taskbar rework yet. What do you mean by next version? A even more broken desktop environment? Or they just randomly bump the number without changing anything obvious?
Self-awareness isn't a requirement for the presentation of information, which LLMs continually prove.

Is every answer thus not a hallucination by this logic? If it's trained on external information, why would this information not include observations and information made about it? A human doesn't need to be able to even read to present a book to someone else with contextually relevant information.
Posted above:

https://pinballmap.com/

Has a dealer near me, no idea how good they are, but the 81 machines caught my attention.
I didn't know the "rapid freeze" scene from Day after Tomorrow had a basis in reality...
I liked the Fighting Game PvP model, where if you won, you play your next game for free. You could go to the machine with one quarter and play all night if you were skilled.
Well, QT does use GPU pipeline for all its rendering, in every backend there is, including OpenGL.

Every widget in my app above is custom as well, it was meant for a raspberry pi and a tiny touch screen. If visually customizing an existing QT widget isn't enough, you just go one or two abstractions up their tree, inherit from there, and make it do what you want using not only custom code but you can grab from many smaller QT parts. For instance in my app you grab cables out of modules and plug them into other modules, which is not a common UI thing. You just grab some of QTs bezier shape rendering stuff and draw the cables with it, and it was trivial to add gravity and make the cables springy.

It's these tools and maturity that are going to end up making your life easier on a project like this. If you go with a young framework that exists just because some sassy guy is very opinionated about how you should be forced to manage things like state and mutability, you will end up having to ram things in, and mostly working from scratch.
You forgot to put "\s" here.

But I appreciate the Picasso joke. Too many devs try applying over-engineered abstraction to simple problems.

------

From this place I want to greet one such "Picasso" whose code from over 20 years ago I was debugging last week... I know your name...
You're underestimating just how big the oceans are.
The irony of HN libertarianism mindset is how much they want the state to force people to live the way they demand of them.
Bun is intended to be a drop in replacement for Node.js, with Node.js compatible APIs. Deno chose to go a different route with the design of the runtime, encouraging more modern web-native paradigms.
Right. And this is where our paths go separate ways. As I see it, Capillaries users are not necessarily tech companies and they do not have much appetite for writing and maintaining a lot of code. All they want is to run, say, 50 kinds of workflows on a regular basis and to keep those workflow definitions very formalized and stable. It would be hard to sell the idea of maintaining 50 different codebases to their management.

As for more complex calculations: in Capillaries, Python is not a programming platform, it's just a scripting engine.
BS written by a maniac. Probably written using chatgpt as it is too creative.
The romans were using gravity to move the water "for free". Using gravity to generate electricity is a different concept.
Over time I've come to realize that the various "IT things" in business which retain the most value are databases. Not because they never become outdated or redundant but because the data in them can always be migrated to a new schema to be used by a new application. Usually the "tooling" to do this is exactly the kind of work I might do which becomes something that is no longer in use.

(I guess here I should mention the context that I'm not coming up on 30 years; instead it's a little over 10.)

The "no longer in use" part is something I think I ultimately disagree with. It's kind of an "application of Theseus" situation. Where did this data really come from? If it was an older application, did that application ever really go away or did it just become what replaced it? Anyway, I guess I just have to hope I still have this outlook in ~20 years.
Yeah.

Constructing experiments is hard, and interpreting data is even harder. PhDs, whose job it is to do these things, who typically have something on the order of a decade of education and even more years of practice doing these things, PhDs mess these things up. It happens all the time.

That's not even getting into the fact that in many times in data driven decision-making, an experiment is constructed to motivate a particular decision. If you have a preferred outcome, it's very easy to deliberately or unconsciously put your hand on the scale. Even without deliberate sabotage, there are many methods to apply to a particular dataset, and if you apply enough tools, sure enough one will support your assertion.

More often than not the result is that data driven decisionmaking is more like an elaborate ouija-board that says more about the people creating the experiments than what they purport to verify.
The local arcade in bazar has to be 90s to early 2000s. Then it was around 2010s when I noticed absence of arcade shops. And I am from Pakistan and have lived in Punjab (which is size of UK) for almost all my life in its different cities. Lahore is one of the largest cities.

