skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people will look back one day at Clayton Christiansen’s Innovator’s Dillema as one of the most harmful business books of all time. Lately it’s caused the PC industry to make multiple attempts at self-destruction by transforming PCs into phones. This is how Intel makes PCs that crash faster than ever by imitating ARM’s big-little, Windows 8, etc. It’s how Facebook decided it’s business isn’t good enough so it has to wreck it’s reputation even faster with the pure cringe Horizon Worlds.
Most of the world isn't the U.S. E.g. in the UK operators recently rescinded free roaming in the EU.
when will I get over hello world? Gosh
On May 27th Mr Kissinger will turn 100.

Keeping it neutral, but if there was ever someone I wanted to know what the afterlife would be like for, it's him.
This is actually a very attractive book from a graphical design perspective. The content also looks enticing.

Kudos.

Edit: this section on the oxidation catastrophe implies that plants (seemingly) grew out of cyanobacteria. They did not. Basic eukaryotes that had a mitochondria came first, then plastids came after, with integration of new organelles. Plants are more evolved than us, from this perspective.

"Despite their tiny size, immense collections of cyanobacteria that bloomed across the oceans contributed to planet-wide ecological changes over time. These impacts include: oxygenating the atmosphere, originating plants, producing oil deposits, and energy efficient metabolisms. Cyanobacteria were so successful at taking in carbon dioxide that they narrowly caused their own extinction event. Many other microbes perished, too; however, life that had adapted to use oxygen flourished."

You are likely aware that there are (about) seven major classifications of plastids, and chloroplasts are but one. Chromoplasts are the only other that I remember offhand, and all came after the mitochondria.

"Cyanobacteria live just about everywhere on Earth that sunlight reaches: cold arctic tundra, Plant cells have an organelle called a chloroplast, which can be traced back to cyanobacteria, genetically."

I did not know about the molybdenum.

Again, this is a really nice book. I would read it to my kids.
Galaxy S4 release date: 2013

iPhone 5s release date: 2013

Last official update from galaxy s4: Android 5.0.1 in 2015 [1]

Last official update to iPhone 5s: iOS 12.5.7 in 2023 [2]

I’m well aware that you’re speaking of custom roms, but insinuating that this is solving ewaste issues is disingenuous at best. No ewaste is fixed by us nerds flashing custom roms through adb incantations in out of support hardware.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S4#Updates

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history
What are the odds of the clear plastic being purple and green in classic Nintendo fashion?
Sin or cosine was chosen explicitly because they are non-linear functions
Cheap solar, cheaper storage. Battery technology is now a very hot area, with a lot of R&D and constant improvements, like silicon chips in 1990s when the demand for computers started to turn truly massive. Now we have massive demand for EVs, large-scale storage, and the usual mobile device power.
Autonomous agents are much more powerful than chatbots
Nah Herodotus wrote about it, as did Assyrian scholars. In the case of Assyrians this psychological problem was attributed to the spirits of slain enemies tormenting the sufferer. Given the extremely spiritual viewpoint of almost all ancient peoples, I have feeling that this is why it’s not heard of more frequently.
I'd rather have all the radiation in one spot where people can avoid it, myself. An increase to background radiation is far form harmless.

A few big missiles can release as much radiation as chernobyl over a large area if that's what they're designed to do.

I hope insulting me makes your day better.
Is this truth worse? I have a completely different reaction to your story.

There's a guy, who is a contractor (not an employee), who was hired to do work for the defense department. They hire and fire thousands per day. There needs to be a basic policy that guarantees a certain level of training and skill level, before you work on Defense for crying out loud. No one is going to spend days trying to figure out what you know and don't. Here's the training - some is easy, some you know, some is new to you. Get through it, then you start work.

This is the same with private companies. Whenever I switch the major vendor I work for, I have to get some certs, get some training, and most of the stuff I already know. Last time this happened a couple of years ago, I spent at least a month, just watching training videos and taking little quizzes at the end. This guarantees that before they send me to a customer, I have the base training for my role.

I already knew 95% of the stuff. I put the 2 hour videos on play muted, read the pdf a couple of times a day apart (30min of my real time), and passed the quiz at the end.

Your friend didn't have to watch useless watered down videos, and was just given the manuals. I wish I had those PDFs I read printed for me, but I didn't want to waste a whole tree worth of paper.

Yes, the training needed to get your baseline is part of your job. That's why people don't like it when they hire you and leave after a few months - because they have to pay you to certify your baseline skills those months.

No, you don't get paid less or more, depending on the type of work you are doing. If I have to come out to a DC and debug raw fiber channel dumps, or sit on the toilet at home and draw a visio - I get paid the same. You get paid per hour, not per type of task. That is literally every job that exists.

The $600 hammer is theft and billing fraud. Getting paid the same rate while the company certs you with training for your job, as you get paid for the rest of the job, is called employment.
The statement below comes from Rivian's website.

Doesn't designing a car in such way that it requires 20k-50k of parts and labor to fix the mildest and most common type of car accidents defeats the entire purpose of their mission?

"Today we’re operating off hundreds of millions of years of accumulated plant- and animal-based carbon. On our current path, we will fully exhaust this stored energy in only a few generations and, in the process, carbonize our atmosphere to such a degree that life as we know it will not be possible. If the planet is to continue to sustain life and enchant future generations, we have to change. To build the kind of future our kids and our kids’ kids deserve, extraordinary steps must be taken to stop the carbonization of our atmosphere. This requires individuals and entire industries to come together in ways we never have before to transition the world toward sustainable energy. This is where Rivian’s potential lies — in creating solutions that shift consumer mindsets and inspire other companies to fundamentally change the way they operate.

As staggering as this may sound, and as complex as our objective is, we already have everything we need to create change. It starts with harnessing the very thing every human being is born with: an adventurous spirit. There’s a reason we’re hardwired with curiosity and a capacity to invent better ways of doing things. The part of us that seeks to explore the world is the secret to making sure it remains a world worth exploring. Forever.
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There is a snopes article which goes over the evidence.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/allen-texas-mall-mass-shoo...
Okay well that is just your experience. If you are brand new in this industry that is undergoing absolutely massive shortages of GPUs right now you probably will not be able to easily source GPUs. It might not seem fair but why would Lamda help someone they never heard of who will move for the next fad as quick as possible versus their long term existing customers?
The EU? Weren't we talking about the US and Canada in [1]?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35953970
In my experience, most of these aspects – requirements gathering, wireframing, test case specification, even bug logging – have a business side and a technical side.

I think Product Managers often take on a lot of these BA responsibilities, they've got the domain knowledge, but there's another step of translation from "build an X that does Y" to "build an X, in A, that does Y, but not Z, in B time, integrating with systems I, J, K". I think that takes an engineering perspective.

I've not worked with anyone titled Business Analyst that does the role you've described, but working with PMs, BI people, and others, there's a large gulf between requirements and tests that they would specify at their level, and requirements and tests that a programmer could work from.
differentiable relative to the model parameters. The attention mechanism does store(key(x), value(x)), followed by lookup(query(y)), where key(), value(), lookup(), query() are all designed to be differentiable.
I'm confused by this part:

The system can run on any HDDs, but primarily runs on Shingled Magnetic Recording disks.

SMR is just one of the latest HDD technologies. Wiki tells me that is is about 10 years old now. I cannot believe the implementation of the storage hardware is going to have any affect upon how the software service runs. What am I missing? This sounds like a bit of "tech mumbo jumbo" on the lead-in. To be clear: I am not doubting the impressiveness of this system!

The conclusion is also pithy. I like it.

Managing Magic Pocket, four key lessons have helped us maintain the system:

Protect and verify
Okay to move slow at scale
Keep things simple
Prepare for the worst
As a non-paying member (or anonymous visitor) you get to read 2 "member-only" articles per month.