A fun saying about Lahore is that "if you haven't seen Lahore, you are not even born yet" (original line is in Punjabi).
I show lots of interest in what my kids are interested in. They like to share video gaming progress, funny memes etc. It gives us an open pathway to communicating about other things going on in their lives.
> large amounts of artificial fertilisers

Sure, but also pesti/herbicides.

> without artificial fertiliser you need to have animals to produce fertiliser

Or compost / nitrogen fixing / companion plants.

> But removing all animal products would be counter productive

There are people practicing it for decades pretty well without animal inputs.

Syntropic agriculture (Ernst Götsch), natural farming (Masanobu Fukuoka), veganic farming, permaculture, hydroponics, animal-free biodynamic farming, etc.

It's not a necessity.
I did not expect this. Does Sam have any plans on what this could look like?
A lot of people are arguing that the particulars are overblown, but you can bet these things are already being done in China, and they will eventually all be done in companies like Chase.
Terraform Pricing Changes
Terraform Cloud is switching from per user (https://web.archive.org/web/20230330040745/https://www.hashi...) to per resource pricing.
This was definitely January 2020 (January 7th, a Tuesday, per the Ars Technica article); I think the 2019 confusion is because that is when they disclosed the attacks to the related projects.
I don't have the information to say. I would say that the kit doesn't have to be top of the line gear. The fee would need to cover wear and tear (and maybe a deposit or kicker if someone gets a little overzealous,) hourly rate of whomever is maintaining the setup, plus some margin.

What I'd be willing to pay is something on the order of up to $50 for a session. I think the sweet spot would be $30-$40 for something like 20 to 30 minutes.
> Confusingly for consumers, products with celery powder or other forms of natural nitrates generally bear a label stating “No nitrates or nitrites added.” The fine print on the package often states “except for those naturally occurring in celery powder.”

I've seen this a lot, and also a similar confusing label for products with nitrates/nitrites derived from sea salt. The fact that it's possible to isolate these compounds from mountains of "natural" foods doesn't make them any less unhealthy. It doesn't matter where the preservatives come from, and tricky language like this serves only to mislead consumers.
There are infinite ways of dealing with failure. Erlang gives you the building blocks, if you need something more complex, you're supposed to have to write some code. How is this surprising?

In fact, I am writing this week a dynamic process pool in Elixir which is so peculiar in its requirements I don't think I've ever seen anywhere, and it's in total 500 lines of code spread over 2 GenServers (+ Registry and DynamicSupervisor). I reckon it would easily be 25x as much in C++ or Rust.

If you want exponential backoff, I suppose it should be pretty easy to implement with a custom Supervisor (though the best practice would be to have a sidecar GenServer to deal with the backoff/alerting business rules, and using a regular Supervisor.)
They’re pretty good at the second part I assume, the practice is as old as humanity itself
Yes, this is exactly how it works. It effectively batches the sync part of multiple user requests, so none of those user requests are ack-ed until the sync completes. It is a low-latency analogue to checkpointing storage write-backs to minimize the number of round-trips to the I/O syscalls.
managers get laid off these days, i’d stay technical as long as possible and develop yourself assuming you are good at it
There are kinks which deserved to be shamed, and these are the kinks in which grooming and ratcheted boundary violations exist. This includes relationships which weren't always seen as kinks, but have become so as society has evolved.

Age is a parameter which can sometimes be shamed because of possible differentials in experience. It can't be shamed all of the time, but there are valid reasons to use it as a first-line gate, even after age-of-consent laws are no longer in the picture.

Part of the pressure to move the world into a total '“don’t kink shame consenting adults” phase' is from people with abusive kinks who don't want to be checked on their abuse. Screw them. Every kink deserves nested evaluation as to whether it should be totally shamed, generally shamed (with exceptions), generally not-shamed (with exceptions), or seen as okay to do in private (but not public), or seen as okay in general.
What we expected

License for me but not for thee

Think of the children

Building the moat
..."cult of personality" types like Jobs and Elon?