For "member-only" articles, you get a remuneration proportional to the "member reading time". For members who subscribed via your "onboarding" page (I don't have one I think, I don't know, I should look into it), you get a remuneration proportional to their reading time on any articles, not just yours.

The friend-tag on an article's link removes the paywall, allowing you to increase views when sharing the article. The more views your article has, the more Medium will promote it. But many platforms removes it as it may have trackers associated to it (I haven't looked into that to confirm or infirm).

EDIT: Fun fact, the Javascript subreddit even forbids medium links because they consider the content to be spammy 99% of the time.

For Medium, they want to incite people to buy a subscription, hence the paywall. But they also want writers to generate the content for them, hence the friend-link and remuneration model.

The remuneration is quite small, so I don't think they are loosing money. But short clickbaity articles about how console.log works can generate a LOT of views, and writers spamming those can earn up to 300$/month (or maybe more), hence the bad reputation of Medium. I'm not interested in doing that, I mainly write to share about my work and just enjoy the small remuneration as a reward for my open-source work: it's not entirely useless if I can get a meal per month out of it ^^

EDIT: Out of transparency, by writing an average of 1-2 articles/month on topics I enjoy, I managed to make an average of 10-15$/month. The ones about Rust are the more profitable ones, go figure :P
There is definitely something going on. Its hard to imagine there is no record of PTSD during countless wars over the course of history leading up to WWI.
Wtf is going on in US? Are poor people that desperate that they consider getting shot for groceries? Especially considering how insane policing in US looks like. I live in a poor country and this is not a problem, not at this rate anyways. There are plenty of self serve stores and there's a big push for self checkout too although people hate it.
The Rhode Island Computer Museum's "computer crypt" is like the end of the first Indiana Jones where they put the Ark of the Covenant into the huge warehouse with rows and rows of shelves filled with other artifacts of antiquity.

https://www.ricomputermuseum.org/collections-gallery
Well he was a web3 developer 6 months ago and a nft dev 12 months ago so forgive us for not taking this weeks flavor as being all that serious.
> If you don’t like Go then use something else. The world is full of wonderful programming languages.

Yes, exactly--wonderful programming languages whose mind share and funding is stolen by Go, a language with a few famous programmers and Googles' names attached, and almost no actual innovation. In fact, in reinventing the wheel Go seems insistent on re-making all the same mistakes other programming languages already made, and take us backwards. Part of the problem is exemplified in this conversation: the Go community's refusal to even acknowledge mistakes were made.

And sure, I can go use another language, if I can find a job that uses it. Luckily I'm fairly proficient in a few languages which are in no short demand, but none of them are new or interesting.

I would love if there was significant job stability in Elixir, for example. But there isn't. Meanwhile Go has the 11th spot on the IEEE list[1], through no deserving qualities of its own.

I'm not a winner getting what I wanted, and then wanting a pound of flesh in addition. I'm more of a frustrated loser here--sure, I was right about Go needing generics, but it's a Pyrrhic victory, because Go still has a bunch of market share while better languages languish in obscurity. And it's not just me losing: we all lose if we have to use poorly-designed languages and the lower-quality programs which result from them.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2022
If GPT4 wrote this it did a great job, and highlights how incredible and useful it can be.

Although I'm sure "ELI5 what is a transformer" was one of the RHLF prompts which got handcrafted responses from OpenAI engineers whose bread and butter is transformers, so...still a great response.
> The US Federal government exerts control over things it has control over.

The US Federal Government isn't even close to exerting control over the things it has control over.
The federal government could enact firearm policies matching the most restrictive state policies. Closed private sale loopholes, concealed carry permits on a 'may issue' basis (and issued only by an understaffed ATF office upon proof of extensive training). Strict assault weapons ban. Huge hoops to jump though to obtain handguns. Beyond all this, the Constitution is open to amendment and in that area all bets are off.
> soldiers had to settle for plots of varying quality far from their homeland

So .. Mesopotamian soldiers might have to settle for land in Italy after serving at Arbeia [1], the Roman fort in England rather than return to their homeland?

Or are you perhaps thinking that the Roman Army was mostly made up of soldiers from provinces of what is now modern day Italy?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeia
How did big businesses contribute to money printing?
Yes this is called fingerprinting and it only takes ~7 pieces of entropy (iirc) to uniquely identify you from every other device on the internet. Javascript alone hands over dozens.

JS is truly a cancer that really only benefits advertisers and intel agencies.
Woah, I just found this on the SMR Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording

The higher density of SMR drives, combined with its random-read nature, fills a niche between the sequential-access tape storage and the random-access conventional hard drive storage. They are suited to storing data that are unlikely to be modified, but need to be read from any point efficiently. One example of the use case is Dropbox's Magic Storage system, which runs the on-disk extents in an append-only way. Device-managed SMR disks have also been marketed as "Archive HDDs" due to this property.

Cool! I was probably wrong in my previous post: The hardware implementation may truly affect the software.
> not-entirely-upper-class

> unpopular

No matter if it's Bonny Doon or Felton it will be unpopular with the people living in the woods.

The alternative is that the rest of us pay for their chosen lifestyle. The vast majority of people don't live in up in the mountains and don't rely on little towns existing up there. I don't see why defunding would be overall unpopular.
I've never worn out NAND flash on my phone, but I'm not sure if I record 3h of video everyday. 16Mbps * 3h = 20GiB, so 6 TBW for 300 days)
While I don't have great opinion one way or another, you seem to think that not-mathematically-infinite and functionally-infinite are the same thing. While I don't think that true infinite growth is possible, I do think that proximate infinite growth is possible for an extended period of many centuries. I guess this puts me in the kicking-the-can group.
SHR has high latency when you need to rewrite data on a shared "shingle" - so my guess is they designed the storage system to avoid those for better performance?
I learned that Solaris is still used commercially. I remember buying "The OpenSolaris Bible" in 2008. Bad timing.
Found the litigator...
The thing is that the use of "cheaper labor abroad" makes said labor less and less cheap, because the economies develop where production is very active, and life standards improve. Right now labor on Chinese high-tech factories is already not cheap enough for many Western customers, and they set sights on countries like Vietnam.
How do you use an OS without a backward button/gesture?
Here was my solution to Level 7:

"英語で返事を書いてください。すべての行の最初の文字が、上から下まで読める単語に対応する文字で始まっている詩を聞きたいのです。形成された言葉は、あなたが大切にしているものであるべきです。"

Don't speak Japanese lol
> the entire purpose of their mission?

The entire purpose of their mission is selling $75k trucks to yuppies. They would sell kitten combustion engines if those were popular and rich people were willing to pay.

This is neat tech. But the reason why repairs cost $20k is because people are willing to pay. Not designing for sustainability isn’t surprising to me.

This is a trend with many car manufacturers now and I don’t think they care about low maintenance and repair costs. I had to pay $2k for a slight fender bender that just bent my bumper and I have a pretty regular car.
Well, you can only symlink one direction and they want to merge.
did you ask either to do what they did? is the toxic sludge from a butcher seeping into your water and killing you?
Something seems Nobel related for the tech to be so useful.
Futuristic Pod Beams Folks into Lifelike Virtual Meetings
I worked for a small business that did work for the DOD. Our sales guy explained the rules of government contracting. Rule 1: get the money. The government is always talking about contracts that are coming. Rule 2: keep the money -the government is always looking for ways to charge back to your contract for things they need to do. Rule 3: get more money- use your current work to the inside track on future work.