I haven't met Elon, but the impression I got from videos is very different to Jobs. He has a cult following indeed, but is it really because his magnetism or PUA tricks like in the article?
That does not help clarify which group you are talking about.
Is your CAD software simulating the increase in temperature as the coil fires frequently throughout a game, with the ensuing changes in coil strength and rubber resilience?

Is your GPU accounting for millisecond-level fluctuations in power as more lights and flashers are on at any given instant so any coil receives a tiny bit less power?

Are you accounting for a tiny bit of residual magnetism left in the balls after they departed from recent contact with a magnet?

You are correct that the limitation isn't technology. All this is doable with enough specialized computation - but the reality is that it's vast avenues of effort that nobody has done or likely will.
Wait, wasn't Perl 6 rebranded as new language Raku?
> Bun does need glibc

Wait, are we talking about what Bun needs to run or what standalone executables produced by bun build need in order to run?
relevant-xkcd-comic.jpg https://xkcd.com/538/
It likely has nothing to do with YC.

Since the dawn of time builders have partnered with popularizers in search of building wealth or power; that's not new.

For MBA's, the easy money is in consulting, financial engineering, or monopolizing enterprises - mergers, crypto, pharma, etc. Tech startup's are typically a romantic sideline for those who want some added meaning. But now that deals, consulting, and crypto are dead for the moment, tech startup's look like a good way to go long or at least keep busy until the river runs fast again.

Against this influx, YC still has technical achievement as a barrier to entry and natural moat.

The real question is not hackers vs MBA's, but how honest investors are with each other. Some might latch on to exciting but opaque technologies, knowing they could sell them in later rounds to other investors. Conversely, later-round investors might only work with early-round investors who provide excellent accurate insight into the viability of technologies. New, hungry investors might give up more insight, while established ones jealously defend opportunities in their space. Investor cohorts might flow in and out with political or currency tides unrelated to opportunity.

The investor signal is much stronger than the market signal. Profitable companies now are cutting employees AND doing stock buy-back's and dividends, to satisfy investors. The same is likely true at YC.

YC deals reflect investor interest and shape the next generation of companies. Let's hope they stop veering from disruption to destruction (and from self-interest to divisiveness), and start figuring out how to reduce coordination costs of all our new prosthetic powers without reducing everything to a bureaucratic corporation.
So Microsoft's Windows team can't use it then.

Allegedly.
It wouldn't crush you or anything, but it would be notable. Just like the difference between sea level and 2km above sea level is quite notable.
Yes, that it does. Bun is mostly towing Deno with Zig + JSCore (and per some microbenchmarks, faster than both Node and Deno).
Yes, the vast majority of people don't want to commute to work. The majority of companies don't need the space at all to operate effectively.

The office as it was once known is dead. So many in the commercial real estate space in denial about this. Local governments need to create large incentive packages for residential conversions to avoid downtown ghost towns.

The plus side is that having downtown be majority residential will make city living more entertaining/economical.
Gwern, this seems like mind-reading. The real purpose of this essay was to muse about a set of character traits I find interesting, not participate in an AI debate. Most of the people I was thinking of are not involved in AI. (I'm much more a part of the meditation world than the AI world, and there's a LOT more cultiness there; and a more thorough survey of my twitter would have revealed that I think about meditation more than AI.)

Yudkowsky was definitely a case I thought of, but not the specific target of this article. AND, Yud is actually an example of one of these personalities that I think is probably net positive! Even if I have a lot of objections to the way he's presented himself and his specific arguments, I think he's doing a good job with moving the Overton window of taking AI seriously.

I grant that I probably do not fully understand Pascal's Mugging. But this tweet was a subtweet of someone who said that she was working on AI because an aligned AI would definitely end factory farming; whether or not this is true, this seems like the kind of thinking that will drive people crazy (all concerns must be suborned to the One Great Cause.)
I'm skeptical that the streaming API would really save that much cost. In my experience the vast majority of all tokens used are input tokens rather than completed tokens.
You need one initial value to start from
Sounds desperate now that open source models are quickly catching up without the woke mind virus.