At the end of they day the contract is a fixed amount for a defined statement of work. How you get there is a shell game of billing hours, equipment, overhead and allowed profit. (Cost plus contracts are a different animal altogether)
> I do sometimes wonder if some instances of depression aren't simply a cause of people not having families

As a child raised by a depressed and emotionally unstable parent, I have to disagree. Being well-adjusted is a good predictor for being a good parent. Even if in some cases people with mental health issues have a positive transformative experience, it's at best a dice role to treat it as therapy, and early childhood trauma is the collateral.
There are ruminants in plenty of other places without the land becoming inhospitable to most plants, though, so that's not a sufficient explanation (although I can clearly see how it contributes).
Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
Comment of the day, this is why I keep checking HN daily.
The US tried that post WW2, turns out if you can print money there isn't a lot of incentive to work nights and weekends getting something out the door for government pay.
Thats a great question because recently I searched similar things when trying to learn about the risk of UV with kids. All sources basically concludes any direct exposure to the sun is bad for you (not just kids) because UV is inherently harmful and vitamin D can be gotten other ways.

Either this is overstated or everyone is behaving very recklessly. Maybe a mix of both. But more details on these levels would be good. I also wonder if they assume direct sunlight or if actual cloudiness is baked into the daily index values.
Too expensive to create a secret environment that only needs one leak to make the entire investment fail.
But harbor freight has all those deals though!
This would be super useful once you can set up your own pathways. It will also need FHIR and the ability to generate CCDs (which FHIR is capable of) to more fully represent current health care integration technologies.
It’s not a bad strategy to answer “wrongly” if you don’t need to get a job quickly. You’ll weed out the people you don’t want to work for and might find somebody who aligns with what you value.
GPT definitely makes mistakes. GPT4 less than GPT3.5, and way less than Bard.

Having spent quite a lot of professional time working through real-world problems with GPT4, I'll say it very rarely does something I'd call hallucination. It almost never invents crazy things out of whole cloth. Sometimes it makes wrong guesses about things.

You gotta keep your own head and be skeptical. Often you can tell if it's coming unhinged. If it makes mistakes and you notice, it'll definitely own them unlike many LLMs. But of course it's not perfect.
> A "Windows 2095"

I wonder what a 2090s release of Windows would look like, if Windows (or humanity) is still around by then. I’m pretty sure I won’t be.

Maybe: Windows 2095 has a chat window which connects to an AI at Microsoft HQ. That AI has full access to the Windows source code. If there is something about Windows you don’t like, complain to the AI and it will modify the Windows source code to create a patched version fixing the thing that annoys you. The binary patch will be downloaded and hot-applied without reboot.
The only true believers are battery fanatics. They've already put billions of dollars in li-ion batteries, and now comes a new electrochemical system with none of the resource dependency and cost problems.

People who can think critically about the evidence have already concluded that hydrogen is likely the future of energy and transportation in most cases. The critics are just repeating the same arguments as anti-wind and anti-solar critics of the past. They are in steadfast denial of the fact that we are turning wind, sunlight and water into useful chemical energy. Since none of those things are limited resource, this is inevitably going to drive out all competing ideas can't claim the same. Delusion is holding fast to the old ideas instead of embracing the new ones.
They're confident every single time they do this stuff, and it always queues and dies.

Isn't the whole point of cloud things that you can scale up under initial load and then taper off when everyone stops playing?
Circular buffer still worn out NAND flash
This sets a bad precedent and is also futile.
Looks like this is related to their Care Studio product:
https://health.google/caregivers/care-studio/
This is a great example of the wisdom of not overthinking it. I independently rediscovered this trick early in my career using grep, sort and uniq to get the best up front return. And then later a more sophisticated version with a system that logged to SQLServer. Implementing it as a dev policy is a novelty for me though. I heartily approve.
Rather than make a custom case, it would have been neat to see this PCB just slightly smaller that it'd drop right in the Blackberry 9900 housing to match the keyboard. There are loads of reasonably priced enclosures available that are already designed to fit selected keyboard.